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An illustration of a desk I did for an upcoming animation for college. What do you guys think?
I got a Graphics Tablet for Christmas and I’ve hardly used it which is a sin. So, I broke it out today and for no other reason than because I wanted to, I painted Barack Obama using Photoshop. Just remember that it’s pretty much the first time I used the tablet. It was pretty fun to do. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what to do next?
A good few actually!
I’ll start with Project Management. Basically, we have to take a toy, take it apart, use the buttons and what have you, and take the output of these buttons and turn them into inputs into the computer using Director. It’s fun and I’ll have a load of updates here when it actually gets going. As part of the assignment we also have to setup a dedicated blog to mark our progress so I’ll link to that when it’s up aswell.
Second is Multimedia Tools and Techniques which is basically Flash and Illustrator class. I have to create characters and make a 60 – 120 second animation on whatever theme I want. All has to be designed in Illustrator and then brought into Flash to actually animate it and make it all lovely and shiney. Again, updates when I actually start it all.
Thirdly is Digital Editing which is Final Cut class for everyone not in my course. Basically, I have to create a 30 second montage with the emphasis on the passing of time. I have to shoot the video myself and edit it as I see fit. I already have an idea for this one so it shouldn’t be too hard. *crosses fingers*
Fourthly and finally is Digital Editing again. This time it’s a 60 to 120 second video which is supposed to incorporate as many types of media as you can with original content gaining more marks than stuff nabbed of Youtube. It also has to be directly related to and have some elements of the Animation (stated above) in it. So, it has to be a prequel, equal or just be something involving it and it needs to include original recorded sound, video and animations. An example given in class was say, there is a shot of a T.V. onscreen. Our job would be to replace what is on the T.V. with video of our own. Again, I have an idea for this one aswell so it should be cool.
It’s all go but it’s all good at the same time. I’m actually really looking forward to the rest of the semester. There are a few more minor projects thrown into the mix so I’ll post them when they are all done and dusted.
Best as in not exactly the best animation in the world but one of the cleverest for sure. My lecturer showed it to the class today and he broke it down and explained how it was done. He also went on to say that it was far from a simple process but the actual execution isn’t the hardest in the world.
Still, I sure hope he’s not expecting this standard from us all! :O If anything else, it’s a good song.
It’s made by MONKEEHUB who also made the video for the JCB song by Nizlopi.
Today I completed a project that isn’t due until Friday the 20th of February. This project was to design and create a Film Production Company Logo. On our first day of this semester, our lecturer made us all come up with our own Film Production Company name. Later, the names were shared and swapped throughout the class and, in essence, everyone became someone elses client.
I was chosen to design and conceptualise a logo for someone who’s Production Company was called “TakeTwo”. Firstly, I had to come up with an idea and this was achieved my quickly sketching some basic ideas with pencil and paper. After about 20 some jumped out at me as being pretty good and then I felt that I should draw them out in greater detail just to show them in a better light.
I showed these drawings to my client and she chose here favourite one which, coincidentally, was mine too. I then drew this up on Adobe Illustrator. I did some little tweaks that I thought would improve it even more at this stage.
Logo
It was at this stage that I added the film reel cut-outs to tie it in with the Film Production Company. I also made the “PRODUCTIONS” type a little smaller than “TAKE TWO” as there was no need for it to be as prominant.
Tada! All done. I’m pretty happy with it. 
However, I’m not all done there. We then had to make a Compimentary Slip, Business card and Headed Paper. All of which, can be seen below.
Business Card
Compliments Slip
Headed Paper
Any comments are greatly appreciated. Creative Critisism is also welcomed. Thanks.
…. all my notes for college. Finally, after what, a month of being back? God I’m crap at this. But I’m gonna stick to it this time now that I have a folder for each subject. I’m gonna stick to it just like I stick with updating this blog almost daily. I’ve done a pretty good job with that so far so I’m gonna do amazingly well with the college notes.
Oh, I’ve got a flash animation due pretty soon which will be up when it’s ready. Also, that photo gallery that I mentioned somewhere below. It’s due on Monday so expect an upload of that.
Well, he’s something as promised. It’s my first ever illustration using Adobe Illustrator so it’s far from great. I’ve never used Illustrator before though so I’m pretty happy with my first effort.
Right, I’ve decided that I’m actively gonna post photographs, photoshopped stuff, illustrations and everything else that I do over my next semester in college because there is a lot of stuff that I do that just gets burned to a CD and submitted and never seen again.
So, it’s the start of semester and so I’m learning new stuff. I’ve drawn a few things in Adobe Illustrator but conveniently, they are on the computers at college so I’ll post them when I can.
Actually, one of my lecturers said that he’s gonna make everyone sign up to flickr.com and says that everything we make should go up there. I’m assuming he’ll make a group so we can all view each others work. I have a few things up there already on an account that I made ages ago.