Graphics Surf Evaluation

Graphics/Surf Project Evaluation

Overview:

My final outcome is a surf related design and logo for my t-shirt it has two yellow/orange surf boards crossing each other with red octopus tentacles coming out of the top corners of each one. It also has a blue background with surf related words such as 'wave' 'beach' ect.. and the logo I designed on the front board.

The idea for mu final design changed during the developmental stage towards the end because at the start I only had a basic blue background bit I got help to improve it by staff which was to have some something behind the boards which is when i came up with the idea of surf related words. after that i changed the opacity to make the words faded to not take the main focus from the boards. The things that were successful from this outcome where the colours i used in the design and also the fact that i made it very surf orientated, which was the task. Something that could have been improved is the detail on the tentacles and they also could have been a little neater around the edges. 

Critical and Contextual References and Influences:

Some of the artists i researched were: Lin Osbourne, Oscar Wilson, Si Scott. The most important influence was Lin Osbourne's work because it helped me understand good placement of pictures on a t-shirt and contrast in colours. An example below: 

Purpose:

Materials and Techniques:

One of the techniques i learnt was to scan images i have drawn and put them onto the Mac which was one of the materials i used. I also learnt how to use Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop better during this project. These were key materials because they helped to colour and edit the design. Lastly i learnt how to print my image onto a t-shirt. One of the health and safety considerations was that the heat press was very hot so you had to keep a distance while the image was being printed onto the t-shirt.

Final Animation

Animation Project Evaluation

Overview:

The final outcome of my animation displays the android logo (robot) which is in a Samsung phone, breaks out then climbs out and jumps out into an iPad.

During the development process of the animation the idea changed because originally I had planned on doing it all on Adobe Flash but in the end I chose to film it all on iMotion frame by frame.

Advice from peers and staff helped me because they helped with camera angles and ideas for the creation of props.

The creation of the android logo and the total outcome was successful. Something that could be improved in the final outcome would be to make the animation a little bit longer by adding more devices.

Critical and contextual References and Influences:

The artist I researched was Jamie Beck, she was an inspiration because she was one of the first people to create animated gifs and her specific movements in her gifs inspired me with my prop movements these were the most important. Another one was from YouTube called “jojogirl34” where you can see it looks like she used iMotion, this was a better inspiration for my animation because of the similarities.

Purpose:

The purpose of this project was to create an animation to advertise a campaign. I fulfilled this purpose in my outcome because I was advertising the fact that android can do anything (even going into other devices).    

Materials and Techniques:

The materials I used for my final animation were: iPad, Plasticine, Wire, Phone and a white sheet. The main skill I developed was using iMotion and also editing the animation on the Mac’s. I specifically chose to use wire because I was able to insert it into the back of one of my props to hold it while I film it jumping. I experienced a problem with the Plasticine because the first one I used would not stick well with the wire which was needed for the final part of the animation. jojogirl32’s animation had similar materials and techniques because she used a stop motion application and had to slowly move each prop in het animation. 

Claymation 

Here you can see the Claymation that I made. In the development process I first of all had to create a set for the video. For this I had to cut a line of card and then print out an image of the sea because my story was a guy in in a boat so I had to get the sea. Once I had cut the image of the sea to the right size and stuck it onto the card I then had to begin building the character model which was a man in a boat. When I finished this I began filming on an iPad taking a picture of each movement of the boat. Lastly I had to edit the images in iMovie to make it a video and added a fitting song to the video.

Time Lapse

This is the Time Lapse that we created using an application on an iPad called iMotion which allows you to take pictures with the device every second of less depending on how you want your settings to be. During this video I was creating a quick image of different coloured pasta coming out of a plastic bag. Before we started filming the time lapse we had already cut out the pasta shapes so that the video is not so long. As I was drawing and sticking, the iMotion application was taking pictures of what I was doing around every second, so it ends up taking around about a couple hundred pictures for the whole video. As you can see above the video seems to have been sped up but that is only because it is showing all the pictures in a quick slideshow.

Final Animation List

For my final animation i'll need:

• iPad
• Plasticine
• Wire
• Phone

3 further inspiring animations

This is one of the stop motion animations that have inspired me because of the amount of detail that must have been put into making the final production. They must have had to move every little bead for the movement of every single arm swing and every step of walking. This inspires me to take more detail to the movement of my animation during the developmental process.



This is another inspiring stop motion animation where a lot of time has been spent on it, in fact 11 months to be exact as you will see towards the end. The amount of post-it notes also impresses me because they have used thousands of them to create this. It inspires me to think about how many props I will use and how long I should spend when doing my animation.



The last of the stop motion animations that inspired me is this one "Game Over by PES". This is because of the versatility of the props they use and the amount of props the use too. This will make me think about how many things are going to be in my final animation.

Stop-Motion Comparison

In my stop-motion comparison I will be comparing two videos which both consist of a food concept, one has Skittles and the other has a cup of coffe.
The artist of the first video 'Stopmotion Skittle Commercial' was 'jojogirl34' 

The artist has created an animation full of different things going on in some kind of adventure using skittles. I think she has used the techniques effectively because she has managed to advertise the product skittles and also make something that is fun and creative.
I like the artists work because of the media she has used (skittles) which are full of bright colours, this makes the video more exciting to watch and keeps you focused as well.  

The artist of this second video 'Coffee Time' is 'Wan Tzu'. The artist has made an animation which is a coffee machine being created from scratch out of some kind of card, then the coffee actually being made with string and a heart shaped bit of cream on top out of string too. The media that was used in this video was card and string. I like the artists work because it seems simple yet complexe. It is simple because its card being folded and unfolded but then complexe because of how many different layers that the machine has just to get it working.

Shape Hint GIF

Food Animation

I'm happy with my food animation because I managed to show off the Salsa and how I wrote 'S for Salsa' and because I was also able to complete it in time. I could improve on the animation by making it a little faster or finding out how to remove the still image in the background.

                               Animation project: Gif's

Politics gif

In the first stages of making the gif I had to get all of my props ready and also get dressed in my suit. I created the gif first of all by taking multiple pictures of me, frame by frame picking up each of the pictures. Once this was done I had to put all of my pictures into Photoshop together and use the 'Animation' tool to set the timing of the animation to around 1 second on each image so that they are briefly shown. This makes the images show all together like a a short animation. I also put it in an infinite loop which is what actually makes it a gif, I did this by clicking the 'Forever' setting.

My Animation works well because you can clearly see that it has something to do with politics, which is my theme. I was able to show some of the political parties as well. To make the animation longer I could have added more political parties.

Tropic Storm Presentation

This is my stencil t-shirt design where i used an image from brighton. I think the image came out well because of the three colours i chose. 

Materials: Photographs, Adobe Photoshop, Layers, Select (Colour Range), Hue/Saturation, Threshold Function, Delete Function

Techniques: Creating a stencil style image using a photograph and Adobe Photoshop

Equipment: Mac Computer Adobe Photoshop

This is my Lin Osbourne inspired T-shirt design where i got 9 pictures about Brighton and had to aline them up together in a block form and therefor make sure every picture is in the shape of a square. I also had to add my logo which i placed in the bottom left corner of the images. The design worked because all of the images were alined in the centre of the T-shirt. It could have been improved if i added my logo in the top right of the images. 

Materials: Adobe Photoshop, Photographs, Layers, Crop Tool, Hue/Saturation Function

Techniques: Creating a Photocollage T-shirt Inspired By Lin Osbourne's Photocollage's 

Equipment: Mac Computer, Photographs, Adobe Photoshop

Here you can see my silhouette t_shirt which is the silhouette of a surfer where i added text in the background of it and changed the colour to purple with black patches.

Materials: Adobe Photoshop, Text tool, Layers, Colour Range,

Function, Paint Bucket

Techniques:Creating a textural image using a photograph edited to 

add text and change the colour, then copying and pasting into a Silhouette that we hand drew ourself of a surfer

Equipment: Mac Computer, Adobe Photoshop, Paper, Pencil, Cartridge, Fine liner 

Graphics

This is my final Oscar Wilson inspired T-shirt design where I used surfing words to fill up a silhouette. I also filled the words with colours related to surfing/the beach e.g Shades of yellow (for the sun and sand), Shades of blue to represent the water/sea. I think the colours linking to surfing and the overall silhouette turned out well because when your first take a glimpse at the T-shirt it is easy to understand what it is about. To improve this design I could have placed the silhouette slightly to the right so that it is in the centre of the shirt to give it a better focal point. 

Materials: Hand drawn calligram, pencil, cartridge paper, tracing paper, fine line, Adobe Photoshop, layers, text tool, colour range function, paint bucket

Techniques: Creating a hand drawn calligram, scan it in, clean it up on Photoshop and live trace it on Adobe Illustrator to colour

Equipment: Pencil, Cartridge Paper, Fine Liner, Mac Computer, Adobe Photoshop 

This is the logo that inspired my design. 

This is the Si Scott inspired writing but on the final T-Shirt design, I chose to put it in the middle of the shirt and near the top as well because in that position it stands out the most. It could have been improved by adding water related colours. The design went well because of the Si Scott inspired twirls that i added to the word 'Radical', they help give the T-shirt an even more surf feel other than just the surf relate word.

Materials: Adobe Illustrator, Text Tool, Warp Tool, Paint Bucket

Techniques: Warping the text to give a 'Swirl Effect' 

Equipment: Adobe Illustrator & Mac Computer

This is my final Si Scott inspired surfing shirt design where i chose a surfing type of word which was the word "Radical". First of all had to make it with the 'twirl' effect because we are testing out Illustrator. This gives it the effect of water waves around the word, linking back to surfing. Then we moved it to Photoshop to turn it into a jpg format for the blog. Experimenting and using different techniques on photoshop and Adobe illustrator to improve my digital skills for my final outcome.

Double Exposure Experiment

With this image i was going for a dark halloween feel so i used the hue/saturation effect to do so and played around with the colours and brightness. I think the halloween feel went well because when i changed the colours darker, the seagulls ended up looking like crows and the sky had a dark purple background. I could improve by making the pavilion slightly more visible.  

Here i had a picture of an artefact from Brighton and then some graffiti. I played around with the 'Lighter  Colour' effect so that on the image it looks like something is creeping out of the wall. I think the looks of something creeping through the wall came out well but i could have improved on making the background image come out better. 

  Here i wanted to make the image look like a big creature is coming from the clouds so i put the picture of a sculpture of some sort of animal in the background and then a put the picture of the Brighton Pier with clouds. I also made the animal a bit lighter to show that its coming through clouds so i used the 'Pin Light' effect which is what helped to make it have a realistic look to the picture. I enjoyed making this one because of the final outcome of it. However i could have improved it by making the picture of Brighton Pier more visible.   

With this picture i wanted to make it look like the people at the bottom are screaming at happening above as though there is a devastation. I used the 'Screen Image' effect to make it look like everything is going crazy. I used the picture of graffiti and the picture of the top of the train station because it has a complicated design. This effect made the top of the train station look bright, which makes the people look as if they are being blinded which turned out well.