ANIM1003 Drawing for Animators and Illustrators - Sketch Book Task Week 7 (14/11/2011)

For this weeks sketch book task we were told to create 3 collages of our face, hand and foot.

Here is my work.

Above is my collage for the task "Face" at least my interpretation :3.

Here is my collage for the task "Hand".

Finally here is my collage for the task "Foot".

They are ok but I would like to have spent more time on them to make them a little better :)

Well thats all for now, thanks for reading :).

CDME1001 Communication Skills in Digital Media - Week 7 (11/11/2011)

This lesson we got together in our groups and talked about our final project for the module which is to rebrand and pitch a product.

We all decided to rebrand "Hai Karate" aftershave and body spray.

We did a little research such as looking up sales adverts and comments on how the product did.

We were then told we would each have to do our own research and rebranding (so I'm not really sure how we are supposed to work in groups then but still) s we all decided on what kind of marketing campaign we would each try, I chose a paper campaign which I presume is to do with posters and billboards etc.

After our break we were given the task of creating the design for a basic website using Microsoft PowerPoint.

We were supposed to work alone but the hand out said to work in groups of 2 so I did with one of the people in my main groupe.

We decided to make a make a website for the artwork of Leonardo Da Vinci and chose 3 of we best and most famous art for our 3 linked pages we chose the "Mona Lisa", Leonardo's Self Portrait and the "Vitruvian Man".

We chose a pretty cool and classy page layout and text font.

Over all I think we did pretty well, we both pulled our own weight and managed to design a website that both looked classy and was easy for navigate as well as being able t get a little basic info for each picture on their respective pages.

Well thats all for now, thanks for reading :).

ILTN1001 Illustration Origin and Function - Week 7 (10/11/2011)

This lesson we covered illustration history during the Renaissance. 

We looked at the techniques, how they came about and how they are still used today.

After all that we were split up into teams and given the task of creating a presentation on a visual artist and how their art impacted their society.

Initially we chose Galileo but unfortunately he wasn't an artist so we changed our idea to Hannah Hoch an artist during World War 1 who specialised in Dadaism.

Overall I'm not to happy with how the group worked, we had trouble pitching in our own ideas but we tried to pull it together at the end by each taking turns talking But most people in the class agree that it would have been better if we were allowed to work in groups of 2 instead of 4 to 5.

Thats all for now, thanks for reading :).

ANIM1001 Animation Origin and Function - Week 7 (9/11/2011)

For animation we started off finishing and presenting our animations, although due to some technical difficulties some peoples (including mine) didn't work properly which was a shame :(.

After that we were each asked to come and see our tutor in his office so he could ask us if we were enjoying the module and if there were any ways we could improve it.

We finished off by getting together in our groups that we were assigned at the beginning of the year to discusse ideas for our final animation project.

We all threw around ideas on what we could animate, some good some bad and some rather weird, but in the end we decided on an animated loop of a conveyer belt assembling and disassembling a teddybear we then decided on who would animate what.

I'm rather happy with how our group came together and all pitched in ideas and how we decided who would animate what sections.

Thats all for now, thans for reading :).

ANIM1001 Animation Origin and Function Week 7 (7/11/2011)

In The lesson we stent the first half going over the sketches we had drawn during reading week, after that we got on with this lessons main task, Collage.

We were pair up with a partner and had to collage each others face using a variety of things.

Here is my work.

While some went for a more realistic look I took a much more abstract approach using any colour for any part but still trying to make it resemble my partner.

I think I did somewhat well, I'm not much of a collage artist I'm much more of an illustrator but I like how this came out :).

Thats all for now, thanks for reading :).

Reading/Learning Week - Cathedral Week 4 Final Week (7/11/2011)

So for reading week I was assigned some final tasks at the cathedral.

Here is my work.

The above sketch was for task which asked us to do a continuous line drawing on 2 pieces of A2 paper stuck together.

Here is another sketch of the Cathedral tower.

And Finally here is a sketch of the cathedral crypt (not as interesting as you would expect).

Now I'm not to happy with any of these as they were all incredibly rushed, I would like to go back to them some time and make them better.

Thats all for now, thanks for reading.

Reading/Learning Week - Sketch Book Task Week 5 & 6 (6/11/2011)

I was also assigned some sketch book tasks to do over reading week.

Here they are.

Above is my sketch for the task "Tree" it was night so I had trouble finding a reference so I ended up drawing this almost cartoony looking tree here.

Here is my sketch for the task "Newspaper".

Here is my sketch for the task "Cotton" I didn't have anything cotton so I just drew something that can be made of cotton.

Here is my sketch for the task "Tea".

Finally here is my sketch for the task "Field".

Again I didn't have a lot of references for these sketches which is why they seem somewhat cartoony.

Thats all for now, thanks for reading :).

Reading/Learning Week - Wind Animation (6/11/2011)

For Reading Week my animation tutor gave us the task of creating a short animation using the that displays the effects of wind on an object.

Here is the result of my work.

Overall it took about 71 frames and I think it's not bad for my first attempt at something other then balls for once.

However there are a few things I'm not to happy with, for instance the middle scene went a little to fast and I really should have better studied how leafs blow in the wind so I had a better idea of when to speed up and when to slow down.

I had to upload this one to my bliptv account because for some reason the program I normally use to turn these animations into gifs doesn't seem to be working on this one, maybe its to big since due to using a different computer it was saved as a bigger file then it should have been.

Anyway thats all for now :)

Reading/Learning Week - "What is Drawing" Essay (5/11/2011)

Over Reading Week I had to complete a 1000 word essay on how different people within the creative arts community use drawing to communicate.

I didn't have to much trouble with it and managed to complete it in a few hours.

I went over a little bit of drawing history such as the palaeolithic cave art, egyptian art, medieval art and art in modern times.

I then talked about a couple of artists new and old and how they communicate their ideas through drawing.

We handed them in on monday (7/11/2011) for review and will have them back along with notes on how we can improve them.

Well thats all for now :).

University Reading/Learning Week (29/10/2011 - 6/11/2011)

There were no major module posts for last week as it is reading/learning week at my university. This week is for reading up on books we need to look up and to finish off any work that we need to.

I will be making a couple of posts for the work I did over the week.