IDEAS
This brief I believe is pretty open, all I have to do is create work and show that I have applied digital skills to the designs I create. As this is a little too open, my tutor gave us the option of creating sequential illustrations or an animation that would combine with the characters we had already designed in the first project.
My initial idea was to animate my characters back story by using minimal movements, and a papercut style. This style had its complications, when I started thinking of how I would animate the two main characters, who would have the ability to shape shift. Along with this complication, I felt the story line I had created was too plain and had no punch to it. I felt if I were to create the animation, it would just end up boring and a waste of my time. So instead, I thought it would be better to animate the 2 main characters, looping through their transformations. I believe this would create more intrigue and look more visually pleasing.
As I believed this new loop animation would take me less time, and I had 10 weeks on this project, I started to think of what else I could create, which would show my digital skills. This gave me 3 more concepts for the project.
Ever since Inktober 2016, an artist named Ashleigh Izienicki created one piece of artwork a day, for the month of October, based on a prompt list of different themes she had created and named witchtacular. Using these same prompts, I wanted to change the theme of witches, and create queens instead, which I would then work around the themes. This would allow me to be more imaginative, as I would be forming my own characters and designing them with the specific theme in mind, giving them each a different personality and backstory. With these final designs, I want to put them all together and form a zine. This is something I have never done before, but I do want to learn, so that I create more, more often in the future.
Another thing I wanted to do in this project, was to create a loop animation in the paper cut style, that I had originally planned for my characters. As this was my goal, my tutor suggested that I create the animation for the Loopdeloop monthly competition. Each month, loopdeloop.org sets a different theme, in which lots of artists send in their loop animations. At the end of the month, they choose their top 100 animations, then screen them in many places around the world. This would help me get more recognition, and would hopefully allow me to get a bigger following on social media, such as Instagram.
In class I had discovered a website called digitalartsonline.co.uk a place which holds HUNDREDS of tutorials on digital skills in animation and illustration. With this, inspired my last idea for this project, I wanted to learn quite a few techniques from these tutorials and apply them to my own designs, so by using the same motif, which I have chosen to be a lucky cat, by the end of the project, I will have multiple designs with this motif, showing the application of multiple techniques.
TIMETABLE
WHAT I'VE DONE SO FAR
So far I have not completed the amount of work I had desired to do. With the Christmas holidays coming in the middle if the project, I did not take into consideration the time that I would not be able to work, as I would be with my family. Because of this, I do not feel I will have enough time to complete each of my initial ideas. This is something I will take into consideration in future projects, as I now know how much work I can complete within a certain amount of time, and I will try not to give myself so much work, even though I do usually like to push myself.
So currently, I have been working on my queen designs, drawing out the queen which has been influenced by her theme, then drawing out the items I feel she would have, or best describe her backstory and personality. At the minute, I have drawn each queen, and each set of items out in my book using a Tombow calligraphy pen, which has a brush tip end. As this was my first time using the pen and I haven't really worked traditionally in a while, some of my lines are quite wobbly, and in some places my proportions are off. So as to rectify this issue, I have been redoing my line work digitally in illustrator.
Once I felt I had completed one of my queens, after getting some feedback, I realised she looked quite static, and had lost the traditional look that I was trying to achieve with the brush tip pen. From this issue, I tried to create my own brushes in illustrator, using photos I had taken of the pens marks and dots, however when I applied these brushes to the design, it still felt quite flat and static. I am still currently creating the rest of the queens with the same approach, and creating all the line work in illustrator, but once I get back to college, I am going to try printing out my designs, and doing my line work traditionally, then I will scan the lines in and hopefully it will give my designs the traditional look I had wanted. I am also going to keep playing around with the colours, as they may look a bit plain or boring in the way I am applying them now.
With 2 weeks and a few days left, I am going to try my hardest to get each of my initial ideas complete, but if I have to give up one, it would be my original characters loop animation, as I feel I've already done and shown each of the possible transformations of the characters, in my characters dynamics sheet, I just have not shown the transition between each of them, but this is something I could do in my spare time if I wanted to. I also feel like I could drop this idea, as I feel I have already used and shown the techniques which I had planned to use, in past past projects. Yes I did like the outcome when I used those techniques, but I see this project as a way to try new methods, and broaden my digital skills, rather than just working with what I already know.
This brief I believe is pretty open, all I have to do is create work and show that I have applied digital skills to the designs I create. As this is a little too open, my tutor gave us the option of creating sequential illustrations or an animation that would combine with the characters we had already designed in the first project.
My initial idea was to animate my characters back story by using minimal movements, and a papercut style. This style had its complications, when I started thinking of how I would animate the two main characters, who would have the ability to shape shift. Along with this complication, I felt the story line I had created was too plain and had no punch to it. I felt if I were to create the animation, it would just end up boring and a waste of my time. So instead, I thought it would be better to animate the 2 main characters, looping through their transformations. I believe this would create more intrigue and look more visually pleasing.
As I believed this new loop animation would take me less time, and I had 10 weeks on this project, I started to think of what else I could create, which would show my digital skills. This gave me 3 more concepts for the project.
Ever since Inktober 2016, an artist named Ashleigh Izienicki created one piece of artwork a day, for the month of October, based on a prompt list of different themes she had created and named witchtacular. Using these same prompts, I wanted to change the theme of witches, and create queens instead, which I would then work around the themes. This would allow me to be more imaginative, as I would be forming my own characters and designing them with the specific theme in mind, giving them each a different personality and backstory. With these final designs, I want to put them all together and form a zine. This is something I have never done before, but I do want to learn, so that I create more, more often in the future.
Another thing I wanted to do in this project, was to create a loop animation in the paper cut style, that I had originally planned for my characters. As this was my goal, my tutor suggested that I create the animation for the Loopdeloop monthly competition. Each month, loopdeloop.org sets a different theme, in which lots of artists send in their loop animations. At the end of the month, they choose their top 100 animations, then screen them in many places around the world. This would help me get more recognition, and would hopefully allow me to get a bigger following on social media, such as Instagram.
In class I had discovered a website called digitalartsonline.co.uk a place which holds HUNDREDS of tutorials on digital skills in animation and illustration. With this, inspired my last idea for this project, I wanted to learn quite a few techniques from these tutorials and apply them to my own designs, so by using the same motif, which I have chosen to be a lucky cat, by the end of the project, I will have multiple designs with this motif, showing the application of multiple techniques.
TIMETABLE
27/11/17
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Work
with plasticine to create my character animation
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If
working 3D doesn’t work, I’ll start animating my loop in photoshop
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Create
one of the experimental designs
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Create
thumbnails for zine
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Annotate/review
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BLOG
UPDATE
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04/12/17
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Finish
up character animation
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Start
the loopdeloop animation using the paper cut style
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Create
one or more pieces for the zine
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Follow
one tutorial and create another experimental design.
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Annotate/review
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BLOG
UPDATE
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11/12/17
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Finish
up loopdeloop animation
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Start
focusing more on the zine designs, and create at least 2
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Create
yet another experimental design
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Annotate/review
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GROUP
CRIT
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BLOG
UPDATE
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18/12/17
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Make
any changes that were suggested during group crit
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Follow
at least 2 online tutorials and apply to my own work
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Create
at least 2 more designs for the zine
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BLOG
UPDATE
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25/12/17
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CHRISTMAS!
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Create
more experimental designs
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Design
2 more illustrations for the zine
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Possibly
look at the new theme on loopdeloop
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Annotate/review
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BLOG
UPDATE
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01/01/18
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Create
more zine designs
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Start
working on the layout of the zine
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Print
out test booklet
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Follow
more tutorials and create more experimental illustrations
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Annotate/review
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BLOG
UPDATE
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08/01/18
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GROUP
CRIT
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Make
sure all of my work is refined and to an industry standard
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Create
more experimental designs
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Make
sure I have annotated EVERYTHING up to this point
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Get
everything ready to print
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BLOG
UPDATE
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FINAL
WEEK
15/01/18
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Make
any final adjustments
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Get
everything printed out and put together
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Check
I have annotated everything
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EVALUTE
WORK
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BLOG
UPDATE
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HAND
IN 22/01/18
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WHAT I'VE DONE SO FAR
So far I have not completed the amount of work I had desired to do. With the Christmas holidays coming in the middle if the project, I did not take into consideration the time that I would not be able to work, as I would be with my family. Because of this, I do not feel I will have enough time to complete each of my initial ideas. This is something I will take into consideration in future projects, as I now know how much work I can complete within a certain amount of time, and I will try not to give myself so much work, even though I do usually like to push myself.So currently, I have been working on my queen designs, drawing out the queen which has been influenced by her theme, then drawing out the items I feel she would have, or best describe her backstory and personality. At the minute, I have drawn each queen, and each set of items out in my book using a Tombow calligraphy pen, which has a brush tip end. As this was my first time using the pen and I haven't really worked traditionally in a while, some of my lines are quite wobbly, and in some places my proportions are off. So as to rectify this issue, I have been redoing my line work digitally in illustrator.
Once I felt I had completed one of my queens, after getting some feedback, I realised she looked quite static, and had lost the traditional look that I was trying to achieve with the brush tip pen. From this issue, I tried to create my own brushes in illustrator, using photos I had taken of the pens marks and dots, however when I applied these brushes to the design, it still felt quite flat and static. I am still currently creating the rest of the queens with the same approach, and creating all the line work in illustrator, but once I get back to college, I am going to try printing out my designs, and doing my line work traditionally, then I will scan the lines in and hopefully it will give my designs the traditional look I had wanted. I am also going to keep playing around with the colours, as they may look a bit plain or boring in the way I am applying them now.With 2 weeks and a few days left, I am going to try my hardest to get each of my initial ideas complete, but if I have to give up one, it would be my original characters loop animation, as I feel I've already done and shown each of the possible transformations of the characters, in my characters dynamics sheet, I just have not shown the transition between each of them, but this is something I could do in my spare time if I wanted to. I also feel like I could drop this idea, as I feel I have already used and shown the techniques which I had planned to use, in past past projects. Yes I did like the outcome when I used those techniques, but I see this project as a way to try new methods, and broaden my digital skills, rather than just working with what I already know.
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