Storyboard

Opening sequence idea for The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Fructiv Advertisement tutorial

This is the Pete Harrison tutorial which focuses very much on using the pen tool. I learnt a lot in this tutorial as I haven't used the pen tool very much.

Illustrating with a social conscience

These are my social conscience posters. We were asked to highlight particular social issues and cater an ad to those audiences. For the first one I chose sexualisation of teens. Our children and teenagers have adult sexual themes imposed on them at crucial development stages.  Women's Forum Australia says that "these impositions may compromise the child's psychological development. Children and teenagers do not have the same capacity to make informed decisions and exercise appropriate judgement. Premature sexualisation impedes cognitive development, limits children's freedom and is linked with serious mental health problems." 

There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children 

- Nelson Mandela

For the second poster I chose use the 'say no to smoking concept'. The role that smoking plays in our society is a scary one. Whilst using the typical approach of a horrifying image I used a different approach with the text. This was aimed at women and plays on the part of that audience that are always striving to be beautiful. There is nothing beautiful about smoking.

Design Brief

Exclusive opportunity to broadcast out to space for designers!

Company profile

NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The United States government started NASA in 1958 and is in charge of U.S. science and technology related to airplanes or space.
NASA, among many things, makes satellites; send probes out into space and help scientists learn more about the Earth. NASA scientists also study things in the solar system and even further away. NASA is working on a new program, which will send humans to the moon, Mars and beyond.

Target Audience and objective
Our main objective is to communicate with any other possible life forms that may be living beyond Earth. We would like to broadcast and project a message of peace out to space, encouraging the other possible life forms to respond if they so exist. We are unaware of how advanced they are in technology, intelligence and language. With such limited information of any other possible life forms we are catering to an audience of much variety.

The message
The message needs to strongly communicate a friendly, welcoming, approachable and responsive message of peace and trust. We want our audience to understand that we are curious to know if there are any other existing life forms out there and that we would like to kindly hear from them if there are. We are looking for innovation in ideas that communicate a concise message with simplicity. The message must not include any language because it is highly unlikely that it is legible for our audience. The message may communicate some further understanding about Earth and our many different cultures.

·      Attached are some examples of the general idea of our message. We are, however, very open to original and creative ideas.

The chosen designer will have exactly four weeks to complete the design.
Please email us with any queries and applications.

A line is a dot

My original idea was to literally have a line that morphed into a lot of little dots that then morphed into something else, perhaps ants or fluttering butterflies. I interpreted 'a line is a dot' as something that could transform or morph into something different. I decided to use lots and lots of little butterflies that together represented one large butterfly. I stumbled upon this image on the internet and liked the idea of it. It became the inspiration for this piece. .

I used these butterflies as templates for butterfly shapes. I used these shapes and rotated them so that I could use them in different directions..

Once I had my brush presets I found an image of a butterfly to use as a template and point of reference so that I would end up with a credible shape.

I then saved the image without the butterfly template and opened it in a new page. I dragged an image of ink over the top and created a clipping mask so that the ink would only be seen where the butterflies were.

Hip Hop Motion

In class today, we used a dance motion, some other abstract footage and a photoshop file for the background. We used the image mask to create the text effect. This was a fun task because I haven't done anything like this before.

Album Cover Task

I chose to use Cocorosie as the band for my album cover because I felt that their sound would best relate to the design I had in mind. Their music can be mysterious, whimsical, sweet and unnerving all at the same time.

I started off with an inky image from an old art project and brought up the contrast a little. I then brought other images of flowers and a friend. I then played with the Pin Light and Subtract opacity options. I created the text layers with an overlay to bring them back into the image, then duplicated them a couple of times so that they were more contrasting. 

 

It was a very similar process with the back cover.

What I've done is not very technical at all, however I'm quite content with the final imagery.

Itchy motion

Today, we learnt how to use motion. We used this Itchy short film for practice. Firstly, we removed the green fill. We then used Primatte Rt and created a rectangle over the screen. We then used blend and subtracted 2 semi circles and one in the centre. After using oscillate on position x, we had our finished product.

Change is freedom

Today was an experimentation with animation in photoshop. We learnt how to make use of animation frames, playing with the opacity, style, timing and positioning.

Rubbish

For our first assignment we were to create a font using rubbish.

I brainstormed on what rubbish meant to me.

The first thing that came to mind was that it was suffocating our world.

My initial idea was to create the imagery of a world suffocating and strangled in rubbish along with the text 'our world is suffocating'.

I'm really very, very new to photoshop and soon realized that creating that imagery was quite out of my depth.

My then decided to fill the 'suffocating' text with rubbish that I'd taken photo's with my mac.

I drew an image of the world for the back ground and dropped that in over the notepad page layer. I added the the text, remembering to create two layers so that the rubbish imagery would fill just the 'suffocating' text. 

I then brought in the rubbish imagery and added a 'create clipping mask' layer so that it would fill through the text.

Overall, I'm not very content with my finished product. This is largely due to my inapt skills of photoshop. I look forward to learning how to use photoshop more effectively so that I can produce and manipulate an artwork that relates more closely to my original idea.

25 Random facts - or nearly


I love -
Honey by the spoonful
Traveling
Bonsoy by the glass
Big, sooky dogs
Autumn, winter, spring and really despise summer
Roasted chick peas with sicilian herbs and garlic
Cold War Kids


I am - 
Vegetarian
Independent
Very pathetic with time management


I've been living in Melbourne for 6 weeks


I Enjoy -
Basketball
Surfing
Music
Art
Outdoors
Photography
Meeting new people


I always -
Laugh at people when they fall over, it's horrible

Toastcase

Today is my first blog which marks my first visual deign class.
Today we were asked to use an image of a piece of toast and place it in to any particular environment of choice. We used the quick selection tool to take away any background from the toast. 

On the second image we then used paint bucket, vignette and an overlay layer. The toast was then dropped into the second image to create the desired image.