Thursday 30th march: Year one finale.
The wicked witch. from Anna Loveland on Vimeo.
For this workshop we were asked to create a right to left animation themed on the night sky. I wanted to make a more complex illustration using my newly learnt illustrator skills so that i could create a slightly simpler animation to fit in the collaboration.
I used this tutorial to get the effect of the wings flapping on my bats, this is something i had to investigate after the workshop using a youtube tutorial. And the video below is our final collaboration of the videos. I want to improve my animation further and getting more complex movement in the bat wings , witches clothes and broom stick , as if its floating through the wind. I would also like to add sound effects and music.
Group B Finale - 16:40 from Motion-go on Vimeo.
For this workshop we were asked to create a right to left animation themed on the night sky. I wanted to make a more complex illustration using my newly learnt illustrator skills so that i could create a slightly simpler animation to fit in the collaboration.
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| These are the separate layers i had to create to make the animation. |
I used this tutorial to get the effect of the wings flapping on my bats, this is something i had to investigate after the workshop using a youtube tutorial. And the video below is our final collaboration of the videos. I want to improve my animation further and getting more complex movement in the bat wings , witches clothes and broom stick , as if its floating through the wind. I would also like to add sound effects and music.
Group B Finale - 16:40 from Motion-go on Vimeo.
Tuesday 21st March: Kinetic typography 2, 3D space
Supermarket_flowers from Anna Loveland on Vimeo.
For this workshop we were asked to explore 3D space, using the z-axis and kinetic typography. We were asked to create a piece of work inspired by a song, piece of poetry or literature that inspired us. The task was to first create illustrations telling the story of the words chosen.
I wanted to create illustrations that were quite simple so that i could play around with more complicated effects in After effects, without the overall composition becoming too complicated. I chose a song called Supermarket flowers by Ed Sheeran. I chose this because it is one of my favourite songs at this moment in time and i love the style of illustrations and the theme behind his current album. I wanted to use this to inspire my own style, so that it links to Ed Sheeran and the song.
I had already designed that i wanted to use the colour scheme in my work, and i loved the contrast of the black against the white illustrations. I used a mixture of pro markers and post pens to create my illustrations, to create a rough and sketchy style to my work.
I then created a background for my work in photoshop. I used the album cover as a swatch for the colour, lowering the opacity and layering it over a chalk texture.
In the end i had to spend a lot of time outside the workshop after learning the techniques using z-axis, to finish the video as i wanted to create a 30 second clip instead of the suggested 10 seconds. Overall i am really proud of my outcome, it took a lot of work but i think it reflects a variety of the skills i have learnt in after effects over the past few months. In the future i would love to carry on this motion graphics and create a narration for the whole song.
For this workshop we were asked to explore 3D space, using the z-axis and kinetic typography. We were asked to create a piece of work inspired by a song, piece of poetry or literature that inspired us. The task was to first create illustrations telling the story of the words chosen.
I wanted to create illustrations that were quite simple so that i could play around with more complicated effects in After effects, without the overall composition becoming too complicated. I chose a song called Supermarket flowers by Ed Sheeran. I chose this because it is one of my favourite songs at this moment in time and i love the style of illustrations and the theme behind his current album. I wanted to use this to inspire my own style, so that it links to Ed Sheeran and the song.
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| Ed Sheerans album style, which i used as inspiration. |
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| My initial sketches. |
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| Background breakdown. |
In the end i had to spend a lot of time outside the workshop after learning the techniques using z-axis, to finish the video as i wanted to create a 30 second clip instead of the suggested 10 seconds. Overall i am really proud of my outcome, it took a lot of work but i think it reflects a variety of the skills i have learnt in after effects over the past few months. In the future i would love to carry on this motion graphics and create a narration for the whole song.
Monday 20th march: Appropriation part 2, memes.
Appeopriation is taking something that exists and transforming it. Salvador Dali said that ' this ewho try to be original fail to create anything at all". He inspired the idea of recycling designs and ideas that are already out there to create. In this next section on post production and appropriation we looked at examples of parody, pastiche, satire in visual design as a way of achieving:
- Humour
- Political commentary
- Critique
- Layered understanding/engagement
- Nostalgia
Pop art began to use existing media and the style suddenly became very popular. Andy Warhol based his work solely around using existing media, creating many thought provoking pieces that conveyed a controversial message. For example the electric chair, which was a very controversial subject at the time. Many people say that the way he repeated the image suggests that the subject is loosing its meaning as more and more people are being executed, others say the emptiness of the chair is a sarcastic way of saying it is waiting for its next victim.
Banksy is a modern day example of an artist that uses appropriation in his work. He does this in a different way, instead of taking imagery thats already out there and transforming it he takes political problems in society and transforms them instead twisting them in a visual way. Taking problems in society and politically commenting on them , critiquing them in a humorous but thought provoking style.
This modern day concept has developed into a new breed of appropriation. Memes. A meme is a an image ,video or piece of design , typically humorous in nature, that tackles controversial matters going on in the world. It is something that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, taking whats already out there and twisting it and putting a new point of view on it.
We were given a task of creating our own visual memes out of popular news stories of the moment. I tried to use the style of Banksys work to influence my memes giving it that graffiti style as if someone is totally disrespecting the subject matter and making a joke of it by drawing all over it. These were the three meme pieces me and a partner created.
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The story behind this image is Donald trump wanting to build a wall to separate Mexico from America. We used the idea of painting a fake tunnel onto the wall, to humourise such a controversial political subject from this moment in time. This idea is very often depicted in cartoons, in which characters are trying to trick there arch enemy. Below is an example of this concept.
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| This meme had a slightly simple and more light hearted meaning behind it. It is showing someone graffitiing on the Berlin wall. A silly face which is so light hearted drawn on a subject that is very serious, trying to make light of the situation. |
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| This next meme was inspired buy the pop art style of appropriation. You can clearly see we were depicting the highly controversial idea that there is a strong correlation between Adolf Hitler and Donald trump. Therefore here we are politically commenting on this subject through visual design. |
Wednesday 15th march: Out and about.
These are a collection of photographs that i have taken over the past few months whilst out and about in huddersfield. They weren't taken for this project, but just for my own personal archive of photos in my spare time, i like to take photos when i see something interesting and sketch them later creating my own interpretation. But i thought i could add these to my primary research for this project.
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