EXTENDED - PROJECTION MAPPING BRIEF

For the christmas projection mapping brief,  myself and tom decided that we would work on a video game themed projection and use simple bold shapes to create these animations. We decided that we would choose 4 games to emulate; pac man, tetris, mario and space invaders. these games would then be rendered in christmas themed attributes such as; christmas puddings, baubles and christmas trees.

I created the space invaders animation, and created the background and all scenery for the 'mario claus' animation. Because of the simple visual design rules implemented in arcade games, the design of the visual elements and how they moved was relatively simple.

EXTENDED - PORTFOLIO BUILDING - POSTER DESIGN/ ILLUSTRATIONS 2

I found this brief fairly challenging yet fun, as I was able to produce work relative to music and the performers.

I also learnt some new skills in adobe illustrator, which will be to the benefit of other projects that i am working with.  The illustrations needed to be converted into vector graphics so that the quality was there for the posters that were going to be displayed online at lower resolutions.
The first step was to seperate each colour layer in photoshop using 'select, colour range', the two layers were filled and saved separately as .png's. These layers were then opened up in an illustrator document and image traced to convert the artwork into vector graphics.

All in all I am happy with the work that I have produced and I am confident that some of this work will feature in my portfolio.

EXTENDED - PORTFOLIO BUILDING - POSTER DESIGN/ ILLUSTRATIONS

Due to showing examples of my work to world though social media, I was approached by a young designer wanting me to produce a series of illustrations that would hold the likeness of a range of musicians performing at an exhibition in Manchester.  These illustrations would be used on posters illustrating the featured artists and they would be released on the days leading up to the event.





I decided that this would be a fantastic oppurtunity to produce work that would be suitable for portfolio. And as there were 7 performers to produce illustrations for, the chance that some of these pieces could be placed alongside some of my best work was high. Also this brief was well suited to one of my strengths, that being character design.










I decided to use just two colours and bold qualities of line and shape so that when it came to digitally altering the designs the colours would be easily selectable and traced digitally.

EXTENDED - PORTFOLIO BUILDING - YCN KFC BUCKET DESIGN 2

For my second design i decided to opt for design that was a little more further away from the notion of 'family'.  However what the brief also asked for was the design to be 'modern' and 'raise the kfc bucket to true iconic status'. So i felt what better way to make this design 'iconic' and 'modern' than to reflect the events that are happening within society today.

I chose to use this notion of space travel and discovery to reflect the developments surrounding the successful flight and return of the SpaceX shuttles.

EXTENDED - PORTFOLIO BUILDING - YCN KFC BUCKET DESIGN

For my YCN brief, I chose the KFC bucket design brief for the opportunity to create some character based designs.

The initial idea was to create a series of different themes for the bucket design and other applications such as facebook banners using animated GIFs etc.

The Brief wanted the design to be celebratory of some sort of 'family' hence the design being for the 'family bucket'. The word 'family' was open for interpretation and this could mean the people who you call your family - such as a musical family or a sports family or the people whom you work with.



I decided to opt for some designs that were musically themed to begin with and kept the designs simple yet making sure that there was a lot of action in each of the character's poses.

The idea behind this particular design is that there is a BBQ of some kind, which are associated with the gathering of family and neighbors, and the musicians are playing whilst waiting for the colonel's chicken. 

EXTENDED - PORTFOLIO BUILDING - LOOPDELOOP - 'LOVE IS LOVE'

This was my submission for Loopdeloop in October, it was created relatively quickly using TV paint. It was also my first interaction with the software. I really liked the simplicity of the software and the textures that can be achieved through the various brushes that can be fully customised and appropriated to whatever project it is that you are working on. This animation would have been better if i had spent more time and care on each frame and perhaps the application of some sound would give it a little more life.