national geographic

To get some better designs i had to do some resercz in to the covers of the national geographic for the project on making a cover in national geographic stile with image of our self and our own title and get the idea of how would my cover look

a nice cover with to images over laying each over
the image of Jesus is bit distorted and the image of the camera
man is more high definition .

A nice image of two people holding pigs
nice and clean image , although I don't
like how the mans head goes over the
text and it covers it.

This is a impressive picture of a parrot in the
wild consuming a froot the camera mad must have been
very lukcy with his timing ,the image works well with the text  

A image of a man from a different culture can
with a clean one color back ground however the
image is not very interesting. 

A nice interesting image under water with a
human around creatures of the see looking cool and interesting
and eye catching so its decently works on a cover .

another interesting image of a of a girl with a
puppy inside her coat works well with the text and
it can draw attention to the viewers. 

poster designs

One of the first designs for the banners I made

 So after taking some photos of different objects and structures around the the art department I downloaded the images to the computer and manipulated the images in Photoshop using the classic 3 tools that should be used on every uploaded picture (levels, curves, selective colors) it makes the picture look better with deeper colors and nice contrast

We had made a template for the banners to make some interesting designs on them in illustrator after editing the pictures in the Photoshop I was trying to make the image eye caching and not overloaded with useless information just simple art and design text that stands out and that it works well with the
design.

An overall screenshot of my work while I was experimenting
with banner design

Banner designs with inverted and colour adjusted photographs
I have taken

A banner design further developed, one having a
repeated pattern on one banner and an added text on
the other

I like this design it has nice palette of colors that contrast with
 each other well and the text is nice and smart looking 

This is a image of some old papermache work that I found out the back it might not looked appealing at first but after some image manipulation it became an interesting image I needed to add some  space for the text so that it is nice and visible and is fitting in with the design.  

A design I thought of, one being of a photo and the
other of a design I made in illustrator

A further developed design where I used the illustrator
based design on both of the banners but with different
colour palets, looking professional

The developed banner designs with the NNC logo on the
bottom of both of them

 For this design I did simply using the line tool in illustrator and after that i filed the spaces with color I got inspired by one banner i seen with some wired shape  in the edge of the banner but my look more like a statue of a face  I think that the back ground looks a bit plain.

A design where I used a photograph on the 'inside' of the
illustrator design, giving a cool effect and professional look

 Also to make it image more interesting I added some lines on a different layer and then using the clone stamp tool I had transverse the pastern of the paint thrown at the wall that students did couple weeks ago i was surprised with the out come.

The picture is of an inverted picture of a paint
splattered wall his poster design also be used on banners

  

An overall screenshot of my work when I was working on a
poster design

A design where I had the text on the top and bottom
of the wooden stump and the & in the middle of it

The text on the poster curving at the bottom
of the wooden stump

  These pictures of a tree/wood stump stood with a grid on it next to the sidewalk that could be a promoting poster  and i had changed the image making the colors deeper and making the contrast bigger to achieve this color I had problems with with the text as the color of the image has different shades across it making the text difficult to read and make it stand out but I will experiment with it more changing the lay out and color of the text.

I had changed the text color to red as it seemed to
be the most visable on the poster.

I moved the text to one side to see how it would
 look when its more compact 

I changed the & symbol to and, placing it in
the bottom right of the poster

I tried out a couple different positions of where
to put the text on the poster to see how it would
look and if it would be visable

I like this design but looking at it now I think
 that it would've been better if I had placed the text in a 
different corner, like in the top left for example 

I tried out a design where I used the same inverted photo
design on both of the banners but flipped

A screenshot of my development of a design I was trying out,
changing the overall colours of them and using the bucket tool
on the bricks of the wall 

I tried to do something artistic with the  the brick wall by adding some colors and effects to make it interesting and eye catching i used fill bucket to place the color over the bricks or between the bricks and it made a interesting effect i might still use this design but it didn't convinced me.

I tried out changing photos to having 'main colours',
some had some interesting colors but I don't think that it 
would work well on a banner or a poster 

I like the purple and white contrasting with the green 
on this design, I think it has potential but it seems too
 dark and not that welcoming for new viewers 

Another experiment with colours I did with this
photograph, but I don't think it would be suitable
as a design

 I also did some experimentation with different pictures i did inverting the colors and adding some filters which had potential for a part of a design but not a one whole thing.  

I am working on making some kind of paint brush statue or something that would relate to art that i could use in the design to make people interested in the banner 

A design I tried out, a detailed colourful photograph on
one of the banners and a more simple design on the other one

A photograph I edited and adjusted with its
brightness and contrast

I like how this design looks, the text is visable and shows off
a colourful detailed photograph of a paint covered wall, making
an eye catching effect

The design with two large red corners added onto the top left
and bottom right, helping make the black text more viasable
and also look more professional

   I also did a design for a leaflet that people could look at and read i simply used a enhanced image of the picture i took with some test on it and some red areas to to make the text more viable and i could experiment with that a bit more.

A quick design I tried out which surprisingly
looks quite intresting and cool with the angle
of the photograph

  This is a nice design it reminds me of a book cover it wasn't hard to make its a picture with simple image enhancement such as curves to increasing the contrast and selective color to make some colors deeper than I just added the text and the logo and placed them in a good position.

Banner reserche

An example of the kind of banners
I would be making designs for

I like how these banners corespond with each other,
the shapes and colours linking with each other to show
they're about the same thing

4 banners with linking photos on each of them, automatically
showing the viewers they're linked

 We got a new project to do and we have to make banners for art department to be seen by new students so they can get an estimate feeling of the art and design course and what would they would possible be doing this isn't a very eye catching banner it looks very formal and maybe too much information for a viewer and can make some one not want to be engaged with the banner or it content  and would make not an effective advertisement    This one is a better design more clever and it is not over loaded with information and it has an ok image to go along with it and a nice logo at the top that is visible even from a far.

I like how these designs use different colours
from each other but still show they're linked with
the matching design and logo

Nice and simple design that is nice to the eye there is not much going on and there is on but it gets the attention I like the contrast between two of them its well done not over complicated and uses minimal design to appeal  to the viewer.

A banner design with a photograph
as the main part of the banner then some
text and logos on top of it

This is an ok design its not supper good its not supper bad its ok it has nice picture of penguins that presents well and is not over loaded with info but still has a big amount of writing on it.

A simple design with the text and
green box linking to the photos colour

I like the lemon design it has nice deep colors that are good to look at it is good and it brings attention and nice visible text at the bottom it is useful to make solid color block to put text on it so it stands out and is easy to see.

A cool corresponding designs on the banners, I plan to try
out this kind of design in my own banner design

I really like this one it looks like this one it look like some kind of a geometric shape or a statue in a way and it has nice composition of color it look futuristic and artistic and I can see it being used in a art course banner.

An advertising banner

A simple pizza banner that is good nicely composed and it is loaded with decent amount information on it. is not very creative though and can seem a bit boring.

Linking banners sharing pictures from the same photograph
or a series of photographs

                                                                                                                                                                 A nice banner design is nice good pictures with deep colors that are visible from far and is nice to look at but has no information on it.

A nice looking design with a simple
design and amount of text

A nice slick design it look nice presents the logo nice good thanks to the selected area of a different color  that makes it stand out more i might do that in my design due to the fact that the pictures have multiple colors in them.

A simple and 'overused' kind of design

A good simple and well done design good pictures with good editing to enhance them even more nice small amount of text that is nicely placed on the side of the banner that is not distracting from the image but is visible.

A banner with a cool looking design
but no text or information

A nice and smooth design good design but it is too bland and is missing the wow factor it's not eye catching and it has noting on it that would get attention that would make the people look at the banner
 .

A cool, modern, detailed design that looks like it was designed
for a boat theme

                          
A good design looks nice good colors and contrast looks good it stands out it is something that you would look at and be interested in it the text could be better and more visible it can be hard to read for some people .

Murderous Training. EP 1 (My Animation & Review)

I had made this animation to be weird and funny as the main  them was Alice in wonder land which is filed with wired things as two main sources I used Jazza and Harry Partridge, they are two animators that are on Youtube and thanks to some of their tutorials I managed to get started with making my own animation using flash.
It took a long time to create the 'illusion' of movement, but to save time I used the tween option where it moves the drawing for you from point A to point B. I also got my classmate to create the back grounds for me, which actually worked well with my overall style of animation.
To create the animation I had to draw frame by frame, first doing the out line of the moving animation with a black pen option, then later adding colours sometimes with the pain bucket option or manually into characters also while using some techniques that I had learnt from Jazza's tutorials on Youtube.
After completing the animation, having all the backgrounds and colors in place, I could export the animation and add in sound snippits that I had legally got from the internet, I placed them in the right places where they were required, I also had some recordings of voices for the characters from a classmate but mostly myself.

Human flag idea

 thru sketch book work I came up with an idea of  making a British flag out of human forms for the British values poster. so i took some pictures of my self in different positions and then imported the images in to the photo shop.

 In photo shop I had used the pen tool to draw around my body and then i had went in to paths window and made path selection to separate my body from the back ground and then had change its color to black to make it have less detail After having all the images I might change the colors of the figures so i would have colors to correspond with union jack and also i might add someone different figures in.

I had copied the black version of my form then I had changed it's size so I could do do more copies of it so that i could alien them in the right place make the shape i had to figure out what I would do to fill the the space in between the lines and after some tryes I did manage to make a good tessellation.
After that i had change the colors using channel mixer on the right layers to make the Union Jack colors. I think that this can very well represent the unity of the peeople and would work beater if I had more forms to put in the image.