Psychological illness posters

I did some independent research into psychological illnesses and came across these typographical posters created by Manan Singh, I like his use of text, space and colour. This work inspired my own project for the conversation brief, as I am wanting to create simple poster designs to raise awareness for mental health sufferers. 

Interesting Typeface

Designer Ji Lee created these literal typefaces to go with the words, he called this project 'Word as image'. I find it interesting as he isn't just thinking about one generic typeface for every word, he really tries to represent each word through the style he uses.
"When we were children, letters were like fun toys, we played with them through our building blocks. We coloured them in books. We danced and sang along with TV puppets while learning C was for 'cookie'. Soon, letters turned into words. Words turned into sentences. Sentences turned into thoughts. And along the way, we stopped playing with them and stopped marveling at A through Z." -Ji Lee

Creating a low-poly world in c4d

In my spare time I wanted to get more familiar with using Cinema 4D, and so I created this low-poly world using the extrude tool to create a bumpy surface. I think my overall world is a good first attempt, however I extruded the surface a bit too much.

Low-Poly Art

From looking at various different techniques and art styles I came across the low- poly art style, I find this style interesting and unique. pictures are created from geometric shapes and it creates a pleasing design.

Some of my favourite low-poly artworks are:

After some practice using Adobe illustrator in my spare time, I felt confident in making some final low-poly art of my own. I created these images using the pen tool and making triangles.

I used this technique for my final piece of my studio collide brief, I created a street scene and a butterfly animation using poly frames.

Tributes to the homeless using manholes

Artist Biancoshock decorated manholes to look like rooms in a pleasantly decorated but microscopic house, he did this to raise awareness of the thousands of homeless people in Burcharest, Romania who are living in sewers and underground tunnels.

This project is interesting as it is ambient and eye catching, just like an advertisement.

Street-Art Tribute to Palestinian Refugees

Barcelona artist Pejac tried to brighten the streets of a refugee camp in Jordan by etching out figures and shapes which represent hope and loss, it shows the journey the refugees had to take and the history of territory loss in Palestine.

I find this artwork interesting as he is trying to help the refugees to not lose hope, rather than helping in the same way as most people, such as donating food or clothes, he is physically going to the camp and changing what they see in their environment.

Hulk running C4D

In this Production workshop we rigged a character using a spine and creating a skeleton in C4D.

Second Year Showreel

In the last production workshop we created show reels of all our work from production classes in second year.

Life drawing

During workshop week I took a life drawing class, I enjoyed this experience as I had never done life drawing before. We looked at Joanna Quinn's animation techniques and tried to copy her fast paced style of working, using our model.

We started by drawing quickly 1 minute for each pose, I found this pace hard to keep up with as I was focusing too much on detail rather than the movement. I started to get better at creating the movement and drawing the model once I got used to the pace, here are my outcomes.

Cartoon characters in real life scenes

My visual appendix work is based around creating different characters in anime styles, during my personal research I found these images of well-known characters in real life scenes in Russia. 

I feel that these types of images could create inspiration for a change in the future of animation, we could be using more of the real life world around us and adding characters into it.

Origami butterflies

For my physical collide piece I wanted to create an object which represented hope, I chose to create an origami butterfly and in my spare time, watched tutorials on how to create them.

I tried using A4 paper but realised my final piece would be too small, the paper also ripped and was too fiddly to use. I worried about the colours as I wanted blue but didn't have any A3 blue paper.

These are the test origami butterflies I created, I decided to paint them using watercolors and try to get my desired look. I found this task extremely complicated and fiddly and so I used plain white A3 paper to create my butterfly, I then painted it using black and shades of blue. I am pleased with my outcome and I feel it is something different from the other final pieces the assessors will be seeing for collide.

Japanese animation

Lecture notes:

Studio Ghibli is the Japanese Disney in animation, with a lot of detail in the characters and scenes of every film produced by them. The main components of Japanese animation are that they are usually from a child's perspective, innocent and fun animations are very popular in Japan, they also have ecological themes are humans are in the natural world, rather than nature invading the human space. Anime characters are usually quite unrealistic and have magical adventures.

If Tim Burton directed Disney films

During my research for my visual appendix I came across these images created by artist Andrew Tarusov. His interpretations really capture the mind and style of Tim Burton and I really love these style swaps.