Offlife #11: Final Outcome and Entry

Today I submitted my entry for Offline #11. I've put it off for sometime as, honestly, this is the first nation wide competition I've entered and was a little nervous. However I decided to stop being today and entered what I'd made. I honestly don't expect to win a place in Offlife #11 judging by the quality of what has come before, but this is the first Responsive piece that I've thoroughly enjoyed making from start to finish.

OUIL504: Self Evaluation

Throughout this brief I have learnt many things, most notably the basics in both Dragon Frame and Adobe After effects. Both of which have been played with to the point where I feel quite confident in my abilities to run them properly. I personally feel there is much more time to be spent with After Effects to grasp its full potential. Moving past the digital aspect, I feel that I have also learnt, or rather developed, much further my understanding of screen printing. I was initially hesitant to go back to to this process, and I feel this hampered me later on when several issues arose with my screens (as mentioned in Printed Pictures: Screen Issues). However I feel my outcome for Printed Pictures is much stronger than that of Visual Narrative (OUIL405) from last year where I created a concertina/zine of a similar fashion. I believe that with the addition of screen printing, my work has progressed to a more professional level aesthetically. I look forward to further developing my skills with screen printing.

Concerning my attitude towards screen printing, and my work ethic in general, I need to be more assertive. There were many points throughout this module where I found myself coasting because I felt as though I didn’t have a specific thing to aim for, or I couldn’t settle on an idea. I wasted so much of the early OUIL504 module wondering what to do that I didn’t actually do anything. It was only when I forced myself to sit down and play around that ideas finally started to develop.

I found this to be most prominent during the early stages of the Visual Journal and Printed Pictures briefs. I found that collage, a process of illustration that I first began to develop last year in Visual Language (OUIL404), really was a great source of fun and inspiration for me. It was my ability to look back and take stock of how effective my collage work was that really pushed my Moving Pictures Brief forward. Although I didn’t produce much hand made collage work for the brief I did create a digital collage of images directly inspired by my Visual Journal work. 

Concerning my final outcome for the Moving Picture brief, there are several things I would change if I were to do it again. Most importantly, I would have a look at the pacing of the piece, which I feel is somewhat off, it could do with being tighter near the end and the title portion feels rather segregated from the rest of the animation.

The final outcome for my Printed Pictures Brief I have contradictory feelings for. Whilst the piece works as an ordered piece, designed in Adobe Illustrator. It is this same order that leaves me feeling cold when I look at it. The print doesn’t feel like there is any heart to it and I am finding myself more impressed with my previous screen prints seen here: (Printed Pictures: Screen Print Investigation). I feel that the disorder, whilst not representing Huxley’s ordered dystopia so much, visually looks like a more engaging piece of illustration.

Going forward I feel that I definitely want to bring more collage process into my work. This continues to be a strong area for me and I feel that with a bit more time, I could be onto something very effective. In the future I also need to bring more visual research into my work. I feel that, although there is research of different practitioners throughout my work, it is mostly within Printed Pictures. This benefited my work greatly and helped inspire me during some difficult spells of that brief. I feel that my animation could have been improved upon greatly with the inclusion of more research within the brief. I need to make sure I am researching as effectively throughout to help inform my practise as a whole. Finally, and I feel that this is most important - I need to begin to understand my own limitations. What I picture in my head is always going to be different to what I actually produce. If I set my standards too high then I’ll end up being disheartened with my work no matter how well it turns out.

Project Proposals Studio Brief 2 and 3

BA (Hons) Illustration - Level 05

OUIL504 Illustration 1: Process & Production

STUDIO BRIEF 3 PROJECT PROPOSAL: Printed Pictures

I intend to produce …… 1-3 Zines that highlight Huxley’s visions of the future. These will be concertina style zines that consist of 6 pages each. The first and last pages will also act and the front and back covers respectively.

The content will focus on (identify 3 specific themes, texts or concepts)

1. Urbanisation 2. Copulation 3. Drugs

I will be aiming to communicate (identify 3 specific messages, ideas, moods etc.) 1. State control 2. Capitalism 3. An ordered way of life

To an audience of ….. (name 3 characteristics) 1. Fans of Huxley’s works 2. Book readers 3. Creatives (specifically fans of screen printing).

BA (Hons) Illustration - Level 05

OUIL504 Illustration 1: Process & Production

STUDIO BRIEF 2 PROJECT PROPOSAL: Moving Pictures

I intend to produce …… A 30-40 second animation that will show Hollywood in all its glory before showing the down trodden impoverished people that also lived at that time. It will act as a trailer for a documentary program about the life of Aldous Huxley and the time he spent in Hollywood.

The content will focus on (identify 3 specific themes, texts or concepts)

1. Inequality 2. Old fashioned movie footage 3. Urbanisation

I will be aiming to communicate (identify 3 specific messages, ideas, moods etc.) 1. That there is and still is great inequality within the world. 2. Everywhere has a less desirable side. 3. An old fashioned tone, like you’re stepping back in time.

To an audience of ….. (name 3 characteristics) 1. Fans of documentaries. 2. Fans of Aldous Huxley 3. Old movie footage fans.

Printed Pictures: Final Outcome

Here is the final outcome for my Printed Pictures Brief:

Moving Pictures: Final Outcome

Here is the final outcome for my Moving Pictures Brief:

A Visual Journal: Selected Extracts

Here are some Visual Journal pieces that I feel helped me fully realise my Moving/Printed Picture briefs.

Printed Pictures: London - After Ford Prints

Today I finished my prints and turned them into concertina zines. Looking at them I can appreciate the work that went into them, however - from an outside point of view I feel that the illustrations appear somewhat cold. This perhaps works well in the context of Huxley's Brave New World, but the uninformed onlooker most likely wouldn't understand this.





To combat the cold design I also made prints on different coloured paper stock, the most effective being a mango colour that evoked warmth. However after showing several of my peers, the white was deemed the preferable of the two stock choices. The white stock is also of a higher GSM so will hold up better in the long term, I realised this when I came to fold the pages and it gave great resistance.

I feel that my screen printing ability has greatly improved over the course of this module and am looking forward to continue working with this process in the future.

Printed Pictures: Revised Screens

With the issues involving my positives now resolved I went to prepare my screens this morning, however I was not prepared for what I found - one of my screens had been ruined in the drying cabinet. This was presumably done by someone putting an excess amount of emulsion on there screen and placing it above mine in the cabinet.

This set me back some time as I had to prepare a new screen, eventually I was ready to print. I managed to get the first two colours of my prints done before the end of the day and was quite happy with the outcomes thus far. I discovered that certain colours worked really well with the coloured stock I had chosen whilst others didn't.

On Monday I will print my final layers.

Propercorn: Presentation Board Peer Review 2

Today we reviewed each others presentation boards which displayed the work that people will be submitting to YCN. I felt this was a chance to improve on the poorly laid out presentation boards that I had created previously. My work received generally positive feedback but my main area of concern is spelling and grammar - it was pointed out there were several mistakes within the text. This is something I must be aware of when it comes to submitting as this will definitely hinder my chances of winning. Despite copying the text from a word processing document, somehow errors still occurred, I believe that getting someone to proofread my text beforehand will be integral.

Additionally there are a few things that I could add to make my boards more visually pleasing. I could add the brand logo to each page, conceive a more presentable way of displaying the Propercorn posters I've created and finally add small notes to important objects such as the mock up bus stop poster etc. These are all things that will help my work look more presentable and ultimately, more professional.



Concerning my work, I personally don't feel it has changed much since that last peer review, however I noticed that this appeared to be the case with most other people's work within the session. This is possibly due to how busy we've been with our other modules. I need to pull my socks up and get my work ready for the submission deadline. Finally, Kane suggested that whilst my work is funny and works, perhaps I shouldn't uses collage as a process and instead illustrate the stock images I've used on the bags with a pen and pencil etc.

Printed Pictures: Screen Issues

Today I exposed my screens. However, I encountered a huge issue - the line work on my screens was too small. The reason for this was because I chose to downsize my positives to A3 size to economise my screen use. This glaring error has set me back greatly.

To resolve this issue quickly I decided to remake my positives by selecting six parts of my previous design, making them lone images that loosely interconnect. These images if cut apart could also act as postcards or as framed singular illustrations.

Moving Pictures: Huxley's Hollywood Sound

With sound now added to my animation I feel it is now as complete as it can be considering the time I have remaining. I felt that the issue of the music being too upbeat wasn't too much of an problem once I had merged it with the animation as it created a contradiction of sorts to an effective degree.



Initial responses have been positive, however one person has described it as "less like a advertisement, more like a tv show opening". I'm not sure how to respond to the criticism at this point in time.

Moving Pictures: Music

I came across this music today whilst searching for 1930's music which I feel would work perfectly with my animation. However I feel that the upbeat music might not sit well with lower portion of my animation that should have a somewhat darker tone as it enters the impoverished section of the narrative. This is something I'll have to review whilst adding the music.

Moving Pictures: 356 Day Animation

I saw this today. It's an animation in which one second was drawn every day over the course of a year. I don't think stylistically this piece is very relevant to my plans but the use of sounds within the animation is inspiring and has given me something to think about.



Overall - a very interesting piece of work.

Moving Pictures: Initial Development

Using the same process I began with my rough animation I further developed my animation. I chose to desaturate the animation as it panned downwards in an attempt to give it a old fashioned movie feel. However I felt this wasn't enough so using self made textures I created a transparent gif image that would act as a grainy substance which appears when the screen turns grey.

The animation still has a lot of work to be done on it however, such as making the aspects of inequality more obvious. To do this I found stock images of impoverished 1930's people to stand at the base of the scrolling animation. Hopefully between the sprawling skyscrapers and the poor people this will create the sense of inequality apparent.




I feel that at this point the main issue remaining with my animation is the lack of sound. This is something I'm going to have to research further.

Printed Pictures: London - After Ford

Using Adobe Illustrator I have created an interpretation of Huxley's London, the year 2540 or A.F 632.

With order now existing within the line work I felt I was able to make the detail more experimental. Using digital collage I added self made textures to all of the buildings, some being manipulated further with halftones. Finally I introduced a stronger halftone element to the clouds and factory smoke reminiscent of Muradov's work. I just need to separate the layers to produce positives for screen printing.

Offlife #11 Narrative

Over the past few days I've been working on a narrative for Offlife Magazine. It is a relatively open brief, but must consist of a narrative from 1-4 pages. It can be about absolutely anything, which was what initially appealed to me. I developed a short tale about a girl jumping on a ledge into a lake to find complete silence. It was conceived as a piece that would rely on imagery more than text.

After sketching and inking my four page narrative I scanned the work in a coloured it digitally; I also tried including texture, playing with levels drastically and removing colour altogether. Ultimately I chose to stick with just the colour as this worked the best in my opinion. I also chose to remove the second page of the story as I felt it slowed the flow down and was easily the weakest of the four pages. It was also important to remember that just because I could use four pages didn't mean I had to.

Printed Pictures: Kristyna Baczynski

When I think about ordered illustration I think about Kristyna Baczinski's work. She has an extraordinary ability to create fantastic illustrations using straight lines. This possible comes from her background as a graphic designer.

I'm quite aware of my own abilities at this point and know I could never produce such lifework freehand, so I'm going to use Adobe Illustrator to help me illustrate a more ordered world.

Propercorn: Presentation Board Peer Review 1

Today we reviewed each others presentation boards. I was quite taken aback by how varied the boards were, with some being outstanding and others being... not so. I felt that my boards floated somewhere in the middle. I believe that I showed good research, and initial ideas within my boards, but my work needs to be developed further before the boards can be effective. I was also told that I need to narrow my focus of work. I'm trying to design a whole campaign when all I really need to do is redesign the packaging of Propercorn and consider the PoS side of things rather than invest too much time in them as I had suggested within the boards.



Delving deeper into the boards themselves I noticed during my presentation that there were certain issues concerning the layout and more importantly text; specifically - spelling mistakes, odd placing and varying font sizes. This is something to make note of in the future; I think that I should perhaps write out the text in a word processing document before transferring to Photoshop to prevent issues such as spelling and grammar mistakes from occurring.

Moving Pictures: Rough Animation

Here is a rough of the animation I have produced so far. There are many elements I haven't included yet, but the purpose of the piece was to gain a better understanding of the time frame within the advertisement.



I think perhaps the shot of the brick wall should linger more as I plan to have several impoverished characters there and I want allow the audience time to focus on them. The time allowed there will be supplemented from the amount of time Huxley's image is on screen as I feel this is somewhat longer than necessary.

Printed Pictures: Screen Print Investigation

In my attempt to create a screen print that takes advantage of colour I have produced this. I began by looking back at my SB1: Visual Journal work where I used collage of urban areas to an effective degree. Using textures that I have created using Quink and graphite, I worked in Photoshop to produce these positives.

Using these positives I headed to the screen print workshop where I spent time learning how to print effectively and experimented with different coloured paper stock.


As you can see my first attempt is quite offset compared to a later print where my skill had improved somewhat. The black and yellow paper stock also produced interesting outcomes in that the colours seem to suggest a different time of day. This may prove useful going forward.

My biggest complaint with the pieces is that they look so untidy. When I think about Brave New World, I think about how ordered and controlled that world is. I need to find a way for this to be represented within my work.

Printed Pictures: Ben Newman

I saw Ben Newman's screen print for NoBrow's Autumn/Winter 2014 book recently. I'm impressed with this print as he has only used two colours, yet manages to make effective use of them thus creating the illusion of more being used. Its inspired me to spend a day in Screen Print to investigate how I can produce a more effective image.

I realise that the Man in Suit piece that I made is definitely inadequate when it comes to colour overlay so I definitely need to produce something else to highlight this technique.

Illustration 1: Module Evaluation - Thus Far...

1. What skills have I developed through this brief thus far?

I have learnt the basics in Dragon Frame and After Effects to the point where I feel okay with my knowledge; however, due to my lack of work with Moving Pictures at this point I can’t state that I am fully confident with either.

2.  What approaches to methods of image making have you developed and how have they informed your development process?

Collage has played a large role in my Visual Journal, despite this, and my planning to bring this across to Printed/Moving pictures, this has yet to happen, thus hindered the quality/connectivity of my work. I need to revise this.

3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?

My experimentation/investigation of media early on was particularly strong and although it has waned somewhat it continues to be an effective factor of my work thus far. This experimentation needs to inform my final pieces more though, as has been stated in my peer review, there appears to be a gap between my sketchbook work and my prints.

 Collage continues to be a strong of visual apsect as stated above. I need to refer back to this to push my work forward.

4.  What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these in the future?

The past few weeks have been tough due to personal issues, which has been reflected in the quality of my work and attitude towards the module. As I am learning to deal with these issues I must remind myself not to let them interfere with my practice.

I need to stop dwelling on my work. If an image doesn’t work, move on. Every piece of work that I make doesn’t have to be universally revered. I’m still early into my career and can’t expect myself to be producing truly amazing work at this point.

5. Identify 5 things that you will do differently from this point and what do you expect to gain from doing these?

-       - I need to bring collage back into my work, this has continually been noted as a strong area of my work thus far and will help improve the quality of it.

-       - I need to bring more research into my work, I still have plenty of time to research things to help me round off this module and help me produce a better quality of work.

-       - I can’t let my personal issues interfere with my work. Everyone has problems and I need to get on with it. I can’t let my work be victim to external issues.

-       - I need to stop dwelling on my work. I need to stop being afraid of doing work just in case it looks wrong. If something doesn’t look right try to identify what is wrong with it and move on.

-       - I need to understand my limitations. I have an grand idea of what I want my work to look like, but I feel I’m setting the bar too high and overstretching myself rather than focusing on making higher quality work.

Printed Pictures: Soma Narrative Prints

My first attempt at screen printing the Soma concertina failed miserably. There are several reasons for this:

- I don't feel I made the most of the screen printing process. I haven't experimented with mixing the colours up enough in the positives.

- I didn't give much thought to the actual process of printing. I hadn't thought about the actual size of my print/screen which can be evidenced by the failure in printing well.

- Finally, my lack experience with the process. I need to work more with the screen printing process and develop my skills in this area, I could make fantastic positive work, but if I don't know how to print properly then the visual outcome will suffer for it.

To solve these problems I'm going to make another set of positives that will take advantage of the screen printing process. This in turn will allow me to experiment more and learn more about the process.

Moving Pictures: Animation Roll

After playing around in my sketchbook using stock images from the internet, I went about making a mock back ground image (or Animation Roll as I'll be calling it) using collage. After this I produced a digital version as seen below.

I plan on using After Effects to drag the image up, creating an effect similar to The Simpsons clip I have referenced. Once the image reaches the bottom the screen will turn to black and Huxley's face will appear with the title of the sting. I plan for the visual quality of the image to be smooth early on and gradually deteriorate as the animation gets lower.

Printed Pictures: Man in Suit

Here is the process I went through to create the Man is Suit imagery that'll stand opposite my Mind work. I've incorporated elements from Cornella, Cohen and Muradov to create a narrative displaying the effects of Soma.

Printed Pictures: Drew Millward Lecture

The illustrator Drew Millward gave a lecture today and discussed his history of what is largely screen printed poster design. It was good to have him come in at a time when I am quite unsure about my skill of screen printing. He told us that screen printing can be an arduous process but the key is to just keep going with it. It seems like an easy thing to do but can take years to become good at. 

This has given me a renewed hope in screen printing and I feel ready to go down to print (which I have been putting off) and actually get some work produced!

Propercorn: Research and Initial Ideas

Recently I've set about researching the Propercorn brand to get a greater understanding of what to produce for this brief, to do this I used the excellent image collection site Pintrest.

Follow Tommy 'Zoom''s board Propercorn on Pinterest.

I noticed several things during this investigation:
Colour is a big thing with Propercorn.
Most images were interestingly thought out, or set in a professional workspace.
There is feeling of isolation that accompanies these Propercorn images.

The last aspect felt very important to me. If the brand wants to expand itself, it'll need to suggest there is a more social aspect to eating Propercorn. My initial concept designs played around with different ideas such as reworking the ingredients ideology on the bags that currently exists. But after taking into account what I had discovered from my research, I decided to push forward with the idea of  socialisation as the point of focus in my designs. I mocked up a design and applied it to the different coloured bags to get an idea of the effect. My final designs will ultimately have a different image on each flavour.

Printed Pictures: Simple Features

Having created my 'Mind' pieces of work, I feel that perhaps I need a counterbalance to these, to create a stronger narrative within my zine/concertina. So I've decided that each opposite page will contain a separate narrative of a man ingestive the relaxant drug 'Soma'.

I've been struggling with the aesthetic quality of this imagery, however. Part of me wants to conform to a rough detailed form similar to what I have produced thus far, yet I feel that a simplified style would suit this piece more.

So I decided to take a step back and look at what some might deem "basic illustrative styles" from Ella Cohen and Joan Cornella.








Both artists show great strength in making imagery with reserved line work. This is something I hope to bring into my work to help me close out the designs for this piece.

Printed Pictures: Mind

Continuing my quest to make intangible illustration I began to think about how the mind could be visualised during stressful moments. I initially thought of how Valerie Pirson portrayed the mind in her Pistache animation as seen here. I wanted to create something similar to this so set about illustrating a brain with intangible bursts that would hopefully convey stress.

More needs to be done to the image but I finally feel that I've found an intangible motif that I want to progress further with. Also, when animated in a .gif sequence the separate images look pretty neat.

I feel that perhaps having just a mind doesn't create enough of a narrative and am toying with the idea of having a separate sequence of images on the opposing pages to help resolve this issue.

Printed Pictures: Attempting the Intangible

I feel that I am close to making a breakthrough as I try to make my work more intangible and less rigid. I just need to keep steering my work away from what I feel to be 'safe'.

I began by using Quink, a tool I've only briefly used before. Along side that I also used a dip pen, a tool I've never used before. Although the results below aren't as abstract as I intended (and are bordering more on Steadman than Gormley), I'm happy that I've finally begun to pull away from my comfort zone. Quink creates some beautiful textures that when flicked with a brush pen can help visually reflect the shattering effect of long term drug exposure.

Printed Pictures: Anthony Gormley Ink Drawings

To give myself a better idea of how to convey intangibility I've been looking at Anthony Gormley's ink drawings. His work can seem quite surreal but for the theme of drug use I feel it could work quite well. How can I incorporate this into my own work?



I'm feeling quite stressed out at the moment, I feel that perhaps three outcomes is overstretching myself. I believe I've made an error by attempting three when I should instead be focusing my energy on creating one high quality piece of work.

Printed Pictures: Progress Surgery

Today I had a progress surgery where I discussed some of the personal issues that are affecting my work, and also problems that I am encountering with the current module. We spoke about the main themes that I'm tackling and how best to resolve them.

One possibility is that I'm thinking too literally about my work and perhaps could consider the intangible more. By creating work that allows the audience to think about it and piece it together themselves isn't a bad thing. The audience don't always need to be spoon fed.

However planning on doing something and actually doing it are two separate things. I planned on generating a few intangible ideas but found myself again relying on obvious imagery to visually feed the audience as seen below with my drugs and copulation themes:





I need to be more relaxed and less uptight in my process. I can always come back to a more, less say, rigid process later, but for now I want to work more freely.

Propercorn: Proposal

Problems I aim to resolve are:
Expand the brand's audience
Create a campaign involving redesigned packaging and PoS items
Invoke a sense of social acceptance through the brand

In order to solve these problems I will:
Create a new Propercorn bag for their popcorn
Create a new packaging design for their boxes
Create an array of PoS designs

I will be aiming to communicate:
That the social acceptance comes with eating Propercorn
That Propercorn is the perfect snack for the professional on the go
That Propercorn is modern, cutting edge food brand

My audience will be:
Students
Young professionals
Young parents (below 35)

Printed Pictures: Character Design Development

Moving on from the character designs I made recently, I've developed a female character further, playing around with the texture using halftone and varying colours within Photoshop.

I've done this for two reasons; firstly, I wanted to incorporate halftone into my work following on from seeing Roman's work. Secondly, I wanted to get an idea of how my screen prints will look. Now this could be seen as a bit forward thinking thinking considering that I haven't much solid developmental work yet, but with the end result being Screen Printing, it's important I keep this in mind and try to understand any potential issues or limitations that might arise beforehand.

Printed Pictures: Theme Development

I have decided on three themes that I plan to focus on; Copulation, Drugs and Society. Specifically I've concentrated on the themes of copulation and drugs today.

For the theme of copulation I began by designing several characters. My idea was for the pages to show each character singularly before embracing (which would then lead to coitus). I found I had to work a bit more on the male character's design before I was happy with it.

After this I explored ways of presenting Soma (a relaxant drug within the book), firstly by drawing out small scamp like ideas. I felt this wasn't very economical with my time, Adam later agreed with this belief and pointed out that I could have made this in Photoshop in much less time. These ideas were then developed into a larger scale before being experimented with digitally.

I need to produce ideas at a quicker rate and spend more time developing them in the short amount of time that I have.

Moving Pictures: Stock Images for Animation

Here is a selection of stock images I found on the internet I plan to use these to make my animation, however I may change some dependant on issues such as size and spacing etc.

Hopefully these images, when brought together, will help convey the inequality within places such as Hollywood that Huxley was aware of.

Moving Pictures: The Simpsons

With my 48-60 frame piece complete and my understanding of processes growing, I've began to give more thought to my final animation. 

I plan for my advertisement to run similar to this scene from the popular television series 'The Simpsons', however it will be of a more serious nature than this example. I like the idea of one continuous shot moving down from the heights of Hollywood to the slums below, thus highlighting the inequality prevalent at the time (and still is). If I make one huge collage image in Photoshop rather than Dragon Frame and use After Effects to move it, this will be both time efficient and effective.

Moving Picture: Ford Car (After Effects)

Hazaah! After getting rather fed up with After Effects, I solved the problem file transfer when I remembered some notes I'd made in the After Effects workshop.

I immediately began by playing around by adding a background. I noticed that the aged effect brought about by the cheap paper had been retained! This made me happy.



I then realised I needed to shorten the length of the footage as the video continues despite nothing happening.



After this I felt like I was getting the hang of After Effects again so returned to Photoshop to make some alterations to the background. I added a sepia tone to further enforce the aged appearance.



I felt that maybe having the transparent outline alone wasn't right so added shading via a fresh layer that would move in conjunction to the outlines. However, this looked terrible and remembering what Fred said in my tutorial decided that the transparent outline wasn't such a bad thing. It made the piece seem more intangible. So the shading was removed.

Printed Pictures: Silk Screen Prints

I've been looking at screen prints recently to get a better idea of what can be achieved with this process. I'm excited to get on and print something, however I'm quite aware my skills in screen printing are going to be a broad step back from the images seen below. It's interesting to see the wide range of outcomes concerning screen printing and I feel quite lost in what I'm seeing. I have no strong ideas of where I want to go with my work at the moment which is worrisome. I need to spend some time thinking about my themes.

Printed Pictures: Roman Muradov

I saw this piece by Roman Muradov today. I thought it was an interesting use of halftone which may come in useful when it comes to my screen printing. Specifically I like how he has included halftone over coloured washes as it adds aesthetic quality similar to screen printing. This technique is something worth exploring as I develop my work for this brief.

Printed Pictures: Poster Research

Keeping in mind that my idea for SB2 Moving Pictures is to create an animation with an air of classical film to it, my natural response it to create a concertina book with a similar tone. To do this I have looked at posters and pamphlets from the same time frame for ideas.

Whilst these posters have given me some ideas, I'm not sure yet what to take forward from these pieces.

Printed Pictures: Concertina

After giving it some thought I've decided to produced four concertina books (consisting of four pages with an additional front and back) rather than one larger concertina. This will allow me to focus on a specific theme within each book rather than losing focus by havin them all together.

Moving Pictures: Ford Car

Yesterday after my tutorial I took a step back and thought about what I want to produce, how I can make it happen and what I will need to do in order to complete this brief. 

Firstly I felt like I needed some inspiration, and found it from the animated television series 'The Legend of Korra'. Each episode begins with a 'previously' segment which is animated to create the allusion of 1940's film footage. I like this effect and would like to incorporate it into my work.

After this I decided to make a 48-60 frame animation focusing on one of the early Ford cars:

I'm having trouble transferring these frames from Photoshop to After Effects. I need to discuss this issue with Eleanor or Mike soon as it is holding my work progress up.

Another point to make - I purposefully used cheap rough paper so the quality looks rough and somewhat similar to old film footage. I'm hoping this will transfer well when I introduce a background to the footage at some point.