Vis Lit: Vintage

So I came up with a new idea for vintage. When I thought of vintage I think of people in Top hats wearing monocles drinking wine. So I wanted to use that in a, sort of, funny way. I took inspiration from a Meme, Feel like a sir (see below), as it is an image used to be funny, for example, If you don't have any normal glasses that are clean you may use a wine glass for your juice and you would then "feel like a sir". So I wanted to take this and combine it with my retro gaming theme and this is what I came up with.

Visual Lit: Happy

I showed my initial idea for happy to Belinda last week and she gave me some good feedback. She recommended I take out the text and just use the image as it is a very powerful image in itself. I basically took the image in black and white and gave it a bit of a faded border then I increased the yellow, to make the whole image yellow, to show that sort of cliché happy along side my more unique interpretation of happy. Finally I made a combination of the two images, half yellow and half black and white. So here's what I've done:

Elementary Animation

I have just finished drawing out my images for my hand drawn animation of a ball and tail. I still need to take the photos and put them into flash to make sure it works well, so lets hope it's just a one take animation.

Dynamic Communications

Hi, I've not really posted much about my dynamic communications, even though I thought I had, so there is a small amount of catching up. Firstly I have decided upon a direction I want to go in for my ident, down the boxing side as I've been doing it for around 8 years and it is a big part of my life. I came up with some ideas for how I would like it laid out. I wanted a boxers silhouette in between my first and last name and here is what I came up with.

With this I was experimenting with different text and layout of the boxer with the text. The one I liked most was probably the third or sixth design.

After this I thought up another logo idea, which incorporates the two boxers, but in a more professional style.

With these designs I experimented with different colours, red and blue and a gold colour. The red and blue are fitting with the corners in boxing but I find the gold just looks that bit more professional. I was also thinking that with my ident I want to have the silhouettes boxing each other and freeze when one hits the other (like in the above image) so I thought I could have the boxers fighting and when it freezes, have them fade into this style and then the camera zooms out and shows my name with these guys in the middle, or something like that. I am still not 100% sure what I want to do exactly yet.

Visual Lit. Idea

For visual literacy we need to come up with some stills for a song, poem or something of that sort. So I wanted to go for a narrative based piece, Rorschach's Journal, from the movie Watchmen. Its full of imagery in what he says and the actual clip itself doesn't really depict what he is saying in the journal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgmdHvBabAQ

Visual Literacy: Help

With the feedback I got from my "Crit" session today I have taken that and used it in my image for Help. I think it looks A LOT better because before the background was just very nothing and stuck out a bit much. The only difference with these two images is the lightness wee guy in the middle. I'm not sure which one I prefer yet though.

Visual Literacy: Happy, Final Image

My final image for "Happy" (not that I'm not allowing change). It is very similar to my image in my last post but I made the grungy texture a bit lighter/more visible.

Visual Literacy: Happy

For my word "Happy" I wanted to do something a long the lines of my boxing, as that is something I really enjoy and feel happy when I do it. What I love about it is probably what a lot of people would HATE, and that is the exertion. I love giving it everything I have and that feeling exhaustion afterwards. So I decided that I wanted to an image with a boxer on the left side of the image, fading out and "Blood, sweat & tears" on the right. So for the model to be the boxer, who better than myself! The first two images below are the images of the boxer (first is the raw image and second is after I made it black & white in Photoshop)

These images below are all fairly similar besides the text layout changes in one of them and there is a different grungy texture in the background of each of them. The second one I think is my favourite but I think I will lighten up the grungy texture in the back to make it slightly more visible.

Help Mood board

Here are the images I used as reference for the monsters in my image.

Final Ideas for Help

Visual Literacy: Help

Here I have all the silhouettes basically finished, now I just need to add in the eyes and mouths and I should be done with the monsters. That will just leave me with white guy and possibly highlights on the monsters to do.

Visual Literacy: Help

Here I have the initial rough outlines for my digital image for "Help". What I am going for here is a bunch of black creepy silhouettes of monsters all around one white character, in the middle, who is screaming into the air. The eyes and mouths of the silhouettes will be white so that they stand out.