Give a Gift, Ideas

Give a Gift

To keep the creative juices flowing I thought I'd muck around on Photoshop and come up with an idea for a card design. As ideas began to develop I thought the visual looked very much like a brand for a campaign.

The original idea came from the theme of Christmas. One of the main aspects of Christmas is Gift Giving, however many get carried away with gifts which are materialistic. This is represented through the sugar-coated looking parcels. Many forget Christmas is initially the holiday to give but through a caring loving way represented by the heart which is where the text lies. 'Give a gift' show someone you care.

It doesn't need to be complicated- It's the thought that counts!

I Wonder Model

I created this display as part of my Degree Show. Part of my Major Project I created titles for my own 'make believe' children's programme, the target audience being between 3 and 5 years old. (Can be seen on my Vimeo account)

I decided to create this model to help viewers establish the setting and feel for my programme. I also believed that if I were to pitch this idea to a television company small scaled models such as this one are created to help viewers visualise the concept and idea of the piece.

I had great fun in creating this model and I am really proud of it.

Final Tests, part 1

Since my last Pippy Painter test I have looked more into how balls bounce and exaggerated this for a more fun looking, comic and cartoon effect.

Each illustration is on a separate plane, illustrated and painted by myself as I wanted to create a children's storybook type visual. I intend to build up the background more for a richer feel.

I Wonder Title

This will be my last shot of my titles which introduces my programme 'I wonder'.

I kept the colours bright and engaging considering my target audience of 3-5year olds. I chose shapes which were round, soft and bouncy looking and exaggerated this. Since visiting Nickelodeon Studios this is an effect I have since always considered as they stressed this point to me.

Character Test

This is an even rougher test than when testing my Pippy Painter character, but this is me just testing another way in how my characters could be presented. The Pippy test was the physical play-doh shape scanned in and then digitally animated, this one which stars Lucy Letters is done if I were to stop frame her in a flat 2-D form rather than her felt self.

I took singular pictures of her stuck to a stick then removed this in photoshop to give the slight illusion she is moving by herself.

To further this development I would print out numerous images of Lucy however with different facial expressions, then include these within the stop-motion animation.

These tests will conclude in me finding out how I want to animate my characters, whether it be digitally, or stop frame their flat 2-D selves made from paper, or stop frame their 3-D selves made from materials, forming a more three dimensional shape like a sphere.

Visual Tests

This mock is a rough test to help plan how my visual is going to look and move. It is very rough indeed as I carried this test out at home and I don't have a tripod. I had to blue-tack my camera onto the back of my computer chair so it didn't stay as still as I'd wished but it gives a slight idea of how i want my visual to be portrayed.

I wanted the trees to shimmer slightly as if they were blowing gently in the breeze, replacing one green part with another, the same technique I used for my Green & Blacks. I think this worked, however this had to be done many times and the trees began to wilt, so this needs to be considered within my final. Perhaps using stronger material and a sturdier base to withstand the constant handling.

If stop-motion does not completely satisfy how I wish my visual to look I will consider another approach.

Pippy Bouncing (rough test)

This weekend I have been working non-stop. I have been creating my characters out of a variety of materials and testing how a set would look if it consisted of nothing but play-doh. However after all of this i couldn't help messing about with my favourtie character through photoshop and After Effects.

This is a very rough test of Pippy Painter, it shows my idea of how I want her to look and move.

Show-reel

This is a compilation of some of my work I've created so far. The music and the original Disney Cinderella footage are not mine and the photographs used within my Vogue pieces were taken from 'Unseen Vogue' the book.
All animation is done by myself and all concepts and ideas.

Fairies and Fantasy

Over the summer period I thought I'd love to get back in touch with my drawing side as I love to draw and felt I'd not been doing a lot of it recently.

Having a few days of gorgeous sunshine inspired me to draw and because of the sunshine I thought what better to draw than flowers. As I sat soaking up the sun I remembered I had a few books stashed away from years back on fairies which each represented a flower from every season of the month. For example the image at the far bottom is the Rose fairy. All these books were illustrated Cicley Mary Barker.

Looking through her illustrations of flowers and fairies inspired me to re-create, freehand one of her drawings as seen above (the middle image). I really enjoyed drawing this. I have a passion for drawing and thought what better way to start working through inspirations ready for third year.

The image at the top is another one of my drawings, again freehand. After being inspired by Barker's illustrations I wanted to draw my own flower and picked the lily which is my favorite and also coincidentally the flowers in my mum's vase on the dining table.

As my degree specifies in moving image I obviously took this into account. The image I drew situated above in the middle i imagined the fairy walking up and down the stem, fluttering her wings. If i were to create this I would make it so the movements were subtle yet effective to reflect the delicacy and fragility of my style of drawing.

I would imagine when the majority think of fairies they relate them to children as when their young they have a sense of belief. Though my piece I wouldn't aim for children I think my drawings have a more 'grown-up' feel. So it had me thinking I love fashion and more and more fashion designers these days are taking the next step into the digital World. My short of fairies could promote clothing collections as the ideas that revolve around fairies is all about believing (Peter Pan, clap if you believe in fairies). So the end title of my short could be 'seeing is believing' to represent the clothing as these clothes are so breathtaking you have to see it to believe it.