Skills. Final idea
My final idea with the fanzine is to have different mono-prints on each page, but to also spell out the words 'Castle Market' throughout it! My attempts are below...
This last one I put in to show some of the more inconvenient letters, after getting to this one I knew I'd have to plan accordingly. At first I thought it looked good but then I looked closer/harder and it is too busy, so much so you can't read the printed letter in the background and I'd rather you could!
Skills. My Prints
One thing I love about mono-printing is the difference in stroke widths you can get by applying different amounts of force in the paper!
Here's a few if my prints to show the technique...
quick print of Sharon's cafe, I used a decent amount of force with cotton bud where I had taken the but off of the end on one side.
Here's a few if my prints to show the technique...
really lightly pressed print of fish.
Skills. Mono-Printing
So a decent way through task 2 during the workshops, I realised that I wanted to do my fan-zine by mono-print only mainly because I like the idea of only having one colour throughout. Anyway I did a bit more research on it and this is what I've found...
One of the earliest artist that played around with mono printing was Hercules Seghers (1589-1638) a dutch painter.
This is one of his, the ink has been beautifully layered up to create a lovely landscape, although 'mono-print' does mean a singular print, that doesn't mean you can't add colour after colour!
One of the earliest artist that played around with mono printing was Hercules Seghers (1589-1638) a dutch painter.
This is one of his, the ink has been beautifully layered up to create a lovely landscape, although 'mono-print' does mean a singular print, that doesn't mean you can't add colour after colour!
Skills. The Cards!
The BMW Card:
I chose this because of my childhood, I spent most of my time in my dads BMW specialist garage. So I've been fixing these Bavarian Motor Works since I was old enough to walk!
The Competitive Card:
To put it lightly I've never been the most gracious of losers... Come to think of it I'm not much better when I win hahaa!
The Joker Card:
Well according to my flat makes I'm a practical joker, I just think cello-taping my flatmates food to the outside of a fifth floor window as... Payback :)!
The Comic Card:
Comics... What's not to love! Especially the Flash! I read a comic and it's cliche but its not just another story it's like another universe, it's like the new 52 (comic-book-nerd humor) if you will You could ask anyone that's know me for at least 5 minutes, chances are I've brought up comics in a conversation!
I chose this because of my childhood, I spent most of my time in my dads BMW specialist garage. So I've been fixing these Bavarian Motor Works since I was old enough to walk!
The Competitive Card:
To put it lightly I've never been the most gracious of losers... Come to think of it I'm not much better when I win hahaa!
The Joker Card:
Well according to my flat makes I'm a practical joker, I just think cello-taping my flatmates food to the outside of a fifth floor window as... Payback :)!
The Comic Card:
Comics... What's not to love! Especially the Flash! I read a comic and it's cliche but its not just another story it's like another universe, it's like the new 52 (comic-book-nerd humor) if you will You could ask anyone that's know me for at least 5 minutes, chances are I've brought up comics in a conversation!
Skills. Making the Pack
This is a net view of my design, I figured an ideal place for my logo would be right in the middle to grab attention straight away! I love my colour scheme too, purple and yellow work brilliantly, if you need proof ask The LA Lakers jersey designer :)
... And below is the final box which I'm pretty happy with.
Skills.
So I decided to run with the with the galling cards theme, I came up with a few idea thanks to my flat mates listing my perfections and flaws, well mainly flaws "/
I also needed to figure out the dimensions of the playing pack as well as the cards, which turned out to be 2.5x3.5inches (63x88mm), this is for a standard poker card. From this I knew the pack had to be a little bit bigger to make space so as you see below I made a net for the pack.
The picture above is just a trial of the net to see if the cards would fit, unfortunately the box I made was just a few mm too short, but that's something I learned from.
I also needed to figure out the dimensions of the playing pack as well as the cards, which turned out to be 2.5x3.5inches (63x88mm), this is for a standard poker card. From this I knew the pack had to be a little bit bigger to make space so as you see below I made a net for the pack.
Fur Elise
In this quick animation my goal was to perfectly sync the music with the bouncing of the dots!
Spider-Man does what ever a spider can!
Just a practise animation where I messed with the camera, light as well as basic positioning!
Final Storyboard
This one is a little more refined and I feel it was a hell of a lot less forced! I actually can't wait to get started!
AE Workshop
In this AE workshop with Johnny, after separating Spidey from his background last time, we now put him into AE to make him move. After doing the simple movements and rotations, Johnny then showed us how to add cameras and lights which in turn added a 'Z' angle which was depth. Then we were shown how to add text and make it follow a path and stop at a certain point, then zoom of again, which looks pretty cool when you add motion blur to it, well here is mine..
Alex Steinweiss
Steinweiss, a Brooklyn born graphic design is most famously recognised for his album artwork. He had designed above 2000 album covers before his death! He was also responsible for the design of the 33 1/3 rpm LP jackets that are used today!
A lot of his album are is quite abstract even when he's included figures these too are abstract for example the 'Boogie Woogie' cover that sees two giant hands that would seem to be silhouette but fold over as if they are playing the piano!
A lot of his album are is quite abstract even when he's included figures these too are abstract for example the 'Boogie Woogie' cover that sees two giant hands that would seem to be silhouette but fold over as if they are playing the piano!
This last album cover is my favourite I love how he's incorporated a figure in to such a basic back ground that normally I would think need something else to add more to it but here it's gorgeous in its simplicity!
Jazz Animations
Started to look at other peoples jazz animations to kinda get a feel and some ideas for my own the stick figures was too rushed imo.
Then I came across Smigley although I won't be doing anything as figurative this animation did manage to get a chuckle out of me.
Here is an extremely abstract Jazz animation that to watch meshes with the audio entitled 'Abstract Animation' by Mark Ferrell I love how from 00:00s-00:13s there is a lot of craziness going off then at 00:14s the geometric shapes break in, perfectly in sync with the piano sequence, this is something I can look at for my own animation.
This Jazz Animation in After Effects
Then I came across Smigley although I won't be doing anything as figurative this animation did manage to get a chuckle out of me.
Here is an extremely abstract Jazz animation that to watch meshes with the audio entitled 'Abstract Animation' by Mark Ferrell I love how from 00:00s-00:13s there is a lot of craziness going off then at 00:14s the geometric shapes break in, perfectly in sync with the piano sequence, this is something I can look at for my own animation.
This Jazz Animation in After Effects
The Mask
The more I listen to my track the more it reminds me of this scene from The Mask at The Coco Bongo.
50's Jazz
I was reading up on the different styles of jazz to get a feel of which 'Orson Around' might be and I'd certainly call it 'Be Bop'/'Bebop'. This style of jazz seem to lean more towards aggressive tempos and harmonies that were more abstract as opposed to the chilled, smooth sounding 'Cool Jazz' that began later on in the 50's.
I've listened to a few 'Be Bop' artists I quite like Charles Mingus especially the song "Moanin'" which a great one just to sit and play on loop, it has some more relaxed section but on the whole it upbeat, I love the opening to it!
Whilst looking through Jazz artists on youtube this Jazz dance video came up in the related section it was quite a good watch. BROTHERS IN JAZZ... UK .jazz dance -uk be-bop style ...
I've listened to a few 'Be Bop' artists I quite like Charles Mingus especially the song "Moanin'" which a great one just to sit and play on loop, it has some more relaxed section but on the whole it upbeat, I love the opening to it!
Whilst looking through Jazz artists on youtube this Jazz dance video came up in the related section it was quite a good watch. BROTHERS IN JAZZ... UK .jazz dance -uk be-bop style ...
Andy Warhol
Andrew 'Andy' Warhol, I one of my favourite designers, he was one of the designers at the forefront of the pop-art movement. Most of his work looked and expressing artistically the celebrity culture and advertisements that were apparent during the 60's.
Campbell's Tomato Soup, a piece of incredibly minimalism. Each of the 32 cans were created using a semi-mechanized screen printing process. Quite a few of Warhol's piece were screen printed, it would seem he preferred this technique but the skill in it really shows in his Marilyn Monroe art work.
Campbell's Tomato Soup, a piece of incredibly minimalism. Each of the 32 cans were created using a semi-mechanized screen printing process. Quite a few of Warhol's piece were screen printed, it would seem he preferred this technique but the skill in it really shows in his Marilyn Monroe art work.
50's Posters
I started to look at few 1950 posters, here are a few!
They seem very figurative and range from different styles, the first for example looks very air brushed and more like a picture perfect painting (alliteration, it's nice when things work out). Where as the second poster screams Andy Warhol and kind of graphic design style!
Here's a Chevrolet AC spark plug poster, I'm using this one as an example but it is a theme I've seen in a lot of ads between 1940-1960. In the small print here it says 'The same AC spark plugs that add power to this car of tomorrow are available for your car today' now this sentence not only adds value you the item mentioned but also the car itself by making out that this car is somehow futuristic and incredibly new! This is great because as we know society always wants to be up to date with all the new toys and gadgets, this is a brilliant advertising tool.
They seem very figurative and range from different styles, the first for example looks very air brushed and more like a picture perfect painting (alliteration, it's nice when things work out). Where as the second poster screams Andy Warhol and kind of graphic design style!
Here's a Chevrolet AC spark plug poster, I'm using this one as an example but it is a theme I've seen in a lot of ads between 1940-1960. In the small print here it says 'The same AC spark plugs that add power to this car of tomorrow are available for your car today' now this sentence not only adds value you the item mentioned but also the car itself by making out that this car is somehow futuristic and incredibly new! This is great because as we know society always wants to be up to date with all the new toys and gadgets, this is a brilliant advertising tool.
Stop-Motion
Today we was on of the best workshops I've ever had! WE HAD LEGO! We were doing stop-motion using legos and hopefully if this works, here mine...
and here part of the cell animation from before half term captured on my phone using iMotion HD which is an awesome app it even has 'Onion Skin' to help you keep track of the previous frame!
I also looked at a few other stop-motion videos to see how the pros did it, here's a few!
Mario in stop-motion
Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie*
* I have to admit that although we were shown it, 'Her Morning Elegance' is one of the best stop-motion films I've seen! The song perfectly matches the tempo of the film and is altogether both relaxing and fun to watch.
The story board!
I want to capture all of this physically in a flip book style of animation, like so ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D0kG4URfxs
2Seconds
2seconds
Looking back at this I think this was an idea I wanted to work rather than one that came naturally!
Stickies!
These post it notes are great for quick sketches of key frames!! Plus you can trace through them (:
Basic Sticks
Started to do a lil research into stick animation and the ones that pop up a lot are xaio xaio's. These seem to be a 2/3D animation, most of them contain some martial arts!
I found this one on YouTube as well as being amazingly done excuse my language but it is fucking hilarious!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFioleqDBlM
From what I know almost all of these are done by the way of 'Flash Animation' and they look so cooool!!!!
I found this one on YouTube as well as being amazingly done excuse my language but it is fucking hilarious!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFioleqDBlM
From what I know almost all of these are done by the way of 'Flash Animation' and they look so cooool!!!!
Print To Pixel
There's something about my track (Orson Around) I dislike, but it's so upbeat and quite a happy tune that it's hard not to like! So when life gives you lemons.. :)
Enjoyable, Fifty's and Vibrant would be the three words I would use to describe it! Unfortunately I can't find a way to upload it to here. It starts of rather loud and vibrantly as opposed to fading in and rising from there. Around a third of the way in begins a what sounds like a saxophone or a trombone kind of solo that makes you want to move it's that enjoyable and upbeat. The audio as a whole give me an image of a fifty's diner with a juke box playing this song!
Enjoyable, Fifty's and Vibrant would be the three words I would use to describe it! Unfortunately I can't find a way to upload it to here. It starts of rather loud and vibrantly as opposed to fading in and rising from there. Around a third of the way in begins a what sounds like a saxophone or a trombone kind of solo that makes you want to move it's that enjoyable and upbeat. The audio as a whole give me an image of a fifty's diner with a juke box playing this song!
Scanned, printed and bound!
Finally scanned them in, in EMB and almost left my memory stick there too!
I was quite proud of hos they looked once they were scanned in, after that it was just a matter of cropping them to the same size.
After cropping them I just needed to align them on A3 pages so I could have them printed on both sides!
As you can tell, even though I lined them up perfectly on the computer, that was some how lost in the printing process and although it is unfortunate, I just think it's something I can learn from for next time!
I bound these slightly different to how we we shown in some of the earlier workshops this year, instead of binding from the inside, I did it from the outside, personally I like it because it keeps the pages nice and tight!
After cropping them I just needed to align them on A3 pages so I could have them printed on both sides!
I bound these slightly different to how we we shown in some of the earlier workshops this year, instead of binding from the inside, I did it from the outside, personally I like it because it keeps the pages nice and tight!
The Pages
Page layout! Just need to scan'em in, flip them, order them, lay them out so it's easier to print on both sides and finally... PRINT!
For the most part my fanzine is mono print! That is except the quotes pages which will be printed typography! I've found with mono printing that the thinner the paper and tools used, the finer the lines produced by the ink, I'll keep that in mind in the future!
The above to are among my favourite pages!
For the most part my fanzine is mono print! That is except the quotes pages which will be printed typography! I've found with mono printing that the thinner the paper and tools used, the finer the lines produced by the ink, I'll keep that in mind in the future!
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