sky arts

In this activity i am aiming to make a 20 second animation or video that shows the words 'SKY ARTS' in a creative way.


Inspirations:
There is a stop motion artist that goes by the name blu, he makes animations on walls in the street by taking as photo of each stage of the animation, this creates an illusions of movement but in still pictures.

I was thinking about making a stop frame animation for sky arts, the words would form on paper or on a wall, they would form in an interesting way such as being hatched from an egg or coming out of an oven completely melted and then solidifies into 'Sky Arts'. 


Channel 4 have made some very interesting idents (an identification of the channel). they are used to as an intro to a program while the commentator tells you what is coming up next.

Channel 4 frequently use floating objects to form the number 4, they have mainly used real objects that you would see in daily life and they have changed them to have a sci fi special effect style to them. They have also made one that has used an 'alien space ship' effect behind a pick up truck with to people arguing, they portray it as a normal event as the people look at it then carry on arguing.


Ideas:
One of my ideas is set in a factory, in the factory there are machines melting metal, pouring it into buckets and then picking them up and putting them into moulds. One of the buckets is in the wrong position so the machine picks it up in an awkward angle and then drops it, the metal then pours out and drops through the floors of the factory and hits the floor which then splashes into 'SkyArts' and solidifies. 


This whole sequence will be designed in some sort of 3D software so there will be no need for camera's or outdoor preparation (maybe look at some old factories).

Idea 2:
My second idea is set in a space ship, it starts off with a man running down a tunnel (with a space ship style to it) with a laser gun and he is firing backwards at some other soldiers chasing him. He then takes cover behind a large computer desk and fires at the soldiers while they fire back, then a laser shot hits the computer which makes a flash and creates a burn in the computer saying 'SkyArts'.

Preparation for idea 2:
Find an open space and create a set out of various cardboard cutouts.
Resources:
final cut pro, sony vegas, firefox 

Activity 3: World Skills

 World skills, healthy living

first website designs:

This page shows ideas of what the webpage could look like, it also shows what pages the buttons on the homepage will link to, i got a lot of these ideas from the good food website and the BBC food too.

This is the first stage of the development for this task.

Final idea layout (paper):

This is the homepage concept idea, i laid out a page with different boxes and labeled the possibilities of what i could put in them. 

In this task we had to design a layout for a website encouraging healthy living.

we researched a lot of different recipe websites to help the layout of our website to make it as effective as possible.

This is page 2 of the website design, its a page which would be clicked from the home page and this is where it would lead to.

There was some more development on paper but the hosters of this task took it away.

Visual language

Ying Yang Symbol

This 'Ying and Yang' symbol represents light and darkness, or good and evil. 

I found this task fairly difficult because the curves were very hard to get right but in the end i came out with a fairly good result.

Desert scene

For this task i have made a desert scene that extends out into the distance, i have made the colours more faded the further away the you can see, this adds the effect of distance and space.

Bird Attacking a victim

For this exercise i had to make a scene in which there is a bird attacking and victim (the person) out of simple shapes, i used a variation on triangles, circles, squares and rectangles to produce this piece of work.

I found this task fairly easy because i have had experience with illustrator before so i know how to make the shapes work together.

Rhythm's

this is an example of rhythm i made in illustrator, it is the same shaper repeated over and over again but just changing to a darker shade of colour.

colour theory

the different shades of colour fading together in a colour wheel.

                                     

 colour range in with shading of cubes

Contextual influences

Graphical design

Interactive media

paper composition

perspective 3D

Photography

Still Life

artists ideas and concepts

Nick Schlee:

'Stubble fields and new wheat'

Nick Schlee paints very smooth and very colourful paintings of the british countryside, i don't often see this style of painting but it is interesting because there is not a high amount of detail, its simple but effective.

I like this painting because it is slightly abstract, you sometimes see trees form in a tunnel but the way he has painted it makes it seem like an actual tunnel. 




Anita Austwick:

Anita Austwick's art is 'impressionism' she does it in a very rough and colourful way. This image 'The red london bus' is very different to her normal type of art, her painting normally have a very smooth and faded edge to them but this one doesn't, this one has been left to drip so the people look very strange and the drip almost looks like a shadow.

leonardo da vinci:

Leonardo had design many different concepts for machines and one of the most famous is the flying machine, this image is a concept of an early stage helicopter, unfortunately his contraption did not work because man power was simply not enough, he needed something like an engine which he could not get hold of at that time.

Leonardo also built another flying machine which was shaped like a bird, he got the idea from a bats wing and he tried to replicate the movement. he hoped he could try and glide through the sky with these wings that would be spread out and you would control them from the front where you were hanging. this is the first plane concept.

Skyrim development:


The game skyrim went through a lot of development stages for each zone, the game is an RPG meaning role playing game. It is built up of different areas which all had their own development time, The 'outside world' is one massive zone which all links in with itself and it requires no loading screens where as cave's temples and towns have their own stages which all would have been developed separately.

this video shows the original drawings and paintings of the concepts for the skyrim landscape and areas each of these would have been drawn over and over again to get the perfect look for the scene.
This is a video of the development of a ice troll attacking the original skyrim character.