Live Project: Week 1 Plan - 24/03/14

Self-Initiated Study Plan Week 1 "7th Wave & Bang On Catering" Logos.

For my self-initiated study, I have chosen to create a number of varied illustration and design pieces to add to my portfolio. These images will show the development in not only my personal skills but show what I have earned when it comes to illustration and digital painting over the past two years. I will do these images on a weekly to half-weekly basis depending on how fast I work, and document my timing and initial outcome by creating thorough timetables and simple evaluations/explanations of my work as I complete them.

Monday, 24^th of March:

This week I will be creating two logos for a local catering and coffee business. My aim is to provide the company with logos based on the information they have given me about the company, and my own research into subjects behind the naming and colours related to this subject. I also plan on having multiple meetings with the clients in order to keep them updated with my progress and ensuring that they are happy with what I'm doing.

Days:	Monday 24th	Tuesday 25th	Wednesday 26th	Thursday 27th	Friday 28th	Saturday 29th	Sunday 30th
Work to Complete	Research into “7th Wave” title and the meaning behind it. As well as corresponding fonts attached to this subject.	Draw up 3 initial ideas for the 7th Wave title, and email client accordingly.	Upon client’s reflection I will complete my finished piece, based on any changes the clients want to make.	Search into possible themes for clients “Bang On Catering” logo – into comic book and Batman theme.	Create three ideas for the Catering title and email client accordingly.	Upon client’s reflections on the ideas, complete final pieces based on any changes made.	Final meet up with client to discuss final image and payment.

Project 3: Week 1 Plan - 04/11/13

Project 3: Digital Skills Application.

For this project I have been given the task of showcasing my digital skills by making an animated short, along with any other digital work that I feel shows my skills to their full potential. 

Monday, 4th of November:

This week I will be concentrating on making my storyboards up for my animation, giving timings, camera angles and any small notes that the animation needs. 

Days:	Monday 4th	Tuesday  5th	Wednesday 6th	Thursday 7th	Friday  8th	Saturday 9th	Sunday 10th
Work to Complete	Begin sketches in book of scenery and small panels for storyboard.	Look  for real life images: trees woods Disney? - Bambi	Begin higer quality sketches of trees and woodland area in sketchbook	Begin higer quality sketches of trees and woodland area in sketchbook	CAD session  - keep blog up to date.	Documentation.	Reflection

Project 2: Week 3 Reflections.

Week 3 Reflections.

Days:	Monday 28th	Tuesday  29th	Wednesday 30th	Thursday 31st	Friday  1st	Saturday 2nd	Sunday 3rd
Work to Complete	Complete 4th walk cycle - colour if I have time.	Transfer all SAI files to PSD and animate them on Photoshop.	Print out 3 character boards and put walk cycles on a disk.	collect all work, folders and submission forms	HAND IN!	BREAK	Reflection

This week I set out to complete any left over work, my last walk cycle, and then hand in all of my work from the two projects at the same time. 

Monday 28th October: I drew up and digitally lined my last walk cycle, which was the zombie fawn. Had trouble with moving legs at different times, and body had little issues to fix. 

Tuesday 29th October: Moved all of my files to psd where I uploaded them to Photoshop and animated them using Photoshop's animated timeline. 

Wednesday 30th October: Printed out all of my character boards and written work for both projects. I put all digital work on a disk. 

Thursday 31st October: Sorted out my two projects into two separate zip folders and printed out my submission forms  to sign. 

Friday 1st November: HAND IN!!

Project 2: Week 2 Reflections.

Week 2 Reflections.

Days:	Monday 21st	Tuesday  22nd	Wednesday 23rd	Thursday 24th	Friday  25th	Saturday 26th	Sunday 27th
Work to Complete	Begin sketches out character's defining features related to walk.	Finish deer and raccoon walk cycle sketches	Digitally line all four walk cycles.	Digitally line all four walk cycles.	CAD Session & more research for blog alone.	Documentation. Colour up walk cycles at home.	Reflection. Colour up walk cycles at home.

This week, I assigned myself to the task of completing my walk cycles for two of my main characters. I planned on using a mix between Paint Tool Sai and Photoshop for this, but found out I could complete the task purely on Paint Tool Sai, which made it much easier to complete at home. 

Monday 21st October: Began drawing out specific parts in my character's body in different parts of the walk cycle. Aspects such as the feet, tail and belly, which would be the main parts in the characters walk cycle that would be effected.

Tuesday 22nd October: I finished up the main sketches and then put them only my computer to draw up digitally. 

Wednesday 23rd October: I spent the day finishing the line work for my 3 walk cycles. 

Thursday 17th October: I spent the day finishing the line work for my 3 walk cycles. 

Friday 18th October: Had CAD session where I showed David my 3 walk cycles, and was asked to do one more, possibly depicting the walk cycle of the fawn in my animation, once it had been infected and turned into a zombie. Also took part in class animation, where we started off one character each, and passed it around the class to let others change and morph them, was a really fun exercise!

Time Plan for Estings Animation.

Production Timetable;

In this project I had three weeks to decide on, produce, edit and finalize a 10 second Esting for the E4 company Channel. I chose to focus on collecting materials: 

• Monday the 15th was spent collecting objects that I could obtain from home, such as pencils, pens, paint brushes and erasers. 
• Tuesday the 16th was spent in class sketching up makeup ideas for my clown/mime character, and the afternoon of tuesday I spent collecting face paints that I would need in order to make myself into a mime.
• Wednesday the 17th was spent discussing with my tutor, where in the studio i could film my animation, as it was a silent film it would not require anyone to be silent or disrupt anyone. I also chose a very large frame piece to do the logo on.
• Thursday the 18th was spent in college printing out a range of sizes of the E4 logo onto a piece of acetate which i could project onto the frame I chose. 
• On Friday the 19th I used an overhead projector, in order to shine the logo onto the frame and then drawing around the logo in order to create a stencil for when it came to me filming my piece.
• On Saturday the 20th and Sunday the 21st, I spent the day at home updating my blog with all the work i had done and keeping a word document of step by step processes which i use as documentation.
• Monday the 22nd was spent in college all day, filming my animation. I used a space near the white board in the class where it would not interrupt anyone or stop them working.
• On Tuesday the 23rd i began to edit my film together, and the first program I used was Adobe After Effects, which was my first time using the software.
• Wednesday the 24th was spent in college, rendering my film out of Adobe After Effects in order to compress it into a film ready to be edited in Final Cut Pro.
• Thursday the 25th was spent in college, beginning to edit my film onto Final Cut Pro. My work included cutting down the 14 second film into about 8 seconds and beginning to add and take away colour.
• Friday the 26th was spent in college, collecting sounds and noises that I can use in my film, I did this in the Musical and Theatre Building at college.
• Saturday the 27th and Sunday the 28th, I spent the day at home updating my blog with all the work i had done and keeping a word document of step by step processes which i use as documentation.
• Monday the 29th was spent in college, finishing up any final pieces of my animation and putting it onto a disk to be marked. This process took the whole day.
• Tuesday the 30th was spent in college, adding pieces to my documentation and adding more to my research file, I also brought in work from the previous project to be handed in at the same time.
• Wednesday the 1st will be spent at home finalizing my book work and printing out any work left over. I will also evaluate my existing work from this and the previous projects.
• Thursday the 2nd will be spent in college putting all of my work into folders and preparing them for hand in the next day (if not handed in that day.)
• Friday the 3rd - HAND IN DAY!