Pitch week passover

Behold the fourth week of my computer arts course. The week has been labelled 'Pitch week' and during this week, students from all years on the course get together to discuss and present how they're meeting their assignments. This involves show-casing any work you've done so far and talking about why you did it and how it will help you achieve the overall outcome.

Unfortunately, I didn't have too much to showcase; but I made do with what little I had. Speaking of which; my course is broken down into 4 modules; Dynamic Communication, Visual Literacy, Audio and Animation.

In Dynamic communication I've been tasked with self-branding: which involves creating a logo and indent. As I discovered during my pitch session, I probably should've been focusing more on the logo part and less on messing around with Adobe Flash, but regardless here's a little sneak peak at what I made;

Seeing as the task was to brand yourself, I thought I'd make a very basic animation based around my signature. The paintbrush idea was inspired by an old 'Disney' indent in which Mickey Mouse paints the Disney logo on screen.

The other indent I created is slightly more complex and revolves around the concept of turning a black canvas white. Although he can't be seen in the '.avi' format of this file, there's also a little stick man character who hops onto the screen in this video. This clip is included at the bottom of this update.




Alongside animating, I also delved into character design, developing two characters for the title 'Castle Crashers' and also my own little mascot who was designed to market pepper mints called 'Uncle Peppy' (Dr.Pepper seemed like a breach of copyright)

For my visual communication classes, in which I have to keep a sketchbook of artistic musings, I've created a series of visualisations of assigned words. Basically, it's a collage of all and everything that comes to mind when I think of the word. The words so far have been: Curiosity, Fall, Chaos and the latest is Communication.

Unfortunately, there's nothing to show-case for my Audio classes and although I've been keeping a sketch-book and making several hundred flipbooks, I only have one to publish online.

At any rate, that's it for the first 3 weeks of my course, stay tuned for some intense independent study!

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Letters to an Art Student

Independent work and Assigned work: Perfect balance of the two will be what makes a successful student successful, in any field of study.

Thus far, I've completed the majority of my assigned work to the best of my ability and done little to know independent study or work. But all that's about to change with the arrival of this blog.

Motivation and inspiration are the greatest tools of study; the foundation on which all learning strives from. Hence, I'll soon be exploring the resources I have to correlate enough inspiration to pave the pathway for independent study and using this blog as the motivation to continue with assigned works from university. That's the 'University of Abertay: Dundee', for those of you who don't know. And the work i'm doing sings to the tune of a Bachelors Degree in 'Computer Arts'

Bienvenue and I hope you enjoy the content that should grace the archives of this blog within the next few months.

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