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Media experimentation

Layout development

Through doing media experimentation I successfully identified a medium that would work best for the hand drawn section of my animation. This was watercolour as it has a ghostly feel about it, much as the past does, which is where the viewer is being taken. However, one annoying thing about using watercolour is it wrinkles the pages if they are too thin. Hopefully, this does not show up on the scans.

Designing the layout of the train station was pretty straightforward. I based it on how the actual station looks presently, with a few minor changes. Mainly, I just simplified the environment, taking away things like pillars and enhancing the colours to give it a more cartoony feel. One thing I did not think about though, was the design of the train tracks. I future, I will make sure I have got every aspect of my design right before I start marking over it in pen and colouring it.

Graphics: Faces

These are four faces I drew using different techniques. The first face was drawn in pencil, whilst my eyes were closed. The second face was drawn using a red felt tip in my mouth, third in charcoal using my left hand (I am right-handed) and fourth a self portrait from memory, continuous line drawing in pen. I found this exercise very useful in opening my eyes to how different graphic styles can be produced. Although the images didn't turn out "correct" they did instead exude a strong character.

3DD: Final Bridge

This is the final bridge that we made as a group, taking inspiration from our design ideas we done in our sketchbooks. Overall, the bridge was not very successful as it collapsed underneath the weight of a remote control car, travelling across it. We used cardboard and sticks to make the bridge.

If I were to build the bridge again I would have compact the sticks together more to toughen the frame of the bridge.

Fashion and Textiles: Paper Garment Exercise

The following paper garments my group and I made were based on specific words, using different peoples enlarged samples. The words were (in order of appearance): shoulder, sexy, gothic, romantic, hips and bird.

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