Saturday, 11 June 2011

Exhibition time!!

My folio is on carbonmade.com under my name Emma-Louise Bolland :-)

Just 3D to do now and a few finishing touches for the last two briefs.

Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Business cards

Now I'm researching for the exhibition stuff.
I have come up with a logo. It's ok, I'm not crazy about it, but it needs to go to the printers Now. So it will do (I can always upgrade it later.) I wanted to do a folding type card, but nobody could do it for me.... so had to ditch that idea. I have spent 3 days solid trying to organise the design I wanted and now it's time to move on...... this card will do :-)

The end is nigh...





The graded unit flew passed as I am sure will the rest of the term. Now it's preparing for our exhibition, doing another Flash project and the 3D animation on 3Dmax.
My animation used both roll over buttons and press buttons, with a catchy kiddies tune.  My target audience was 3-6 year olds. (Of course the adults read the text!)

Thursday, 10 March 2011

Graded unit

The first mentoring session has passed and now I can move forward on what I would like to focus on.  I will be doing the caterpillar life cycle. I have drawn a few caterpillars with different textures in Illustrator.  I tried out the graphic pen, which I found to be much like using the mouse but I will use it again tomorrow, to see if I find it better to draw with once I get the hang of it.  I like one of my caterpillars as I have given it a furry texture which makes him more lovable, which I think would appeal to children.  We have been working on 3D this evening and my Lemur is coming along slowly.

Monday, 7 March 2011

Start of the graded unit

I have picked the brief on the interactive timeline.  I have chosen to do a children's theme where a caterpillar eats and eats, and gets fat and turns into a cocoon and then emerges as a beautiful butterfly.  I will be aiming it to 3-6 year olds (remembering that parents and teachers would also be the ones to purchase the tutorials).  The idea is to make a fun interactive game for little ones to play (easy to navigate) where a lesson is also learned which would be the life cycle of a caterpillar.  I will design the whole thing on Flash and design the CD cover.

Here is the storyboard of pics to get my creative juices flowing.  The board has been annotated, but by hand so is not showing on here.

Thursday, 24 February 2011

Client presentation.

We have one week to go until the client presentation.  I will be doing the PowerPoint presentation which I will try to finish tomorrow so that we will each know what to say.

We have PDA class tonight, so tomorrow evening after college, I will be celebrating the purchase of our new home.  I finally own my own house! So very very exciting.  :-)

Time to get back to work............have not worked this hard in a while!  :-)

Monday, 21 February 2011

Graded Unit

Today I went to my scheduled chat with the tutors about the graded unit.  I have not yet chosen which brief I will pick as I am going to do a little research first.  I may pick a packaging brief or I may do the timeline.  With the timeline - my FLASH is a bit rusty, and I would need to use Dreamweaver, but with the other packaging brief I would need to make sure I could make up the 3D items to look professional.

I have taken books out of the library on packaging and one on FLASH and will look at them this week to decide.  If I choose packaging I need to make up an item for Monday to make sure that I would be able to complete a project with many items to create.  I had to scan in a bunch of packaging ideas today, because I could not carry home all the books I had taken out!

I am excited about the graded unit, and wait to start focusing on it.