Friday, 27 November 2009

wallace and gromit curse of the were rabbit

wallace and gromit curse of the were rabbit is about an inventor wallace and his trusty dog gromit, in this film they are called out to a small village to help them with a mutant rabbit that is eating all the towns vegetables and they must stop it before the annual vegetable competition. this film was directed by nick park and steve box and was produced by dreamworks animation and aardman animation. this film was created by using clay models and using stop motion to create the illusion that the figures are moving.

Thursday, 26 November 2009

charlie and unicorn production

charlie and the unicorn is an internet animation that is created by jason steele and executive producer stephanie steele. i could not find the production company that made this video but it is made for filmcow.com. this video is made from cardboard cutouts it will have had a long story board to it as there are alot of things happening in it. the producer will have then made sure that the shots that they take are in sync with each other and that it goes with the storyboard. the story follows 3 unicorns as they are hunting down the banana king to return the amulet to him, on the way they encounter different task that they must complete to go onwards. when they find the temple of the banana king they find out that charlie the unicorn is the banana king. i got this information from mainly watching the video several times and reading the credits.

Friday, 20 November 2009

photoshop pattern stamp

this is a picture that i created in photoshop using different pattern tools, i got pictures from the internet of different meats and created a pettern type with them i then used the different patterns on the picture to create a sort of zombie effect.

Thursday, 19 November 2009

animation assignment

today i have started my first assignemt looking at 3 different types of animation. the three animations that i will be looking at is, cardboard cut-out, time lapse animation, and model based animation.

Friday, 13 November 2009

here i made a pattern out of an image that i found on the internet and used it to pattern the lettering on photoshop.
here i have added effects to the different letters to make it stand out from the page on the S i used drop shadow, T i used satin, E i used bevel and emboss, P i also used bevel and emboss, H i used inner shadow, E i used drop shadow and N i used both satin and stroke.
this is my name that i wrote on photoshop i used different fonts on each letter and rotated some of them. i then moved each letter to connect to each other.

Thursday, 12 November 2009

NCFE Level 1 Certificate in Interactive Media

Multimedia Terminology:

what the following mean in terms of multimedia:

Corporate ID: corporate id is the persona of a buisiness to it is used as a way for branding and trademarking the buisiness.

Design Brief: a design brief is a written document for a design project by a person representing the buisiness need for design and the designer.

Typography:is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs.

Font: the font is used to change the design of the writing.

colour: this is used to change the presentation of various things by changing the colour of it.

layout: the layout is is the style and position of the different things that are on a page.

Copyright: this is a legal form to show that certain things are the property of a certain buisiness and cannot be used by anyone else unless the proper privelleges are given by the owner.

job costing: this is to work out what the value is of things it is to work out the overheads and what is being paid for them and how much you will be getting back

Fee Setting: this is used to work out what the price is for certain commodities or jobs.

garageband 2


here is another edit that i did in garage band using the same song but this time i used the detailed drums effect.

reel big fish- garage band

i have been using garage band on the apple computers to alter the song reel big fish - sell out i have added some effects to the song to alter it such as jazz sparkle and vocal reflection. i am happy with the outcome as it sounds like a live recorded track.

Friday, 6 November 2009

boro of the dead


this is a poster that i made putting the text in using photoshop elements.
this is an updated image of photoshop with an explosion in the background

photoshop

this is a unfinished photo that i have altered in photoshop, the original is of middlehaven in middlesbrough. i have added a zombie and smoke cloud by pasting them on and using the rubber with a low percentage of opacity to blend it in with the original photo.

Thursday, 5 November 2009

http://www.mediafire.com/?i4wqgiyymm3
http://www.mediafire.com/?mwyr1mjzmt0

here are some links to some work that i did involving a game home screen. i made this using powerpoint with hyperlinks that take you round the different sections of the game screen. also is a navigation chart that shows what hyperlinks take you to which page. also in the navigation chart is a breakdown of how i did the different pages and what there is on them pages. there are a few animations within the presentation that make it look more like a game game screen.

charlie and the unicorn 2


this is a flash animation called charlie and the unicorn it is quite funny but also quite weird to watch.



this morning i went onto youtube to find a music video, when i found one i used a internet website to rip and convert the audio into a mp3 file which i will later edit a bit.