Portfolio of Work by Esosa Noruwa

Portfolio of work beginning 2017

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This is the piece I did for Typography in motion using Adobe After Effects. It’s also known as kinetic typography where text and motion are mixed to express ideas using animation. The stronger the presentation of the idea, the easier it is to convey the message and evoke other ideas, actions or emotions.

I choose to use the song Sober by Mahalia because the context and lyrics of the song are clear which to me pans out like a narrative. The narrative is that the artist is having some internal dialogue and at key points she verbalises to another individual.

When editing this video, my focus was on animating the words ‘sober’ and ‘I take back’. I found it difficult to develop the additional graphics as they involved other programmes and complex techniques so I did my best to achieve some of what I had in mind. I included a ringing phone sound effect to make the theme explicit and I used a font and colors that reflected this theme of a messaging system which uses blue, white and grey. I then used the text tool to type over the speech bubbles and create the text whilst putting the word ‘sober’ in colour as well as giving it an wiggle effect hoping to convey the fear/panic of sobering up and remembering things from the night before which they now regret.

With hindsight, I feel the ringing tone is misplaced and would make better sense at the very beginning rather than alongside the display of the song title and I would like to have animated the initial display of the song so that it pops up like an imessage would.My use of real motion graphics is limited and this pieces hinges on creativity rather than the techniques used. In future, I will take more time to learn about these techniques so that I can display more skill within my work.

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Cat in the Castle by esosanoruwa

Discover the castle and free the Queen.

This is my bitsy game I made using the Bitsy Game Maker by Adam Ledoux via itch.io. Bitsy is a little editor for little games or worlds. The goal is to make it easy to make games where you can walk around and talk to people and be somewhere.

My game is item collection based. Players go from room to room collecting diamonds which lead them to a key that unlock where the Queen is being kept in chains by the King. Along the way, you discover more about their marriage and how they got to this point.

When making this game, my focus was to trying tell a story but later I wanted to incorporate an element of fun so I decided to be open minded and add more rooms. This gave room for exploration as the game is set in a castle to be stuck in one room wouldn’t make sense. I initially didn’t understand how to use tiles and items correctly and so my design was very basic and objects which I didn’t want to be collected were collectable. However, with small research i.e. playing other people’s Bitsy games I overcame this. I was then able to make use of the exit tool allowing for users to go back and forth through rooms if they wished. I also added a conditional whereby when a set number of diamonds were collected a message would appear. My best discovery was that I could make certain tiles walls and that each tile didn’t have all have to look the same.

With hindsight, I would have liked to use the rainbow text function for when all the diamonds have been found as I feel it would display further skill. Also, I would have like to add more interactive objects in rooms other than the first as it became more about game play and lost the balance between item collecting and a narrative game.

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Cat in the Castle by esosanoruwa

Discover the castle and free the Queen.

This is my bitsy game I made using the Bitsy Game Maker by Adam Ledoux via itch.io. Bitsy is a little editor for little games or worlds. The goal is to make it easy to make games where you can walk around and talk to people and be somewhere.

My game is item collection based. Players go from room to room collecting diamonds which lead them to a key that unlock where the Queen is being kept in chains by the King. Along the way, you discover more about their marriage and how they got to this point.

When making this game, my focus was to trying tell a story but later I wanted to incorporate an element of fun so I decided to be open minded and add more rooms. This gave room for exploration as the game is set in a castle to be stuck in one room wouldn’t make sense. I initially didn’t understand how to use tiles and items correctly and so my design was very basic and objects which I didn’t want to be collected were collectable. However, with small research i.e. playing other people’s Bitsy games I overcame this. I was then able to make use of the exit tool allowing for users to go back and forth through rooms if they wished. I also added a conditional whereby when a set number of diamonds were collected a message would appear. My best discovery was that I could make certain tiles walls and that each tile didn’t have all have to look the same.

With hindsight, I would have liked to use the rainbow text function for when all the diamonds have been found as I feel it would display further skill. Also, I would have like to add more interactive objects in rooms other than the first as it became more about game play and lost the balance between item collecting and a narrative game.

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This is the piece I did for Typography in motion using Adobe After Effects. It’s also known as kinetic typography where text and motion are mixed to express ideas using animation. The stronger the presentation of the idea, the easier it is to convey the message and evoke other ideas, actions or emotions.

I choose to use the song Sober by Mahalia because the context and lyrics of the song are clear which to me pans out like a narrative. The narrative is that the artist is having some internal dialogue and at key points she verbalises to another individual.

When editing this video, my focus was on animating the words ‘sober’ and ‘I take back’. I found it difficult to develop the additional graphics as they involved other programmes and complex techniques so I did my best to achieve some of what I had in mind. I included a ringing phone sound effect to make the theme explicit and I used a font and colors that reflected this theme of a messaging system which uses blue, white and grey. I then used the text tool to type over the speech bubbles and create the text whilst putting the word ‘sober’ in colour as well as giving it an wiggle effect hoping to convey the fear/panic of sobering up and remembering things from the night before which they now regret.

With hindsight, I feel the ringing tone is misplaced and would make better sense at the very beginning rather than alongside the display of the song title and I would like to have animated the initial display of the song so that it pops up like an imessage would.My use of real motion graphics is limited and this pieces hinges on creativity rather than the techniques used. In future, I will take more time to learn about these techniques so that I can display more skill within my work.

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This is the piece I did for my gestalt design using Adobe Illustrator. Gestalt is a psychology term which means "unified whole".  It refers to the five theories on visual perception developed by German and Austro-Hungarian psychologists in the 1920s (Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Köhler).

Initial logo I choose to redesign:

I chose this photo because I felt it was badly designed visually. The photos used have white backgrounds and although each photo is clearly a drawn flower not a real one, they vary is detail and design. I wanted to challenge myself so my main aim was to incorporate continuity. The hope is that the viewer’s eye is drawn along the curved stem that joins the letter ‘t’ to the flower which simultaneously adopts the similarity principle by replacing the letter ‘o’ with a flower; similarly I took the bud of the flower and used it to dot the letter ‘i’.

When editing this photo I was conscious of using colours and shapes that match the theme and business/service. To achieve this I removed the green oval shape originally behind the words and mirrored the detail at each end by using the pen tool to create curved lines which I joined up to make shapes and then group together. The stem was more difficult as it had to be the right length and size but also followed the same process. Feedback from my peers was that the soft colour palette made it look more appealing in comparison to the original.

In reflection, I would have added more detail to the flower to make it look less like a basic shape. For that I would need to do more planning and perhaps sketches to help me visualise it. Furthermore, I feel the font I chose isn’t as professional-looking as other florist logos therefore next time I would need to research how to upload a better-fitting font into Illustrator as the programme’s fonts are are limited.

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This is the piece I did using selective colourisation in Photoshop. Selective colourisation is the modern parallel to hand-colouring which means manually adding colour over black and white photography and pre-1900′s daguerreotypes established by Louis Daguerre who first made this photographic process available to the public.

Example of a hand-coloured daguerreotype:

I chose this photo because it was taken in black and white and I knew that when editing it in Photoshop, the colour would create an eye-catching contrast due to the compelling yellow colour. Although simple it is able to create impact because both car and colour are globally understood and affiliated with New York. As the taxi is the centre and focus of the black and white photograph I felt as though it already demands for attention which - if one was to further analyse - is a summary of New York city.

When editing this photo a strong focus for me was making sure that wherever colour was applied it did not spill outside the body of the car. Therefore, I often zoomed in and used smaller brush sizes alongside the eraser tool to achieve clean lines as best as I could. Feedback from my peers in class rang to this attention to detail in where colour was applied so I was pleased with that however criticisms were that the photograph is not challenging enough.

With hindsight I realise that my choice of photo limited my ability to show other skills and use of other tools and techniques in Photoshop. Also, the quality of the image is reduced once the image is zoomed in on. This arguably helped as the more I zoomed in the more pixelated it became so it was easier to spot where I had missed however it certainly made the process longer. However, I will remember to add layers to my work to make it easy to edit later on.