KtbDesignz

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So here is where we are at so far with our animation - got a little bit on everything which is great.

I am happy with the bricks which is good because that was the biggest part - I have done a lot of different simple movements with all the words trying to figure out what would be best. Right now how I view it is everything is just very fast like but it doesn't seem like it should be intentionally fast it looks a bit out of place and out of sync?

I did try doing masks with the leaves and the background drawing. I think it went pretty well with the leaves but might adjust it a tad. The background image though Im not too sure the idea was someone (my brother) had suggested to make the building build up like the bricks but I honestly thought that would be too much effort because then I would have to build many many layers again and I think I would need more time for that unfortunately and then also I did think it might be a tad to much on the screen so tried to imitate the idea with a mask. It looks kinda off though so don't know if I will keep that.

I think I am happy to have animation on everything (except that one little line) but now I am going to try perfect animations on each little thing because all the words are kinda idk there isn't much system to it.

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Okay so animation process - I have been working on these bricks for ages and finally think I got it down pat - still need to do the word THE

First started with just the normal falling from the sky but the fall was to long so it looked off then sped up each fall and it helped but looked weird so stiff at the end, tried to put ease ease on all of the animations hoping that would help? it didn't do what I thought it would so I added an extra position change onto each animation to make each brick bounce a bit which Idk if that really gives brick cause bricks are solid and don't bounce? but it does look better so I will continue to do so on THE.

I am trying to figure out how I want the white to be placed in - not too sure about it falling in from outside of screen as well because that doesn't make sense so I thought maybe doing a mask would help? just thinking about how many white bits there are and the time of it all ? lots to think about !!

I do think I am headed in the right direction :)

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Okay so I added some leaves to it - I like it personally I think it adds shape and depth to the poster however I drew the leaves on photoshop and moved it over to indexing - I thought I drew them in an A2 file but when I made them fit to this page the kinda look pixelated if you zoom in. I feel like that it not the look I really want for this so thinking I will probably have to fix the pixelation.

But I definetly want to move into animating now because I feel like this is a good base poster now ? and maybe just some tweaks are needed??

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So I have added some imagery in background - not 100% sure if its best idea but I do think it kinda looks better then the background I had before - just wasn't sure if I can do this because I know it is mean't to be type focused.

I also kind of want to add some leaves or lights?? because they are all over the market so I feel like it could add another layer?? and for the animation the lights could twinkle ??

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Another version? So I tried to make the background more simple not to sure how I feel about it but it definetly brings more attention to the word.

I made the bricks bigger in return of some advice I got from David today in class where he had said it would look less busy and better if the bricks were bigger and their were less of them.

I also changed the typeface of the from and up so you can see the two different versions - I am not sure I think the serif typeface looks better (right side one) maybe just a little less full on ?

Not 100% sure about the background - I think it might not be expressing Victoria park as much as it should as it's quite dark?? maybe lightening it would be better

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Which one do I like?

Um so I guess this is where I have come to - which one do I choose??

I think the brick one would be easier ti animate tbh not like actually EASIER but as in ideas.

I feel I am definetly more drawn to the older than the walls cause of the image behind it but idk how well the type actually sits on top of the image so im like ?? also the file got deleted on indexing so I have to remake it if I want to do that one :( not to hard though because I have everything I need with all the other posters just putting it together really.

I really have no ideas with the first poster when it comes to animation so I feel like the smarter choice would be to do the second poster but I want to see if I can try and get Davids opinion on it ? because so far I have only been getting students opinion which have been good but it would be nice to get more.

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Peer Feedback

I got some peer feedback saying I should explore a different typeface for my context text because it was to similar - hard to know which one to read (hierarchy not very good), look deeper into meaning of typeface for smaller type - what is it meant to represent ??

I made the text smaller + added some text at the top from older posters in attempt to make it more balanced - then tried to find a serif typeface and ended up using adobe KIS the typeface that I used in last poster exploration before this as it represented Victoria Park very.

Here is the poster before and after type adjustments

Looking at them next to each other - I think the new typeface looks better? not sure about the text at the top maybe I need to make it bigger? also the UP is throwing me off a little bit like im wondering if its okay to leaver it cause I decently like it but I just wonder if it unbalances the poster to much?

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So going for more of a natural background? It really does look like a magazine cover and I can't get over that - every time I make a type layout it looks straight out of magazines.

So I kinda found a layout and idea and just trying to make it work. Made the background colors darker (suggestion from cathy) and kept adding more of my shadows but tried to darken them to feel similar to background like they were part of background image - defiantly going with a more plain background rather then image based its more like texture based which allows focus to go to type.

Changed some type to brick color and added white underneath - tried to do white outline for the text but it ended up to bulky and cartoony so instead I copied and paste the text and Mae one white and put it underneath to make it less clunky.

My ideas for animating are to have the bricks fall into place - maybe the background can be moving in a dissolve way ? or shadows can move side to side just to add suttle movement - I think the UP will maybe just bounce up onto screen but not to show about the small text.

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Finally finished making the bricks - I made each brick one by one (not sure if that was the fastest route) but I want to animate each one falling into place so needed everything to be on separate layers so it took awhile.

I tried some different formats of the words but realized I preferred the stacking the most (ones in red) - I am now just trying to work out whether I have black outline around them or leave white - kinda depends on background.

I also want the phrase to be from the bricks up and right now thinking of putting a stretched up behind the text on the right side ?? Don't know how it will look and also trying to think about background and how to keep poster visually pleasing but not to busy which is always tricky for me.

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New Idea?

Okay so I have been thinking that all my posters or at least the ones I seem to like rely a lot of the imagery backgrounds so I had some discussions and realized even though I thought I had done a good amount of exploration design wise I never really explored many different phrases that much.

I tried coming up with some more including

Look Up, Were back

The chimey stays

New Life In Old bricks

From the bricks up

You can't miss it

Brick by brick

Nothing really stood out to me but I did think Look up were back would be good for animating - to kinda do a swift animation going from ground to the sky - or brick by brick or from the bricks up both seemed like good options because I thought I would be able to animate bricks stacking on top of each other - they just seemed like better options animation wise then what I currently have.

Decided I was going to explore brick by brick and right now I am thinking that I want to make the words out of bricks so I can animate bricks stacking to create the words - I am worried like am I allowed to do that because I remember in class in first few weeks I ran into dilemma of you can't draw your own type you have to use an actual typeface but I feel like if I use an actual typeface as a guidelines and place individual bricks inside of that it should be fine right?

This is just a sketch I did for like reference how I imagine the bricks making the words - kinda messy but gives the right idea I think

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Trying to figure out which way to go and was just experimenting but went back into my photos that I took at Victoria park and thought I will just use a new background image.

I knew that I definetly wanted to work with brick - not sure why but I seemed to be stuck with it (could be the gridding and layout of it) and thought maybe if I find a photo with just bricks and mix that in there.

Found this bad boy and put it in with the background and then I did have the old photo on top of it as well but I really did want to try and get rid of the dots on that specific image so I took old background off and added drawn in shadows and ended up with this.

Looking at it I think every design I make looks similar but I do think this one is headed in a better direction ? - I did add a slight brown opaque box on top to dim the brightness of bricks and some fake shadows and I think I like it? at least right now I do

Going to try get feedback from other people but in mean time I think this might be the poster I start animating with :)

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Some new poster adjustments

Reset the background to just white while figuring out type layout

kept the Scarlett wood typeface on the older as I think it looks good on its own really giving into the word

Found new typeface called Adobe Kis - started using it on rest of text context - its clean but still has some shape and is serif which is what David suggested to me - I think its nice

This is definitely giving magazine vibe but that's not necessarily a bad thing because Victoria park market is very chic and this looks chic

Not sure about the little text on left side near top - maybe I'll move it or keep it ??

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LECTURER FEEDBACK

This week David had only two pieces of feedback being:

Explore other backgrounds

alignment working

After talking with other classmates who liked my backgrounds and thought I should stick with them and just work on the poster I was a little bit stuck but I came to the conclusion I should explore backgrounds cause it wouldn't hurt and I hadn't explored many since I was in my mocking up stag near the beginning.

I just wonder if I stick with the same color scheme will the background look that explored ?? I'm not sure - I think I want to try something that looks really different just to see where my mind is at and how it looks at it.

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This week in class I printed these three posters

The first one (top) is the poster I showed David

Second is my original poster form couple weeks back

third one is new version I quickly made after talking to David

I layed them out and talked to a couple classmates and they all said that the middle one was the strongest - when asking why they said its more visually pleasing, not as cartoonish and better typeface (going against what lecturer feedback was) so I was a bit confused. They also like the background - in fact even loved the background of original which was actual photo - there weren't many fans of the drawn brick background.

What I took from this was to make a new poster closer to the original and maybe change typeface again but keep similar type layout as David said it was much stronger and I agreed

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Okay made it slightly darker and right now in this moment of time I think it looks better ?? It's really weird when I put them by themselves though

I think what looks really cool is when I put all my posters next to each other and I think that might be because of like the contrast or something like that.

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This is how its looking now

I think it might be nicer if the background was darker but I definitely look at this and think there is improvement - I added some little writing at the top just to try fill whatever is missing I feel like maybe if I added some little writing near the bottom that might balance it even more - I tried to move everything down to get rid of the empty space at the bottom.

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Some more explorations with color and background :)

so I tried to do green background again - this time I went with no red at all just black, white and green - its kind of beginning to give comic books vibes.

The bottom middle one is kinda of grungy in my option so didn't really like that

I would say I like the bottom left and top left ones