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digital imaging final project — research + process

for the last assignment, we are to create a self portrait in motion graphics.

I wans’t really sure what motion graphics were? i thought it had to be like an animated graphic design but then it turns out this assignment didnt really Require us to do that so! phewhwhw

kind of realising that the Look of a work comes after the concept, so i tried focusing on the aspect of a self-portrait to direct the look of this project.

decided on using plantguy! he is this plant.. thing.. i made?? for my a lvls coursework and he is 2 years old now . 

anyway he??it??  functions? as an avatar of sorts because he is a plant..guy..
cant really remember why he’s like so; something about pistachios + walnut shell shape + contentment that goes into his form, and plants bc.. i really like plants hahaha

more specifically like the small bud kinds and wildflower kinds? those are the cutest kinds and plants are always so quiet and unassuming but also they grow slowly and they seem to be the most easily content of all things n so its like! wow! life goals

(basically my dream is to become a plant )

as far as self-portraits go ! i thought of some things that could help represent myself .

ended up sticking to why plantguy was born bc i wanted to portray how my dream self is the animal crossing lifestyle , or like just traveling around in a nice landscape n then coming home . wow just like tabikaeru the travelling frog game!

anyway here is a mood board?? hm

  • plants!!
    • the specific kinds of plants where its earthy and grounded and tiny plants and also bonus points if theres like a river because rivers n plants always look nice

surprise its plant guy but irl!

  • arietty

 

  • animal crossing
    • basically my dream i just want to go fishing and chill around all day in a small river town :’)
      • its so hard to find screencaps n i dont have my ds on hand to dig out screenshots n im too lazy to reopen pocket camp so hv these generic screenshots frm google instead 🙁

  • moomin!!!
    • snufkin haha

  • tabikaeru!!
    • (tbh this game came out after plantguy was born so it counts more like a.. o wow!! same hat )

https://78.media.tumblr.com/d8b67484aec378acedaef4429ad41fd5/tumblr_p5842u3oYK1wmmkvwo1_500.png

  • louie zong

http://louiezong.com/post/166280288119/theres-a-banjo-player-on-my-fire-escape

i really wanted to try the motion tracker function of AE because! it could do the thing that ive always wanted to do for plantguy which is to put him in real life haha

wow i dug this up frm way back 2k16 aaaa its plantguys foetus form

 

 

PROCESS

shot a bunch of footage first so id know where to draw in plantguy

 

Storyboards + 2 column script

initial board ideas. originally i wanted to do a simple animated illustration throughout w/o the motion tracking thing but then aa… time constraints….

(actual storyboard + written 2 column script…  ):

 

painting in photoshop

colour palettes r hard even though ive painted plantguy so many times because this time i had to balance it with the background footage and the colors for that were all over the place aa hopefully i did balance it out enough in the end?? hmmm

included an opening because in my mind the plantguy adventure is episodic and slice of life. (added in a little turbulent displacement for the lines to give it some movementt)

 

Compositing

i wanted the illustration to stay in one place in the video so i had to learn how to use the motion tracking tool

used the puppet tool to add some slight movement to the animation so that it wouldnt look so stilted.

exported everything to premiere pro to stitch together because after effects can only handle so much 🙁

sound was a scrapped recording of a ukelele that was originally meant for visual storytelling hahaah

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final thoughts:

  • AE is .. rly tough because there r so many things ?? that being said im really glad that we were able to learn how to use it in this class because  its a necessity i gues
  • if i had more time i would try out something more ambitious because it did feel like a cop out to revisit something i had worked on before, but if anything this project was a technical exercise for me because i rly need to learn how to use… AE….
    • (anyway i always use plantguy as a means of exploring new mediums so expect to see him again… next sem… when i have to learn 3d……. aaaaaaaaaa)
  • n ya it was fun bc it fulfilld /checked off an Art Thing that ive always wanted to try out so!!! :’v
    • (is that a tear or an eyebag??? who knos!!)

 

digital imaging assignment 02! movie campaign — PROCESS + FINAL

Movie Poster

Here is the poster:

This movie’s title is Goodbye, Gertrude! and it is a 2h jazzy jukebox musical big band bonanza starring Patti LuPone Steaky LaPony as some rich widow or something,, like a maid who won the lottery???? featuring songs from Cole Porter Coleslaw Bellboy ??? ( the name+’s before the movie title is like how u kno all the Rodgers and Hammerstein things always say Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ______  thing…)  the bad naming sense is because i wasnt sure if real ppls names were allowed o wel. (((like ngl its ripoff of stuff like this:

(like… hello…->… goodbye… okay okayokay)

anyway!

here are some initial thumbnail sketches:

pink and yellow are happy colours and i want this movie to be a happy movie !

  • the ones on the left:
    • at first i tried putting in the apples just for fun bc like mayb i can try using some photog thing! but then it just felt weird because suitcases fit the Aesthetic Vibes more
    • trying to b more dynamic?? w the composition,
  • the ones with the tiling:
    • was trying to go for .. a Magritte’s Golconda kind of thing,, with something of high contrast
    • haha these feel the most like a meg cabot novel cover , as in they feel strangely too static to be a movie poster??
  • middle hat one:
    • actually the first one??? i drew
    • felt the most like… an “English goodbye at the train aesthetic” where u wave a handkerchief n run after the train or wave out of a train window w ur hand outstretched or something lol ?
      • as in, it fits the title the most??

references used were fancy edwardian hats

Final one without the text over it:

Text and Fonts

Saul Bass was a reference.. ish, in terms of typography? I’m not familiar with typography and graphic design things but I do like how the designs r all so simple-looking but impactful?? and not so cold-looking at the same time.

anyway I found some of the fonts through the magic of google:

other font things! uh those retro poster kinds…

this one was called “the bold font” or something??? i probably downloaded like 10 other diff variants of this sort of font uh

kind of following how the old posters had funky title cards. title font is “Art Post Black”

pls forgive my terrible naming choices!!!!

trying to make the actor credits less distracting??? but i dont know,,, maybe this one is better than the one i printed??? o well….. 🙁

the film credits at the bottom were made using this template. I hope it makes the poster look more legit?? considering how it’s a template of those barely discernible credits u find at the bottom of movie posters a lot:

anyway i spent way too long fiddling with the font ?? hm here are some more refs i used anyway n also yay mood music:

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Composited Images – Different Outlets of Media

Ads in public spaces help reach a larger audience. I suppose if the movie stars a famous person who is on par w patti lupone ???? or like meryl streep or something just their name would be enough to be noticeable for the general public.

but also considering how in my head this is some fancy jazzy movie the esplanade seems like an apt location for the artsy fartsy musical kind of things.

and also those annoying popup youtube ads that i never see because bless adblock.

 

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here is the poster, all printed out!

 

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final thoughts

  • i want to be friends with illustrator but it doesnt seem to want to be friends with me even though i’m only using it for the font
    • that being said! the path-text tool was very helpful although i really wish it would obey me more.. 🙁
  • i should rly decide on a font thing properly before printing!!! like rly hv better font sense  because i spetn 3 hrs in regret after printing n oh well
    • maybe this is why im no viscommy person but this is school n we r all here to learn things ?
    • up till now i stil want to adjust some of the things but i should maybe just let it go ????
  • photoshopping things is strangely but harder and easier than expected
    • wow warp tool! but also, i need to understand shadows n proportions better.
  • anyway!! this was a fun assignment to do :v