2D Forrest Gump FINAL

coolcoolcool Hi here’s my final designs of the selected movie quotes.

1st Quote

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For this quote, it makes me think of elements such as warmth and snow. So I used an image of a house in a winter night which gives a calm and warm feel. At the top right, it is a snow globe and inside it is a snowflake. Like the snowflake is trapped inside the globe. Create a contrast of the white snowflake and the black globe. On top of it is crown of Elsa (half-toned) in the movie. I tried to place them off centre to make it not so balanced. Light rays at the top left, half-toned, to leave out some space in the whole design. Half-toned texture makes light rays more gentle. Overall, I tried to make the snowflake the dominant one with all the other elements supporting it.

2nd Quote

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Its pretty straight forward. I used elements such as the pixelated snowman, christmas tree, ginger bread man and snowflake. The background is actually a snow texture if you look carefully. Then, there’s a snowflake layer overlay on top of it. There’s a repetition of ginger bread man on top of that. Its pattern is to make it not so uniformed. I tried to play with depth here. The trees below are of different scale and sizes which added in another texture in the composition. The focus is still the snowman and a white shape is used under it to create contrast out of the whole thing.

3rd Quote

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Elements such as piano, painting of Chopin and the crystal light were chosen in this composition. The picture of the old piano room was used to provide a variety of things to catch the viewer’s eye. An paper texture is multiplied to create the dusty and aged feel. The paintings are repeated and its almost placed at the 1/3 of the composition. The crystal light is placed in the middle. It is to create a balance in composition and it is more emphasised because of its contrasting brighter colour. Overall, it gives a classical and mysterious feeling.

4th Quote

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For this design, elements such as bullet, skull, fire, and bacon were chosen. I tried make the skull the most dominant in the whole composition. Its duplicate and its white silhouette really brings it out. The layer of bacon has a unique texture which adds a different feel. The fire surrounded it gives it a strong emphasis. The spiral at the background act as leading lines and directs the focus point to the skull too. The roll of bullets create a sense of movement in the composition. They were arranged in a flow which gives dynamism to the design. Another giant bullet is placed at the bottom right corner as to play with the sense of distance in it.

Thats all for my Forrest Gump Project YAY sealed

2D Forrest Gump Silkscreen Printing

In the past weeks, we had a try on silkscreen printing! I was excited about it as I had never done this before! Here’s what I had done and got my design on the tote bag and T-shirt.

I chose the quote “The cold never bothered me anyway – Elsa 2013” from the movie Frozen.

We printed out the design on transparency paper first.

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After the silkscreen is cleaned and dried in the oven, we had to apply the emulsion on both sides of it and let it dry in the oven again for about 20 minutes. Then the transparency paper and the silkscreen were placed together in a machine to get the designs onto it.

Then, we had to go inside a small room with red lights and use the water spryer machine to spray away the excessive emulsion on the silkcreen.

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After its done it looks like this.

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When its dried and done, it was taped at all sides. The senior said it was to cover up the holes in between.img_3948

Ink was added to the silkscreen on the top and it was brushed down with a wooden tool. Below are my test prints on paper. I did plenty of times and overtime it came out a different one! ><

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Finally, I tried it on the tote bag itself. Actually i was quite worried but its turns out quite well. It seems easier to print on cloth than on paper.

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On T-shirt too!

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So that is the entire process of my silkscreen journey~ I was satisfied with what I got. Really learnt a lot from this experience and had fun! Gonna work with the rest of my quote designs!