@Alan Adaptation A: Progress

After my tutorial I shortened my list.

1. Play a Game 
2. Pop a Balloon 
3. Pizza Box 
4. Local Newspaper 
5. Message in a bottle 
6. Post it Notes 
7. With your Pet 
8. Scavenger Hunt 
9. Skydive 
10. On One knee…. At the top of a mountain.

These are the 10 I believe to be the most interesting.

I drew out some more outlines for these assets. 

I also started converting the outlined assets to flat colour. I felt like ring 3 looked best. 

I also had an idea to have the assets in just white so I tested both colour and white. 

I was wondering which set looks best and whether there are any improvements that could be made? 

Adaptation A: Key Asset developments & Tests

Ring Asset

Because the ring is the most important asset to my infographic I decided to design that and see if I could come up with a style to follow for my other assets. I think 2,3 and 5 are the best examples of rings.

Text Tests

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I also considered what type of text might be used in my infographic, I'm still unsure and I feel that matching text with assets will help with this. 

I also started looking at how I may move my text. I think this could work as an intro but not for the rest of the infographic. I thinking of the text being at the bottom of the screen with the asset being above it, I will test this out and post my results.

Maya Tutorial: Dynamics Part 2- Particles Grids

Alleyway scene with fog.

Mudbox Lesson: Creature

 

Strange creature made in todays lesson!

Adaptation A: Developments

Here are some developments after speaking to Alan today. He suggested that my list of ideas should escalate and get more creative as time goes on. 

1. Letter 

2. Play a Game 

3. Pop a Balloon 

4. Jigsaw Puzzle 

5. Pizza Box 

6. T-shirt 

7. Flower Trail 

8. Local Newspaper 

9. Message in a bottle 

10. Post it Notes 

11. Picnic 

12. Video 

13. Skywriting 

14. On a Holiday (Christmas) 

15. With your Pet 

16. Scavenger Hunt 

17. At a Landmark 

18. Underwater 

19. Skydive 

20. On One knee…. At the top of a mountain.

I made some small edits to my list and ordered them.

I also started considering how my infographic assets may look. Using simple shapes and outlines, this is what I have so far.

Adaptation A: Thoughts around design

I have decided to go with "Creative Ways to Propose". I'm hoping to keep it upbeat, with some possible comedy elements in it. I chose this idea as I felt that it would be something different and interesting to tackle graphically.

I started with what kinda of audio I might have in this infographic and I felt like something sweet and upbeat would be appropriate. I came across free Ukulele music and really liked how they sounded.
   

In terms of graphically presenting this I thought about what graphically might represent love, engagement, marriage, etc. I feel like a circle could be an important shape because rings are seen as precious and their shape is meant to be a symbol of an ongoing love. There's also objects such as hearts or butterflies that could represent love. 

Taking this into account I'm seeing a design language that is ongoing with a circular or curved feel to it. 

Mudbox lesson: Pepper

 

 

 

 

The Pepper I painted and sculpted in todays Mudbox Class.

Maya Tutorial: Dynamics Part 1 - Sketching Particles

Adaptation A: Infographic Development

Out of the 10 I picked I narrowed down my infographic topic to two I liked. 

I made a list for each one but I ended up researching and thinking similar numbers for both.

Creative ways to Propose

Message in a bottle

Play a game

Drawing

Video

Pop a balloon

Jigsaw puzzle

With your pet

At a landmark

Local newspaper

At Christmas (holiday)

Scavenger hunt

Post it notes

Flower trail

Skywriting

Picnic

T-shirt

Letter

Pizza Box

Creative ways to Commit Murder

Hypnosis

Prayer

Icicle

Spoon

Guitar

Shoe

Crucifix

Pen

Umbrella

Breasts

Skipping rope

Fire Extinguisher

Chopsticks

TV

Oven

Sock

Weights

Frying Pan

I also considered how this may look graphically. It's only a rough idea to show how I'm thinking for either idea. 

Adaptation B: Initial Ideas

After speaking to Alan yesterday an abstract adaptation may help me design characters. 

Here are some of the ideas I have come up with so far: 

Adapting shoes into Characters

I felt like shoes have a personality, and certain people wear different shoes. 

For example a high heel shoe may generate a curvy character with long legs.

Adapting British Idioms into Characters

This somewhat came from one of Alans ideas of turning phrases into characters. 

So far I've found phrases such as:

• Nosy Parker
• All Mouth and Trousers
• Billy Wind
• Belt and Braces
• Damp Squib
• Fine and Dandy
• Green Fingers
• Pin Money
• Quids In
• Square Mile
• Sticky Wicket
• Vicar of Bray

I think some of these could make some interesting characters.

Adapting Seasons/Weather into Characters

Not too sure if this has been done much before but I think it could be an interesting idea. Characters could wear clothes related to their seasons and shaped in that way too. For example summer would be rounder because of the sun whereas winter may be skinnier and bolder to show it's stormy weather. 

Adapting rocks, ores and gems into Characters

Rocks/Gems have different properties and could be used as a basis for character design, I may take a less human approach with the designs however because the Cartoon Network show Steven Universe has characters based on gems and as much as I'm a fan of the show I don't want my designs to be like theirs.