Walk Cycle workshop.
We were given individual frames for a walk cycle that when put together would be a fully functional walk cycle animation where each frame and element was from a different student. We were given a guideline to stick to in order to keep the frames relatively consistent but still gave us room for creative freedom.
Co-ordinates and Art Workshop
Using the power of a dice roll we created patterns based on the outcome of each persons roll. This way of thinking makes a more data based outcome that is still visually appealing.
Diary Collage
This workshop was a very free-flowing workshop. we were tasked with creating a visual collage based on something that had happened over the weekend. I focused mine on a far away friend visiting and playing board games.
this workshop relied on not thinking too hard about each element but just getting into it and thinking more about the process and why I used certain elements over others.
Sally Dyer - Portraiture Workshop
This workshop was a nice back to routes workshop on how to draw realistic portraits. We were given a woman's portrait that was split into a grid pattern. Based on where elements were on the grid we were then made to imitate each grid to create a more accurate portrait.
Nick Deakin and James Dyer - Riso Workshop.
The riso printer works on separate channels of colour, the colours we had available were yellow, red and black. When printing in riso it is important to print from lightest to darkest when making a design. This creates the cool overlapping effect the riso printer is most known for in the creative industry.
I had to work in a small team to create an A3 poster for the upcoming university graphic design social meet. We had to allocate all of the information into the three colour layers individually to be scanned into the riso machine. we wanted to make use of patterns, shape and texture as they really shine in the riso printing technique.
idea sketches
We worked on all three layers together opposed to individually to get a consistent design throughout the entire poster. Each person putting forward their strong points whether it be composition, type or illustration.
Each individual layer had to be drawn on an individual piece of paper, this would then be scanned into the riso machine where it would automatically be turned into grey scale and tones suitable for riso printing. Because of this we simply stuck to a pure black pallet when drawing out our designs as it wouldn't effect the colour of our final images.
Yellow layer
red layer
black layer
This is a grey scale mock up of the individual layers on top of each other. from far away its difficult to tell but the large block parts of colour have also been altered into tone to make the printing more effective.
Close up of the print in black and white
James Dyer-Student Placement Stories
Previous students who had been on placement came in to discuss their work placements and we had to chance to asked any questions that we might have about finding placements, being on them or generally seeing their work.
a sketch of one of the speakers from the session
As usual this week was a great way to try out other stuff that I wouldn't usually get the chance to and is something I like to look forward to going to.
