Typography -- 3D Type Development

After gartehring the materials necessary, I began work on the actual typeface.

I cut out each individual letter from the cardboard, each a different size.

And began wrappping the yarn and string around the cardboard letters, gleewing the extremities of the length of material on the back of the letter using a hot glue gun. After about 3 hours work I managed to create the word "Stitch". I will continue work soon.

Collide -- Initial Development Sketches

I'm struggling to think of a solid idea for a final piece. My plan will revolve mainly around Illustration and Character Design. One of gthe main objectives is to focus on a strong point, and I feel that my drawing is my strongest.
I did some further research, during which I recalled a personal project I was working on. In that project, I focus a lot on masks, one of my favourite objects. I started researching masks in different cultures and found that almost every country makes some form of animal masks, especially in Africa and India.

  So I combined masks, animals and cyberpunk to created these sketches. I will probably manage to retrieve some ideas for a final piece in a few days.

Character Design and Animation -- Introduction to Modelling

In this Production tutorial, we were introduced to the practice of character modelling. Using Cinema 4D, we began a series of sessions in which we will model a character from scratch.
My initial intention was to use my own character, Nathan:

But it would prove to be a bit too complicated for modelling, so I decided to use Wayne, a character created by Jay:

 

After setting up the software, we finally began modelling, which is not as easy as I thought.

 

Collide -- Research

During this week, we were given our new brief, "Collide", in which we had to combine 3 main elemens: Happiness, our Future Selves and the Digital Age.
At first the brief was complicated to understand, I found the concept of combining three very abstract elements together to create a final outcome quite tedious.
I began my research by analysing all three aspects and created mind-mads to help in my idea generation process.

 

Thanks to a seminar, I got reminded about one of my favourite Sci-Fi sub-genres: Cyberpunk.

When I was in highschool, I was very passionate about the cyberpunk style, so I may be inclined to create a piece with that kind of feel to it.

Hopefully I will ba able to think of strong ideas during the development process.

(I will speak of Cyberpunk on my Contextual Portfolio)

 

Typography -- Initial Concepts

Due to illness, I was not able to attend the first workshop held by Nick, which involved the creation of a set of 3D objects that put into context, created a set of words. I was quick to catch up on the lesson in my own time, so I came up with a few concepts.

My initial thoughts where the word "Break" created with coffee grounds and "Spice" made out of cinnamon sticks and vanilla pods.
I finally decided on the words "Stitched up", created out of yarn, wool and cotton. My intention is to stitch some of the letters on a background created out of light coloured scap material stitched
together. Hopefully it will all come together very soon.

Here is the idea generation and some material tests:

I will start development work very soon.

Conversation -- Further Development

Due to personal issues, I was not able to continue on the conversation brief for a couple of weeks, but I quickly got back on track.
After listening to the recording I took of my peers answering the questions previously explained, I took key words and created a scene for each answer, using the male and female sprites I mad in my sketchbook as the characters.

*add image*

Each scene will be painted in white, to be revealed while the answer is being said.
Here are a few exhamples of the scenes.

 

A link to the final piece will be posted promptly.