Reform|final_poster/animation...

Maybe a few tweaks, here and there...

Reform|sneak_preview

A sneaky preview as to where I'm up to with my animation and poster for this brief. Don't want to give too much away at the moment as designs may change in these last few days, although the snippet of the poster on the right wouldn't look too bad as a banner...

Reform|fragile_nucleus

Reform|the_science_behind_After_Effects

I've started to animate projectile lilies, which head towards a circle - the circle being the casing of the conker. Taking this almost violent movement towards the conker, I thought about what would happen after impact. Then thinking about impact, I thought about what reactions, forces and explosions would be involved once the lilies join with the conker.

Going down this path of impacts and reactions, I started to treat the conker as an atom, rather than a conker. Using inspiration from the 'origami cranes' legend (Fold 1000 origami cranes and your hearts desires will come true - Hiroshima survivor folds 1000 cranes in the hope to heal her radiation poisoning, notices everyone around her is dying, so instead wishes for world peace) I had a look at Imi's images of conkers, and noticed how when bundled together, they formed the basis of an atomic nucleus.

I now plan to pair this idea with noises around the theme of 'war'. Watch this space...

Reform|horse_chestnut/折り紙

Spent some time sticking cutouts of my lily to a printout of Imi's conker. Below is the end result. Not bad if you look at it from a distance. Was a bit of a pain to get the perspective right as I didn't have enough photos so, I had to duplicate, flip and rotate half of them. Looked a bit too bland so I thought I'd have a play around in Photoshop to give it some depth.

THEN, I thought I'd run it through a scanner at the lowest quality setting then have a play with it in InDesign. I'm happy with the results...

Reform|Cinema_4D Hell

Cinema 4D is an unforgiving program. My first time using it and it's taken me ages just to make this. It's not much, but it's a start.

Reform|this could be the start of something...

Teamed up with Imi who chose a conker as his object of manipulation. Now all we have to do is animate the two of them. Since typing this, Imi's left me in the dirt and excelled with animating all sorts of spikey stuff. He did, however, give me some of his brilliant sketches of his conker which I've used to conjure up how the pair (origami lily and conker) could work together in an animation.




Have started to create the lily on Cinmea 4D. More to follow...

Reform|early stages, origami and crap unicorns

Brief: Photograph and sketch an object of your chosing then merge the object with someone else object to create a hybrid. Design a poster and create a 20 second animation based on this hybrid.

My chosen obeject is an origami lily. Why? Because I read the brief incorrectly thinking that the initial object had to be based around 'reform'? Maybe...

One hour in Borders' 'craft' section was enough to tell me that I needed to leave Borders and never return. After endless hours of attempting to master the unicorn, then succeeding, then realising my unicorn looked half llama, half shit (pictures to come), I decided to crawl before I could walk and create a lily. 2hrs later (1am Wednesday evening) and the lily was born.

deRail

Typography brief: Design a font based around transportation (or something to that effect).

I chose to base my idea around the overhead power cables along the Birmingham railway lines. Looking at any linear sturcture you can pretty much make any shape or letterform quite easily, however, adding in all the trimmings (plylons, bolts, couplings, lighting etc) and making sure each cable correctly connected to the other was a pain in the arse I really didn't see coming.

The end product? I'm pretty proud of it.

A few of my favourite letters:

F3ED

Brief: Merge the three cities, Birmingham, Manchester and Salford together to create a final image/hybrid, which celebrates FEED's third birthday.

This piece of work was also entered into the FEED exhibition at Plus+ International Design Expo 2008.

Press Start

This is the finished work from a 'corporate identity' brief I was given sometime ago. I liked it so much, I've slapped it all around my blog!

Brand Guidelines below: