CREATIVE FUTURES: BLOG POST LINKS AND INTENTIONS

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CREATIVE FUTURES: EOYS TABLE!

CREATIVE FUTURES: BUSINESS CARDS

CREATIVE FUTURES: PRINT AND STICKER.

CREATIVE FUTURES: CV UPDATES

CREATIVE FUTURES: POSTER DESIGN

CREATIVE FUTURES: WEBSITE AND SOCIALS.

In addition to my personal works, I bought a raffle ticket for the easter raffle, and a ticket to the fundraising pub quiz; I also donated £150 to the final year show fund.

Going Forward:

  • Create environmental footage specifically including Comfort Zone environments, lit and rendered, which will focus and show off my models and textures. I will display these bits of footage on the 3D section of my website.
  • Create a full showreel with this footage and footage from second year cinematic.
  • Update Artstation fully with comprehensive spread of artworks created over the past couple of years.
  • Update website as advised.
  • Update table as advised.

 

CREATIVE FUTURES: WEBSITE AND SOCIALS.

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SOCIAL MEDIA:

I am incredibly active on my social media and have been posting regularly on LinkedIn and Instagram with updates and information on our film, ranging from full posts to experiments; on Instagram, many of these updates were posted on my stories.

I am quite warey of posting the full film to social media at the moment, as we are quite interested in entering Comfort Zone to festivals over the next year and I know that there are often rules in place that do not permit you to have posted the full film to youtube etc. However it is my full intention going forward to post some of my own nice renders and videos, particularly of my own contributions, to my social media as they’re ready!
I also updated my Sketchfab with all of my models:

I updated my art station with my Comfort Zone contributions:

WEBSITE:

I knew pretty early on that I would like to have a portfolio website made for my graduating year! I took a bit of time to research which provider to work with, and chose Squarespace in the end as many of the artist influencers that I follow use and recommend it. I did some research on the types of website I liked the look of:

I really wanted to make sure that my layout was clear and readable for anyone who might be using it; basically like a feed of spaced images:
My intention going forward is to update the 3D section with a showreel of close-up shots of my environments to try and really show those off; I would also like to split the ‘about me’ section and the ‘contact’ section into two parts; I am currently creating a piece, following the ‘starter pack’ trend on instagram, that I would like to have on the ‘about me’ page as I feel it is a good fun indicator of personality:
You can access my website here!

CREATIVE FUTURES: POSTER DESIGN

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I began designing the poster with a pretty clear idea in mind; I had a vision of Charli standing beneath overarching buildings — very Blade Runner. I collected a lot of reference of this and began sketching out some ideas:

However, as I was researching, I was falling more and more in love with the saturated, Gorillaz and Jamie Hewlett inspired looking pieces; very cyberpunk and quirky, and I ended up doing a bunch of thumbnails that did not conform to my original idea:
After consideration, my favourite of the bunch was the throne of street signs — I felt it made her look like she’d conquered her fears, like a Monarch! It made me feel that the character had been victorious in some way. I moved forward with this and began preparing my poster:
After it was apparent that my poster would be chosen, I reconsidered my colours as whilst it would have been a lot of fun to run with the saturated colours, I didn’t feel that it fit our film very well. Instead, I went for more appropriate colours, mimicking our opening scene:
After a bit of feedback and showing this to my team to ensure that they liked it, I finished rendering our final poster submission for printing!:

CREATIVE FUTURES: CV UPDATES

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I spent a lot of time updating my CV to include my most recent placement experience, and to mirror the same colouring and branding as my other industry facing materials!

This was the original CV after a bit of work on the information, however, I wanted to update this further in aesthetics. I looked at my business card first, and attempted to mimic it:
I used the writing from the back of my business card and prints here, for my name and my contact info i.e. my website and my email! However, I wanted to try pushing it a little further:
However, these two attempts were SUPER busy, and I wanted to make sure the information was what stood out, so I pared it back a lot more:
I liked this a lot, but I was missing the red element in the colours of my business card. So I added those in some accents:
This is my final chosen CV, which I will update with my degree classification as soon as I receive it!

CREATIVE FUTURES: PRINT AND STICKER.

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Whilst I was ordering my business cards, I decided that I wanted to also offer a print and a sticker to anyone who was passing by! Again, I knew the quality at Vista Print was quite good, having been recommended them, so I used them to make these optional offers as well:

For the print option, I had thought about printing some old concepts — however these weren’t going to be at the right resolution or canvas size, and I wasn’t hugely enamoured with my options — so I decided to draw up a rejected poster idea:
I also made sure to list my socials and QR code on the back of the print!
For the sticker, I used a design that I already had from doodles of street signs! I just wanted something simple and a relatively good size, not too big or small.
Update:
I received the order — I loved them so much that I put in one more order for 50 more prints and 75 more stickers!
I chose the following as my extra print and sticker:
(Sticker)
(Print)