Showreels and Portfolios 

For our last lesson this semester in Henry’s Creative Futures was the talk of showreels and portfolios. Since we know about showreels and portfolios since second year is was a good recap of the overall with the Quality over Quantity with the Halo vs Horn effect and who’s our Target Audience. For it all depends on what we make and who is it for e.g. character design, character animation/rigging, modelling, prop design and environments/background etc. 

For I have only updated my CV for the week and poster designs for this module with the feedback from my team to add and feature for next Friday.  I simply continued the Major project in the meantime with the three weeks remaining of classes left to get everything wrapped up. 

Tutorials

Since our lecturer’s weren’t in for a trip, I took the time to work on our posters as Dylan and I having been working on them and will decide on the final design this Tuesday coming. Here is some of the progress I’ve done for both by adding some effects with the gradients. I really like the both of them in my opinion since they give off the creepy horror feel from other horror monster posters. 

“EOYS Discussion and Postgraduate/Freelance/Clients”

Before the Easter Break, our lecturer Henry introduced us to Postgraduate/Freelance and Clients. He had shown is the understanding of Masters in Animation if we would wish to return to enhance our skills whether it is 2D or 3D to push our skills in this year or the next. It has been giving me thought after graduation if I should return late 2024 or next year 2025 as long as I secure a part or full time job for the future.

When it comes to our year’s fundraiser involving the pup quiz and craft fair nothing has changed as I’m still helping the craft fair for the 22nd April by guiding people within the shop and as well as buying some materials from my classmates on what they have in store, so I can contribute for our class. 

As well for our posters, I have updated and improved both versions of the poster which is still a WIP at the moment. As the colours are still flat and basic I hope to show these improvements to my team and hear their feedback and give mine to theirs before moving on and deciding who’s design were going for. 

Coming back into week 7 after having the last 3 Fridays off, we were introduced to fundraising, future careers and coming event of the showcase for our groups. As the whole is partaking in either of the two fundraising events which are a pub quiz on animation and a craft fair within the art shop. As I listed my name for the EOYS 2024 role for the craft fair as a event volunteer to help with the public and probably buy stuff there if I see anything and contribute some money for the craft fair.  

As a class we were discussing about the layout of the lab and which group would be seated using the one table for each group having their poster up as a banner. Since I’m in a group of three people we will be either be in the middle or next to the wall. For the posters we kept working on them as we were experimenting with the colours but only the flats just to test them out. We looked at each others and given feedback on each one so we will be doing that 

The next week was non-stop work as we had been focusing on our major project animations as there was some progress made to our posters but not as much. We were experimenting with colours and used the white grey black colours to help with our poster colours this week for progress. Here are the two posters I’m still in progress off. 

We had made some progress with our posters as we decided to take our own sketches between 1 and 2 at most and put them onto our software’s to start doing them digitally and meeting our criteria. Making it at 150 x 100 cm and RGB at high resolution. Using the references I have collected for the team here is my progress of the poster using Krita. Only then can we figure out which poster of ours will be for the final version for the film and how to balance between our major project schedule. 

Taking the next three Fridays off, give us time to go over our final sketches that each us of picked out and did from the previous week on doing 2 designs and narrowing it down to one. For it will be next week that we will pick one of own and go for that design for our horror/thriller short movie poster. 

Here is my final sketch before our voting next week.

Posters, CV’s, Business Cards, Design Decks and Cover Letters

We went deeper into CV’s, Business cards, Design decks and cover letters for the future of our employability. During Henrys lesson all I could think of was working on certain areas to help improve my employability. Like for our major project we had to create posters for short film, then think about how we will present our work to the audience. As well as our updated versions of our CV’s cover letters and optional business cards. It gave me thoughts on on recreating my logo on my CV and updating it this year 2024. 

Our group continued onward with our poster designs by narrowing them down from 2 to 1 with our own sketches and sharing them with each other to find out which design will we go for. Since we are off the next 3 Fridays, we will take this time to focus on our poster and how we will present our work to our future employers.  

Poster Design and Workshop

The second week of creative futures took us in the direction of the major project which includes creating our own poster designs for our short film and show it off to our future employers from countless businesses. Henry talked about Design thinking and why it is significant for us to have a poster for our short film with the concept, contrast, hierarchy and grid.  As well as getting an emotional response from it’s viewers to have a conscious level of it with the positive design from viewing the poster and editing it in a proper layout and design. 

Our tasks for the creature future was to draw concept posters, 3 each on what our poster for our short horror/thriller film be. Sarah, Dylan and I had drawn concept art designs and our short film and try to narrow it down to one. 

Module Introduction

This Friday’s class introduced us to creative futures which will help with future employment during our major project short films which will be for the end of the year show once we graduate afterwards. We were informed of our assignment for this semester which will take place after our finalised major project, giving us this time for Fridays to make poster, banners, showcase our work and how we will present to our future employers from our chosen platforms. 

To give us time to update our arts and creations on multiple platforms to showcase our CV’s, showreels and portfolios near the end of semester 2. Near the end of the lesson I had discussed with other team members about our short film and creating a poster for it. We each had a task of designing 3 sketches of what our poster could look like to represent our horror thriller film by collecting inspirations and references which follow the same formula with our plot. We used to gather references and inspirations including other short films to help with our short film pipeline.