Found a font called...

Christie!

Someone told me to make a font of my handwriting at college but the project turned into a huge set of stationary. I don't think I'll be able to have 'Christy' in my collection soon since producing a font is pretty difficult.

Flash animations so far

Week 2 - We used our own cameras to take at least 30 pictures for 2 seperate stop-frame animations.
First one was moving the camera and keep the object steady; second one is to animate the object and try to keep the camera at the same position.

Moving camera

Moving object

I'm happy with the 2nd one. It's indeed weird but the making was fun and I didn't use anything to hold up the fingers of the glove, which probably makes it more creepy.


Week 3 - I was absent on the Rotoscope session but I'm catching up.


Week 4 - Shape Tween, which allows shapes to transform size, position, colour, or all 3 at the same time.





Experimenting with Movie-clip filters, in this case we used Blur.



Guide layers can make symbols move along whatever path that's been drawn. Crazy gloves are amusing.

Just following the path

Oriented to path

Shapes drawn on the Mask layer will appear like peeking through a hol.

Flipbook

 

My flipbook animation made in the first session!

'Where I Live' final

This is the first piece I created completely on Illustrator. I did a rough sketch in my sketchbook first and placed the photo of it onto the canvas to let myself know where everything should be.

I used the pen tool and brush tool to draw myself; live-traced the floating objects and used shapes to give the image some motion and energy.

There is a variety of colours throughout the image, and I deliberately lowered the opacity of the circles to match the muted tones of the objects. I changed the background to light brown for the same reason and I think the elements work well together.

'My Space' final

I adapted the symmetrical arrangement for the final poster.

Images I used are MK Building, old houses from the street I used to live in China, tiles at my grandparents' balcony, a red autumn tree taken on the way to Birmingham and the Japanese tower. The origins of my materials show places I've been to and where I have lived.

The bright colours and geometric shapes I overlayed on top of the images liven the whole scene up and gave it a lot of energy. There are many things going on in the poster but I think overall I've kept them under control, and fortunately it did not become a hot mess.