Dean Gray

Evaluation

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BA (Hons.) GRAPHIC DESIGN – END OF MODULE SELF-EVALUATION
Module Code – OUGD202 Module Title Design for Digital Media

1. What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?

At the start of this module i was in doubt of how far i could push my final resolution when it came to using after effects, because Im not as you say “a computer head”, although i had previously used this in the silent movie brief, i had kept it simple, this was because i struggled with the program and found it all quite confusing.
I have come away from this module with such a higher understanding of after effects and a broader knowledge of motion graphics. Im more confident using computers and im very pleased and proud to have completed my first animation with sound and enjoyed making the most of the 50secs given to create it.

2. What approaches to generating work and solutions to problems have you developed and how have they helped?

Alot of thorough development, i set myself a plan each day to look at as many different imagery from my choosen subject and document them by posting on my blog. The more i looked and read about the more my knowledge grew and
a variety of possible solutions began to come to mind.

3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/will you capitalise on these?

I feel my strenghths were my preperation for my animation, i spent very long time re-creating all of the game backgrounds, type and characters, and also the variety of separate frames for movement of the character.

4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how could you exploit these more fully?

I should have been more organised with my work arranging and numbering all of my documents not just some of them, this would have saved me from wasting time searching for files to pace into my i web or blog.
I should have sketched more of my initial ideas down in storyboards.

5.Identify five things that you will do different next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?

To organise my work, this would enable no time wasted on backtracking, re-naming or losing files.

To have explored iweb more to see what other possibilities i could have come across.

6.How would you grade yourself on the following areas: (please indicate
using an ‘x’) 5= excellent, 4 = very good, 3 = good, 2 = average, 1 = poor

Attendance 4
Punctuality 4
Motivation 4
Commitment 4
Quantity of work produced 4
Quality of work produced 4

Some of Blu's sketchbook work!

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Blu's sketchbook work is brilliant, so much detail and some of the strangest scenario's ive seen, right up my street!

Wall work by Blu!

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Evolution (according to Blu)

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Welcome to my midnight studio!!

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Made me laugh so i thought i'd post it! enjoy!

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irena zablotska/sketchwork

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irena zablotska/illustration

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KOA

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More work by Olly Moss!

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Hangers by Olly Moss!

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Come across these whilst blogging! fucking hilarious!

I screen printed this jumper for my girlfriend, she loves cats!

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Personal work- FUN TIMES!

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Andrew Rae print and sketchbook work.

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V SHOW: pictures on wall/ muralism

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Progression of toy design.

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Puk-Puk!

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I came across these lovely lil characters whist browsing through pictoplasma!

Dave Warnke!

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I love his characters and the colours he uses, so simple but brilliant!!

Personal work for print im currently working on!

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Vinyl toy design!

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Illustrated elephant.

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Illustrated wooden elephant. I've got a bigger elephant
thats next on my list.

Personal work!

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Recently iv'e been looking at aboriginal art and incorperating into my illustrative work,
heres some of the results i'v sketched so far!!

Aboriginal art.

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Stage.1 of Bedroom wall collab with Phil Armson!

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Digitised piece of collab with Phil Armson.

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Character Design!

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DPS Colour4print.

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Module Evaluation.

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When i first started this module i didn't realize how much more there was to CMYK and print production, i struggled to understand the different processes at the beginning of the module.

It was only when i began produces print outs using different processes i began to understand it more, trial and error. I used these new learnt skills and began printing onto a range of stock such as sugar-paper, watercolour, tracing paper and vinyl to
see what worked and what didn't. I used this trial and error method whilst producing my outcome for the design4print brief this helped me make appropriate decisions when it came to thinking about what colour, processes and stock to use for my
outcome of the brief.

Again i started fairly lost at the beginning of design4print and found myself deciding on an idea that i was fond of and tried to force this to answer the brief, it left me struggling and stressed because i had developed this initial idea and knew in my mind what i wanted to produce but it didn't have any message. This lead me back to the drawing board where i looked at who i wanted my target audience to be and how i intended to approach them? inform? humour? scare? interact?

When i had finally decided on an initial idea, i began to develop it and look at the different possibilities of print and stock that would be appropriate for the final designs, this is where i used what i had produced in the colour4print brief to help select an appropriate outcome, this helped me narrow down my development to produce a welcome pack for students containing visual interpretations of hazards within a household informing students to be more aware of health and safety.

I am happy with the final outcome overall but i should have managed my time better, researched at an earlier stage and been far more organized. I set myself allot to produce and wasn't realistic about if it was manageable or not? I did manage to produce thirty print outs on both matt vinyl and envelope stock however because i didn't manage my time, my final print onto my welcome pack got jammed in the printer and i didn't have enough time to print again! The same happened with four of my DPS for the colour4brief, although i had produced all six i left it to late relying on a printer which didn't print out in enough time for me to hand in, ive posted them on my blog but i just feel so annoyed at myself for not printing them off earlier?!
For future reference i will be more organized and manage my time, making an action plan and following it my main priority and to be more throe with my research.

Sketchbook personal!

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Letter-press!

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Good Brief!

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Experimenting with scale, CMYK.

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Jon Burgerman.

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My Favourite Jumper!

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Personal Work.

Colour theory and experimentation

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Looking at different print processes.

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Spiderman pose sketch!

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Street Art.
just a range of images to keep the brain moist!

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Christoph Niemann.
Love the humour in these illustrations!

Christoph Niemann

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Surprise!

Surprise!!
Personal Project, fancy dress guy taking over the role of GODZILLA!!
Drawn, scan, photoshop.

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Ive been looking at the characteristics of certain people and have striped them down to the key characters.
Your typical chav just one of the characters that wil become apart of a collection being made 3D!
Cant wait!

Fancy dress guy! A pear!
it does'nt have to make sense, it is what it is!

One of three posters,This one, Fancy dress options!

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Andrew Rae!
Love this guys work! weird characters, right up my street!

Critters!

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Was abit grimey at this place so i thought i'd stick a cheeky hot-dog there!

The chicken watching over the subway!

Critters!

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Burning Candy!

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Outside the College!
James Jessops gave a presentation of his portfolio which was very interesting and inspiring!
Spoke to the guys a few days before the show and showed them some of my characters, they liked them!
so im well chuffed, given me a royal confidence boast, thanks for the kind words.

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David Foldvari!

Ive been working on creating skylines with images of rooftops, im restricting it to just black and white
so who better to look at than Foldvari!

Skyline poster to promote my book 'Skylines'

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80'S FASHION!

Modeling an oversized bow tie in front of a fairground ride in Bristol.
Designed, made and photographed by Kate Dunkling.
A must have accessory for the lovers of eighties fashion!

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DEFEAT ILLUSTRATION

One of three sequenced illustrations communicating the defeat of the England rugby team against South Africa
in the 2007 world cup final.

Music like no other!!

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First time i saw this advert i thought it was amazing and had to post it on here!
So here it is, enjoy!

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Tim Marrs

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Gary Neill

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Stock up

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STOCK UP “This poster was designed to spread awareness of the decline in floppy disk production. I decided to produce this after hearing the news while working in a computer store.” - EOIN STANLEY

David Foldvari

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I discovered Foldvari's work a couple of years ago whilst at college and have been a big fan of his work ever since! His work incorparates the use of pencil, photocoying and a fax machine before putting it on to a mac. Alot of his work is personal and the majourity of it is hand-rendered, i love to work in a similar way so am always turning to his work for inspiration and it has influenced me to experiment with a wide varity of different media such as paint, ink, marker ect.

I love the illustrations foldvari incorparates into his work, in this illustration the first thing i noticed was the type 'DRINK OF MY POVERTY', amongst the overwhelming use of illustration and mark making by contrasting colour it drew my eye to the message.