Bauhaus Research

I found the colour pallet interesting and
very good with how they've all fitted and
coordinated together, along with the
clever design involved in the text, some large
text in the background and smaller more
detailed text in front with most of where
the design is happening.

I found this bauhaus design very effective even though it's design is simple and not too crowded with only 3 main prmary colours being used in it, along with the clever design of the title 'bauhaus' being mixed in with the deisgn, also making the text part of the design.

I researched old and modern bauhaus designs to use as inspiration and reference for developing ideas of making my own bauhaus design for a cover. 

There are different elements to the bauhaus designs and style, some are quite plain and simple, using few colours, lines, text shapes etc. when others can be quite busy, bright, dark, eye catching, using patterns simple or complicated and advanced looking. Though all designs by or inspired by bauhaus are quite eye-catching and use many different colour pallets, both the old and new.

Creative Industry

Job roles within animation:

• Animation director and supervisor
• Animator (2D computer animation)
• Animator (2D drawn animation)
• Animator (3D computer animation)
• Animator and assistant animator (Stop motion)
• CG modeller
• Compositor
• Digital painter
• Director/Series director
• Editing assistant
• Head of model making
• Inbetweener
• Junior animator
• Junior model maker
• Key animator
• Layout artists (2D computer animation)
• Layout artists (2D drawn animation)
• Layout artists (3D computer animation)
• Lighting technical director/Lighter
• Marketing executive
• Marketing manager
• Match move artists
• Model maker
• Runner
• Storyboard artist
• Production designer/assistant

Skills needed by the animation industry:

• Background artists
• CGI animators
• Compositing artists
• Editors
• Production management
• Production staff
• Rigging
• Screen writers
• Writers
• Trainee/assistant roles
• Visual storyboarding

How to get into the industry:

• Apprenticeships, preferable within creative and digital media, they help build your skills and give you strong foundations to work on the build your career.
• Degrees, ones that have the closest link to the working industry that provide high-levels of industry relevant education with the facilities that would be used in the industry too.
• Take advice from animators, people that already have a job and position with the animating industry, ask questions of what they had to do, what skills they need, how they developed their skills, how to put together a show reel and how to get noticed.

Surreal clay sculpture into mod rock sculpture

I made a clay sculpture replicating the shape of a skull, but I then made it abstract by changing the shape of it a little, making points on top of the skull, replicating horns a little, making the eye sockets into one wide one including making the maxilla part of the skull longer and a little pointy, then adding in some thick wire so it looked like it was coming out, sticking out of the clay model skull.

I then tried to replicate the clay model by making it into a wire model, around the same size, using thin wire, though I would use this wire model as reference to make my larger wire model of the abstract skull.

The larger wire skull was made using thick wire, medium wire and a thin wire which I used with also an even skinner wire to just wrap all around out to help it take better shape. I have since then out mod rock on the larger model and it is taking good shape and I'm confident with how it is turning out along with how my clay and wire models have.

The final result of the dried mod rock around the wire model has turned out ok in my opinion, the shape is a bit strange in some places, but overall I think it's turned out well, especially wth the paints of it. 

The sketch included mine and three other peoples work of mod rock and wire or tissue and wire.

Figure Drawing

In figure drawing I was encouraged to draw with a stick with charcoal taped to the end again with the paper on the floor, this time using different colours, so I do understand why my drawings came out a bit uneven and strange, though I know there could be a lot of room for improvement, I'm kinda happy they turned out better then I thought they would.
On my last drawing I used charcoal and chalk, both taped to either end of the stick I was using, using the chalk for the highlights of the model.

Cabin and mountains project

For the project I was giving a photograph, that was in black and white, of a landscape with cabins, a river, trees, a forest and mountains which I then had to work from, try and replicate it in my own drawing using calk and charcoal and also smudging certain parts to make a better effect for it.
Once I had completed mt chalk and charcoal drawing of the photograph I began making it again but this time using paint.
Overall I am a lot more happy and confident with my chalk and charcoal drawing then my painting since I don't think I used the right colours and didn't think as much about the colour throw, though I'm not unhappy with it, just not as confident with it as I am with my first one.

Wire and mod rock sculptures

My first attempt of trying to replicate the vertebrae was by using separate pieces of wire to shape it, a thin wire, though overall it turned out to be okay but not as good as it could be, though I still put mod rock over it and then it took a better shape and looked more like a vertebrae.

My second attempt at the vertebrae was more messy but took a better shape while also looking a little more abstract and interesting then the previous one, though I decided not to put mod rock over this one and used it more as a reference.

My third attempt with the wire was to try and slightly replicate what seems to be a shin bone. I used a thick wire for the middle and main part of the bone, then a medium wire going over the thicker wire and to make the bone ends shape which I secured together with thin wire.
Once confident with my wire structure I put mod rock over it which is when it took even better shape of a bone though still looked a bit abstract compared to the original model of it.

Chalk practice with skeletons

I used chalk and charcoal with these drawings, encouraged to use the technique of focusing and drawing around the negative space of the skeletons that were posed in front of me.
On the black paper I first drew the side of the ribs and spine of the skeleton with just chalk, the second time I drew the top of the spine and shoulders of the skeleton which didn't have the skull on top of it, this time using both calk and charcoal.
On the white paper the skeleton had some cloth draped over the top of it with an apron also tied around it, this time I only used charcoal.