After speaking with James I have decided to slightly change the direction of my project, to make sure I am appealing to my target audience. For this reason, I am going to do a project that spans both 2D and 3D, and basically, create a piece that demonstrates each skill I have. Throughout this I will be able to learn and demonstrate new skills while creating a portfolio that will hopefully appeal to my future employer. The pieces will be themed relative to the skill they are demonstrating, and they will all also be self narrating. For example, if I were to create a piece about lighting setups in 3D, I might create a light bulb and animate it to show lighting techniques and then overlay some motion graphics text to describe the skill.
To learn what skills I actually need I will be doing a few different aspects of research; I currently do freelance work for Project XIV, a company founded by previous graduates of our course. I will be contacting them to ask what skills they would look for in a new employee because I would really love to work for them (or a similar company) one day.
I have also purchased some books that will help me with the fundamentals of motion graphics. Light for Visual Artists (Yot, 2019) covers the huge topic of lighting; how light works, different lighting methods and what types of lighting do to audiences. Motion Graphics (Crook and Beare, 2015) covers all the basics of motion graphics design and will provide me with a huge range of skills that I need to learn, and can use to create pieces.
Where did this idea come from?
The inspiration to create my project in this way came from a piece I saw by Yaniv Fridman which is linked below. In this piece, entitled To Do List, he shows a list of things he wanted to do as new years resolutions and accompanies them with related animations. This is how I would like my project to be, I really admire the way that all of the pieces fit together in a similar colour scheme, but all work as individual animations. I also really like Yaniv’s art style and think it is very similar to my own.
Below is one of my favourite pieces from the clip. I love absolutely everything about it. I think the low poly art style is really effective and still communicates the form of the objects well. The cool-toned colour scheme fits well with the rest of the pieces, and I really like the cool brown/grey of the case when its paired with the brighter blues. Finally, I think the overlaid 2D graphics really top this piece off; the thin font and dotted lines don’t obstruct the view of the main piece too much but add a nice little touch of detail.
The full piece can be found at https://yanivfridman.com/portfolio_page/todo-list/ which is Yaniv’s portfolio website.
Bibliography
Crook, I. and Beare, P. (2015). Motion Graphics. Fairchild Books.
Yanivfridman.com. (2019). Yaniv Fridman | To do list. [online] Available at: https://yanivfridman.com/portfolio_page/todo-list/ [Accessed 8 Oct. 2019].
Yot, R. (2019). Light for Visual Artists. 2nd ed. Laurence King Publishing.
Jennie Hawkes 