For this part of the project, I made the doe image outlines in Adobe Illustrator, colored them in using Adobe Photoshop, and then put it all together in Adobe Flash. I wanted to keep it light and fun. I hope you enjoy it!
I made this animation using Adobe Flash. The eyelash batting represents the sweet side of Feral Doe, and then the lid coming down halfway and the fang shining represents the feral side. Overall my experience using Flash for the first time was not as complicated as I thought it would be- I watched some tutorials beforehand and just floated right along! I'd definitely use Flash more in the future- I showed my cousin and he said he'd like me to make an animation of HIS logo! This go round I made all the components in the Flash program itself, so this is an extremely rough copy of what the final will look like. For the final product, I plan on creating the doe in Photoshop and using those images in Flash. I hope this will give the whole thing a more polished overall look.
Okay, I've never made a flash animation before, so I thought of 2 concepts that will hopefully be pretty easy to execute. I'll probably do whichever ends up going smoother.
My brand's name is Feral Doe, which represents both the wild and calm sides of me. To represent this, in the first concept I have a doe's head. She would bat her eyelashes twice, and then a little glimmer/gleam would bounce off her fang. This would show the sweet, and then the "sour".
My second concept represents the kind of art I draw. I like to draw people/creatures with something "off" about them, I tend to call them "misfits". In this example, a ratty, tattered old princess doll is feeling bad about herself, but then she sees a sign signaling her towards me, Feral Doe, where misfits are always welcome!
Flash animation is a skill I've always wanted to acquire, so we'll see how we go!
This is my final image for the Creative Conscience Awards 2017, made using a mixture of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop.
I wanted the colors to be calming, because although Rogers is talking about "scary things", the message of the quote is that there will always be people to help you through these scary things. On my first run-through I had green text on a light blue background, but I liked the warmer color scheme better.
I drew the image of the holding hands in my sketchbook, scanned it, and then ran it through Adobe Illustrator and cleaned it up a bit. Then I took the vector image and pasted it into a new Photoshop document, and added the background and text.
I'm really pleased with the final result; I like the simplicity because really the message behind the quote is the most powerful thing, and I feel that the clasping hands represents that very well. I also wanted the hands to look very sketchbook-like, and not too "finished", because I think it adds to the simple aesthetic.
I hope you enjoy it!
-Nicole
My project will be an art piece that would fit within the guidelines of the Creative Conscience Awards 2017. Here's how the competition is described on the Graphics Competitions website here:
Deadline: April 20, 2017I plan on basing my design around the following quote from Fred Rogers:
The Creative Conscience Awards is a platform for innovative ideas that encompass world changing creativity. Creative Conscience's aim is to inspire designers to apply their talents to socially valuable projects, promoting sustainability, freedom, social health and well-being.
The competition is open to all students of creativity across the globe (or those that have graduated in the past 24 months), whose conscience has encouraged them to build a passion for a certain cause and presents a fantastic opportunity for them to utilise their creative talent to make a positive change in the world.
Applicants are required to submit work under one of the following seven discipline areas:
• Advertising
• Architecture, engineering & interior design
• Fashion & textiles
• Film & photography
• Graphics
• Illustration & animation
• Product & structural design
The concept of my project will communicate the importance of community, and helping others, even if it's just be doing something little like listening to someone who needs a sympathetic ear. We, as humans, are all in this together, and we can help make life easier for others just by being kind. There really is no age limit for my target audience, as you can never be too old or too young to start being considerate and compassionate. I feel like it would resonate with anyone, from anywhere, of any age. Here is the direct link to the competition's website: click here.
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
Here are my preliminary sketches:
I had a lot of fun making this sample portfolio site- and it's definitely a design I would use for my own portfolio. I actually used one of the tutorials that I posted in a previous class discussion to create the animals using Adobe Illustrator. Then I applied some good old fashioned HTML from my high school web design class and turned the images into clickable links. The site is fully functional! I used some of my own work from my own personal portfolio and blog to give an example of what each page would look like with actual content on it. Here are some screen shots:
The theme I went for when designing this was simple and "cute". I personally get overwhelmed when there are too many elements competing on a page, and I feel that it really makes the illustrations shine when they don't have to compete with anything. I knew I wanted the fonts to be "cartoony" and rounded- definitely not Times New Roman, which was the default font. To view the site in its entirety, click here!
