Oresome Gallery Presentation

Business Card Designs

Once again, I got into contact with Dave at Wrongkey Designs (http://www.wrongkeydesign.co.uk/) and he designed me some rather fantastic little business cards. I asked for several designs so that I could pick and choose from them, and show a sense of development and decision making during the design process. Plus, for the purposes of presentation, having them on a display sheet for the End of Year Degree Show will certainly look quite professional, I think! I also think that the more plain designs will appeal to those of a more professional industry standing, as opposed to the more ‘busier’ designs. The latter will no doubt appeal much more to clients and collaborators. There will no doubt be more designs along these lines in the future – possibly cards themed around certain holidays and events, etc.

These will be used at any future art-themed functions or general social gatherings, at which I may be able to drum up potential interest in my designs. It was strongly encouraged to us in the portfolio aspect of our Professional Practice seminars to get a set of business cards designed, as it shows professionalism and willingness to network with other commissioners and creatives. I will also be having these cards on hand at any possible convention scenarios that I attend / take part in during the months and years to come. I will be getting htem printed out i the next week so that I have some on hand during the End of Year Degree Show on the 6th / 7th and so on.

AbbieSTABBY @ The Gaming Day Fundraiser

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Here is some footage graciously acquired by my friend Chris during the Gaming Day Fundraiser, put on by the Games Design department. The footage he got was of me completing one of the many commissions that he paid for on the day! He had filmed everyone’s activities throughout the duration of the event – but was kind enough to let me nab the footage of my work from him so that I could put it up on this blog.

At my table (which I shared with Cayleigh from Interactive media / Web Design), I sold ‘Itty Bitty’ portraits for £2 a drawing. Putting it at this price definitely seemed to do the trick for drumming up interest! Usually I charge £5 for the individual drawings, but seeing as it was a fundraiser and I wanted the pricing to seem cheap and fair, I went with £2. Plus, £2 is a lot more coherent as ‘walking-around’ money, rather than the probability of people having to pop to the cash machine for the money, or being put off by the notion of paying £5 altogether.

In total, after counting up the total which I had raised, I had just over £33 – which is absolutely fantastic! I had no idea at all that I had managed to raise that much! Cayleigh and I both managed to raise around the same amount (I think she may have even raised a bit more than me – selling cakes and drinks.). At the end of the day, each of the disciplines which were helping out during the fundraiser – from Animation, Games Design and Interactive Media, put the money they had raised with each of their stalls together. With all accounted for, total earnings were around £120 which was incredibly satisfying. That will help a great amount with getting the total amount required for rentals and purchases for the End of Year Degree Show.

“Itty Bitty” Portrait Stall

AN ‘ITTY BITTY’ AND HIS GIANT NOBLE STEED!

Well, with the idea for the ‘Tombola’ falling through due to some mild legal constraints (evidently, it falls under ‘gambling’ and we would need permissions from the Dean of the University and the local council to actually do it), each of us had to come up with an alternate idea in a much shorter given time span. I have decided upon utilizing the building up of my portfolio, with some old-fashioned stall activity, and decided upon doing a portrait stall. I’ll be selling ‘Itty Bitty’ portraits of passing people for £2 each. I was originally going to do them for £3 each but I feel that £2 would drum up a bit more interest.

The other guys on the Animation course, as well as myself, will be joining in on the Games Design courses fundraising day, and they will be doing a Nintendoland stall – on which players have to try and beat them at a game of Nintendoland so that they can pick from any one of the wrapped mystery prizes (which are the prizes originally bought for the ‘Tombola’ – waste not want not, after all!). It will be £1 a go for their stall, which is pretty fair! Alex (http://mrteaandcreamcrumpets.wordpress.com/) will be supplying his own Nintendo Wii U for the event, which is fantastic. Alongside him, there will also be Callum (http://lastshadow21.wordpress.com/) and our other course mate Maddy (http://maddyanne.wordpress.com/) who will be helping to manage the stall respectively.

I asked Dave @ WrongKey Designs (http://www.wrongkeydesign.co.uk/) once again, to put together a poster for our two stalls for the event. We just required standard posters with the activity and the price on, clear for patrons to see. He delivered the end product very quickly, which had each of us thoroughly impressed. My poster is more of a leaflet design, printed out on A4, which I intend to be giving out to anyone who wants them throughout the day itself. The poster for the rest of the courses activity is a poster that they will be putting up around the building to gain interest. Both of the posters look absolutely fantastic!

POSTER DESIGN BY DAVE @ WRONGKEY DESIGN

POSTER DESIGN BY DAVE @ WRONGKEY DESIGN

Both of our stalls will be set un in the H.E. Centre of Hull College on Wednesday the 14th of May. There will be an all manner of other activities going on, including other gaming stalls, competitions, bake-sales, and more! A large percentage of the year group will be getting involved in this fundraising all-dayer (9:00 am til 17:00pm) so if you are in the Hull area or a student of Hull College, then please come along and help us all raise money for our End of Year Degree Show!

Alphabet Words (A – G)

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As a follow-up to the previous post on the Alphabet titles I have done for the Kittypillar animation, here are the words which correspond to each letter – A through G. I’m still debating as to whether to add a few stray scribbles of colour. I’ll make copies of the frames that I have already done and use them to test this concept out on. It may look good, it may just be unnecessary, but we shall see! As it stands, I don’t think they look too bad at all!

• Apple
• Balloon
• Cuddle
• Daisy
• Egg
• Fluffy
• Green

As was the case with the previous set of titles, each title consists of a boil of about 5 frames on repeat. It has a nice flow to it, I think. Any less frames and I think it would look too rapid. I may do a little test video on the side to prove / disprove this when I have a spare few moments. I find the rough aesthetic of heavily boiling-based animations to be quite charming, and have a nice home-made feel to them. Like animated features such as Roobarb and Custard, I aim for this animation to have a pleasant vibe along similar lines.

As soon as I have all the actual Kittypillar animations for each word / letter done, I will strive to get the rest of the alphabet completes as best I can. Fortunately, if this comes after the hand in, I can still justify working on it to complete it for the End of Year Show, by submitting it for Professional Practice as well. One small concern of mine was not getting a substantial amount done, but at least this way I have the option to complete the animation to my heart’s content. Once it is all completed, I have the option of trying to enter it for a few competitions and festivals which should be interesting!