Saturday, 26 March 2016

After effects tutorials

Today I watched tutorial on how to create special effects in Adobe After effects to help improve my animating skills.

The reason for watching these tutorials, is because I want to create my own ident for my self using visual effects, I personally have chosen after effects because I think it provides very nice effects which would work well with the idea I have for my personal identity.

Watching these videos have helped my idea move forward because they have provided me with a base for my project which I can work from, whilst broadening my knowledge on how to use After Effects professionally.

From watching these tutorials I have learnt hoe to used special effects, which I didn't know how to use before watching these videos and experimenting.

Watching these tutorials has gone well because I have developed a knowledge of how to use new effects which I never knew I could and now I can put these to good use when developing my ident.



                                          





Wednesday, 23 March 2016

Poster Development

I am working on developing some poster ideas for our company using artist for inspiration.

I am doing this because we believe that we need to advertise our company for recruiting members and need to advertise our company to our target audience to show that we are another animation company that exists.

This will make our company move forward because it will be another for of advertisement which we could add to our pitch along with our business cards, this makes our company seem like a real animation studio which is new to the scene. These posters will help inform our target audience of who we are and what we plan to do as a studio.

I have been looking at Rob Dobi and Olly Moss for inspirational ideas to do with our posters because their poster work is very modern and uses a lot more artwork to communicate what they are all about. This is also an idea I would like to follow when designing mine so that is why I am using them for inspiration because i want my poster to use images and colours to communicate what we are about.

Rob Dobi

Rob Dobi

Olly Moss

Olly Moss




Being finalised Logo





To day I have been looking at finalising our company logo, we have our design for the fish sorted out along with the layout and colour theme. The reason for our idea in developing our logo, is to make it look professional, we want it to looks like a fully established animation company with a logo thats symbolic to our work ethic and what we stand for as a company. This is also the reason for the choice of the name "free flow studios", we want our company sound like its has a calm environment and that we are flexible with our work load meaning we take each and every animation as potential work serious but we work as one relaxed unit/team.

Finalising this design has now made our work load move forward because we have now established and form of identity we can work around, but we can start using this logo on mechanised to advertise our company to our chosen target audience.

We have been looking at other logos to help generate ideas for our because we wanted to develop an idea of how other companies present their logos and what colours are commonly used so that we could apply this method to our own form of identification.

The whole design process went well because we all worked well as a team and decided on the colours and the logos together, agreed and disagreed and worked as a unit to get it finished. During this process I learned what team work is like as an animation studio and how it takes more than one person to make a design great.          

Tuesday, 15 March 2016

Advertisements Ideas



This is work by Golden-wolf, I am using this for inspiration at this early stage because we plan to create a quick animation as an ident for our company which showcases our work and what we do. To our target market hopefully gaining their interest. We want to create this because we believe that this would promote company well through showing what we are capable of and why people should come to us for design work.  

Logo and change of idea

New Company name
Today we have been working on our logo name and style of font to help develop a better and more professional logo. We originally called our logo "MMHC" which stood for each of our initials e.g. Malachi, Max, Hayley and Callum. We decided that the the ideas on our initial idea did not work well and that there was no enough thought put into so we decide to look up other looks to draw inspiration for style, name and appearance. we looked at Logos such as Marvel because we felt they had more features symbolic to company embedded in their logo which made them stand out and look stronger in appearance because they resembled what the company was about. Marvel uses a lot its iconic comic book characters to communicate both its success and the fact that they are a comic book company.

We decided to change our name to free flow because we felt that it worked best with our company because it communicated that we are a company that work free flowing when given a task and can always turn out a both positive and easy animation effective in movement and appearance. Free Flowing just sounds like we are a company that takes things at a time and work easy with deadlines, time and can always deliver a great product, there is no chaos with our studios.

Sunday, 13 March 2016

Logo ideas and thumbnails



My logo thumbnails

Ardman Inspiration for studio space

Recently we had a talk about Ardman with a former animator there, he stated that they were always busy in an open space with plenty of team members work on various aspects of a stop-motion animation film e.g. Wallace and Gromit. The space is set out according to the work that will be taking place, because it stop-motion so it involves a lot of big sets and characters moving around which means more space was needed when starting their business.

We are looking to develop a studio which works well with any type of animation because we are making our company which works with mainly 2D but also specialises in other forms of animation required by customers in need of animation, so we will need the facilities to be able to work with the different types of animation.

This would be beneficial for our company because it will give us space for both us and our staff to maneuver themselves when working on any animated work so we will need to consider what space we pick because we want to be able to deliver what ever our clients need with having any problems which could jeopardise our final animated outcomes.  

Inspirational images (Olly Moss)





empire.jpg

werewolf.jpeg

spiritedaway.jpg
Spirited Away

I am a massive fan of Olly Mosses work because he work with a very nice blend of colours and the composition of his images are very effective in their presentation because they stand out and you are able to identify what ever image he produce whether it is a film, TV or advertisement for a company or product. The text stand out well on the Spirited Away poster above, I like it because it works in contrast to the background, the colours are also used to communicate the feeling of the scenery and almost give you the feel of what the animated movie will be like based on the setting of the poster it's self.   

I am in charge of promoting our company through visuals such as our logo, poster and business cards so I am making sure that all the vital information we need will be on the merchandise we give away, so as inspiration I have been using  Olly Moss's artwork to help with the layout of my work.     

Logo design and merchandise

We have decided to develop a log for a company because we feel that this will make our animation business feel real. This alone is not enough so we are also developing merchandise and business cards, firstly we want to sell and promote our business strongly to our customers through the use promotion and want to get them to understand what we are all about as an animation company.

The plan is to create create our logo, business cards and pens as a free promotion for our company along with a website. The reason for doing so is because we feel as a group that we need to sell our business, ideas and need to make our selves look like a real company with staff and facilities. Our discuss based on this idea was that this would make our company seem established and would help us appeal to anyone with an interest for animation or people in need of work.

How will we use artwork to appeal to our target audience ?

We want to develop poster and images with bright and vibrant colours for hiring, to show that we are a an exciting company to work with and that we are free and open to work with any style of animation presented to us.

we are taking inspiration from other companies and are looking at how they advertise themselves, we are not just restricting our selves to just drawing inspiration from advertisements for animation but we are looking a various other practices e.g. illustration studios and how they work when looking to recruit people or introduce themselves to their chosen target market.


I work in a particular style, I like to draw monochromatic pictures in a comic style similar to the one above, I also experiment with colours also to see how my images look both ways. I draw this way because I find that it is very effective in its appearance because it is very bold, bright, visible and it stands out, I always want my target audiences to have a my full attention when looking at my piece of work.      








 

Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Questions and ideas for our Company and what we stand for

-Who would we pitch our idea/concept to?
find work at things likes Cartoon Movie Festival
-Commissioning animations to tv channels - look at process
-How will we source work? festivals - commissions - approaching writers
Want to make own animation - get to festivals stripy bird
- Consider how to promote your self, what language do you use
ethical morals - environment, (different to other companies)
moral compass, support what we work for, (footprint, cooperative uk) sustainable recourses? flexible working,
- Look at other company logos. what do we want to communicate? 
Maybe we can all find 2-3 logos we like and think would work for our company and the logo designers can consider them?