I made a gif

The new brief for illustrators is making gif animations of a list of things, such as 'How gravity works'.
Having never made a gif before, I thought I'd try teach myself with an idea I had straight away.

That'll be the day... pilgrim

We had to make posters for films we picked out of a hat (actually more of a plastic pot). However these posters had to be made from paper and use of lighting, not digitally.

So I ended up with The Searchers, an old western with John Wayne, that guy I've only heard about from Family Guy jokes if I'm honest. Regardless I watched the film and after putting down some ideas I decided a sort of desert scene would work best. With horsemen, in this vast landscape in which they need to search.

My initial idea was this.

However I decided to go bigger and change it slightly because I wanted to project the text and the eyes onto the landscape/sky of the scene.

After cutting out a bigger scene and a stencil of the text and eyes I experimented with light and projecting the film onto the paper scenery. Below are cropped photos and mock-ups of the final poster.

I liked the film projected onto my paper scenery but I felt like it wasn't my work and that none of what I'd done over the 2 weeks showed. So I kept it more true to my original ideas and projected light through my stencil with additional orange filtered lighting.

Here's my final outcome for the poster.

Update

 Poster without eyes

Alternative portrait poster

Year 2 - summer project into design

Year 2 has started!

We looked at making layouts from magazine clippings to match 8 tasks for the first part of our first brief back. We then had to choose 4 of these to apply our summer projects to. Here are mine as of yet, whether I'll change them or not I dunno.

Oops - update!

Me, Amy Cuismano and Jess Julien worked together at the end of our first year to produce a book of a minimum of 20 copies which we had to design, produce and sell in the space of 3 weeks.

That was a good while ago now and I've neglected my blog since, so here's some of the pages I made for the book 'Totally not a Spy Manual'.

Front cover, black holes were cut out to make eye-holes/reveal the mirror page underneath. The original plan was to make a newspaper but printing costs/difficulties came into play and so we downsized to a rough A5 shape for our book.

This page was printed on acetate, with mirror sheet sticker on the left side (reverse). The idea was that you could look through the mirror sheet and through the eye-holes in the cover without people realising because all they'd be able to see is 2 mirrored circles. However it turned out the mirror sheet wasn't see-through on the reverse side. We put it in anyway.

 There's a series of pages I made for the book for spy tips, with some small illustrations to accompany the text.

 This is the center spread I made for the book, a where's wally type image but instead of finding a man in stripes, you have to locate the 4 assassins and a bomb.
(highlight below to reveal hints)

Hints - a1: Roof access 
a2: close behind 
a3: hiding his roots 
a4: lampost 
bomb: mind your feet

Locations - Final outcomes

Week 1 - Train station 

2x A3

 Week 2 - Tullie House

2x A4

 Week 3 - Courtrooms

3x A5

(describing the cells, the courtroom and the power relationship between the cells and judges chair)

 Week 4 - Carlisle Castle

2x A2

Locations week 4 - Castle

Last Thursday we went to Carlisle castle to make some drawings and sketches, here are my results.

Final Outcomes 2x A2