Digital Painting

Batman - Digital painting done in Adobe Photoshop CS 5.5

HULK - Digital painting done in Adobe Photoshop CS 5.5

Virtual Rides

To produce these images i used the skill of photo - manipulation to "pimp out these rides". [ Photoshop CS5.5 ]

Project C.O.N.E: 20 Second Animation

The concept

For Project cone I decided to the topic 3. “Alternative energy sources (solar, wind and ocean power, etc).
Before this I had one other idea for the topic of overpopulation. The visual for this topic were of a baby eating a spherical lollipop on a stick which looks like the world. The baby represents overpopulation as people overpopulate the world by making babies. The visual of the baby sucking on the lollipop represents how in our world overpopulation is sucking the world of its resources and suffocating it. The reason I did not use this idea for my final animation was because the target market for this project was aimed at the younger teenaged community and Mtv views for which the idea was not light hearted enough to suit the target market.


Therefore I came up with my second final concept which I felt suited my target audience much better as well as send the message across with some humour. The topic 3. “Alternative energy sources (solar, wind and ocean power, etc). For my animation I wanted to do something with homour in it as it appeal to the younger generation. Another reason why I used humour was to not fall under the stereotypical “save your planet” ad campaigns which the public is desensitized to.


My concept is solar power. My animation starts of where you see an aged women roll on to screen at a moderate to less speed in her electric wheel hair which has solar panels on the back on it. As she comes to the middle of the screen the sun begins strike the solar panels causing her to charge up. This is where I had some fun showing the exaggerated effect of solar power. As the aged women becomes over charged by the sun she immediately jumps up out of her chair and begins brake dancing. Then she gets back in to her wheel chair and speeds of stage. This where the strap line come down “Get solarised feel the power” reiterates the massage of the use of solar power. My Logo on the right uses the image of the clenched fist to show a sign of power and sun represents the type of power. Therefore communicating we have the power of the sun in the form of solar power. I did the logo in this style as it is in line drawing which is the same as the animation so it ties up.


Process work

Storyboard

Images for Animation

                                       

Cook book design

The concept and theme of my cook is "South African Indian Cuisine". I used my mother who is otherwise known as aunty Rachel to the neighborhood. She cooks traditional indian food with a South African twist.
For my cook book I used the dimensions of a square 210mm x 210mm. I did this because most books are rectangular in shape and if this book were on the self with the others it would be noticed easily.

My cover is 215mm x 215m its is 5mm x 5mm bigger than the page format as my book cover will be in a hardcover form. The spine of book is 20mm.

illustrations

Cover

Index

Introduction

Recipe 1

Recipe 2

Illustration process

Step 1: take a photograph of image to illustrate. Place in Photoshop and make opacity 60%, then I created a new layer and using a normal round brush at 5 pixel size began redrawing the line art of the image.

Step 2: I then began to add flat base colour to line art and by picking colours from photograph and from swatches palette.

Step 3: using the different colours I began to show tone and texture and enhance the overall look of the image to make it look more realistic. All my painting was done using a solid brush to give my illustration a unique stylized look.

Step 4: Once the illustration is completed a solid colour background is applied to the illustration and image is save as a .jpg to be placed in the indesign layout.

Fonts Used

Editorial Illustration

Magazine chosen for layout:

DPS from magazine

The above DPS from the “one small seed” magazine that I used as reference contains grid layout that consist of 2 columns per page. The image is offset 2 thirds of the centre of DPS, making it interesting visually.


Fonts used in Editorial

Illustration Development

Rough Ideas

The editorial I chose was “Pollyanna Days”. From content I came out with the idea to find happiness in life was all base on our chooses and decisions.

The picture to the right is how I tried to show my idea. To convert my idea into a visual illustration a used the idea of 2 roads where you have to make a choice. The roads represents different paths that you could have chosen and the things that could or could not make you happy.

In the above illustration I used the image of hands to show the idea of deciding but later didn’t used the hands because if u see the image of two paths in front of you, you will evidently have to choose 1.   




Development of final illustration
For my final illustration I decided to used Adobe illustrator


Then I began to develop a background for my illustrations.



Once all illustrations are completed I then began placing them and adjusting them on my illustrated background so that it visually represents my concept.

Final Illustration

Packaging

5 Pack Doughnut Pack - Reworked

Rationale:

2.The Brief     

• For my pack design I have decided to use a pentagonal shape box as it has 5 sides and corners. This will work as a good solution to the packaging of 5 doughnuts as the doughnuts fit in the five corners of the box properly. The 5 senses:

• Site – My package is visually aesthetic and shows the products on the package cover.

• Sound – I have found a way to make my package appeal to the sense of hearing sound by installing a mechanism that is found in birthday and Valentines Day cards. Therefore when the package cover is open it will play a tune.

• Touch, Smell and Taste – for my package to appeal to these 3 senses I have made five holes in the package cover, this is ok as this is just a temporary package container. The holes in the packaging will allow the customer after purchase to touch, smell and even taste the doughnuts using a finger to get in there.

3.My Package innovations:

• Package stored and stacked flat before made up which saves space.

• Package does not use any glue but rather uses clips made form the template to be made up. This will allow quick and easy making up of package by bakery staff at Spar.

• Package has perforations that run on the base of package that allows package to be cut up and be used as single serving holders (trays) for each doughnut.

Design Process

My first thumbnail idea for my packaging was a round box. For the cover of the box, i was going to design as a big doughnut. I encounted a few problems with the round box such as a making a round box template as well as there was a lot of space wastage.

I therefore decided to make the box pentogonal  as it was much more rigid and stronger as well as it solved the other problems. 

I then illustrated diagrams to see how the doughnuts would fit before designing the template.

left is a template for a octogonal box template from which i got some insperation and ideas from for my own box.

My first atempt at the pentogonal template was not gud at it wud not work as it had no self cliping mechanism and a few unessasary folds.

I then had a look at other boxes with cliping and locking mechanism and found the 1 below which i used in my final template design. The locking mechanism allow for qiuck erection of package at the Spar deli as there is no glue used. Simply fold and lock into place.

Brief 2: Vitamins for Seniors

3D Rendering

Technical Drawing

Information Graphics

Rationale:

The name of my vitamins is “Revita” has 2 meanings revitalize and re vitamin – putting the vitamins back into your body. For my design of a vitamin container for the seniors, my design was almost entirely influenced by the challengers elderly people face like arthritis and complicated dosage plans.  Therefore my vitamin container contains the following innovations:

•An ergonomically designed container shape that’s easy to hold with sufficient grip and fits comfortably in the palm of your hand.

•Easy to open flip up lid, no turning repetitive movements needed just flip up lid.

•A digital dosage indicator, once you hear the Indicator beep find product and read the dosage that it displays on the lid.

The Cost implications to produce these vitamin containers are low.

Mass produced using the standard PVC plastic using a mould container would cost about R 1.00 each excluding digital lid.

The digital lid would also be cheap if mass produced because bulk is cheaper.

The digital watch like mechanism incased in PVC plastic can be made cheaply for around R 2.00 a lid if mass produced.

Therefore the total cost of a single container if mass-produced would be R 3.00.

Method of use.

Step1: Hear the digital dosage indicator lid beep.

Step 2: Once you hear the Indicator beep find product and read the dosage that it displays on the lid. The digital dosage indicator beeps at 3 different times with 3 different dosages:

Morning 6:00   dosage 2

Midday 10:00   dosage 1

Night    19:00   dosage 4

Step 3: To open container simply push up lid until it unclips.

Step 4: Take indicated dosage. Do not exceed the indicated dosage.

Design Process

When doing preliminary drawings for my rough ideas I considered the aspect of comfort and ease of use for people suffering from arthritis. I thought of a shape that would fit very comfortable into the hand.

My ideas were influenced by the challenges that seniors with arthritis face.