Amy Winson Production Blog

Today in my workshop with Stephen we looked at some helpful indesign and illustrator tools that could help save time and just be useful in general. The workshop started with us looking into Adobe capture, this was an app that allowed you to take images and create artwork straight from your phone that can be transferred over to the Adobe softwares.   We moved onto looking into working with shapes and the ways shapes can be easily distorted in Illustrator. I found this helpful as I am not a frequent Illustrator user as I find the direct tool hard to use. We also looked at using the normal brush and the blob brush, I switched these two brushes below. (BLOB BRUSH ON LEFT AND NORMAL BRUSH ON RIGHT). These are both useful as the blob brush allows us to be able to use the direct tool to select any part of the brush which makes this easier if working to create different shapes or having more control. The normal brush only allows us to have a line inside the line and doesn't a...

Context & Research My goal for this workshop was to create the rocket flying off the space ship. However after the workshop I want to spend my own time looking into creating something with a bit more of a narrative that can work with textures and further After Effects techniques to create something more realistic and informative. In the Workshop Today was my final After Effects workshop with Sara. We was given a brief to work with Space characters and/or objects which would be compiled into a final piece that would be included into an animation of everyones work. I choose the narrative of a Spaceship taking off. Originally I was going to have the animation of just the spaceship. Below shows my first visual for this project: I decided to design a spaceship and keep the colour palette very simple. When I started working with my project in After Effects, I felt like something was missing. I wanted the ship to take off of something, I decided a planet would look really cool. T...

Today in John's workshop we decided to look at perspective in drawing and what we see. I was quite excited as this is something I am always exploring in the briefs in terms of design. Our brief for this task was to work with buildings and windows and find something that created some perspective that we could build up and add some 3D. My Inspiration Drawing This task really did not come easy to me, I struggled a lot to try and get the perspective and I have never learnt this type of drawing before. I began to get really fed up with myself as I am not a natural drawer and have never been, I couldn't get the hang of it. There is so many elements that I got really caught up. I felt a lot more confident drawing the people but drawing buildings and any type of architecture just didn't work out for me. I felt like I started fine and then somewhere along the way got lost. However I did not give up and instead I went off to finish what I had started which leads...