LAUAN502-Commission

Commission 

This year I finally took a step forward and did my first commission. My first commission was for a family friend that had asked me design a tattoo for him completed with a black outline of a tattoo he wanted to get.  This was a good practice for me as I was able to not only showcase my work but it also gave me more confidence in myself. I was able to work professionally with the client and work with him when designing this piece to make sure he got the result he wanted at the end. This is a big learning curve for me as it pushes me to want to get my work onto social media and possibly do more commissions in the future. This was unpaid work as I was unaware of the possibility of charging someone for my design. This was made known to me during a lesson by the teacher. When I start to do commissions I will start charging the right and fair amount for my designs. 

LAUAN502-Studio Brief 2

Competition 

For studio brief two we was set the task of undertaking one competition or live brief. For this brief a graphic designer got in contact with me within the university and asked me to complete a competition brief with her. The brief she chose was the 'ArtFund' competition: 

https://newnow.ycn.org/briefs/1644-artfund

This competition asked people to create a campaign to raise awareness to students to actively chose to visit museums or galleries more often to improve stress and anxiety within a students life. 

Me and the Beth Turnbull-smailes- the graphic designer, decided to approach this task by creating a booklet that is interactive for the person looking at it. By making the booklet interactive we thought this would allow the student to become involved within the art and proving that art is a fun way to relax and have fun. We chose to make the book interactive by going to art galleries and choosing certain pieces of art to put into the booklet. Within the book, Beth would be designing the booklet as whole with the typography and writing out the information about each artwork. My role within this competition was to create flip-books based on the artwork on each page. To slim the workload as I felt overwhelmed, I only designed one completed flip book.  

The flip book tells the story of two teenager girls going to a art gallery and stepping into the picture. one they are inside the picture, they explore the painting and adventure inside it. We chose this storyline because we wanted to the paintings to almost become an escape from 'real-life'. These girls stepping into the painting demonstrates the feeling of fantasy world and almost the feeling of 'getting lost within a painting'. 

I really enjoyed collaborating with Beth as we were able to jump ideas off of each other. This gave me a new confidence that I was able to work alongside other people and showcase my work when needed. I would collaborate again as this was a stress free task for me and being able to work with someone that has different skill sets to me helps me to improve not only within my work but also taught me new skills that I can bring into practice when designing. 

Beth has asked me at this time to only show still images. 

LAUAN502, Study Task 8 (Contract)

 

Study Task 8- Contract

For the second part of study task 8, I started to research a professional freelancers agreement to work contract. Looking at free templates online, I took the relevant information needed and put this into my own contract. To go along with the 'agreement to work contract', I also created a invoice. I think both these documents are clear and easy to read. It needs to be clear so the employer can clearly understand what you are asking for.  Doing this study task made me open my eyes to the possibilities of paid freelance work. During this year, I did my first commission of designing a tattoo for an individual. I took it as a non-paid job as I was not aware that my work is professional and that I am able to charge for the work I am completing.  

LAUAN502, Study Task 2

Study Task 2 

I took this study task as an opportunity to look at animation studios and the jobs that are available within an working studio that I would be interested in.

The first Studio I come across was: Little Motel motion Studio 

The Little Motel motion studio likes to keep their work simple with 'expressive animations', 'slick motion graphics' and films. This studio interests me because their work is commercial as they work for companies creating work mainly for adverts. The studios work is simple yet creative and I struggle with detailed animation as my timing needs improvement.

The second Studio I was interested in was: Disney Pixar

I decided to look at Disney Pixar because their job titles are very specific. My interest is mainly based around character or background design. This is where I came across the job for a Colour Key Artist. This was a big find for me because I have never seen this be a specific job for an individual in a small studio. A colour key artist is an artist that mainly focuses on the colour script of the each scene. This interests me because in the COP lessons I was exploring colour scripts and decided that colour was one of the subjects I could see myself enjoying. 

LAUAN502, Study Task 10

Study Task 10 

This is my showreel for the end of second year presentation. This is an improvement to my first year show reel as not only did I demonstrate the animation I have been involved in this year so far, but I was able to get the right balance of showing backgrounds designs for the modules throughout this year. This was important for me to showcase my background designs because this is what I aim to do when I finish the animation course. What I could improve about this showreel is making it clear what part I had in some of the work done in my showreel, as I should credit the work done by not only myself but the other people involved. 

LAUAN502, Study Task 5

Study Task 5 

As I start to think about posting my work onto social media it was important for me to consider copyright. I wanted to consider my options for copyright because I wanted to know what attempts I could use to protect my work so individuals can not steal my work as their own or use my work to be paid themselves.

 I started by re-reading the powerpoint from the lesson and choosing what copyright options would be best for me. This was the first copyright option that could of worked for me. This allows individuals to use my work in a commercial and non-commercial way however, I would have to be credited in their use of my work. This is a good option for me because sometimes you are unable to take action when someone has stolen your work. This copyright choice allows people to use and take your work for their free use as long as I am credited for the use of my work.

After looking at that option I realised that individuals would be able to possibly get paid for the use of my work and for my name to only be credited. I found this an unfair advantage as the work would purely be mine and I do not think someone else should be paid for the work you have completed unless it is under contract. This copyright option was my solution. This allows a individual to download or share my work however, they are unable to use my work in a commercial way or gain a paid recognition for the work they did not design or make. This option keeps my work more protected as people are unable to claim or change my work into their own and I will seek full credit for what I have designed.

After considering both these options, I decided to look into watermarks. Although this idea is effective and does what it is designed to do, I think this ruins the aesthetic look of my designs and I do not think this is an option I would be willing to use to protect my work as I want people to be able to view my work without a watermark over the top of the design.

LAUAN502, Study Task 3

Study Task 3 

For this task we was meant to do a SWOT analysis on ourselves and then for another peer in our class to fill it out for us. Unfortunately I was not very well during this lesson and did not attend. Due to this issue,  I did not get a peer review for my SWOT analysis. This for me has turned into a negative as throughout this course I have found it helpful to understand how other individuals may view me. This helps me because I am able to communicate with my peers and we are able to give each other advice when struggling with the negatives and how, as individuals, we can turn negatuves into positives in the future. 

For my personal SWOT analysis, I mentioned about the level of my confidence. Throughout the University year we have been given the opportunity to present our work in front of the class and have completed peer reviews for feedback. This has helped me to gain confidence in becoming more comfortable with talking about my work. Which means I am able to gain advice off of other individuals and improve my quality of work. 

What was good about my personal review was my clear knowledge about my strengths and the opportunities that I may have, to improve my weaknesses and strengthen my positives. It is important for me to gain a better understanding of my strengths so I am able to take these skills forward when dealing with my negatives. To gain more confidence in myself and my work, I plan to use social media sites to post my work and designs or sketches I do at least twice a week. This will help me to gain confidence in showing my work to individuals that necessarily do not know me. As well as gaining confidence this will lead into becoming more confident in exploring different mediums and improving on my weaknesses.