Legal Considerations (P6)

This link will help you in your understanding of Legal Consideration.

It will inform you about the asking of the use of graphic images and what copyright stand for, it will also enlighten you about anything else you didn't understand about the use of images that do not belong to you.

Here is the link to the PDF which will tell you what you need to know.

Copyright Link

Marquee (P4, P5)

In this unit we are asked to use the skills we have acquired in a program such as Photoshop and use them for a particular need. This need was to make a marquee for a arcade cabinet that was built in Fareham College. The marquee had to be 74 x 23, and displaying the game the we created in unit 22.

This mind map shows of my ideas at its first stage, this is where my final design came from, I took points from my mind map and implemented them into the design, with a few extra changes to complete it.

My first idea was to have my character and the game name next to it, something similar to this.

However I didn't like how it failed to portray a pyramid, I felt that the marquee needed to show of a pyramid and some game play. I asked many of my peers if they liked it, and most of them said that is was also lacking the presence of a pyramid, in the title it contains a pyramid, and for a marquee the strongly recommend me adding it in somewhere, so I had to think of an alternative.

Next is my final idea.

This is my draft version of the final design

When I showed this version to my peers, they found it better than the original design yet it was quite plan and boring, they would also like to see some more relation to my game. They also wanted me to add my logo somewhere on the marquee, they said if your going to promote your game, you might aswell promote you logo to, so I added that in, and here is the next and final version.

This is the final version, I am pretty happy with it, I was trying to go for different layers in terms of the floor and bring more essence from my game into the marquee. I added clouds and my logo, however I'm not happy with the colour of the text, yet its the closest to being some what professional any other colours are are mainly on the over side of the colour spectrum and making it look horrible against the lighter blue. So this will remain this way as my final design. 

Download the marquee here

T-Shirt

My research about t-shirts, the research is going to help me create my own design. This research tells me and others the specifications that "Vistaprint" Requires.


This is some of the research that I stumbled upon:

The T-shirts that are being designed must follow a certain specification. Each design must be set a certain resolution, the resolution being “175 dpi”. The document needs to be in CMYK so the printers can print in the exact colour you make it.

It must be sent as one of these formats; the top three are there most preferred.

• Adobe Acrobat 9 Document  (*.pdf) (recommended) 
• Adobe Illustrator CS3 Artwork  (*.ai) (recommended) 
• Adobe Photoshop CS3 Image  (*.psd) (recommended) 
• Bitmap Image  (*.bmp) 
• GIF Image  (*.gif) 
• JPEG Image  (*.jpg,*.jpeg) 
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Document  (*.ppt) 
• Microsoft Publisher 2010 Document  (*.pub) 
• Microsoft Word 2010 Document  (*.doc) 
• PCX Image  (*.pcx) 
• PICT Image  (*.pic,*.pict,*.pct) 
• PNG Image  (*.png) 
• PostScript Document  (*.ps) 
• TIF Image  (*.tif,*.tiff) 
• Windows Enhanced Metafile  (*.emf) 
• Windows Metafile  (*.wmf)

Then I put some of my ideas into a mind map to display my ideas. I will put them into action when making my first drafts.

Like I mentioned you can see a rough idea of what I want to accomplish in my outcome and you can see what is expected to be in the final version.

These are my three draft t-shirts, they have all came from my mind map and they are using CMYK:

I have chosen the second one because it looks more appealing and appropriate for all ages.

Chess Piece (King)

I started out researching the king chess piece through images and its purpose. This link will take you to a PDF which will inform your on some of my findings.





Link to my findings "click here"





I then when on designing my own chess piece in the style of Kaiju/a strange creature. I starting mind mapping my ideas down

From this mind map, you can see a rough idea of what I was going for in terms of creature. I then changed it from colour to greyscale to give it more effect. Now I am going to link what it looked like when I started.


I came up with four ideas to start of with






Link to my ideas "click here"






I got feedback saying out of the four that I have created, number 2, the minotaur/pig looking thing was the better out of the four. So I came up with ideas to give it a better kick, something to make it unique, something to make it look better. So I came up with three examples, also I changed to background do a dark grey gradient to make the images stand out more.






Link to my example "click here"




I then got some more feedback helping me in deciding which of the three final chess pieces I should put forward. The most liked one was the one with wings, so what I did was I changed the canvas so its now landscape and scales my chess piece up so it fill the screen.


Link to my chosen chess piece "click here"


However I made a few adjustments and gave my creature a bit of an angle, you can see that in the link below.


Link to my angled chess piece "click here"


I really liked the out come of this angled piece, I am now going to create a

My Logo (P4, P5)

My logo advanced from being something that was in my head to then going onto paper to then making it digitally via "Illustrator". I used this program because its specialty is working with vector graphics, and where the logo I was designing was going to be a vector image, "Illustrator" being very suitable for the job.

Initial Development

My design of my logo started with a mind map:

This mind map shows the beginning of my development of my logo, I then moved on to making two separate designs from this mind map.

1: A logo which was simple the name of my game in a rectangle orange box, with bold letters, with stroke, in the colour orange. However from this I found it was to basic and didn't contain the exact points that I wanted, I.e puzzle piece.

2: A logo which contained the shape of a pyramid, puzzle piece and the initials of my games title. This design I found had all the criteria, so I went forward in developing this.


Once I had the idea up on the computer, I then went on to making a survey which you can access through here.


View My Survey [Click Here]

Further Development

I had some responses already, from all different ages varying from 16 - 50. This giving me great ranges helping me work out a fair average to improve my logo.

Here are some of the response that I received from my logo survey.

The only thing that people wanted to be fixed was the colour, apparently the colour was really lacking, and this wasn't just a one of answer, many people said it: male, female, young and old. However they liked the design and  most of them became happy from it.

so I added colour to the previous design and here is the finished product

Download Logo [Click Here]

Infographics

I stumbled upon this great video containing info-graphics.

This video uses large images and large text to present its information to us. This particular video is showing us the different types of social media and how they have grown. How does this video link to the social media sites without there names??? They use the colors of there logos to make it eye catching for when we make contact with it. Most online videos about facts that are displayed through info-graphics all use a simular theme, font, color and images. This video uses people to display a large amount of people, this is somewhat obvious however its the same template over and over. So why do that? They do this because thats how we see it, so make it easier for the viewer/reader, it makes it easier on everyone else.

What I love about info-graphics is that its interesting to read. Whereas (in my opinion) this poster don't get me wrong still gets the point across, still has amazing and interesting colors, its got large text. However the fact that its not moving doesn't make it as exciting as the video.

From the poster you notice the bright blue to attract your attention, you little people show up again, representing the people, the use nice large images, most of the being vector based. 

When putting them together you notice that all the video is is it cropping from this 

To this with animation and music.

File Types (P2)

This is my File types poster. This poster displays a few different file types, in this case: BMP, JPEG, PSD and SVG.

BMP - (b)it(m)a(p)
JPEG - (J)oint (P)hotographic (E)xpert (G)roup
PSD - (P)hoto(s)hop (D)ata file
SVG - (S)calable (V)ector (G)raphics

Here is my poster as a PDF to keep the compression the same.


File Type Poster (PDF)

Hardware And Software For Digial Graphics (P1, P3, M1, D1)

To make this image below, simply follow the tutorial below and the resources are also linked below. 

Simple Photoshop Tutorial

Here is the link to Google drive where you can download the resources for the image.

Pictures used in the video for download here


Here is the link to a comparison between two type of graphical software. Click it to find some limitations of Photoshop and Illustrator.

Link To Limitations Of Software And Hardware.

Here is the finalized P1 in a poster format

Link to P1