2. Pixel Art
First real experience with pixel art and I
really enjoyed using it. I used my phone
to find something I wanted to try and
create and I thought a Poke ball would be
a good start and afterwards it does look
good. After I tried a Christmas tree and it
doesn’t look amazing it I’m learning.
These last two images are linked to my story, one is a cure and
the other the virus. I thought just making a quick little breaker
of color that can be used for a virus and cure.
Positives are pixel art is quite easy to pick up on and get
your head round and then you can make cool and cute
designs.
Negatives you do need a steady hand and some level of art
skills so you can have a really detailed pixel drawing of
whatever you need.
3. Soundtrack 2/12/20
Started going through all the available sounds on
garage band to if I could find ones that would sound
good overlapped. Like the track I currently have. I
also tried to find sounds that had a similar sound to
video games I’ve seen or played because having that
gives you a solid building block for the animation.
After a bit more of playing
around with different sounds I
found one that I quite liked
and thought with the other to
been a mix why not a have a
base layer of just one
continuous beat as a
foundation for the two tracks
above. I feel like most video
games have one base tracks
with added sounds like Mario,
one soundtrack with added in
noises for finishing a level,
getting a power up, or killing
an enemy like browser.
Everything today went well I
managed to use sounds that
to me fit in with a video game
style and the final 3 tracks that
are now finished and saved I’m
super happy with. The only
thing I kind of struggled with
was lining the sounds up with
how I wanted them all to be
and how they would fit if one
was longer than the one
above or below. Apart from
that very small issue I am
extremely happy with my
progress today and just how
much I did manage to start,
learn and finish.
4. Magazine
I can’t access photoshop so using Canva I began using different designs and
names to begin making different magazine designs. The image to the left is
one of my final choices with my chosen. My uncle helped with to produce the
name, our family loves Formula 1 so one day before lockdown we were all at
the beach and me and him were talking about the project and he said try think
of something you like and pick something about it and use that as the name
so loving Formula 1 I decided to use what race engineers say to their drivers
when they need to pit so Box, box, box. With my film logo/company name I
went for F1 again
I not a huge fan of magazines so I had to try get some ideas to do with the
ideas of what makes a good magazine and how to make the cover look good
and appealing so people would see it and want to buy it if I had really made
the product. As a kid I loved sports magazines so I had a look at some old ones
me and my dad had kept in the loft and looked at how things changed through
time up to the current date. The main differences were the fonts, colours and
images used on the covers and during the magazine.
