Project 4: Lottery Haus Animation

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From the moment I made my logo I knew what I wanted my animation to look like. I started with animating the lever and originally had a little trouble getting it to work. After some google research I saw you can make an object 3d and that helped with creating the whole animation. I just did animated x rotation for the lever and for the letters I simultaneously changed the orientation and position to get the rotating effect and the bounce at the end. I was debating on adding more sound effects when the words came in but I think that would’ve made it over complicated and busy with the music. I overall enjoy what I came up with and think it came out how I envisioned.

Project 3: Magazine Spread

For my magazine spread I chose to do the phonebot story. I chose this because it seemed the most interesting to me from the moment I heard about it. I also was able to imagine an conceptual illustration for this as soon as I heard what it was about. I decided on the name scams for scams because its simple, rolls off the tongue and adds intrigue for the audience.

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I chose the muted green color as my base because I felt like it fit well with the colors used in the illustration. I decided to go with a scam likely call because it is an image that anyone would understand. At first I toyed with the idea of it on the screen where it is still ringing and you have to choose to accept or decline, but with this story I felt like that wouldn’t make complete sense for the first thing you see. So I decided to have the phone call answered and put 20 minutes because in the story they talk about how one time a bot had the scam caller on for over 20 minutes. I also played with the location of the time, because on an actual phone call the time goes above the name of the caller, but as I drew the animation it looked like the time the call was taking place, so I decided to make it less realistic and put it under (where I think most people imagine the call time to be anyways).

My biggest problem I had with making this magazine spread is the length of the story. Since it’s such a short story I knew I needed to add more things to the spread. I knew I wanted a sidebar so that was able to easily take up two columns. I also knew that I wanted text boxes of things the bot can say that was quoted in the article to pop up on both spreads of the article to keep the continuation going. As I said prior this story intrigued me a lot that I even did some outside research on the company. This research helped me find the logo for the company that I was also able to add onto the second spread. The logo was sadly only in not the best quality but I still wanted to include it in my project. I decided to also add a tiny phone with the phonebot’s number at the end of the article to tie it all together and clear the dead space. I think this tied everything together on this page and also the previous spread while still giving information from the article.

Olden Influence Poster

little 500 poster in the style of Georg Olden, black handle bars that says Women's race and Men's race date time and location
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For my influence I chose Georg Olden. Georg Olden was the first African American to design a postage stamp and also to hold an executive position at a network. I picked him because his life was interesting to learn about. I also liked his art style. I enjoyed the bold lettering and unique ways of adding the text into the illustrations. When doing research I saw that he also did a graphic for CBS about Big 10 basketball. This made me decide to go with Little 500 because it’s a little closer to sports.

My process for this was to find as many pieces of his work and study them for a little bit. Once I did that I closed the tab and wrote things I remembered from each one almost as if I was explaining to someone else his art style. From that list I brainstormed what to use for my poster to ensure I didn’t fall into mimicry.

I had a couple different ideas of how I wanted to display my text, having the bike spokes say men and women, but it didn’t read well. Then I tried a regular tire and it’s spokes as lines for each part of the information. Lastly, I tried handlebars and this is the one I ultimately went with. The handlebars are recognizable for bikes and putting men and women into it makes it feel like an Olden design. I decided to do this horizontal because it read better and added a grain texture on top to emulate the tv grain from that time period.