Week 5: E-learning week

Apparently the entire CnM section will be operating a E-learning week! Say hurray to no tutorials and lectures!(sort of hah)

The forum was opened for my tutorial slot, and basically the first hour was for commenting on other's work, while the 2nd hour was defending our work from any comment.

The thing was, I forgot to comment for the 2nd hour =((((( What a disaster.

Based on the feedback by my peers, generally many of them found it fine, saying that they could tell that it was a stereo set and there was a clear transition, which was fine by me. I distinctively remembered someone saying that it wasn't abstract enough. Well to me, I find it pretty abstract enough. If I removed the speaker covers, did you even know it it's a stereo set? Someone asked me to merge it together cause it was 3 items. However if I did, it wouldn't really seem like a stereo set anymore =/ Some said they couldn't see the transition from the 3rd to 4th, but I thought it was rather obvious to the naked eye that there were much less buttons. Ok, maybe they preferred more missing buttons.

Jojo suggested changing the knob and cd drive and to put in the play/pause key, as well as the stop button. Pretty good idea I say. Also it would help in making a transition (especially from the 3rd and 4th part) clearer. The speakers are still identifiable and they do play a key role in ensuring the picture from gg too abstract. So I'll remake it and post it up asap. Toodles!

p.s. my photoshop is still unusable =(

Week 4: Icons and blah.

New week, new assignment.

I couldn't touch my other pictures at all because my photoshop screwed up! Urgh. I can't even open the application to edit my pictures after feedback. Got to get it up asap... will post the results once I am able to =D

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Well thank goodness we are allowed to use sketches for our prelimary designs (phew), so yup, here it is! Initially I wanted to do a keyboard, but after trying it out, it didn't seem too good so I switched back to this.

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Basically, it is a picture of a stereo set (I hope you can realise it!!!). I had to carefully observe all the details for the first drawing, so it was pretty troublesome.

For the 2nd edit, I started to remove all the shadings from the holes and the netting at the speakers, as well as scraping away the words and symbols found on the stereo to give it a slightly cleaner look.

3rd edit: started to remove some of the buttons and reducing the complexity of the volume control design (too many buttons there)

4th edit: to make the picture even cleaner, I only inserted the bare essentials: the cd-drive, volume control as well as the screen.

last edit: reformed the shape of the stereo, and took away the screen because no one knew it would be one anyway. I retained the cd-drive as well as the vol. controls because they are stuff that can be found in any stereo set, quite a common sight to see. For the speakers, I decided to make it simpler by removing the holes, since it wouldn't really affect the impression of a speaker IMO, since many can link it to the stereo.

Week 3: Photoshopping designs

Had a really horrible time using photoshop to make these images, did I. =(

So my images looked like these because I didn't have a working scanner at home and was inept with photoshop. I had to do them purely from those photoshop tools =.=|||


My boot on the cigars. (I'm stepping on myself! )

Self comment: Something has to be done with the cigars. And I should get a scanner.

Other's comments:
- change the colour combination
-make the cigars more distinct
-stay with the previous design for the boot

The scene for badminton.

Comments for self: Well I'm quite satisfied with it... but it's really hard. Better scan it.

Comments by others: Lines for court are not recognizable(?) "S" can be improved on to make it obvious.

Well regarding the lines... they ARE like that. Maybe I could try extending them a little longer. And I'm thinking of changing the angle of view for this scene to make it look slightly more realistic. Colour scheme wise... I don't think there will be much change even if I switch colours, so I'm leaving it this way.

Week 2: Evaluation of selected designs

Blogger's timings are a little screwed, they aren't reflecting the correct time of my posts*frowns* Will settle that later.

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With reference to my previous post...

Why did I choose the 4 ideas?

Badminton Idea 1:
Looked pretty neat in my opinion, and there was a rather fair representation about the theme, 'nuff said.

Badminton Idea 3:
I thought the concept was really good! It would give a feeling of how badminton would look like when actually played, which was much better in plain boring idea 1.

Smoking Idea 2:
A personal statement would actually do well for this idea, because many people doesn't represent me, nor will people who view the picture will know that I'm inside(duh!). However as much as I scratched my head, I couldn't find an idea to incorporate my name into the shoe except for making a mark there. Still, I like the idea of stamping on it.

Smoking Idea 4:
Well the picture speaks for itself, and I like the "n" personally, that's all. =/

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These are the ideas that I redrew for badminton. A5 size!

Some suggestions I received for them: The one depicting a scene for badminton would be a better picture than just using the equipments.

Guess I'll use idea 3 then ;D

Comments received for them:
- preferred the 2nd one
- should not mark my name on the shoe
- form my name out of the cigars (wait isn't that stepping on ME? =( )

Guess I'll follow them anyway. Haha xD

Next week, we will be using photoshop to do the images.

Week 1: Selecting themes

First week:

We were supposed to choose something that we love and hate i.e. two themes. Well when it comes down to asking me what I like, I daresay I do have a great variety to choose from, but the ideas just wouldn't flow in the lecture, haha.

Anyways, at first I went for chocolate and peaches, but after awhile I changed it cause it was too complicated somehow. Ended up choosing...

My LOVE : BADMINTON

and...

My HATE: SMOKING


So as you can see from the scan...

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My ideas for badminton was: (from top to bottom)
1. using badminton equipments to make out my name
2. some random people who are supposed to go crazy about badminton (those odd shapes and such, gah)
3. depict a scene where a badminton match took place
4. trying to inscribe my name on the shuttle

My ideas for smoking...
1. getting a bunch of stickmen to trash the cigars into dust.
2. showing myself personally stepping on the cigar
3. forming my name out of the smoke
4. well... it's pretty obvious. Take note of the "n" letter where I put an unhappy face! =D

Next on was to actually choose 4 out of the 8 ideas I had... so the results are... (drum roll)

TAH DAH!!!

Badminton: ideas 1 and 3
Smoking: ideas 2 and 4

Ok, read the next post for updates ;D

A new start

Well due to E-week starting soon, I'm starting on my blog! =D

Ok, refreshing a little of my memory and showing others what I've done for the past few weeks on NM2208. I'm going to break up my posts to show each individual scan.