EVE WHELAN

In the first Cinema 4D workshop we learnt the basics of how to add and manipulate some objects and text. The task was then to create a short 90 frame animation using an emitter and programming the objects it emits I am pleased with managing to produce this in a fairly short space of time as this was my first time using Cinema 4D and I knew nothing about how the software worked. It is something I found interesting and would like to delve more into the software and how to use it . Below is my short animation and a few screenshots from it. C4D - Colour from Eve Whelan on Vimeo .

In the second kinetic typography workshop we were learning the basics of exploring 3D space in After Effects, using the camera tool and different viewpoints, picking quotes we like and travelling through them. The quotes I chose were from Ancient Greece, spoken by Gorgo, Queen of Sparta, from Herodotus Histories and Plutarch. Gorgo was one of the only females, if not the only female, named in the historical references I have looked at. Gorgo was known for her wisdom even at a young age, at a mere nine years of age advising her father, and king, Cleomenes not to be corrupted. She was also known for being a strong female who could rule men. Below are my chosen quotes and final video exploring the 3D space in After Effects. “Father, you had better have this man go away, or the stranger will corrupt you.” “’Why are you Spartan women the only ones who can rule men?’ ‘Because we are also the only ones who give birth to men.’” Gorgo Kinetic Type from Eve Whelan on Vimeo .# ...

Richard Hamilton created a piece of art called “Just What Is It That Makes Todays Homes So Different?” He created this piece in the Fifties and then recreated it in the Nineties.    uk.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2011/september/13/richard-hamilton-father-of-pop-art-1922-2011/ www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/richard-hamilton-1244 My task was to create a piece that is inspired by lifestyles today. I investigated coffee house culture and pubs/drinking culture and the kind of things that surround them. I chose to go with the coffee house culture that is quite prominent in today’s society. I have created a coffee shop scene with extra additions to question some of the aspects of this way of socialising. Today’s coffee shops seem to consist of very overpriced coffees served in bucket sized mugs; those levels of caffeine are unnecessary. Also, whether a place has Wi-Fi seems more important to some people than factors like hygiene and health and safety. A coffee hous...

In the workshop we learned how to use Photoshop for none destructive editing and how to edit raw images. Practicing these techniques on a given city scape, where we had to change the colour of the sky on a separate layer, so it could be removed if necessary. Also learning how to use Vector Smart Objects linked from Illustrator to Photoshop. My creations for this task are shown below alongside their resulting layer formations. The final part of the task was to choose a photo of ourselves and none destructively edit it on Photoshop. I chose a photo of my friend and I, I used none destructive editing to change the background to turquoise, leaving only our hair, eyebrows and tops from the original image, the result is the final image below.

Bauhaus-93 from Eve Whelan on Vimeo . The task for the first kinetic typography workshop was to pick a font and create a ten second video about it. The font I chose was Bauhaus 93, based on the original Bauhaus font from the iconic German art school. I thought this would be a good choice of font as it can be paired with the primary colours and shapes that go hand in hand with the Bauhaus. It also goes alongside Kandinsky and his test, to see which primary colours pair with which primary shapes. Kandinsky’s ideal was a yellow triangle, a red square and a blue circle, this is explained in more detail on my Theory as Practice blog.

The third and final typography task was to pick one of our rough three fonts from the previous workshop to take forwards and draw a neat version of. My chosen font is the buildings font, my favourite because I believed it to be the strongest of the three and to be able to kind of tell a story in itself. Below is my refined version of the font; neater than the previous copy and resolving the issue of not all the letters being the same height.

The third InDesign document was based around building a document, spacing out images and text using correct alignment, along with using some of InDesign’s extra features and creating a table of contents. We also learnt further how to correctly use the grid and create a piece of art that is pixel perfect; this was trialled in the recreation of the Pervasive Percussion cover which was used as the document cover. On the fourth page of the document the task required an animation correctly being placed into InDesign and being functional. This was a difficult part of the task as InDesign seemed to struggle with the animation when exporting the document as an interactive PDF.