EVE WHELAN

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.

hippo-animation from Eve Whelan on Vimeo . The task for the third After Effects workshop was to create a character and animate it. I chose to create a hippo, which I animated by moving its tail, legs, face and open mouth. I am quite pleased with it for a first attempt at animation and I like the textured background effect just to add some simple detail with the main focus being on the hippo. If I was to recreate it I would like to do a version of the hippo with its mouth shut so I could animate it open and closing its mouth.

Taking forward the initial font ideas from the letters A, E, G, N and S in the first typography workshop and creating three full rough alphabets in very different styles. One of these designs will then be taken further to create a more refined and neat version of the font. The first one is my least favourite as the curved and swirled lines don’t really have much of an impact on the viewer. It feels like more of a wishy-washy kind of font, rather than a strong exciting one. I much prefer the second font with its harsh striking lines, its very eye catching and more engaging to the viewer. The third font is my favourite and will be the font I continue with into a more refined and polished alphabet. I like the angular building work and the small window and shading detailing; it appears to have more substance to it and the font itself can tell a story rather than just the words it is set to spell out.

In the spread workshop we learnt about editorial spreads and how to creatively use the layout and manipulate type. The task was to recreate two existing spreads, Rat City and Alanis Morissette. My recreations of both spreads are shown below. For the Rat City spread we got type and images to follow a path round the spread. For the Alanis Morissette spread we were shown how InDesign has a lot of features for manipulating and editing type; the typography on the left is my own work, however the image of Alanis on the right is the existing photo. The last part of the task was to then create our own editorial spread using a found image from Pexels, I chose an image of a hand holding   a glowing orb like object, which I edited on Photoshop and then used in my spread alongside some of my own type manipulation.

In the heart of the sea-book trailer from Eve Whelan on Vimeo . The task for the second After Effects workshop was to create a ten second book trailer from a storyboard of our own illustrations. The book I chose was In The Heart Of The Sea by Nathanial Philbrick. The book is an excellent story, based on the truth and is the story that inspired Moby Dick. It begins in the small town of Nantucket, a whaling town that relies heavily on whale oil. A whaling ship, The Essex, sets out on a brave voyage from which it doesn’t return. I wanted to summarise the plot through my own illustrated images; this is the first time adding sound into an After Effects project. I wanted to add a tense instrumental piece in the background, although the sound works with certain parts of the video, I think a better soundtrack choice could have been made.  

In the first typography workshop the task was to create a few different font styles by using the letters A, E, G, N and S. Those five letters are seen as the best letters to begin with when creating a font because it is a good chance to start on parts of the letters that will be used throughout the font. For example, the curves of the S, the lower extension of the G and the standard lowercase height and width of the A, E and N. The fonts were inspired by given images, the A, S and G were inspired by skyscrapers and the colourful E, A and S by a Bob Dylan album artwork. My favourite of the three are the building letters however they were the most time consuming to draw.