Self evaluation of my Designs

Character Designs

After a lot of time spent creating them, Im very happy how they look. My classmates were also impressed and gave very positive feedback. I feel they are easy to identify as letters whilst portraying they are transformers too. The shading on them takes away any cleanliness and enforce my theme of dark and scratchy. Im happy to have these in my portfolio and probably in the end of year show too.

A1 Poster

Im very happy with what I have produced here, although it isn't what I originally planned to make. I originally spoke with Andrew and he gave me the idea of piling all the characters on top of each other with the ones beneath darken in black, I tried it and I just want satisfied how it looked, so I thought how else can I make it look less boring. I had just a white and grey gradient background. I still wasn't satisfied, I tried a carbon background and it was too dark. So I thought of downloading metallic brushes off brusheezy and playing around making different textures, I managed to create distorted patterns that I liked, I played with opacity levels and flow levels and produced a nice gradual background of scratchy brushes. I still thought it needed something though. So I had a thought of putting an american flag integrate into within the background to give that powerful american blockbuster identity. Transformers is set in New York city, the flag also symbolises war. It gave it a much more dynamic look. To make it blend in with the noisy background I grey scaled it, changed the colour levels to darken, added grain effects on it, and changed opacity levels to fit it in perfectly. I spent a lot of time getting the background to look good for my pleasure. The font and text colours on the poster Im pleased with, I tried out a lot of distorted fonts and stuck with the one I liked in the first place. I feel it suits the theme of the poster. The Bebas Neue font for the Director and film name at the bottom is pretty staple. Those fonts suit most themes. The cleanliness and readability is the main thing for them elements. I added some stars and lines to make it a bit more dynamic.

Postcard souvenir 

This was pretty standard and simple to make. My idea here was to just use one character 'T' with the film underneath it 'Transformers' which is just a postcard to focus on my typography. This promotes the film from purely my typography. The grained dark background follows consistently, with a big dark shadow behind to add more 'evilness' to the design.