Assignment2: Packaging Yourself

after completing my first project and not using my blog to its full potential im going to try and post a lot more work here for my 2nd project. here is the brief.

Brief
Use vectors to create an illustration of and original product box with graphically designed packaging, such as a soap box, cereal box, washing powder box etc, substituting your name for the product name.

research the context of your design before you begin the design process. use a range of Adobe illustrator techniques and processes to make the images of the box into a three dimensional space, then rework and resave your files into other sizes and formats.

it was also stated that i can not use AI (Adobe Illustrator) features such as live trace in order to place photo quality images in my work.
identifying and implementing Visual language into my project is a very important feature.

initial thoughts

• i need to make something that will be easy to draw
• well researched in order to fill up the sides
• high end product would allow me more negative space
• kids cereal would look the most professional with vector images
• real images can be used as visual guides so i can try make a "real hand" (thunder birds joke)
• innocent smoothie has minimal intresting packaging.

Assignment 1: First images

i chose to do the first image on my bedroom. i have only recentl moved in and my room still feels unlived in and not my own. i thought i would be able to have a simple them of lonly places.

i had throught about doing Gardens for my theme because they have lots of intresting features in them but i was not able to get accses to enough of them to make any truly intresting images.

here are some of the images i took for my first QTVR i tried to make sure lots of the frame was empty to enhance the feeling of lonelyness.

you can see in the above examples some problems that i think i will have when stitching the images together. when i took the pictures i used the cameras automatic mode which ment that lots of my images have diffrent colour values and brightnesses. this was not helped by the fact the i shot the images inside because there is a large natural veraity in the lighting so getting it right will take alot of work.

even through i was using a tripod you can see in the first image that it is at a slant hopefully this will just effect the image other wise i may have to crop large amounts of my image to get a straight edge.

Assignment1: QTVR research.

pannorams where invented by an irish painter Robert Barker in the late 18th century. i found the following QTVR of a water colour version of his first panorama.



unlike the QTVRs that i will be making this one is of a painted image. therefore there are no errors in it. all the odd perspective that it shows are chosen by the artist to try and solve the problem of painting a continuos 360°.
i really like the far left section of this image because of the distance, it apears calming.

http://www.360spin.co.uk/is a website that produces QTVRs for clients to upload on there websites. in there protfolio has a large range of QTVRs of intresting locations. one of my favorats taken in the ITV studio in leeds of the Countdown studio



i find it cool to be able to look at the studio of a well known tv program and get a feel of how it is filmed. the perspective in this one is very strange, when looking at the center desk it seems like it is shrunk in the middle. this is likley because of the effects of paralax. there are a few faults in the crowd in this QTVR this is because when stitching images together moving elements will not fit together seamlessly becuse would you belive it they have moved! it is very obvious if you look at the lady talking to the audience she is blured, not much of her exsists and her feet comeout at strange angles. to aviode this happening in my QTVRs i will try to stay away from busy places and people. if i did need to have a person in my image i would make sure that they are in the center of the frame so that i do not need to overlap any section of the image with people in.

http://www.fullscreenqtvr.com/ is another website that displas QTVRs from multiple websites, unlike 360 spin they do not sell the service. here i found a link to a QTVR created on the Apollo 17 mission



this is an incredible image allowing you to see what it is really like on the moon is very strange. this piece really embodies the use of QTVRs as imersive pieces of media.