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Showing posts with label Design Process. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Design Process. Show all posts
September 13, 2008

Final Flash Project - Shut Up!

Posted by Ngô Anh Khoa

SYNOPSIS

This tutorial will teach the audiences seven ways to make someone that talkative have to shut their mouth up so you no longer facing with their annoying voice.

The audiences will go through seven steps with full text description and funny visual illustrations. This will help the audiences easily getting the information and remember them longer.

With the cartoonist style, everything just looks cute and I hope that will make people interesting in the tutorial.

THE SEVEN STEPS

Seven steps of the tutorial are seven specific ways of shutting someone mouth up. Each step will help text instruction and illustrations to get people remember

  • STEP 1: When they start talking, look away.
  • STEP 2: Pretend that they aren't there and if you need to, go talk to someone else.
  • STEP 3: If they ask why you're ignoring them, don't answer their question.
  • STEP 4: Keep avoiding them for as long as possible until they get the message and stop talking to you.
  • STEP 5: Don't even smile at their jokes.
  • STEP 6: If this doesn't work, just make excuses that you have to go somewhere else
  • STEP 7: If needed, just tell them to shut up.

DOWNLOAD MY FLASH FILE HERE


Below is some screen shots of my project

August 09, 2008

My Flash Template

Posted by Ngô Anh Khoa

This is my flash template that i intent to use as my main page in my portfolio assignment. At first i decided to make my template in clear and elegant theme but i then to make something personally so i have arrange all the element in different way and i made this MESS!



I want to make my template in dirty style so i mess up everything in the layout. I still did not know what i want to did more with this mess. The image above is just the basic look.

Then...i realize that in my texture library, there are many old and grunge paper texture. So i decided to make my template full of paper texture. The ideas came up and i decide to make my theme look like the surface on the table with lots of papers, notes, memos. I also added other elements such as pencil and an eraser to make my table more realistic:D and i made my button as paper sticks. I also chose the font Octin Prison Free to suite with my theme. Color water texture also be added to make the look of dirty.

And the final look.

Save The Tiger Now !

Posted by Ngô Anh Khoa

Hey guy, check out my final poster for Save The Tiger Campaign now. :D Hehe. In this entry, i will show you guy the process that i made the poster for my class assignment.

First of all, the idea of making something differently come with me very easy. But the problem is i still did not know how to illustrate the idea. I then sketch my idea in paper, the first image that i drawn is just the only coat made by human skin in the white background. Then i though that to simple to illustrate my idea so i then drawn again and the next image is a female tiger that look like human, she is wearing a coat made by human skin and was sitting in the sofa. I really like this image and intend to make the poster from this image. BUT...I then found that this is still not the perfect image that i expect for because the main view of this image is too wide and not focus enough on the ideas that i made. I want something more expressive. So i decided to took a closer look to my main object: The tiger is wearing human skin.

And...I came up with this image. This is the only one that i expect for. Really expressive. I also add some text to make the audiences get my ideas.



My ideas is not show directly on the image. I want to make the audiences think deeply about what they have seen on my poster. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT LUXURY?. What do you think if you are in the position of the tiger and see the tiger are wearing our human's skin. People think that it is luxury if you wear tiger skin. So what if tiger call that luxury when wearing human skin?

I then created more detail to my work. Make it focus more on the tiger and also made some changes on my text title (Thank miss Li Ping for comment on editing my work). Below on the left side is my final poster.



As you seeing, i also made another version of my final poster. Editing the text to make it lool like gold! Not really bad right? ^_^ (The different in the color is the result of color mode changing process >_<)

Thank for watching my entry. Njoy!

August 03, 2008

Page Layout Exercise

Posted by Ngô Anh Khoa

This is my page layout that i designed by Illustrator. As you can see, i had tried to arrange all the information in a clean way. I think this will help the reader easier to read and focus on the information that they need. I only use 2 typeface for this page. I think it is enough.



And this is the texture that i used to make my background. Actually this was taken from one page from the really old book. Feel free to use it your own. Njoy!




July 15, 2008

Ford GT Tungsten Illustration - Broken...

Posted by Ngô Anh Khoa



Last week we have learn how to trace a car in Illustrator. In this entry i will show you my old work by Illustrator. Actually, i trace this car a long time ago; it is about 10 or 11 month ago, when i am still a semester 1 student. I did this just for fun and to practice my skill. Moreover, i want to discover the power of Illustrator.

As you can see, this picture i not complete yet and will never be complete! ( Maybe. Hehe). I said that because this work is a failure of layers management. At the first time, i did with just 1 layer..um, no...2 or 3 layer and i find that it is difficult to switch between shapes if i make mistakes. I have to found the shape i need in over...um, i do not remember how many shapes that i created :)). It take me a long time. Then it is a mess! and i decided to leave it away. I feel sad when seeing this work incomplete :((

Hopefully in the future, i will complete this work in a better layers management and post it into my blog! Hopefully...

Firstly, i found this picture by Google Search. It's a Ford GT Tungsten.


Then i used the same tracing technique that i learn in class and do this piece. Using gradient tool, transparency layer, and clipping mask. I did want to use gradient mesh tool but still confuse how to use it ( a really hard to control tool but anyway, i will beat it up...keke).



And i have combined these two images together to show the detail of my work. I have tried to make it as realistic as possible and it makes a perfect fade out with the real one. Enjoy!



Fun fact: It took me about 5 hours/day in 2 weeks to finish just the front of the car..Ac ac...I hope i will do it faster next time.

July 06, 2008

Photoshop - Warrior Within

Posted by Ngô Anh Khoa

This is my fisrt image that was made mainly by Adobe Fireworks CS3 ( i realize that this software is easier to use than Photoshop and i am sure that you will love it at first try. Actually, i am not really like Photoshop at all, but i still use it as my secondary software to edit image. Hehe ). In this entry i will show you the process of making this image.


This is my stock image which is capture when i was making film for DIM 1 Project. I intend to use this image to develop the ideas


Fisrt, i went through the Internet and find ideas for my project, i suft though many art website ( You can find them in My favourite link) and see other artists project. I looked carefully and chose what is the best for my photo, i also keep in mind what do i already have for my project. I recommended this site "Web Designer Wall"

After this stage, i already have the ideas and i started to search images for my project. I usually visit these website Flickr, Customize, Deviant Art. These website always have the image i need :D. In case there is no image i need in these website, i also use Google Search as other internet source.

My ideas is to create a picture that show a dark angel with bog black wings and long weapon in hand. He is standing in the roof of the highest building and looking for enemies :)). So all i need is the image of back wings, feather, city background (top down view) and a long weapon. This is all i had found


Black wing



Feathers




Long weapon

The next stage is to combine those image into 1! I first try to cut out the wing and found that it was to small for my body so i duplicated it and make a larger wing. Then i cut out all of the feathers and make it black to suite with my dark theme, then i fill my photo with feathers fly around to make it look like in motion. I also created Depth of Field effect. The photo is now become this one



Hix, this look so ugly so i decided to add some light into the picture, right behind my head ( I made this light by using Flare tool in Photoshop) and make the background glowing more. And...

Final work



Thanks for watching my work :D