Roman Selfie

This illustration started out as a simple photoshop edit of a Roman statue holding a phone (rather than the original spear). However, it did not fit with my other illustrations with it being purely photoshop work. So, I took it back into photoshop and drew it up with the help of my graphics pad, keeping simple two tone colours and only adding shading to add definition.

I am proud of how illustration turned out, you can tell it is stone and the rigid yet bold shading/shadow compliments the image well, although I do think i should've added more detail to his chest as it looks a little bare.

Egyptian Hieroglyphs

This was my first illustration in the series. I combined Egyptian Hieroglyphs and the Instagram, Spotify and iPhone.

However, I did not like this illustration as it looks pretty bad and 'naff', so i used the image below as reference and created the illustration below that.

This illustration is of a higher quality, fit my theme and style better and just generally looks more professional, although I feel I should've experimented with shading/colour more as it looks a little too bland.

New Idea & Quote

I decided my idea wasn't working like I wanted so I sat down and re-thought everything. I looked through quotes for research ideas and found this:

From here I looked into the combination of old and new, looking into animation, illustration, game design and interactive design. I ended up starting to do illustrations in a similar style to that of my Being Human project.

Presentation

Experiments

A series of photographs that show my designs, experiments and thoughts throughout several weeks

 This video shows an early prototype on how I could start the machine, with the string being attached to the bike like in previous images

An early design sheet I used to get my thoughts down.

Edamame Beans

These are some designs I did for a single day project where I had to advertise a food product. The food I was given was Edamame Beans, which are a Japanese bean used in a lot of salads, hence the design saying 'Edamame Beans' in Japanese above some simplistic green beans shapes (of the Edamame beans)

Essay Plan

Early Disney:

Founding Disney Brothers Animation Studios in Los Angeles in 1923, and got their start producing a series of silent Alice Comedies short films featuring a live-action child actress in an animated world.

Walt Disney, Roy O. Disney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJkYjJA8JTE - 1923 - Alice's Wonderland

Upon relocating to California, the Disney brothers initially started working in their uncle Robert Disney's garage at 4406 Kingswell Avenue in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Then in October 1923 formally launched their studio in a small office on the rear side of a real estate agency's office at 4651 Kingswell Avenue. In February 1924, the studio moved next door to office space of its own at 4649 Kingswell Avenue. 

In 1925, Disney put down a deposit on a new location at 2719 Hyperion Avenue in the nearby Silver Lake neighborhood, which came to be known as the Hyperion Studio to distinguish it from the studio's other locations, and in January 1926 the studio moved there and took on the name the Walt Disney Studio. 

Steamboat Willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. It was produced in black-and-white by Walt Disney Studios and was released by Celebrity Productions. The cartoon is considered the debut of Mickey Mouse and his girlfriend Minnie, although both the characters appeared several months earlier in a test screening of Plane Crazy. Steamboat Willie was the third of Walt's films to be produced, but was the first to be distributed because Walt Disney had, having seen The Jazz Singer, committed himself to producing the first fully synchronized sound cartoon.

In 1930, disputes over finances between Disney and Powers led to Disney's studio, reincorporated on December 16, 1929, as Walt Disney Productions, signing a new distribution contract with Columbia Pictures. Powers in return signed away Ub Iwerks, who began producing cartoons at his own studio (Warner Brothers/Looney Tunes) (Wikipedia)

1937 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Social Events at the time:

Roaring Twenties - Jazz Age - America
Golden Age Twenties - UK - (because of economic boom)
Germany in massive debt due to WW1 - Treaty of Versailles
Art Deco
Surrealist movement
Wall Street Crash - America
Bauhaus - Dessau, Germany