illustration 1: evaluation

illustration 1: proposals

Printed Pictures

Moving Pictures

illustration 1: final issuu presentation

illustration 1: studio brief 3

Murakami Sting - Crystal from Beth Faye on Vimeo.

Murakami Sting - Clouds from Beth Faye on Vimeo.

Murakami Sting - Ocean from Beth Faye on Vimeo.

illustration 1: studio brief 2

illustration 1: studio brief 1

illustration 1: final crit

I think that the final crit went pretty well! Everyone seemed to like my work and someone said it was different than the other Murakami work that they've seen which is really nice as I really wanted to try and be unique and out there. Someone also said to buy clips or make sleeves for my work which I am going to do too! I need to go to Ryman's. A lot of people seemed to like my print process though and i'm really happy about that because I think I did try really hard to make them look good and professional. 

illustration 1: finished stings

Here are my finished stings!!! I'm super happy with how they came out I think they successfully translate the message that I wanted to portray, something chilled and atmospheric. I think Murakami is such a imaginative and amazing author, his adverts would obviously have these themes in too. I really liked using my prints because it's almost like my prints came to life and that was a really exciting thing. The most difficult one was the clouds one, cutting out all those clouds on Photoshop was a nightmare! But I think the effect of it worked really well.

If I could change something about my stings, I would probably say that I could've made them a bit more complicated. Seeing everyone's stings at the Sting Fest really put a downer on me as mine are so simple... However, I say that, but I think sometimes you don't need something super complicated to portray a message that you want to get across. And I don't think that Murakami was a really complicated guy, he was simple and imaginative. So maybe I would like to try making them more complicated in the future but I do quite like how they turned out.

illustration 1: i lost one of my prints part 2

so after going to the print room, stripping a screen, putting emulsion on it, putting my positive back on it, and screen printing it... a process that took me a few hours. 
I decided to just go with the one with the little splodge. I know. I'm an idiot. But I just really like how these ones turned out on the white paper instead of the fancy paper with the yellow-ish tinge. I don't know why. 
So I got some tipex and just filled in that tiny splodge in the corner and some of it got cut off when I cut them all down to size with the set square. So all in all it didn't turn out too bad. Just that I wasted some time in the print room but we all learned something here today. Tipex is a thing. Splodges aren't the end of the world.

illustration 1: water animation progress

So I was a bit of a butt and forgot to take screenshots of the progress of my water animation. However, the techniques and the way that I did it is basically the things that I used in the other ones. The only thing I can say about this one is that I made the fish's eye move which is a bit different than the other ones and it looks pretty cute! At first I made it look up too but he looked like he was doing a sassy eye roll which is funny but not what I wanted. I was also going to try and make his tail move but it turned out that it would be too difficult and I like how it turned out anyway, nice and simple.

These are the only two screenshots that I have... IM SORRY. Next time I will remember to take screenshots of everything I promise. (Note to self, things that I would do differently next time)

illustration 1: i lost one of my prints

MAYDAY.

I can't find one of my prints. What a bloody nightmare. I swear I had done more of it but turns out, nope, I didn't. I have one but it's not a very good one and it's got an ugly splodge next to it. I was freaking out and Ben suggested scanning it in and printing it on the right paper and rubbing out the marks that I didn't want there. But it just wouldn't feel the same..

I really want all my prints to be a set and coherent and it'd make me sad knowing that one is printed from the digital printer. So I think my only option here is to just print that one print all over again. It doesn't seem like it'll be too bad but it's going to be annoying trying to find the right colour to match the other ones etc. I guess I'm just going to have to see what happens.

illustration 1: cloud animation progress

illustration 1: crystal animation progress

illustration 1: changing my ideas

At first, the idea that I had in my head and on my storyboards was that the sting would start looking through a keyhole and then you would see the image moving a little bit and then the end title screen. However, I tried it, and it just looks awful. Sorry me. It's terrible. Why did you make this? I hate it. I think the keyhole looks so fake and stupid and you can really tell its just some white shapes thrown together. And I tried to make it better by throwing in the little lens flare so that the image coming out of nowhere wasn't off putting however this just sucked as well. I'm going to have to rethink my ideas a little bit, maybe just getting rid of the keyhole idea and just having the sting start at my image. It was a nice idea in retrospect and if I had more skill in after effects I might have been able to pull it off but, I just don't and that's the harsh truth.

illustration 1: animation sux

I don't know why but After Effects just seems to have something out for me and just doesn't agree with me. I have so many ideas in my head and I'm so excited but things just don't seem to be looking how I want them to when I try to do it.

I really liked the keyhole idea where you go through the keyhole and see his little world but it just looked rubbish. The key was like some white shapes and the image just suddenly like faded into view and it just looked super amateur and bad. So I decided to start again.

I just don't think I'm really cut out for this simple animation life. Maybe in the future i'll try more of doing animation frame by frame but I just am not agreeing with how this After Effects is working out at the moment.

illustration 1: screenprint duds/failures

illustration 1: final prints

Here are my final prints! I'm super happy with how they turned out. I think I did really well (thanks me). I measured them all the same so they were all cut out equally with some extra space at the bottom because Teresa said that's how professional prints should be! So that's what I did. I think they look super professional and nice. Now all I need is some plastic to bind them in with some cardboard on the back and they'll be even more professional looking! I'm so happy. 

illustration 1: sound websites

These are the two websites that I used to find sound for my animations. I think they were really useful because they have different things like sounds (water, bubbles, birds) etc and then music that people have made too. And it's all royalty free wahoo.

https://www.freesound.org/

http://freemusicarchive.org/search/?quicksearch=water

illustration 1: last minute monoprint fun

 So I was just playing around with my monoprints and finished positives for my screenprints and I really love how these turned out. I was inspired by the monoprint fun I did before with the little purple guy and using Murakami quotes. I think if I had been doing a book this is what I would have done. I do really like how this turned out and maybe in the future I'll do more of these and make a little zine seperate from a project.

illustration 1: study task 6 part 2

for the second part of the task we were asked to choose some sounds and then create story boards that best represented those sounds.

first: 


sea lions: [Link]

second:

tubestation: [Link]


















third:

thailand morning: [Link]