Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Hands, Owls and Trees
The cliff
I added a cliff too. I found a very large image of a sweet cliff...
And then made it look like this... (see Bluesfest background as well with added hole to the left of cliff)
I wanted a cool looking robot to put on top of the cliff. I typed "cyberman" into Google images and got a dude off Doctor Who, oh dear. But it was a goooood looking robot...
And there are about 24 of them on top of the cliff.
Photographs...
I began manipulating this photograph:
I took this a couple of weeks ago at Caulfield station one evening. I was starting to think of purple double decker buses rumbling down the train tracks, and hot air balloons filling up the sunset sky, or bombs crashing down on the bushes in the background, with the two epople completely oblivious to their surroundings.
However, none of this seemed to work. The image just wasn't right. The angles within the image were difficult to work with, and the train lines made everything a little messy. So I used a better photograph of mine from Bluesfest:
I manipulated this image to death. I grabbed the sky, used the levels option to make the image overall darker, and added a little blue...
I used a hot photo filter for the ground. Then I got rid of the people, that took a while because I wanted to keep all that was separating the ground from the sky - the festival stuff. In the end, I decided that I didnt want the festival stuff, so i got rid of that too, and joined the ground with the sky. To be continued...
DIGITAL ALCHEMY inspiration
Where to begin? I looked at the suggested artists on the brief. The only aritst that really jumped out at me was Chi Peng... In particular this image:
Its so simple and so so cool. I love it. I would love to photograph naked people running, and slot them in with some uber cool red planes gliding in from all angles. What a cool image. So instead of copying this image, I went for simplistic instead, which indeed this photo is.
Back design
The back of the candy box was a little more difficult to do. A lot of content had to fit in to small space. I had to introduce a new font as well for the 'serious stuff' - ingredients, addresses and use by date and other important information like recycle, and 'store in a cool and dry place'. As well as this, I had to find a huge image of a barcode, the recycle symbol and nutrition information. The first two were pretty easy, however, the nutritional info was quite difficult. I considered scanning a Cadbury dairy milk nutrition information table, however the colour scheme (Cadbury purple, gold and white) would not have suited my colour scheme - light brown and dark grey... Anyway, here it is, done and dusted:
Side and top designs
Front design
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