Is the end product appropriate for your intended audience?

When I was thinking of the target audience I researched who apple was aiming their iphone at this turned out to be “successful younger men as its target market”. I looked this up in my planning because I wanted to target the same audience as the iphones this should make my icons much more popular. So I tried to creative them for males I think I did this for almost all my icons but the only one that is a little girly is the ghost icon. I think this is because of the colours I picked.

Discuss the technical aspects of your work and highlight the strengths / areas to develop

To create my icons I used a range of tools in Photoshop thing like the brush tool, crop, the selected tool I also used options like save for web and devices I used this on my finished design to created transparent .GIF. I also used layers to get the border effects haw I wanted them and them merged the layers so it started like that. But before I did any of that I hand draw them and scanned them in at 300dpi.

Discuss the content / style of your work

I did have some problems with the creation of my icons.

One being the border I had to redo it many times until I got it prefect and how I wanted it, this was only complicated because I wanted one part of my icons to be over lapping and a different part under the border but I sorted this out with layers. I also had a problem with “save for web and devices” this was because it made all the outsides of my images white and I was putting them on a black background but I sorted this out by changing the matte to black which made the outline of the icons fade into black. I learned for the change the matte of a .GIF and also that planning is very important on saving time in the long run. I think the main skill that I have developed in my drawing skill this is because before this project I did not think I could draw at all and also I met all deadlines because I planned out what I was going to do and when I needed to have it finished bye.

If you had the opportunity to make this product again would you do anything different? And are you happy with the overall product?

Overall I think my product was a success a have had some good feedback of my class mates and the only thin I would changed if I could do this project again is that I would do more concept drawings to develop my ideas more and also I would not but as much detail into my drawing this did cost me a little time and it was point lass because the icons a very small but apart from that I stayed to deadlines finished all my icons on time.

Does the end product match your original intentions?

Overall my end product was a success this is because I kept with my original ideas. The only thing I changed was the colours this is because I did not put much fort into them but at the end I decided to colour them in so I picked the simple colours like green for the dragon to the left mostly red for the bike I did. I decided to pick some good colour for every design and then use different shaped of that colour to stop it looking like one block colour.

My ships engine

I have started on one of my ships engines this is because i thought the first one i made was to plain. I got the the stage I'm at at the moment by getting a normally box and changing the shape and beveling some faces.