Friday 12 February 2010

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.

Thursday 11 February 2010

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.