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Illustration and Visual Narrative - Task 3: Digital Triptych

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NIE WEIQIU/ 0360239 / BA of Design (HONS) in Creative Media Illustration and Visual Narrative Project 3 LECTURES Week 10-  Project 3 Briefing;  Light & Shadow Knife tool & Pen Tool for shadow parts Pen > Curvature > Direct Selection Tool > Knife Tool Pen > Curvature > Direct Selection Tool > Pen Tool > Shapebuilder/ Pathfinder Apply watercolor texture Object > Rasterize > Change to Greyscale > Change the color for texture Select the shadow > Group the shadow > Object > Compound Path Select the image of watercolor texture and shadow > right click and make a clipping mask PROJECT 3: DIGITAL TRIPTYCH In project 3, we are to choose a story from one story from this website: https://poestories.com/stories.php 。   and break down the narrative of the chosen story into 3-act structures of Introduction - Climax - Epilogue. Then create a 3-panel digital triptych illustrating each of the act. Challenges: 1. Only one story by Edga...

Illustration and Visual Narrative - Project 2

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NIE WEIQIU / 0360239 / BA of Design (HONS) in Creative Media Illustration and Visual Narrative Project 2  PROJECT 2: ILLUSTRATION POSTER In this project, we are going to illustrate a poster and submit our work to  Maybank Foundation MyTIGER Values Art Competition 2023 . We have to create a poster using Adobe Illustration based on one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that we chose ourselves. The 12 chosen SDG goals for this project are: No Poverty Zero Hunger Good Health and Well-being Quality Education Clean Water and Sanitation Affordable and Clean Energy Decent Work and Economic Growth Sustainable Cities and Communities Responsible Consumption and Production Climate Action Life Below Water Life on Land Requirements: Submit a high resolution (300 dpi JPEG) illustration artwork to the competition. The Challenges are: You are to work only with the details in the competition brief Include a logline to set up the mood School Submission format: Technical file: Final *....

Digital Photography & Imaging - Final Project

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 NIE WEIQIU  /0360239 / BA of Design (HONS) in Creative Media Digital Photography and Imaging Project 4 Project 4 - Animation: Self-Titled For project 4, we were given the task of making a digital collage with the theme “Self-titled".   We are required to reflect our ideas into an experimental video by using Adobe Photoshop & Adobe After Effects.  Visual Research I did some researches on collage portrait, self portrait on Pinterest.  IDEA DEVELOPMENT 1. Write a biography about yourself   INTRO My name is Nie Weiqiu, I'm from China and I decided to come here to study because I want to see and experience different multiple cultures and languages PARAGRAPH 1 I am a very introverted person, very free loving, I like to embrace with nature and I enjoy my time alone PARAGRAPH 2 I have many hobbies such as catching up on TV shows, playing games, reading novels and singing. Some of them also have something to do with my studies, and while reading novels I can le...

Typography - Task 4: Final Compilation & Reflection

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  4.4.2023 - 4.7.2023 / Week 1 - Week 14 Nie Weiqiu / 0360239 / BA of Design (HONS) in Creative Media Typography Final Compilation & Reflection INDEX: Task1: Exercises Task2:    Typographic Exploration & Communication Task3:    Type Design & Communication SUBMISSIONS Task 1: Exercises  4.4.2023 - 2.5.2023 / Week 1 - Week 5 Exercise 1 - Type Expression Fig.1.1 Final Type Expression - JPEG (18.4.2023 - Week 3) Fig.1.2 Final Type Expression - PDF (18.4.2023 - Week 3) Fig.1.3 Final animated type expression (25.4.2023 - Week 4) Exercise 2 - Text Formatting                               Fig.1.4 Final Text Formatting - JPEG (2.5.2023 - Week 5)                          Fig.1.5 Final Text Formatting - PDF (2.5.2023 - Week 5) Fig.1.6 Layout 1 details (line length & cross alignment) (25.4.2023 - Week 4)...

Digital Photography and Imaging - Week 7

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NIE WEIQIU/ 0360239 Digital Photography and Imaging Week 7 (Lectures, Tutorial, Practical) Lecture Mr Fauzi explained to us about our Project 2 Double Exposure Double exposure photography refers to merging multiple images.  And showed us how to make it Tutorial + Practical Recoulouring Exercise we need to learn to recolour black and white photo using Adobe Photoshop. Original photo:                                                              After recolouring In the second part, we learned about a more advanced version of recolouring black and white images.  Original Photo: After recolouring Original Photo:  After recolouring I think coloring black and white images is a fun exercise because we can color black and white to our liking Double Exposure Exercise Part A We downloaded a few images provided by Mr Fauzi and we ...