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My outcome of the A3 book turned out well but It isn't perfect. The book doesn't open properly it feels fragil. I used a mesh like the other one on the spne, but I wrapped it around the edges. This gave it a a strong spine but it can't open up fully and if you try it could break the book. I have used bigger metal corners which don't look clean they are rough due to the bending I had to make so it fit.

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This is my hand made belt so far, I just need to add the metal end now. I think it has worked out well. I had a few difficulties making it as I couldn't find an easy way of sticking the leather together. I used fast adhesive spray for sticking it together. The belt is durable enough to stay around the book, but using it excessivily will break it. I think the having different colours of leather around the book to add contrast would be a good idea.

Overall I don't think the belt will be a cost effective to the budget and having the book on its own will.

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I want to add a belt that goes around the book to add more interactive features to the book. As well it can add a feel to the book that the content inside feels more special.
I bought my own belt and they can be expensive so i'm not too sure if it is cost effective. The photo is some scrap metal that I'm going to turn into a belt end to add more wieght to it so it doesn't come undone. The belt I bought I will scrap the leather strip and make my own.

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This time I'm am making an a3 book as we want to make tome which are usually big and heavy. The size of the book is breaking the usual a5 format.

In this photo I am using fabric for the hing of the book. Instead of glueing pieces of card together the cloth allows more give and is more durable. Some old books use cloth in the binding as well, I thought using traditional methods could add to the idea of the book and make it look more orthentic. The fabric won't be seen as it will be covered by card. At first I was thinking of just covering the mountboard in cloth and the inside of the book would have texture to it.

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I made a leather hard back book I think it worked out well but a few tweaks need to be made. The leather is fake so it doesn't have much give when folding it around edges. The spine needs more work because there was a few errors on the cutting. I wanted to try and burn an image on the fake leather but it doesn't work because it doesn't have layers like real leather.

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One of the book binding processes that I have tested out is perfect binding. It is an easy process to do and make a book, it is possible to be able to make a book in on day. The pages are hold by layers of glue, I didn't think the spine was strong enough so I added a tape mesh. The mesh added more durability and could add more glue in between as well.

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I am looking at different book binding techniques and what is able to be used on a book. I have been looking at book corners as when I fold the leather around the cover it leave holes in each of the corners. These metal corner covers make the book more durable and are cheap. I bought some from amazon for a pack of 20 for 5 pounds. The metal corners also add to our idea for a tome a suits the leather effect. The corners also makes the book have more quailty to it rather than a paper back.

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This is a mock up of the book to see how it would work. A lot of work needs to be done to it . I used wood as the cover to make it hard back and wrapped leather around it. I think the leather works well and makes the book look expensive, The wood adds wieght to the book. The spine of the book is wood as well, but I don't think it works well, the book doesn't close neatly. I would think the page being perfect bound would and make it more neat. At the moment I,m not too sure how to fix the pages to the spine cover.

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Another method of character design that I have researched is Shape theory. Shapes are a good way to help convey what your characters personality.

Squares are useful for stubborn characters hard to budge and I think Grumpy moods as well.

Circles are good for character that are gentle, soft, safe, good heart.

Triangles are good to convey evil characters, neatness and dangerous.

You can mix up the shapes in your characters such as using triangles and circles, this can convey that they are dangerous and safe at the same time.

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I have been looking at character design for my dnad project to help me design characters. A good method I think I have found useful is silhouettes because it shows if the character works and just by looking at the silhouette you are able to get a jist of what the character looks like.

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The themes to the anthology that all the teams have chosen are voices, creation, contrast, transformation and the unexpected. In our teams we did a spider diagram of each of the words to see what we can relate to them and how we can have a better understanding and think outside the box. I think themes are good they are different so genres shouldn't mix up too much. Some of the words that we came up with popped up more than once in different categories.

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The Cass Archive has a special collection of books that only so many have been made maybe only one which is good for research as it can show different ways to making books also different art styles.

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One of the things to think about for the anthology is the layout, size and how is it packaged. One of the main things to think is how will people interact with it or what will they do with after they've bought one. I think it need to be more than a keep sake item.

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The Anthology brief is about a team of students from Viscom and english student come together and make a book about their writing.

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Choosing one of the briefs is going to be hard I'm not too sure which one to go with either xbox or lego. I wasn't too keen on the Brief last year but this time I get to choose which makes it a lot better.

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One of the games aspects is the speech wheel where you able to talk to other players really quick. This is good in many ways as, if you are in the heat of the battle and need help the speech wheel is an easy access to gets someones attention. Another reason that the wheel is good if your team mate doesn't have a mike to speak with he can communicate with the wheel instead.

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The game that is mentioned in the brief is Sea Of Thieves. It is a game that is most successful in it multiplayer aspect. In the game you can play with 1- 4 players and the more players you have the bigger your ships get. The allows you to do raids, hunting, treasure hunting, fetch quest and many more with friends but also other online players can intervene and stop your goal. I think by playing this game with give a great help to research and development on my own ideas.

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I Have decided to choose the Rare brief because it is more formally and i can do a lot more drawing.

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The RARE brief is more down to my liking as I am a gamer myself. In this brief it is challenging me to create a new multiplayer game that brings the online community together. By showing this idea i can come up with concept art to show how the game will work.

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I am thinking of choosing the lego brief but it is a campaigning project which isn't my strong suit and I don't like doing them. I use to like lego when I was a kid so I have plenty of ideas I want to do. I want to test stop motion with lego and make a video of some short.