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In this brief, I will find, explore and experiment on the fundamentals of making posters for The Dorothy House Hospice posters and as well as my future possible projects for my  design career. Using available resources given
From BCU and some other that I researched.

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Clear instructions of what Kingel wants out of the posters

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Four tasks Four posters

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The book "The Fundamentals of Illustration" by Lawrence Zeegen has many nice and interesting tips for helping me developing my posters. The "Author tips" helps me develop some activities and habits that would build up what makes good illustrator a good illustrator.

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The video is very useful and very clear on what they want the poster to be like. I tried to comply every instructions I could on my work.

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Some useful tips from "Good Books" list.

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Some useful tips from "Good Books" list.

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https://librarysearch.bcu.ac.uk/discovery/fulldisplay?context=PC&vid=44BCU_INST:44BCU_INST&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&tab=Everything&docid=cdi_safari_books_v2_9781592535217

The book is called "Sketchbook : Conceptual Drawings from the World's Most Influential Designers" by Timothy O'Donnell

Citations

O'Donnell, Timothy. Sketchbook : Conceptual Drawings from the World's Most Influential Designers, Quarto Publishing Group USA, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bcu/detail.action?docID=3399803.
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“I can’t just jump on the computer,” says Jason people can, but I can’t start anything somewhat of a plan.” studio in Oakland, California, has two one with a computer, and one without. “Even the computer’s only across the room, it helps being right in front of it. Otherwise, every time I get an email, I have to look at it immediately, and I can deﬁnitely waste a lot of time on the Internet. “Typically, I spend half my time sketching,” he says. “I’ll often start off with a list of word associations. My sketchbooks are kind of a mess in general; I keep everything in there, to-do lists, receipts, reminders for appointments, etc.”

O'Donnell, Timothy. Sketchbook : Conceptual Drawings from the World's Most Influential Designers, Quarto Publishing Group USA, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bcu/detail.action?docID=3399803.
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Once he’s sketched an idea he likes, Munn tries it out in Illustrator to see if it works, often going back and forth between the computer and his sketchbook. If the idea shows promise, he moves onto tracing paper. “I’ll just keep working over it, tracing on top of the drawing. This is where I’m really ﬁguring out the details.” One area Munn rarely explores in his sketchbooks is typography. “I might sketch out where it’s going to go, but I play around with the fonts on the computer.” Despite his reliance on working out ideas on paper, he admits to occasionally trying to design on the screen. “Sometimes I will get lucky on the computer and see things I hadn’t seen in the initial thumbnailing. But in general, I’ll just sort of ﬂail about and not really get anywhere. That’s just the reality of it.”
O'Donnell, Timothy. Sketchbook : Conceptual Drawings from the World's Most Influential Designers, Quarto Publishing Group USA, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bcu/detail.action?docID=3399803.
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According to what I read. It is actually very crucial, especially nowadays that we shouldn't jump into computers straight away, sometimes we should stick with the traditions and play with it till you feel like it is working then move on to digital. Organized it first before you enhance it. Because if you rushed it in to digitally the work might not come out so good as you expected it to be.

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The essence of an illustration is in the thinking – the ideas and concepts that form the backbone of what an image is trying to communicate. Bringing life and a visual form to a text or message is the role of the illustrator – the best in the business combine smart analytical thinking with finely tuned practical skills to create images that have something to say, and the ways and means to say it. Here, we’ll take a look at some of the ways to start generating ideas and putting them into process. 1. The illustrator as artist 2. The medium is
Zeegen, Lawrence. The Fundamentals of Illustration, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2020. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bcu/detail.action?docID=6491370.
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These are a great bit of mindset I could use to improvise with what I am going to do in the future and is making so much sense .

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The instructions and tips are rather simple.

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After reviewing the creative brief I received, I followed the book's recommendation of creating a mood board. The book suggests incorporating the pantone colors mentioned in the brief into the mood board and gathering all relevant references. This helps to determine the style and vibe for the poster.

In line with my own artistic style, I sketched a picture that reflects my personal artistic expression. For the color palette, I chose shades ranging from blue to purple, pink and a mixture of white and gray. All these elements came together in the creation of this mood board.

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This author tips is rather interesting. Gathering words that are interesting that I could use it in the future or perhaps reading books and then jot them down or highlight it.

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At first, I was only going to collect some interesting words that I could find to use for the Dorothy House poster but at the end I used it more than just collecting words

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According to the author's tips in the book, one suggestion is to take a sketchbook and find a place of interest to sketch the composition for a poster. However, since I rarely go out, I thought it would be a good idea to start drawing picture of a window in my room. It would depict a perspective showing the outside world waiting for me while I'm crouching in my room. This is still an unpainted drawing, and it's something completely new and quite interesting for me because I've never tried it before.

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It sure is challenging to relate my upcoming project to the past historical information and piece of past work. But I have gathered bunch of old iconic posters that I think is very fitting in terms of styles and elements compositions with my future projects and the given briefs and try to improvise with the research. Down below will be the old vintage posters I think is interesting overall.

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This poster is very iconic in my opinion it was a poster that encourage citizens to stop taking alcohol during the cold war soviet period. The compostions are rather simple but yet very easy yo understand. This poster was also a reference from my past project too.

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This poster is also very simple and easy to understand the poster is basically an encouragement poster to encourage Americans to enlist for the millitary during World War LL period. Truly Iconic, the posters are apparent and obvious. Uncle Sam was an iconic mascot for America back in the day.

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The sketches below are what I drew to run wild with my own imaginations.

After taking advices from the book   The a-Z of Visual Ideas : How to Solve Any Creative Brief. Ingledew, John.

I have tried to go wild on my imagination and thoughts. The sketches are purely the purpose of experimenting of compositions , but as the more time I spent on sketches I subconsciously put my thoughts onto the piece of work itself and the sketches are progressively gets more meaningful and dark and surprisingly good. But I cant really put myself into this work because the brief isn't really relatable to my daily life but I still try my best to do so.

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The book told me to put what makes myself myself into the work and the work will be good.
Express yourself. is your personal work. Rewrite your between your experience happenings you find remarkable, share your excitement. Be true to your personal vision. Put your stamp may also love it. See Finding ideas. What heritage? Put your attitudes into own history. What is personal to you in a brief? Find a and your work. Every day, record objects or that seem too good to be true. Others may yourself; be heartfelt. Imprint your work with on it. Create something you love – others your link or
Ingledew, John. The a-Z of Visual Ideas : How to Solve Any Creative Brief, Laurence King Publishing, 2011. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bcu/detail.action?docID=6946118.
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experimenting with styles. Purely scribble and experimenting.

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experimenting with compositions and styles.

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I hate two faced people.

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Related to my careless nature.

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related to my daily anxiety and extential crisis.

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Just scribbling my ideas

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related to my daily anxiety and extential crisis.

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Based on my experimental aspects

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this is very random but also ssomewhat subcontiously relatable.

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Playing with compositions

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I am enjoying drawing figure with certain postures and I think I could use it in my projects

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Companion seems to be a fitting vocabs for using with the brief.

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The sketch I made for the initial plan of the poster. All four posters are connected in a way.

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Experimenting on stuff before actually start working on the project

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Experimenting on stuff before actually start working on the project

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According to author's tips, Im just trying to play with the composition and overall experimenting on the ideas.

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The task is "Two people sitting at a table having a coffee , one is a nurse." This is the first poster I sketched for this work and I am going for a cartoony style , I thought it is going to come out interesting and I think I'm good at drawing these kind of art style. I am trying to give the feel of casual like the elders are equal and does not treated like disabled.

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After the sketch, I imported the sketch into the Adobe Illustrator.

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I started by tracing the sketch by using pen tool, by the time im doing it I have adjusted the posture to make it suitable to be the outline of the character for the poster

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Looking good so far. I am pretty happy with the outline right now.

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Upon reviewing the overall image, it looks satisfying and has started to take shape nicely. I used the pen tool to outline the figure after completing the sketch in the next step. Moving forward, will proceed with the coloring proces

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I'm beginning to apply color, aiming for a soft tone rather than an overly bright one. At this stage, I need to trust the process and continue because everything isn't fully refined yet

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have downloaded some fonts for the word ‘HERE’ to see which ones I can use for my actual work. I have selected three options. The first one is a cursive style with a bold font. The second one resembles handwritten script, but it doesn't quite fit. As for the last option, it has a cursive-like style, but I still find it lacking in beauty

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In the end, I opted for a cursive font and utilized the pen tool to create hand-drawn-like strokes. I seamlessly integrated the traced font with carefully applied coloring, resulting in a visually pleasing outcome that met my satisfaction

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I found out that the nurse’s eyes looked weird so I changed the position of the pupil to make it look like she is focusing on the elder and not like she is looking at nothingness.

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This is where I started organizing the composition of the headline. I added the phrase 'We are here to be your companion,' with the word 'HERE' prominently displayed in bold, captivating letters at the center. I used the specified color from the brief and incorporated connecting lines to another poster I'm currently working on. However, it's not yet complete as I haven't finished coloring the entire piece, and the background still remains white.

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In this stage, I started by coloring the background and adding gradient effects to create a gentle warmth. The aim was to evoke a cozy atmosphere for the interaction between elderly individuals and their caregivers, representing a casual connection

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All the colorings are finished , time for some adjustments for the overalls.

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This is the final result that I've achieved. I made some adjustments to the colors and overall composition. Specifically, I decided to change the background color to a soothing shade of gray as the previous blue didn't quite complement the overall color scheme and seemed somewhat out of place. Additionally, upon careful inspection, I noticed that the nurse's eyes needed to add something into the mix, so I took the opportunity to enhance their vibrancy by adding eyelashes . Furthermore, I refined the table to give it a more substantial and realistic appearance

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The task of this is to make the elder unsupported by the youngsters. The brief wants the poster to stay away from the stereotypes of elders always being physically supported.

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I am planning to make a vector style art but the difference is I will try to make it simple yet effective, ,making it look empathetic as possible

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In this particular step, I started by sketching and using the pen tool to create the silhouettes of two individuals' arms and legs. Afterwards, I proceeded to color them in a way that would align with the theme. Initially, I portrayed it as a nurse supporting an elderly person, but upon reflection, I realized that the given prompt didn't necessarily call for that specific interpretation. As a result, I made adjustments to the drawing to convey the impression of them walking side by side, rather than explicitly providing support.

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After inspecting the elements I decided to change the shape of the elders head to make it less sharp-edged because I feel like it is better this way.

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Implementing the individual's hairstyle.

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In this part, I began by adding the background gradient and incorporating various details to enhance the overall composition. I carefully considered the placement of the text at the top, whether it should be centered, aligned to the left, or positioned on the right. The aim was to achieve a balanced and harmonious integration with the surrounding elements. I I also replaced the persons hairstyle with a new one too.

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I thought jagged line would give a nice addition to the work but I was wrong so I removed it. Also, adding the elder's some grey hair on his sides.

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In this part, I felt that there was excessive empty space, so I sought out a symbol that represents caregiving. After finding the appropriate symbol, I adjusted its opacity to make it less prominent, and strategically positioned it in the center. By doing so, I aimed to amplify the significance of nurturing and attentiveness in the composition

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In this step, there will be some minor adjustments made to the visual representation of the individuals to increase the diversity as specified in the brief. The objective is to ensure that the representation encompasses not only different races, but also a broader range of ethnic backgrounds I also changed the gender of the person next to it to make her a nurse.

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Looks pretty neat, I feel like sometimes leaving empty spaces would give the poster a better meanings. I also added the bottom text that says "We know it is important" to the mix.

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Test Brushes ( Initial Phase of "Two People Hugging ")

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Test Brushes ( Initial Phase of "Two People Hugging ")

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For this one, I am going for the crayon-type brush. I trying to create the art style that is simple but easy to understand along with the matching colors.

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This particular image seems to be the only one that I think doesn't require a draft beforehand because it doesn't need much detail. It depicts two people hugging, with one person using a pink color and the other person using a blue color. The concept remains the same as the original brief, which is to depict elderly people using colors to draw

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After trying to draw continuously, I added a subtle background texture in the center as a shading effect using a crayon brush tool. However, I still feel that it looks somewhat unusual.

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Subsequently, I also tried adding lines and headlines beforehand, but I still wasn't quite satisfied with how it turned out.

I then decided to start over and redraw the image because initially, it appeared as if the two people were kissing, giving off a strong romantic vibe. I needed to make adjustments to convey a different message. Additionally, I worked on enhancing and refining the headline to make it look more appealing.

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I redrew the two people hugging and add some solid color to the other person who isn't the elder. But I feel like it looked really weird. Other than that the poster looks fine and certainly less misleading than the previous one. I found out that no matter what you should sketch it before you start doing it and that is the moment I realize that that is the important thing to have to become a good illustrator according the the Lawrence Zeegen book.

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I removed the solid color on the person and also working on adjusting the composition of the poster. Removed the unnecessary lines and other elements that I thought it would not fit to the poster.

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I was trying to hand drawn the title but i feel like its not really good and suitable for the overall composition of the

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Compostion and texts test.

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During this process, I also found a new font to use in the phrase "always be here for you."

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for the finishing touches I've added some bottom text that says " We are here when you need one." To give more sympathy to the audience. Also give some yellow glowing warm feeling to the poster. Looks pretty neat.

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The tips is to carry sketch book and a pencil around so whenever the idea comes in we could instantly capture that idea into our sketch book, whatever what form of idea that is. I find it very efficient for capturing the ideas. And it really helps me build a good habit of capturing ideas.

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I used this picture as a first picture I would try and experiment on according to the author tips.

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I have gathered some vocabs that related to the word help for elders and listed them into the note as much as I could.

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For this poster, I decided to ask my grandma to draw the word "here" as much as possible on my note. So I can used it in this poster to give it a deeper meaning into the poster. My Grandmother is currently 80 years old and she is facing the same problem and what Kingel is trying to raise the awareness on elders. So I think using her hand writing is going to add a nicer meanings into the poster.

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After that I asked her to draw it in varieties of ways such as all capital letters all lower cases and Single capital H.

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I asked he to write the word here the way she wants

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The initial instruction of the poster is "A dad with a child on their shoulders." On the left is a dad with a child on their shoulders and on the right is the same child but now an adult and the same dad but older now, on this one I am trying to not fix with the given concept and play around with my creativity as well.I trying to show the importance of the elder, they took care of you when you were a child and now it also your job to take care of them and feel grateful for them.

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Started by importing it into procreate and color them with a fitting color scheme regarding to the original brief. But with slight different of color.

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I tried to find some colors that is not too bright and saturated to fit the theme. I decided to use the signature blue color from the designated pallet for the Dad in the poster to present the elder and to sympathize individial the brief through color of what they wear.

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I drew some slight shadows with a unique brush and some yellow blurry gradient to give a warm feeling to the whole posters.

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After that I started to give some basic compostion prepping for the texts I am going to put in next.

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The outcome looks very nice, this one is probably the most relatable one to my daily basis. The elders looked after you since you are a child and we should look after them too when we are capable and mature enough to show how grateful we are to have them around. The text says "Still here no matter what." Meaning no matter how time flies both of them will be here to support each others back.

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According to the author's tips in the book, one suggestion is to take a sketchbook and find a place of interest to sketch the composition for a poster. However, since I rarely go out, I thought it would be a good idea to start drawing picture of a window in my room. It would depict a perspective showing the outside world waiting for me while I'm crouching in my room. This is still an unpainted drawing, and it's something completely new and quite interesting for me because I've never tried it before.

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Made by Thanakrit from Adobe Illustrator

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These are 5 previous poster I have made From last semester. Lime form, Synth , Explicit , Dreamlusion and Neonite. All of them is a poster that given by Ajarns. The posters has to encourage the audience to do their work and stop procrastinating in a way. Some of them has a deeper meanings into it some of them is just me purely experimenting on new styles and pushing my boundaries and some of them are both. As you can see, Each of them has their own unique art styles and not of them looks the same. I set the mandatory for myself that It has to be at least 10 seconds on each animated posters.

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Made By Thanakrit from Adobe Illustrator

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This work is mainly inspired and took from the 80s Retro style of Synthwave, A retro sci-fi themed poster indeed. It leans towards the vintage arcade style as you can see I have added the "Insert coins" on the bottom of the poster so it can look like a main menu screen of the arcade machine.

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I used the same frame of references as before.

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Im still going for the same refences board as previous project.

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Synthwave, Outrun or Overdrive. Is techincally more of a genre of music or melody that emerges from early 2000s. But the artstyle melody or the color choices are from the 80s. But in this case of a poster I have put together what makes synthwave what it is. The word "Syth" came from the synthesizer melodies that came from the music in the sci-fi movie back in the 80s.

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Neon art started to emerge during 20th century. But not before the the element was discovered in late 1800s by the scientist. Since then the neon art was widely used for an advertising purposes, then it became what it was now. Neon art is surely an interesting art. It can now be paintings, decorations , Digital or even a real life art installations.

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https://imitatemodern.com/neon-art-where-did-it-start-and-who-is-illuminate-neon/#:~:text=Neon%20art%20started%20in%20the,to%20animate%20the%20glamour%20scene.

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Neon Art | Where did it start and who is Illuminate Neon?

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This article is a deep dive into the acclaimed artist Mark Sloper, more commonly known as Illuminati Neon. Let's look at who Illuminati Neon is, how Sloper's career began and a little about the history of neon art. Who is Illuminati Neon?

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This particular genre is somewhat difficult to describe. It goes by various names such as Dream Core, Weird Core, or Liminal spaces. It features images of locations that can evoke unsettling or eerie feelings, albeit in a manner that varies from person to person. There is also a distinct sense of nostalgia associated with it. I've recently become very interested in this genre, which has gained popularity on the internet, and I'm considering creating a poster or collage based on it. Additionally, it incorporates elements of the 80s and 90s aesthetic.

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Source for this animated poster research.

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Source for this animated poster research.

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The Synthwave, also known as Retrowave or Outrun, is a musical style of Electronic Music emerged in the early 2000s. With a great instrumental part, it's largely inspired to synthesizer melodies coming from Sci-Fi films (New York 1997, Robocop) or iconic series (K2000, Street Hawk, Miami Vice) of 80s and all related to New Wave musical genre (Depeche mode, The Cure). So we have SYNTH(esizer) and (new)WAVE which give the name Synthwave. Some legendary musicians such as Jean-Michel Jarre, Giorgio Moroder, Wendy Carlos, John Carpenter, Vangelis or Tangerine Dream brought so much to this style. The base of the rhythm is also characteristic with sounds of drums (kick, snare, hat) directly taken from 80s, treated with very compressed filters like Filtered House Music from French Touch movement.

Nevertheless, Synthwave's composers also use modern musical machines to create bass lines from SideChain compression and also sometimes, some heavy and powerful kicks or snares as we can found in House Music, Electro Rock or Hip Hop. Some genres associated to this style appeared as Darkwave (or Darksynth), inspired by the sound atmosphere of horror films, Synthpop with voices treated in the same way as in the 80s, Dreamwave with melancholy and romantic tablecloths but also Futursynth, directly inspired to retro-futuristic films. We'll present some very representative tracks of each style to easily hear the difference.

In 2005 Two videos were made for the hits 'Protovision' and 'Odd Look' with a a specific EP was released at Record Makers, its named was Teddy Boy and it was produced by Vincent Belorgey aka Kavinsky. It contained a purely emblematic track, Testarossa Autodrive. This is with this track that the word OUTRUN, associated to Synthwave, makes sense (music with which we can imagine rolling quickly into a sports car) and it's also the word that Kavinsky had chosen as the name of his first album, released in 2013 and co-produced by SebastiAn (Ed Banger Records) at the same label Record Makers. dark atmosphere (by night) but also with his legendary sport car, the Ferrari Testarossa (1984), all reminiscent of the 80s.

In 2007, parallel to his project Electro Clash duo Sexy Sushi (as Mitch Silver), the French composer David Grellier launched a musical solo project under the name of College. An EP 'Teenage Color' and an album 'Secret Diary' were released by VALERIE Collective which he created. Artistic Director of Valerie, he managed this cultural network with a purpose - celebrate American 80s culture with an assumed " kitsch " side. With his very distinctive noise footprint, we can estimate that's when the Synthwave style really got started. Meanwhile, French bands like Minitel Rose, The Outrunners, Anoraak and Lifelike (not in the collective ) participated in the Synthwave movement with identical musical criteria.

In 2011 the album of and prompted the emergence of College 'Northern Council' was released with the famous track called 'Real Hero' in collaboration with Electric Youth. It was one of the highlights of the film DRIVE from Danish director, Nicolas Winding Refn. The sountrack was also enhanced by the legendary 'Nightcall' from Kavinsky, produced by the golden half of Daft Punk. There is also a very good song called 'Under your Spell' by the band Desire from Canada. Served by the promotion of the movie, this track, with a pleasant female voice sprinkled by sounds from the 80s (Synth-pop), received much publicity. Many more events drew the public attention to this musical genre great artists from all over the world.

After Note that a DRIVE phenomenon in 2011, a large number of artists has emerged, inspired by the soundtrack and the visual of this movie. Necessarily, the creation of several record companies followed, as Rosso Corsa Records (Mitch Murder, Miami Night 1984, Lazerhawk...), Telefuture Records (Betamaxx, Perturbator...), NRW Records (Dance With The Dead, Lifelike, Futurecop!, Waveshaper...), Lazerdiscs Records (Absolute Valentine, Robert Parker, Niky Nine, Morgan Willis, Z6BR3...) and many others. famous Youtube channel named NewRetroWave was created and gained an impressive amount of followers.

Visually, through the covers and music videos of its artists, the Synthwave transmits a pronounced retro-futuristic world, directly referring to the best images of Sci-Fi and horror films from 80s (Blade Runner, Tron, Terminator, Aliens...). Aesthetically, as mentioned above, the movie DRIVE gives a new life of Synthwave universe with his style of car chase (back to roots with Kavinsky and his Ferrari), but also the short film Kung Fury and the world of video games like Hotline Miami, Furi, Power Drive 2000, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon or Neon Drive (check out our games page).

College (with his Valerie Collective) and Kavinsky, being the first in this music style, have given a big way to a lot of artists. The dark side of Synthwave called ' Darkwave' showed musicians like Carpenter Brut, Perturbator, Power Glove, Dance with the Dead, Kn1ght... The sunny side showed Mitch Murder, Miami Nights 1984, Highway Superstar... The ' Dreamwave' to a relaxing and romantic side with Timecop1983, Futurecop!... The ' Synthpop' accompanied to voices with GUNSHIP, Electric Youth, Le Cassette, The Midnight, Arcade High and others. Meanwhile, Com Truise describes his music as Synthwave but with heavy rhythms taken from Hip Hop or Drum and Bass, in final it's named mid-fi synth-wave or slow-motion funk.

In 2015, following a successful advertising campaign, the Swedish short-film Kung Fury, fantastic comedy and martial arts, written, produced and starring David Sandberg, even made known Synthwave to the planet. Indeed, very inspired by 80's movies, the soundtrack contains a famous single called 'True Survivor' with David Hasselhoff (Michael Knight from K2000), highlights the Swedish composer Mitch Murder and artists like Betamaxx, Lost Years and Highway Superstar. For this reason, this musical style was discussed into the media around the world. Kung Fury 2 is expected to come in the end of 2018 but this time as feature film with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Fassbender. Enough to predict an excellent soundtrack.

The American television series of horrific science fiction named 'Stranger Things', directed by the twin brothers Matt and Ross Duffer (also called Duffer Bros ), has a special cinematographic universe and refers directly to 80s legends like The Goonies, E.T., Ghostbusters or Super 8, Alien and many more. The soundtrack had to follow this atmosphere with exceptional tracks managed by 2 members (Michael Stein and Kyle Dixonof) of an American band called S U R V I V E, a Synthwave reference now. After a lot of positive reviews by public and media, after two seasons, a season 3 is now expected to 2019, with once again a soundtrack centered around Synthwave. The soundtracks of the two seasons are now available.

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The Synthwave, also known as Retrowave or Outrun, is a musical style of Electronic Music emerged in the early 2000s. With a great instrumental part, it's largely inspired to synthesizer melodies coming from Sci-Fi films (New York 1997, Robocop) or iconic series (K2000, Street Hawk, Miami Vice) of 80s and all related to New Wave musical genre (Depeche mode, The Cure).

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Separating elements layers (Very crucial!).

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Separating elements layers (Very crucial!).

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I later found out that poster files are very unorganized when it comes to layers and it would be pain to animate with unorganized layers, it would be nearly impossible even animate it. When you import AI files into AE it is important to separate layers and elements into different layers because if two different objects are in the same layer and you animate it, both of the two different elements will move since they are in the same layer. So I have to separate each and every elements into each individual layers, at least with the elements that I wish to animate.

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Original Explicit Poster (Black and White)

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Original Explicit Poster (Black and White)

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The real challenge is try to think what I could animate in this picture since the main element of the picture is a neon light rods and it is not gonna make any sense if it moves around , I feel like its is going to be out-of-concept if you make the neon rod moves

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This is the reference from the previous project. All reference were there. The animation will still keep the concept of using back and Lime green only. Heavily Inspired by Neek Lurk's ASSC hoodie Black and Green, my favorite hoodie of all time, I am currently wearing it while making this padlet.

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In this poster I have a plan of making it an interactive UI like it is a real computer in the early 2000s. A bit of untold narrative on the the work itself, giving the audience some attention to details and such. Trying to encouraging the audience to do their work or else there are consequences, but in animated version. The idea was already there when I made the still poster on this one, the challenge is to do it but in animated version.

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Initial state of making animated poster. (First time ever.)

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Initial state of making animated poster. (First time ever.)

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I tried to find the starting point for making animated posters because I did not really know how to transfer the AI files to AE program and I dont even if it would work. But thanks to this video I finally know how to do it and I found out that Adobe works together with Adobe very well. I chose to use AE because I think is a very good tool to animate these kinds of stuff and it sure is suitable. I have a fair amount of knowledge on how to use this program as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u_rHcoo2hs

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Animated Poster in Adobe Illustrator & After Effects // Tutorial // KAPUSTIN

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This is the grid frame I made after I planned to animate the poster. I was planning to make the grid move but since it is fixed I have to expand it big and them make it slowly move it to left and right to make it look like it is actually moving. The synth grid floor I had is way too small to make it that way that i said and it is a pain to manipulate the grid frame object since it is not a regular object like a simple circle or whatever. But I finally done it anyways.

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And there it is, looking fine so far.