For the last workshop before Christmas we were put into
groups and were tasked to produce an animated gif and a pop up card, based on a
word we were given and to give our creations a Christmas theme.
CRUSH
A local juicing bar
specialising in healthy fresh juices and mocktails. Contemporary typefaces,
modern colours and simple bold imagery. No hearts.
With 5 of us in a group we split into 2 groups, one working
on the gif and the other working on the pop-up card. With the current skills we
each have, we each go to a group that we individually think our strengths lies
in (in terms of practical skills). I decided to join the few who will be making
the pop-up card, despite having the skills in digital painting I am not great
in the technicality of producing an animated gif, though 2 other members will
be working on it as one of them is keen in creating gifs.
For the group that are creating the pop-up card that I am
taking part in, we first did some initial research of various pop-up card
methods, ranging from the simple fold-ins and cuts outs to complex designs. Due
to our lack of experience with pop-up cards, we decided to go for the most
simple approach, as complex designs does confuse us with the amount difficulty
it holds. Shapes and colours, particularly red and green for the theme of
Christmas, are also important as they are something we are going to implement in
our pop up card.
Initial research on some pop up cards based on the theme of
Christmas.
We had a little trouble along the way in how the pop up card
is going to be produced and what was going to be in it, so we decided to do a
simple pop up of a cocktail glass (an object that is relevant to the word and
the description we were given) with a background. We have encountered some technical
difficulties when it comes to print the illustrations as the intended plan was
to print them on nice card for sturdiness though due to a slight problem with
the printer we have to cut them out on regular paper instead and stick the individual
parts onto the pop up card.
Shape templates to be cut out for the pop up card.
Physical mock up of the pop up card to roughly plan out where things would be placed.
Digital mock up for the content inside the pop up card.
Illustrations created for the pop up card and the gif.
Final outcome for the pop up card.
The end result of our pop up card didn’t really live up to
our expectations due to the lack of experience in paper crafting though in the
end we have all enjoyed our team work together in bringing in our little creation
together. Personally I think the gif is the more successful one as the two
members who were working on it managed to get everything together for it. There
are some areas that need tweaking to get it to run smoothly but due to the time
we have as a one day workshop we couldn’t fix those small issues in time.
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