Year 2 Unit 45 Graphic Image Making

This is some of the ideas for graphic image making. 

This was one of the ideas that was mocked up on paper

This was another idea that was mocked up on paper

This is a story board for a short animation for one of my mocked up ideas

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q

This a channel that uses infographic as its style to convey its message, the messages that are normally on this channel is scientific discoveries and facts about real world issues.

This is one of the examples of the youtube channels infographic art being put to use by showing what the person is talking about, as this person is speaking, the infographic changes and represent itself by making it relevant to what he is saying. I do like the topics that this is trying to get across but I don't like the music that plays in the background is sometimes misplaced.

This is "The Power of Food" infographic on youtube, it has someone talking in the background while a animation plays to represent what this person is saying, it has a simple and bold art style that gets the point across. I do like the images made to get the point across but I don't like how uninteresting the topic is.

This is a infographic about Indonesia, unlike the other animated infographics I have talked about, this one remains quiet in the senses of only music is playing in the background to let the image talk for itself. I do like that the video is quiet and lets the video do the talking but I do feel like that the video would have more info if someone was talking in the background.

This is a infographic about growing up, unlike the other animations I have talked about, this one has this sketchy art style with paper craft on top of it. I love this art style a lot and hope to see more like this, I just wish the infographic was talking about something else.

This is a infographic of contraception awareness, this poster talks about the positives of contraception. It shows the positives by using pie chats and a symbol of a women to help convey the information to the reader. It uses the pie charts and the symbol to help catch the potential readers attention and inform them about the positives of contraception. The women in the middle is a quick and easy way to convey simple information to someone by giving a quick blue to red ratio on people who use contraception and people who don't.

This is a infographic on how the reader can be more earth friendly. The infographic shows a list of information on how to be more earth friendly. The images shows what is relevant and will back up the words themselves like a light bulb if it talks about a light bulb and saving water would be a picture of a tap. What I think works about this work is how blunt the text is and easily digested it is to read. What I think this work does not work so well with is the colouring of the work seems to be not green enough to make it look like its being earth friendly.

This infographic is on facts and awareness of the octopuses. The information on this infographic is about random facts like how many species they are and how much of them is made out of muscle. The images are used to give more context to the words themselves like saying the octopuses has three hearts and having a picture of three hearts on top of it. The colours of the infographic are both bold and contrasting from the two main colours because octopus are mostly know to be red and the sea is blue and therefor is more of a contrast. 

This infographic is a template for people to learn and adapt your own infographic from it. This infographic has template art, graphs and words for you to easily see what you can replace with your own things. The colours of this infographic is basic and functional for its purpose because it is a template and can be changed to what you would want it to look like. I think it might not be the easiest thing to use because it would be hard to remove half of this infographic to replace with your own things because you might as well create your own with the amount of time and effort you would put in to changing everything around with this infographic.

This infographic is about the the market place that is around us more then we think it is.

The information on this infographic is about the market on social media .

 The images are used to give context to the words of the infographic and to give data as well. 

The colours are bold and only keeps to three to four colours to keep things simple, unless its the symbols of the website themselves. 

This is Saul Bass' work of "Anatomy of a murder" this may influence my own information graphic by making it only one or two colour to try to keep things simple and I don't need to make my work look perfect as it can be an art style within itself.

This is "SAVE THE ARCTIC" by Mauro Gatti, this may influence my own information graphic by giving my work soft colours to make things look pleasing and to be clever with my art skills as that can keep a viewer watching.

 Design Project Proposal

Project Introduction

To create a A3 infographic sheet and a animation on a infographic of my own interest. I will research into both infographic and artists of infographics, develop the ideas from the research into ideas generation then with the ideas ill take into Ideas Development and pick my best one to produce a final outcome.

Context of the project

See research where I talk about difference infographic and infographic animations.

Constraints of the project

My animation MUST be 30 seconds, no higher, no lower, my animation MUST be a infographic and must give facts out as a result.

Initial Ideas for the project

My initial ideas for this project are to start brain storming anything I might of been able to turn into a infographic and then narrow down to a few ideas and placed in my blog

Deliverables

I will use flash, illustrator and photoshop to create my work. 

Targets and Milestones List

Investigate brief

Research into ideas.

Research into infographics.

Research into artists that has done this work before.

 Generate ideas

talk about the ideas that I have thought of and say why or why not the idea would suit this project

Produce a mind map.

Produce a mood board.

Produce research into your chosen theme and gather statistics (info on the game), to support the development your own information graphics.

Develop ideas

 3 design concept sketchs of infographic

redo one of the concept with more typefaces and colour

do it again to a much better detail

Produce outcome

 Document the process of creating your information graphics. Write regular annotations outlining this process using the right words

Create an information graphic A3 sized poster, based upon the theme set out in your proposal. Print and post to blog.

Create a 30 seconds information graphic animation; based upon theme/style/data, of A3 poster. Post to blog.

Evaluate Outcome/ Prototype or Solution to problem

Comments on audience responses to your animation.

Final evaluation about the process of developing your information graphic

Ideas

Smite

This was the video that gave me an idea of doing some facts about the game smite and its developer Hi-Rez, might do some random facts about gods or changes that needed to be made.

Splatoon

This is one of my highly loved games and i'm thinking of doing an infographic of facts and info about this game itself, I can talk about things like within its beta stages, the squids was bunnies but was changed when the other workers at Nintendo was confused on why bunnies would be the ones the throw ink around the place was then was changed to squids.

General games

Instead of doing a whole project on one game, i can do more then one game or maybe one company like SEGA or CAPCOM. This would let me be more loose on what I can talk about but this might make it so ill loose focus on what I wanna pinpoint on what to talk about.

Ice caps

I can be a normal human being for once and do something normal like the ice caps and some facts about recycling and how we can save the earth or something like that. The facts could be easier to be found on the net and it might be helpful to people who don't know about about this kind of stuff but there are so many of this kind of infographics on the net and i'm not really interested in it.

Japanese culture

A infographic about the Japanese culture would be fun to do about, bringing a culture into a infographic could be interesting but i have no idea how where I would get information from.

This is a mood board of ideas that I might use in the infographic.

This is a mood board of the theme of my animation, I want to use silhouettes to try to keep the animation simple and effective.

This is the mood board of possible colours in my animation, I want to keep the bold colours that are seen within Splatoon itself.

facts and stats about splatoon

was going to be a Mario game if no one else could think of a idea for the game itself.

a secret collectable in this game conforms that this game takes place 12,000 years after humans was alive.

squid sisters Callie and Marie said fast enough is calimari, a squid dish

inkling girl was made first and then the inkling boy was made in comparison to the inkling girl.

in polls about Splatoon in japan, 75% of the people who play Splatoon plays as the inkling girl. 

the game idea was made far before the design that only blocks with smaller blocks as guns was made, they was called "tofu with noses" later in the games design cycle the players became rabbits for a bit, the design was that the white fur on the rabbit would show damage while the ears would show where the player was facing, but when showing it to other employees they was confused on why rabbits was shooting ink, the next design was squids with legs then designed to the inklings used in game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCQOGuY9YLQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5r2lvDaj7M

Ideas Development

This is my first idea for my Splatoon infographic animation, it is a picture of the main characters face and "hair" with the facts where the rest of the body should be. The thing I like about this work is the main character can well detailed if done right but what I don't like is the fact that I have no clue how to animate this in a infographic way.

This is my second idea for my Splatoon infographic, it is a bunch of squids swimming around in ink while facts follow behind them. What I like about this work is that it would be easy to create a infographic with this idea in mind but the negative on this is it could be a bit on the boring side if not done right.

This is my third idea for the Splatoon infographic, It starts with the first design of Splatoon and then it goes to Mario when the team cant think of a idea and Miyamoto tells the team to use Mario if they cant think of an idea, then a bunny for the next fact and then a squid when the final design comes out. What I like about this is that I can use the art to give direction to the facts and make it easier to follow because of it. What I don't like about it is I can really change much of it if the idea does not come out well so ill have to make sure if picking this idea, I do everything right first time.

This is the start of my A3 Infographic, This is the basics at the moment and needs to be changed around to make it look better.

First thing I did was to change text around to make the text boxes seem more equal, as a result it looks like a bit more thought was place into the picture before it even has any work done to it.

I gave the background a orange colour to contrast from the text to the background more.

I have made the text darker blue to make it stand out more from the background.

Trying to keep more into the theme of Splatoon, I have placed splats under the text itself.

With the splats being in the background I have got rid of the orange background and gave the facts and splats difference colours to show off more of what the game is about.

Then I added a new easy to the eyes background on the infographic to make the background a bit less boring.

Finally I move the black and white characters up and down a bit to get rid of a tiny bit of white space and to make it look more lively.

I needed more visual interest in the background, so I did buildings that looks a lot like Splatoon's town called inkopolis and made it grey to make sure it can be seen but not make everything else not be seen.

This is my storyboard for the animation.

final work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR0VMXEX1UI&feature=youtu.be