About Me
On Monday 11 February 2013
I'm on my semester break! So, this means more time for this blog! I'll have more time for more personal artworks too and while I get that started, here are the artworks from my second semester!
In my old post, it was more about my feeling's shift from bad to good regarding my new experiences as a design student ( The First Serious Step ). Now, I have to say that I have a better appreciation for friends. That appreciation isn't reflected in any of my works. It's just that I faced a few of friendship problems; from being ignore by those whom I dear most to being helped by newly made friends. This include helps from friends for my assignments. So, I guess I have to write it down here and thank them in this post.
And I'll start with a work I did for my Computer graphics class. This was the second task, an exercise that required the students to create an add by using Photoshop. I skipped the first task because it was boring; cropping and pasting 2 to 3 given pictures together. At the time, I was obsessed with Assassin's Creed III and so I decided to create an add for the Animus. It was inspired by their Multiplayer add that was seemingly released by Abstergo (Which was very creative to me). The picture looks pixelated because I didn't set the size right.
I'm not going to show every artwork I did for this subject instead just the ones that I like. This next one is an important one as it's one of two assignments that would gave us a lot of marks.
The task required a calendar of a month. We could pick any month of any year and I chose this year's January because my birthday is on January. Admittedly, this was a last minute work but in a way, it also wasn't. Around the first two months of the semester, I always wanted to make a miniature effect with Photoshop but I kept forgetting and I was busy with assignments. This task was given as the final assignment of the subject by the way and seeing that I have this extra picture, I figured why shouldn't I just make a miniature effect? It was 2 nights away from submission and with the curiosity of making a miniature effect in mind, the above calendar was made.
I often love watching movie posters that are cool and creative. A few of last year's movie posters that I love was, of course, The Dark Knight Rises and the surprisingly good Looper. The Avengers was just too common for me. But it wasn't until I found Kupy Wrestling Wallpapers.Com that interest me to make one. The site offers loads of awesome wrestling wallpapers made by fans. The designs weren't only good but also a major boost of popularity for WWE. What better and cheaper way of hyping this year's Wrestlemania by releasing fan made posters? ( I'm really excited right now by the way, The Road to Wrestlemania has just begun!) So, this next one is not exactly a poster but, still, it involves photo manipulation which is what you need to make a poster.
This was the second last assignment for this subject. I needed to use only original photos--well, sort of. The administration of the subject wasn't really sorted well. At first it was only original photos then it was original photos for 80 to 90 percent; it goes on and on. Not to mention the constant hardware malfunctions; wasting half and hour of my time. Thank god, this subject was awesome because of the very fun assignments.
This was certainly my favorite from the subject. Of course, I still have a lot to learn when it comes to photo manipulation.
Next is photography.
No matter how hard I try to calm myself, this subject still pressures me like crazy. The 'creativity' is so demanding. Sure, it is creativity that is emphasized on and on with this subject but after awhile, I realize that it's taste. It's confusing and frustrating to hear a praise last week and a dissatisfaction today with the same picture. I prefer to tell my stories through moving pictures and although I respect the ideology of photography, I still respectfully prefer moving pictures--or at least with some text like comic books. This subject is a must by the way. Be that as it may, I did enjoy some of the pictures I took. Bare in mind that I'm not good with taking pictures.
Of course, I took loads of pictures and I chose only 6 to submit. Above are examples of my favorite extra pictures. The task was to take pictures of our figurines. I saved money by using the ones I already have.
There were two assignments and this next one regards lights and movements.
This wasn't accepted but I do like it.
This wasn't accepted too but, still, I like it. This is suppose to be shadow but for some reason, it wasn't accepted. I saw a few creative ways of taking a picture of shadows from friends and even those weren't accepted. Where's the creativity? Where's the freedom? Instead this picture was accepted:
Really? -_-
Well, whatever. As long as the semester is over and I can finally relax; away from this subject's pressure. Besides, there's loads of other very self satisfying works and especially the last one that I'm going to show you.
And before I get to the next and final subject, here are some of the pictures I submitted:
This was very satisfying because it took me three freaking times to take this picture; the travelling to locations and carrying the props were just exhausting.
This wasn't accepted but I still love it and I'm going to show it! =3
And I'll end this part of the post with this picture; reflection. I found a cracked small mirror around my hostel. It was just perfect because it wasn't too cracked. When I took the pic, I didn't want my room to be visible as the background of the reflection and so I tried a few things. I tried using a cloth with some patterns in it but it didn't work. Then I used a minecraft helmet that my roommate made. The patterns were just perfect. So, with so much satisfaction, I consulted with some amount of confidence and what do you know...it wasn't accepted. I really love this picture and during the submission day, I gave this picture anyway. It was accepted. I, of course, was so happy at the time but after thinking it through a few hours after submission, I was sort of confused and ticked off a bit. So much for creativity and individualism.
And now, for the main event! My last post regarding my University's artworks ended with cartoon characters. It was my first time coloring my drawings digitally. This semester's most satisfying artwork is a video! Alhamdulillah, I finally get to translate my ideas into a video =')
I have to thank my friends for helping me making this video. This was an assignment for Creative Studies. We were required to create an artwork with the topic of multimedia and the theme could be whatever we please. Seeing this opportunity, I just had to make a video. I gathered my team and we took around 3 weeks to finish it.
Here are the links to some of my friend's sites who helped me making this video:
Main Actor: Ahmad Izzat. He has a small business of selling football jerseys and if you're interested, here's the link: Jersey Bro
Supporting Actor: Afiq Akmal. Unlike me, he does videos as a hobby and, of course, he's good at it. Check out his channel! RFScene
Here are some poster for the video.
Of course, I made posters for it! Now that I know how to use Photoshop, I just couldn't resist! =P
I had trouble taking pictures at night so this one turned out bad due to that.
As you can see, the tile is Friction. It's a simple straight forward assassination story. Yes, again it was influence by Assassin's Creed but I wouldn't say that game was the only inspiration for the idea. I often get obsessed with certain things and recently I'm deeply fascinated on how the video game market works. One particular thing about video games that it require a good story. It's amazing how important a story is for a video game and as well for the fans. Mass Effect 3, an action science fiction game, was critically bashed by consumers for it's unsatisfying ending. I'm a fan of Assassin's Creed due it's story and with this Mass Effect 3 phenomenon bearing in mind, I couldn't resist making Literature in Video Games as my theme for this project. Other games such as Max Payne 3 and Hitman Absolution also gave me some ideas of how I'd picture the story.
Without further ado, here is the video!
To conclude, I'm thankful that I was able to finish all of these artworks. Alhamdulillah, all of it was done my way with help from pals. I hope all of you enjoyed this post.
Salam and may the rest of your days be blessed!
