TASK 1: Vormator challenge

03/04/2023 -  21/04/2023  Week 1 - Week 3

DAVIES ANNIKA ANGELA / 0362108

Illustration and Visual Narrative/ Bachelor of Design( Hons) in Creative Media

Task 1: Vormator challenge 

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LECTURES

WEEK 1 : Briefing of module and assignment breakdown. we also played Bezier game to learn the pen tool for Adobe illustrator it was quite fun and we practiced a bit. At first I was confused but I eventually got the hang of it and ended up with a score of 16 nodes left 

https://bezier.method.ac/

WEEK 2: Mr Hafiz showed us simpler ways to draw the vormator shapes using pen tool and curvature tool. He also spoke about the different shapes of characters and proportions

WEEK 3:Had no classes this week but watched videos on assigning different colours using shape builder tool and blending mode and importing swatches and gradient and adjusting colours dynamically

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INSTRUCTIONS

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TASK 1 : Design a character with vormator shapes 

RULES 

1. Can rotate, flip and duplicate the shapes
2. Not obliged to use all the shapes
3. Can scale size, but only proportionally
4. No skewing or free transform
5. No altering the original shapes
6. Can add, subtract, intersect and group elements as you see fit
7. Unlimited colour use
8. Can use gradients and texture
9. NO OUTLINE STROKES!
10. No background

                             

Vormator shapes

STEP 1 : looking for inspiration 

STEP 2 : Sketches

STEP 3 : Digitalisation

STEP 1 : lookin for inspiration 

                    

For my character I was leaning towards a villainous character. I wanted to have the character have tentacles of some sort as well as alien looking as I also love alien themed movies like aliens in the attic ,a quiet place , monsters vs aliens and so on. 

Initial vormator 

          

So for this character I used some of the knowledge I learnt in class when Mr. Hafiz taught us about proportions of the body and so I made this character have his body be the height of his head times 7 but had his legs appear to be long as I never had him wear pants like Squidward. I felt that having several limbs (tentacles) would add to the creepy evil vibe I am trying to portray as when anything has several legs e.g a centipede they tend to be scary looking. I became ambitious and wanted to design a pet for this character so I started with sketches and I ended up liking the design of the pet more and went with that instead.

STEP 2 : Sketches

sketch for vormator character with annotations 

FINAL VORMATOR CHARACTER 

outline of character 

         

REFLECTIONS

I enjoyed my first task I find this module the most interesting module out of all the other modules I am doing this semester. The fact that I was able to create such a dynamic character whilst being limited to a certain number of shapes as well as not being able to manipulate the shapes was quite intriguing this sparked my interest and makes me excited to learn what else I can achieve with the new skills I will learn as the semester progresses