OUIL406- Visual Communication- Digital Finals

Once I had considered different compositions for the final image, I went on to start the design of it. I wanted the image to be simple, and dark, to give the image a gloomy feel whilst still looking quite crisp. I chose to stick with black and grey tones for the figure, again to keep in with the gloomy feeling.

The GIF really didn't take long to make. Once I had decided on the final composition and how the image would look it literally took about 2 hours to make, so it does feel like it may have been too simple? But out of all of the GIFs so far this one is still my favourite, probably because it fits what I like doing the most. Hopefully it isn't too simple.



I really like the composition of the final image. I toyed around with having the light cut across from different angles but i felt like splitting the image in half was the most effective. The original idea for the light being the frame came from last weeks VisLang session where we discussed framing in composition. We discussed how objects and elements of an image can be used to frame an image and make use of negative space. The below image by Brian Saunders is a great example of this, where the piano is used as the main part of the image but is completely invisible aside from the general shape. This is something that really intrigued me and was keen to use it in my own practice.




I am fairly proud of this GIF, if not for the animation (I may have delved too deep into that in other GIFs) but it really enjoy how the character looks. I like the ambiguity of the character having only basic shapes, and left out typically important features such as the eyes and mouth. Shape is something I have been really interested in since our VisLang session on it, and hopefully will be able to implement it into my future practice a bit more.