I used the Rudy’s Hotdog sign that I grew up seeing to capture a typeface that I wouldn’t regularly use. The sign actually has more than one type on it so I used the Rudy type. After figuring out the typeface I used the letters I had to figure out the letter m which I …
Author Archives: Amanda Potts
George Nelson’s “Good Design: What is it for?”
This has made me realize that my ranting about the philosophical idea of the human soul isn’t uncommon for designers discussing their work and how it relates to others’ views and ideas. When starting to discuss what good design isn’t George Nelson describes what good design is: “…a manifestation of the capacity of the human …
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Daily Typographic Sketches 8/19 – 8/24
Layering Project Delve into books
This project explores the ideas about escapism through layering and masking. To show this there are a mixture of shots of locations in nature and a indoor also a variety of pictures of the mannequin and some books. Mixing books with the mannequin and shots from various locations is meant to give the illusion of …
Playing with Color Keying
Try out color keying in premiere. I also was using masking. I highly recomend not using masking in premiere as it would not mask were I actually put it. I got quite fustrated by it after a view tries. It can be finessed but overall its not a good mask, in comparision to masking in …
Stop Motion Project
As an artist, I am constantly around inanimate objects designed to look like living beings. The mannequin is the inanimate object I focus on which I show as if it was an artist. I show what this mannequin might do if it had its own will and seen canvases and an easel. I started off …
The Garden My Drawn Stop Motion
Enter into the garden but be careful as vines grow to block you in. In a way to explore my own drawing as well as some stop motion I created this video. Most of the inspiration was simply from modern gardens i’ve seen online but the vines element was my way to show things being …
Stop Motion I found and Like
This is a youtuber that I used to watch a lot of. I only stopped because I began to focus on games and other artists. This is interesting to me as it has no voices or direct story descriptions. You don’t know whats going to happen until it happens. None of it appears real but …
Stop Motion Moving Around a Floor
Artists tend to surround themselves with humanoid objects that they use in their work. I am one of them so I decided to use this mannequin to represent an artist. This artist is picking which kind of canvas to use than trying to get comfortable at the easel. Although this artist ends up falling back …
StopMotion Test
For this I am getting used to working with stop motion to create a story. The focus of this story will be on the mannequin but I also want to point towards the people who generally have these mannequins which are artists so I’ve made this mannequin and artist.
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