Experimenting with colour - 2
The floor needs to be darker and a stronger black paint id needed. I used water colour paints which shows where you have left your brush stokes which I didn't want to do as its wasn’t part of the design.
Learner Name: Wing-Si-Kan Centre Name: The Arts Institue at Bournemouth Centre Number: 55220 Specialist Area: Media
Personally I think it hurts yours but then gain it could be the tone of red I have used for the out lines. You can't really see the design on the background because I used a different point size. I wanted that part to have a smaller line width because its give you the feeling that its at a distant and also I have used thicker lines for the foreground so it gives you a slight 3D feel to it.
i also try it with white on black whit looks a bit better then the red over the black:I’ve also printed out this version to get a better look and it does look better then the red I think because of the pure white jumps out at you more then the building red.
I wasn’t going to test a background with a red background but as its just experimenting I tried it any way:
the white over the red is really bad you cant really make out what is what in the picture but the black over the red is much better.
This is the style I want to do my website but am going to also experiment using different colours mainly dull, dark pastel colours to catcher the mood I want not the bright and cheery feeling.
In my research folder you can find an example of experimenting with different media. For my design of my main character I used Illustrator and Photoshop. Firstly I drew it out in pencil then used Illustrator to redraw the out lines and then used Photoshop to colour in the character. The tools I used in Photoshop are the smudge tool and the paintbrush.
Puppets date back thousands of years. The first type of puppetry could have been shadow-puppets, mentioned in Greek philosophy.
The most well know puppets would have to be Punch and Judy, that can be seen in the summer time at the sea side or in many puppet theatres dotted around the world.
The three main types of puppetry used on the small screen are marionettes, hand or glove puppets and rod puppets. There are loads of different types of styles but those are used the most.
There are lots of different types of puppets not just in Britain there’s puppetry that unique to certain countries like Japanese there’s Bunraku, in which the puppeteers dress all in black and controlling the individual parts.
In Vietnam the only type of puppetry that’s only really seen is called Water puppetry. In which the puppets are made out of wood and by the name is preformed in a waist high pool. The origin of this type of puppetry started life when the rice fields flooded and the villagers would entertain each other by performing puppets above water using a large rod that is supported under water.
You may think that puppetry is mainly used to entertain children but you’ll be wrong through out history, in almost all time periods and civilisations young to old watched puppetry.
By 1947 around 34,000 televisions sets were in use. Many traditional puppeteers welcomed the new technology, having the idea that this new medium could help make puppetry more popular and to reach new audiences.
In 1946 a new star emerged on to the black and white screen, Muffin the Mule. This fifteen minute long children show of a stringed marionette, that danced on top of a piano, whiles the host of the show Annette Mills played the music. The shows revolved around normal everyday situations and cause its great success it ran for 9 years.
There were also many other famous shows with puppets like Watch With Mother, Andy Pandy both aimed at preschool children. All these shows their characters were mute meaning that there was a narrator who would unfold the story.
There were also many other puppets that appeared on the small screen, mostly marionettes, but there’s also a famous hand puppet that out lived most of puppet icons, and that was Sooty. A small mute, orange bear that performed magic. The first time Sooty appeared was on Talent Night in 1952 with his operator Harry Corbett. Not very long after appearing on Talent Night they became a great hit, later he got his own show, entertaining generations of juniors. Not like main puppets of the time, the little bear was very naughty, and often tormented Harry, by squirting his water pistol at him.
Whilst at the same time in the mid fifties, the US audiences were being entertained by the Muppets created by Jim Henson. It was said that the word “Muppets” was a fusion of the words “Puppets” and “Marionettes” which Henson liked the sound of.
The design figures of the Muppets that are seen in all his characters are that they have very wide mouths, large protruding eyes. In many case producing unique parts meant improvising the parts, for example the original Kermit, his eyes where made out of ping-pong balls or fishing floats.
To operate the puppets the puppeteers would hold the puppets above their heads or in front of their bodies and to move the individual parts (e.g. head, arms and legs) they would either uses rods or wear the puppet to operate the mouth and head. After a few years the technology improved, Henson and his team started to use suspended rigs, internal motors, remote radio control and computer enhanced and superimposed images in all their films and television shows.
Frank Oz one of the puppeteers that work for Henson on the Muppets is very famous for working on George Lucas’s Star Wars series as the voice and puppeteer of Jedi Master Yoda. He’s also a long time partner of Jim Henson; they have been almost working from the very beginning of the Muppets and even after Henson’s death in 1990.
The puppets used in the UK at the time were mainly made of hard, relatively inflexible materials whilst the Muppets are more flexible. Now are days the puppetries have been influenced by Jim Henson’s work.
The newest type of puppetry is supermarionation (standing for super marionette animation), invented by British production company AP Films that worked on Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and many others. “Supermarionation” is a technique where which electronic wires are used to help make the puppets more life like. The head of the puppet contains solenoid motors that create the synchronized mouth movement; they would pre-record dialogue and then transmit the dialogue though a laptop.
Through out history puppetry has appeared in every country either in homes or theatres. Puppeteers from all ages and background perform for entrainment or as a career using a huge range of puppets from glove puppets to technical puppets with string and rods.
I like the sizing of the whole logo but the problem I have with it is the font style, it doesn't really work with the theme. The size, and spacing of the text is good so it think I would just use the setting and change the font style.
The text above the logo doesn’t really look that good with the design. The font should be a bit bigger and a bit more craved to look like the text is hovering above the characters head.
This is another version I did in college using illustrator. The eyes are too Manga like not really what I want it to look like. The hair is too spiky, too long and a bit to far up the head.