Logos

Ok, so i've been working on my logo for my box. For this i used a few softwares. Firstly i designed these logos in Adobe Illustrator, i then edited/designed it further in Fireworks. I created quite a few and got a bit carried away. Hmm... now is the part where i have to choose!

I worked with 2 designs:-

First set of logos:


Chosen Logo for 1st set of designs (Above)




Or maybe this (Above)



Second set of logos:










Chosen logo1 for 2nd set






Chosen logo2 for 2nd set

3DS Practice - Hand (F*** You!) lol

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy0etK97sxg)

Just some experimenting i've been doing on developing ideas for my box. Its a little out of place... but HEY!

Portrait Task

At first i wanted my portrait that captures me as a person as an image i made on photoshop, however after re-thinking i decided to make it a more real-life image with a realistic environment. This image not only captures my personality, but also my qualities & charcteristics. This is through how they are represented and how they are shown in accordance to other objects in the image. Hence, showing the significance of each item with myself. Some show my strenghths and some weaknesses and also emphasises importance linking with me and things that mean a great deal to me. Overall, i think the portrait is a good way to explore ideas of identity.


(Click to see a larger view of the image)

My 3D Avatar

This is the 3D avatar we did in Andy's seminar today. Hopefully i will use a similar idea for my box with the avatar and build on it. However, i'm not too sure whether to have my 3D avatar like this one or use the material editor in 3DS and draw on it e.g the face. I personally think the avatar would look better fully in 3D, rather than having this layer so i'm going to have to decide.





This is the avatar with the biped attached. With this i will now animated fully i.e. every body can be altered.

3D Car

3D car in 3d studio max. Not a very good outocme, but it gave me great ideas for my identity box witH the idea of the material editor in 3DS.

Hovering Monster In 3DS!

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDmZAGZEqco)

The 3D Monster we worked with in Andy's Seminar =)

3DS Modelling

This was my basic model once completed



I now needed to colour both the body and the teeth.. therfore i used the material ID tool to seperate both of these objects



I now added the colour to my character using the material editor making the body red and teeth white



Once coloured and turbosmoothed, my character was ready to be animated! I had to clone my original character and make others to animate. These were some of the various examples i did for the facial expressions.















This shows my final character and the order in which i animated the sequence of expressions, using the Morph modifier.

Another video for Unilever!

(Following from my previous blog) Check it out, this video shows how young girls are influenced by the beauty industry so much everyday through ads, billboards, magazines and beauty products. YET UNILEVER DOES THAT THEMSELVES... WITH THEIR PRODUCT LYNX AND THE ADS! DAMN UNILEVER!)

Identities

The Hypocrisy Of Unilever – Dove and Lynx

After reading a journal from one of our Multimedia students Steven Carroll, I decided to write my own journal and my views on the subject.
‘Dove’, a beauty brand under Unilever, was first launched in the 1950’s in the US, and then in the 1990’s in the UK. From this time Dove has come along way in developing further products such as deodorants, hair care products etc and is well known all across the world.
In 2004 Dove launched a ‘Campaign For Real Beauty’, which supposedly highlighted Dove’s commitment to broadening definitions of beauty. Here’s a video showing the ad shown on TV for this Campaign aimed at our young generation (I’m sure many of you have seen this before).



(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RADYaTvTGts&feature=related)

Following on to this in 2005, Dove launched the ‘Self-Esteem Fund’, which acts ‘as an agent of change to educate and inspire young girls on a wider definition of beauty. It aims to boost the self-confidence of young girls and women, enabling them to reach their full potential’ (As written on Dove’s website under ‘How it all started’: http://www.unilever.co.uk/ourbrands/personalcare/dove.asp ).

The same company Unilever also has a brand called Lynx, which I’m sure all of you have heard of. Lynx is a brand for deodorant aimed precisely at men. Unilever boasts themselves with this product with ‘The Legendary Lynx Effect’, which they say is ‘the smell of desire. As said by on their website and adverts ‘Lynx gives guys serious pulling power’ (http://www.unilever.co.uk/ourbrands/personalcare/lynx.asp ).

Ok, this is the thing I don’t understand and I find very hypocritical is that in the Lynx adverts, Unilever show women with hardly any clothes on and portray woman as sex symbols:



(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29HXaYkhOzk)

(See more examples at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8eUGtZr4Co&feature=PlayList&p=CD2FE47E1740228F&index=0 ).

On the other hand, Unilever, in their Dove adverts promoting their so-called beauty campaigns, boasting that their products ‘boost women’s confidence’. How on earth can you ‘boost women’s confidence’ with your products? When on one hand your launching Self-Esteem Funds and Campaigns For ‘Real Beauty’ with Dove, and then portraying them as sex symbols with Lynx. This in my view is very hypocritical of Unilever and the way in which they promote their many different products, just in order to draw people in.
And then they say woman are not happy with their figures. Well, of course they won’t be…

A Dove Film called ‘A Girl’s Self-Esteem).


(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ytjTNX9cg0&feature=related)