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Typography / Final Compilation & Reflection

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22.04.2024 - 22.7.2024 / Week 1 - Week 14 GAN YI KIAN / 0374572 Typography / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media Typography / Final Compilation & Reflection INSTRUCTIONS Task 1:  Exercises 1 & 2 Task 2:  Typographic Exploration & Communication Task 3:  Type Design and Communication SUBMISSIONS Task 1: Exercises 1 & 2 Exercises 1 Type Expression Fig 1.1 Final Type Expressions (6/5/2024) Fig 1.2 Final Type Expressions  PDF (12/5/2024) Fig 1.3  Final Animated Type Expression (20/5/2024) Exercise 2 Text Formatting Layout Requirements HEAD LINE Font/s: Bembo Std Type Size/s: 72 pt Leading: 36 pt Paragraph spacing: 0  BODY Font/s: Bembo Std Type Size/s: 9 pt Leading: 11 pt Paragraph spacing: 11 pt Characters per-line: 57 Alignment: left justified   Margins: 123 mm top, 26 mm left + right + bottom Columns: 2 Gutter: 10 mm Fig 1.4 Final Text Formatting Layout (25/5/2024) Fig 1.5 Final Text Formatting Layout with grid (25/5/2024) Fig 1.6  Final Text Formatting Layout PDF

Illustration & Visual Narrative / Task 3

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03.07.2024  - 26.7.2024 / Week 11 - Week 14 GAN YI KIAN / 0374572 Illustration & Visual Narrative / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media Task 3 / Comic cover and Animated One Page intro Lectures Week 12 Transitions Scott McLoud’s transitions 01 Moment to Moment 02 Action to Action 03 Subject to Subject 04 Scene to Scene 05 Aspect to Aspect 06 Non Sequitur INSTRUCTIONS Final Project: Comic cover and Animated One Page intro We are to select a story from the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe and we are to create: 1. Comic Cover Page 2. Animated One Page Intro Animated scope: 1. Parallax (to create depth) 2. Secondary Action 3. Animated Background After I read Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat I decided to use this story for illustration. Rationale "The Black Cat" tells the story of a man who transforms from a gentle cat lover into a violent alcoholic. In a fit of rage, he kills his beloved black cat, leading to a series of mysterious events in his home. He finds a

Digital Photography and Imaging / Project 4

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3.7.2024 - 22.7.2024 / Week 11 - Week 13 GAN YI KIAN / 0374572 Digital Photography and Imaging / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media Project 4 / SELF-TITLED LECTURES Week 12 /  Intro to After Effects Adobe After Effects is a 2.5D animation software used for animation, visual effects, and motion picture compositing.  Motion graphics animation works by manipulating vector and rasterized art to create and tell a story.  INSTRUCTIONS PRACTICAL: AFTER EFFECTS EXERCISE Our exercise this time is to add special effects. This time I used Adobe After Effects to add special effects. First we create these files so that we can add other files later After that, the amplitude of the up and down movement is increased. Add 15 seconds of music and dust effect overlay from YouTube.We need to convert these files to MP4 before they can be added to Ae. Final I think this exercise is difficult because this is the first time I use Adobe After Effects to create animations. I asked my friends for their

Typography / Task 3

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10.06.2024 - 15.7.2024 / Week 8 - Week 13 GAN YI KIAN / 0374572 Typography / Bachelor of Design (Hons) in Creative Media Task 3 / Type Design and Communication LECTURES refer Task 1 INSTRUCTIONS Task 3 / Type Design and Communication We need to use three different pens to design our typefaces, So I spent RM11.70 to buy the three pens for this task. Sketch Fig 1.1 Sketch 1 (22/6/2024) Fig 1.2  Sketch 2 (22/6/2024) Fig 1.3  Sketch 3 (22/6/2024) Mr Max:  this one looks good can design all the needed alphabets and capital letter then digitize. Fig 1.4  Sketch 2  (22/6/2024) Before digitizing my sketches, I learned how to deconstruct.M r Max taught us how to deconstruct  letter in class.   Fig 1.5 Letter  deconstruct  (24/6/2024) Fig 1.6 letter  deconstruct  (24/6/2024) In the end I chose this version to digitize the sketch. Fig 1.7 Final sketch (1/7/2024) In the first version, my T C S H G O all the thickness is not the same. Fig 1.8 Digitization (8/7/2024) I fix some places to make it mor