After having our Responsive briefing today with Fred, we were told about a number of mandatory requirements needed to successfully pass the module, one of which was to partake in least five significant briefs/commissions either through competition, commission, and so forth. I had plenty of ideas of what would work for me as an animator/character design specialist/student. Creating characters, graphics and illustrations for companies, websites, or even personal commissions would be a good place to start. However, I really liked the idea of participating in weekly Qwertee T shirt design contests as this would be a quick and easily accessible way of getting my name out there. You're not putting too much risk out there by creating a large portfolio of work and then being told to scrap it; it's just an image. If it's not successful, suck it up and move onto the next attempt. Creating band merchandise, logos, wallpaper, giftwrap, greetings cards, short comics, place settings, posters, leaflets, badges and stickers were also a few ideas of products that could accompany a set brief.
I've previously been commissioned by my high school - Harrogate High - as their newspaper team contacted me to ask for a pair of rather "Yorkshire" characters to go on their "Agony Aunt"-type column. Phillis and Steev, so they were named, became quite successful and stirred a number of students' interests throughout the school as they saw them as humorous and the sort of people you'd want as your grandma and granddad. I had to work within a set time limit of approximately two weeks, sticking to theme of "Yorkshire farmer/lad" and "huggable/loveable old lady". After many failed attempts and scrapped designs, we finally decided on the couple that became the face of HHS' problem page. Albeit the terrible quality of the images due to the editors stretching my work and distorting it, (they weren't experienced with graphics!) I was quite happy with the way they looked, although I would obviously change so many more things about them were I to be asked to remake them in the future.
Well, they may not look much now by today's standards, but they were quite the icons!
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