OUAN503 - Responsive - Collaborative Practice: Narrowing it Down

OUAN503 - Narrowing it Down:

After our meeting in Responsive, we eventually decided on a brief out of the six we had both brought  to the table. The brief we had in common was Pantone which was interesting. However, we did not agree on this one as it was based around product and print which was not something we were both knowledgable of. We talked it out and weighed up the pros and cons of each brief we brought along and eventually decided on WeTransfer as this allowed us to work completely collaboratively.

The brief (shown below) states that we were required to create a piece of work, be it illustration, animation or product, that depicts how we imagine ourselves to be in ten years. WeTransfer was definitely a new company name on our radar as we'd never heard of it before. After a little research, we discovered that their company sold a product that allowed customers to upload and share files across the web efficiently and easily.

Our initial thoughts were to create a collaborative illustration of both of us. Half the drawing being myself, the other half Anna. Another idea was to simply create two different illustrations of us both. I was thinking of drawing how I imagined Anna in ten years, and therefore she could illustrate me. However, there were many different problems with this as the brief asked for only one illustration despite there being two of us. The idea of both of us mixed together was an idea that stuck.

Being from an Animation background, we thought it would be nice to have some animation involved in our work. With the dislike for full-blown animation, I thought subtlety would work as I didn't want to detract attention from the illustration. Anna suggested an animator named Rebecca Mock (see work below) who focused on adding subtle hints of animation to her beautiful illustrations.

Anna and I had a similar idea as we thought it would work really well and look just right. It would also help draw the viewer's eye to certain elements of the work rather than be detached from all of it.

Another idea was to create a flipbook product where you could flip and change the faces of the character, costumes, body parts and accessories as not everyone has the same plans for what they want to be in ten years' time. We wanted to get across the message that there is a multitude of opportunities.

http://www.rebeccamock.com/

above is an example of the kind of flipbook we would create http://www.multiplydelicious.com/thekids/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/flipinivations.jpg