Session 14 [Wed 240210] - Design Review & Troubleshooting One To One/ Publishing The Virtual Book

Homework
Create SWF and HTML files of your finished Virtual Book for review next session.

Session 13 [Mon 220210] - Text & Image in InDesign/ From Thumbnails to Screen

Homework
This session you saw how to set text and place imagery in InDesign.

For homework please lay out all your content in the page spreads in your Virtual Book document.

Session 12 [Wed 170210] - Quiz/ Setting Up InDesign Document/ Creating Thumbnail Sheets

Homework
Plan out your book on the thumbnail sheets for next session [Mon 220210].

If I haven't had your text for the book yet, please send it to me as a PDF via email by tomorrow.

Thumbnail Sheet Construction
A recap on the thumbnail creation process.

Today, having set up your InDesign Virtual Book document you used the DPS view of the master pages to take a screen grab - Apple Shift 4, then dragging a marquee with the Ctrl key held down - this variation on the screen grab technique places the grab on the Mac system's invisible Clipboard ready for direct pasting [Apple V] into a waiting Illustrator document.

Once pasted, you saw how to use the familiar tools to resize, position, and duplicate, to create a thumbnail sheet ready to visualise your future book.

Get a print of the sheet then make multiple photocopies of the blank thumbnail sheets, or print further sheets via the computer [they're free!], to give you broad scope for generating lots of visuals, allowing for mistakes and changes as you develop your book.

Mercy & Courtnee - Notes on Archiving, Submitting, and Printing Your Digital Work
You need to hand in your final stage 1 work as a zip file into the folder called James Gosling in the Macintosh Zone 1 folder at the right hand side of the Dock at the bottom of the screen.

Before you make the zip file, please make sure that you have organised all the work sensible in the following folder structure -

First, a Your Name Heads Stage 1 folder
then Inside that…

• a Final Heads folder with your final six illustrator heads in.
• A Template folder with all your photoshop template files in.
• A 10 Heads folder containing the ten heads you made for the 50 heads assignment.
• A Bio & Portrait folder with your word doc and self-portrait in.
• Finally, optionally, include any other digital work you want me to see in an Other folder.

Once you have made this folder structure hold down Control over the Your Name Head Stage 1 folder and choose Create Archive from the contextual menu.

Put the resulting zip file in the James Gosling drop box in Macintosh Labs Zone 1 folder as mentioned above. You won't be able to access the files once they are in that folder but you can make a new zip file and replace it. I will pick up the latest dated folder on Friday for grading.

Good luck!

Session 11 [Mon 150210] - Stage 1 Work Submittal/ Archiving Work/ Preparing & Printing Heads/ Stage 2 Briefing & Examples

Homework
Please prepare a typed sheet of the proposed text for each of your heads.

The text might consist of just humorous/ meaningful names like the book that Aziz made [see examples books from the link on the right]. Alternatively, it might be a paragraph of text for each head, or a story that you would like to tell.

Please bring your typed text to class with your six A3 prints of the final heads.

I will return your folders next week with comprehensive grading on how well you did on each aspect.

Introduction To Virtual Book Project
Today, you saw how we will be setting up the virtual book document, getting acquainted with publishing terms such as -

DPS - Double Page Spread
Pagination
Verso and Recto
Facing Pages

See you next time.

Session 10 [Wed 100210] - Heads Stage 1 Critical Review

Homework
Well done on presenting your work today. You all have something with which to move forward.

On Monday you must submit your work for the Heads Stage 1 Assignment.

Please make the necessary changes to your heads and finish any that are incomplete.

At 4:30pm on Monday 150210 you must submit an A3 clear sleeved folder with all the paper-based support work for the stage 1 brief in chronological order showing the viewer how you came to develop your final head designs.

You will also need your digital files for printing, archiving, and submitting for grading purposes.

See you Monday.

Session 9 [Mon 080210] - Developing Your Six Heads

Sessions 7 and 8 were used to develop the head artwork. They were conducted as a double make-up session on Friday [050210]

Homework
For Session 10 [Wed 100210] you must present the artwork for six completed vector heads.

Three main criteria apply -

• You will need to show the heads on-screen and explain your overall heads concept.
• You must also give your reasons for the head you have chosen as your avatar.
• The artwork must also demonstrate clearly organised use of the layers for future animation.

See you tomorrow.

Session 6 [Mon 010210] - Deadline For Bio & Portrait Papers/ Creating Your Heads In Illustrator

Intro To Mac class is cancelled for Wed 030210 due to personal reasons. You are welcome to use the mac lab at your allotted time. Please read the homework and latest news below carefully.

Homework
You have a deadline of next Wednesday [100210] to finish your 6 heads in Illustrator.

Each head must be rendered in Illustrator in its own A3 document.

Use the class time and homework allocation between now and the deadline to complete your heads.

Make sure you build your heads using Illustrator Layers to distinguish each part - silhouette/ hair/ nose/ eyes/ mouth/ etc. This will make your heads easier to manage for animation later.

Remember to use closed paths where you can and only use open paths when you need to add linear details to your artwork.

There is an extended two class make-up session this Friday [050210] from 11:00 until 1:00 and then, 2:00 until 4:00. This is an opportunity to really make some headway on your artwork and learn lots of new techniques to make your art that much more creative.

See you then.