Maria Lynam

Today's workshop was about collecting all the work from the After Effects workshops and produce a showreel. There was a similar workshop to this one using Premiere Pro.  I've found After Effects much easier to use since I am now incorporating the skills and ideas into my studio work and I have started to develop the work created in workshop time.  It is important to bring together your work and showcase what you like best or feel is the strongest piece/s. I learnt that by showcasing everything you've ever done will only encourage potential clients to contact you for a commissioned piece using a skill that you might not particularly like or have the strongest skills to do, so by showing what you ENJOY and feel good at is important.  I plan on developing some other work that I haven't put into this showreel as I feel it isn't up to the same standard as the ones shown.  Putting more practice into something really does show and I'm feeling much mor

I was looking forward to this workshop but unfortunately had to miss it!  However, using notes and inspiration from Nick's instagram I have completed the workshop in my own time. I chose to keep the letters quite large and visible and used alternative textures for each letter by keeping some as bread and others were toasted.  I used ten different coloured pieces of paper for the backgrounds of each letter, so for the letter 'A' it shows the ten different colours in one GIF, I did this for each letter and this resulted in what would've been a minute long GIF, which isn't really the idea of them.  So I chose alternative coloured backgrounds to create the alphabet GIF. 

Todays workshop was about collaborating with Heritage Quay at the University to create a number of films. Using data and stats from the archives I created this ten second piece that is part of a final video filled with other students' work.  I struggled to finish this within the workshop time, I find that I'm still getting to grips with After Effects and should use it and a regular basis as oppose to workshop time. Although I'm happy with the outcome and have definitely learned a new skill in the programme! 35_Maria Lynam from Maria Lynam on Vimeo .

We were formally introduced to the YCN briefs today, it has been mentioned prior to this lecture but its now time to develop ideas and final outcomes! I looked into all the live briefs and I'm thinking about ArtFund_, Frontier or The Grown Up Chocolate Company. I need to start sketching out ideas and reading over each brief again to make a final decision about which one I want to explore... Looking forward to possible outcomes for this! 

Working with typography in todays workshop, specifically Cooper Std, Baskerville and DIN Condensed.  The main aim today was to focus on shapes, negative space and composition. I liked the idea of carefully placing each shape and creating some sort of pattern that connected each shape together, like placing two shapes back to back or one inside another curve. I plan to rework these in Photoshop using overlay, adding colour and changing saturations and hues.  I took these images into Photoshop and either used all the shapes or one in particular to create a explosions of colour! Using layers, hues and saturations and different sizes.  Baskerville Cooper Std DIN Condensed

The two first videos are from the workshop using Jays work. All Cinema 4D workshops are now finished for this term so todays workshop was focussed around presenting our work in a professional way using Premiere Pro.  I've never used Premiere before so I was looking forward to the outcomes of this workshop. Creating slideshows, editing video clips for a showreel, adding sound and rendering out the video correctly were all part of todays tasks.  We used Jay's work as an example of what the final outcomes would look like, the idea is that we take away the skills learnt today and create our own showreels etc.  Premiere Pro_Year One Studio Briefs from Maria Lynam on Vimeo . After the workshop I created my own showreel/slideshow using work from first year, the video above shows all the final outcomes from the studio briefs, the first being a magazine related to Manchester and the 90s, the second was a live brief for the Penguin Design Award 2017 which

Todays workshop was inspired by MGMT, 'All We Ever Wanted Was Everything' a music video that incorporates animation and techniques that I learnt in todays workshop.  MGMT - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything from oneedo on Vimeo . I learnt about cameras, animating in 3D, adding textures, visual styling and z-space.  I used artwork that I had created prior to the workshop and added in textures, a page turn effect (similar to the MGMT video) lighting and cameras. I enjoyed todays workshop but wasn't overly happy with the final outcome. 3D Project_Workshop - Newcastle from Maria Lynam on Vimeo . After the workshop I created new artwork to use and created another video that I am much happier with!  I really like the page turn effect and wanted to make this the main focus for the video and thought it worked better with these drawings. I also incorporated text into the background in relation to New York City.   Below is the artwork I created, followed by the