DESIGNERS & COMPANIES:

PUNCH CREATIVE

Someone I know uses this design company for their projects, they are a young group of designers, and from looking at their website, they are modern and say many of their briefs are under a tight deadline, so you have to work fast and effectively to get it done.

Tel: 0113 255 7285
info@punch-creative.co.uk

ANALOGUE

One of their strengths is branding and packaging, which is something I am very interested in. Small group of designers.. couldn't see an awful lot of work on the website, but what I have seen looks really good.


Tel: 0113 341 0330
studio@madebyanalogue.co.uk 

Image Co

When I first saw what services they provide, I was pretty amazed. I am quite interested in looking into retail graphic design, and this would be the place to get a good idea of how it works and how they go about doing such large displays and graphic installations.

7nine

I really like the work that is showed on the website, from prints to web design.. they offer a range of services:

Branding, Advertising, Packaging, Signage, Copywriting, Print, Direct Mail


Telephone: +44 (0) 113 245 8222
Email: Justin@7nine.co.uk
Unit 2
Apex Business Park
Apex Way
Leeds
LS11 5LN

Vapour

Telephone: +44 (0)113 222 0213

Email via the website

Sebastian Onufszak

From Germany, love the work I have seen on the website...
Won't be able to travel there like though.. They have a large client list, some well known companies. Services include illustration and web design, which is something I would like to do.

DG3

From Leeds, they work for charity, voluntary, not- for-profit sectors. They do design for print, display and the web. I like how they work WITH the clients, sounds like they are in it for the right reasons..


Tel: 0113 228 5500
richard@dg3.co.uk

EVALUATION- ougd202

Overall, I am really pleased with my animations and my packaging.

There are, however, still a few changes that I would like to make that would improve the product.

I think that I should have done more storyboards, as I found it helped a lot in the previous ‘silent movie’ project. But I found it difficult to decide where to begin with a 50 second animation and I decided to draw up small sequences that I could put together to create the title sequence. 

At the beginning of the module, I had never used after effects or done any kind of animation.

I took to after effects quite well, and was able to do the basic rotating of images, scaling and changing opacity.

When I started to do the idents and title sequence, I had more layers in after effects. Grouping the layers together using colour really helped and saved me a lot of time.

I also made use of the parenting technique that was shown to us, as my layers had to move at the same time to the same place.

I think the subject I chose was difficult not to make too 'animatey', and I was very conscious of this, but I feel that my animations aren't too animated and has a good balance.

I did have quite a few problems with saving my work, with files going missing and also my USB stick wasn’t working properly, which didn’t help.

To make sure this didn’t happen again, I got another USB stick and made files within, that was just for after effects, which I found made life much easier and I didn’t have anymore problems with losing files.

For my packaging, I decided that I wanted it to look like a comic book. I measured a comic and made my DVD case the same size. I really like how it looks all in all, but the crafting of it could be much better, if I had been more organised and left myself more time.

I made a bad decision to use PVA glue to stick the back cover onto my 'comic' and it's made the surface crinkly. If I was to do it again, I would use spray mount.

I would have liked to experiment more with the layout and colour of my packaging, to see what would have worked better.

The plastic sleeve makes the 'comic' look more like a collectables item and that is how it would be seen, if it was out in store.

The images that I used in my animation changed a lot from my original idea. If I was doing this project again, I would like to look at using the illustrated images and change my audience back to 18+. I think that the animation would look much different to my final pieces.

From working in group crits, I have made adjustments to my layout and animation. I feel that I have got a lot out of this module, for example, I have improved with my organisation of layers in illustrator/photoshop/after effects and saving my work in a sufficient way. 

I really enjoyed doing motion graphics, and I hope that I will be able to use this again soon.