Visual Language Week 11:Final Piece

Here is my final piece which was tricky to colour in using photoshop and illustrator.

Visual Language Week 11:Piet Mondrian

I have uploaded these images as i am going to use the Mondrian effect where he takes an image closes up to it again and again to eventually come out with a pattern.

Creative Industries Week 8:Review A Film, Game or Animation

The film I will be reviewing is Smokin Ace's 2 Assassins’' Ball is a direct-to-DVD action crime film, a prequel to the theatrical released Smokin Aces and is about a FBI office worker who has a bounty on his head which causes him to be a target for various assassins.

After watching the first Smokin Aces film I had high expectations on the second but realising that it would be a direct to DVD film I knew not to have high hopes as direct to DVD films are most of the time a flop and so I had the expectation that this would involve the same amount if not more of shooting assassinations but as I had seen the movie had minimum amount of assassination until you had the end scene which had the remaining assassins fighting it out against each other, where as the first movie had some assassins intercepting each other before the end causing multiple amounts of battles.

Comparing the storylines between the movies is similar in the fact that there were main people who had a bounty on their heads and had assassins after them whilst FBI agents were there to protect them and had a twist at the end, but my view is that with the storylines being really good the first movie was more better because the action scenes with the scenes were you found more out about the story, where as the second had a 2 or 3 interceptions and one quick final battle and with that the second film had it's moments such as the twist at the end and how it left the door open for another which would excite me if they live up to or improve from the first film.

There is a major difference between both films which cuts into how much they can achieve and that is the budget and with the second film being a direct-to-DVD film it has a lower budget causing a limit on special effects where as a theatrical release has a higher budget and also with a theatrical major acting names know that with a direct-to-DVD film there will only be a certain amount of people who would watch a direct-to-DVD film making the second film have a low standard because the budget and big named actors, which I only knew Vinnie Jones.

My overall judgment of the film is that it's a decent movie because with a brilliant storyline it’s only missing the improvements on the action scenes but the addition of Vinnie Jones known for his action movies could have given this film more action but instead had a lower role however the story had enough motive for it to be made but with a twist at the end had me wanting more and if they improve on the low standard action and more scenes involving the assassins I would watching another instalment in the Smokin Aces films but till then the first was definitely better then the second but being a direct-to-DVD film that’s would was half expected.

Visual Language Week 10:Sketches

Below are he sketches i had don showing the flowers and transition from flowers to buildings.

Visual Language Week 10:Hayao Miyazaki's Castle In The Sky

Laputa Castle In The Sky is a animated film by Hayao Miyazaki and in my previous blog i came across a image which resembled it and in doing so i researched the movie and came across some of the images i have linked which show this ancient building which to me was seen as an assist in what i am doing because it has this great old look from the amount of grenery you see.

These next two images are of the castle itself flying and how the medieval look stands out because there isn't a replica of it.

With this image you see more of the castles underbelly and how there is this ancient power from under powering the castle to fly and has that element of future technology embedded within the castle.

Again the castle but in it's first scene as the roots show the whole of the castle is lying with the tree and this image shows the medieval side again but shows strange shapes that go with the castle such as the shape of the wall or the castle itself, which got me thinking that i could use the strange shapes idea from how Mondrian came up with some of his work.

Visual Language Week 10:More artwork which could help in my development.

I had found a website called fantasyartdesign. com and i found some really interesting work

The image on the left was appealing o me as it shows this whole greenery feeling which i am thinking of using in my final image.

This next image on the left shows what i think is a huge city of mushrooms which seems like something that could be invisible to humans as it is low to the ground and seems believable.

The next image i had chosen is of a city wide view which has these spaceships flying in the sky which could resemble a futuristic view as it involves things you wouldn't normally see and the landscape is set really well to the point which it shows the majority of the city.

My next image was really in my face because of the fact that you could tell it was a building covered in this moss or greenery which could mean that there is no life or that the buildings have been there for centuries.

This image i saw as a medieval insight of what could be used so the plain but out-standing building with maybe a bit of landscape.

Another image which stood out was this image of a building, a futuristic building presumed by the aircrafts around it, which stood out because of the rare shapes and area around the image.

This final image made me remember a film which could show me how to cover building in moss and the film is Hayao Miyazaki's Castle In The Sky which is incredible with the story-line and the way the animation is created but what stood out was the greenery covering the centuries old buildings.

Visual Language Week 10:What am I Doing?

I began the project with the choice of doing the cityscape because i had already focused on character designs many times before and with this cityscape brief i didn't know what theme i would do, but after i had looked through different variations of building shapes i came across a building from the Abu Dhabi showed a resemblance to a et of roots intwined with each other growing upwards and then i began to research into flowers seeing some really interesting flowers that from their certain shapes i could benefit from.

Whilst working on the flowers shapes i remembered a previous piece of work i had worked on which was the work on Piet Mondrian, in which he had sketched trees and from those sketches gone one step closer and sketching that image and in which he eventually came up with a pattern and i thought i could use that theory to create some shapes for my buildings from the flowers i have sketched from.

And what i hope to achieve is a cityscape created from using Mondrian's theory and finding shapes from flowers and making buildings which will seem like they are ancient by covering them with greenery.

Spartacus Blood and Sand trailer

I had found out that there is going to be a TV show called Spartacus Blood and Sand and when i found the trailer i knew i would want to watch this and with already a second season requested before the first seasons premiered in America on January 22nd you know that it's as good as it looks.