My very first attempt at Photoshop (using shapes)

Using shapes, I created an abstract image to show my ideas of what Esmeralda may look like:

"In Esmeralda, city of water, a network of canals and a network of streets span and intersect each other. To go from one place to another you have always the choice between land and boat: and since the shortest distance between two points in Esmeralda is not a straight line but a zigzag that ramifies in tortuous optional routes." Italo Calvino

My very first attempt at Photoshop (unfinished) 2

Thumb nail exercises based on the following text, using the "brush tool": 

'The slender stilts that rise from the ground at a great distance from one another and are lost above the clouds support the city.  You climb them with ladders...Nothing of the city touches the ground except those long flamingo legs on which it rests and, when the days are sunny, a pierced, angular shadow that falls on the foliage'  Italo Calvino

My very first attempt at Photoshop (unfinished)

    Digitally painted still life drawing

Previous Invisible cities work!

Hi everyone! A link for examples of previous Invisible cities project work:

http://ucarochester-cgartsandanimation.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/fao-caa-yr-1-invisible-cities-2016.html

My first embedded video!

The Present from Jacob Frey on Vimeo.

Just learnt to embed a video on here. Thought I'd post a short animation called "The Present". Enjoy!

My Final Designs!

Here it goes! These are my final designs split into three categories: structures, lifeforms and machines. It was good to spend more time on these concept drawings and being able to finalise my own ideas. The tricky part was showing my drawings from the front, back and side!  I had never done this before with images that I had created.

Structures
This is a light bulb which powers a certain emotion to the brain. I struggled with the connection wires in these drawings as it was difficult to visualise how they would be from the various view points.

 Life Forms
This Object has become an orange octopus, which swims in the deep depths of the ocean.  For some reason the suckers are more visible from the front than they are from the side and the back!  Not sure why -  Oooops!

Machines
This drawing portrays a drone, which can fly and carry objects such as parcels to different destinations.  This was the easiest to do front and back as it was virtually the same!  I'm not sure the perspective is right, i.e: size of the parcel versus size of drone!

Day 6 Holiday Eve

As a small child I remember Mr Ben, the character, created by David McKee, who would enter the fancy dress shop, change in the changing room and walk back through the door and into the perfect setting for his outfit.

One of the images turned upside down looked to me like someone peeping out of a flowerpot!  Similarly to Mr Ben, I added a different hat to introduce a new character.

I have found it most difficult to create structured drawings from the images and have been frustrated by my attempts to draw 'in perspective'.  I have created some machinery but have found some angles difficult.  My moon buggy attempt caused me many problems!

At times imagination has not come easily but very often it is after a break that I can see something different again.  Also I have learnt not to ponder too long and I think that some of my best creations are those that I have thought little about.  My spaceman is an example of this - using the lightbulb as the head shape and then attaching a space suit was fun to do although the arms should have been longer!

I'm off to Disneyworld tomorrow so will do some more drawing on the plane but am looking forward most of all to learning a little bit more about animation on perhaps one of the world's biggest stages!