CLIO Training

For this week I have been working on the CLIO training. My course will be focused on early beginnings of animation. I have added most of my content to the course and I’m currently adding in the background.

I wanted the background to be whimsical and match well with the color palette chosen for the course. At first, I used characters as the background, but it didn’t look well. So I decided to go in a different direction and I believe it worked a lot better.

Course Graphic

For the past couple of weeks I have been working on the course graphics training. I started off with two designs.

They both were visually appealing designs, but there was still something missing to make it a design that will capture the students attend, but wouldn’t distract them from the professor.

I decided to continue with the grid design, but add in the original painting as the background.

This was the path I wanted to go in for this course graphic. I felt that it was a perfect balance between simple and complex. However, the resolution of the image was really blurry and I was unable to find a larger size of this image.

As a result, I decided to research other paintings by the artist and come across a colorful master piece that would be the focus for the course graphic.

I began working on the additional assets that would be included in the course graphic package. I decided to have the based color to be a navy blue color.

The graphics were turning out great. However, the black border for the grid was contradicting the light colors of the other graphic. As a result, I ended up changing the black to the same navy blue color to make everything more in sync.

Overall, I believe I created a successful course graphic that is both visually appealing and applies well to the theme of the course.

Religiology Logo

I was given the task to create some logo design drafts for a religiology website. I was given a color scheme of natural green tones and was given some sketches by the client for inspiration.

When think of the concept I envisioned the use of trees and geometry. Trees equal growth, prosperity and showcase how we are rooted into our faith. That is how my first design was created.

I was having trouble at first creating my second design, but I decided to continue with the theme of trees. The difference with the second design is that I used a triangle as the shape to surround the tree to represent the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In addition, triangles are the strongest shape.

Based on review, we decided that the vision of the second design is best to present to the client and I had to create some adjustment to the image, such as thickening the second line and changing the colors of the tree and leaves. These are the edits I came up with.

I included different variations of the trees, ranging from different colors and perspectives. Lastly, I did more edits on the images.

Cascade Training Part 2

I was finally able to complete the cascade training part two. This training was coding heavy, but I enjoyed seeing the final products of this training. Here is the entire opening page for my site. I had to keep true to myself and include the pink and the flowers.

Custom Buttons

For the second part of the training, I was tasked with creating tables, custom buttons, and pull quotes. For the custom buttons, I included sections about the Animation process, the importance of Character design, and the creation of Walt Disney Animation Studios. These are some of the most important topics in relation to Animation.

Pull Quotes

For the pull quotes part of the cascade training, I included information about the history of Animation. I included two types of pulled quotes. Both in different locations and different formats.

Cascade 2

I have began working on the cascade training part 2. This one involves a lot of coding to create the different layouts. I was able to create the tables and accordion in this training.