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+  "text": "Hello, this is Anne. Welcome to the Looking Glass. And today we'll be talking about the assignment feelings. So I hope you all took advantage of the Focus Week to catch up and put a lot of creative energy on this assignment. And it paid off because I saw so many amazing assignments come in. I've had so many that I want to show. I really chose a whole bunch. So we'll go quickly, but I wanted to show like a big variety. So this exercise number four called feelings. So in this lesson, you learn how to convey feelings through color, texture and style, you know, instead of using a literal imagery. In this lesson, there was no script. So you had to really focus on the feeling that the client is trying to evoke, in this case, satisfaction. If you remember in the lesson, you learned also how to use the distortion tool to exaggerate proportions and abstract things in new ways. And you began to learn about lighting and shading on different forms. So you were asked to choose two three flavors from the brief and to create three shots, the first one being establishing shot, the second action shot and the last the lockup with the logo. So in this assignment, it was important to pay attention to the brief, asking yourself, are you nailing the feeling of satisfaction that you're trying to create for the client's fun and funky, delicious flavors? And also you were asked to create your own color palette, which is always a big challenge for a lot of artists. It's not always easy to choose a color palette. You have to make sure it reflects the mood and it has a good value structure. So, all right, let's dive in. Let's start with Sean. I'm gonna use his assignment to go through all the different steps that you were asked to create for this project. So the first part of it was creating these thumbnails just to work on your composition and then what kind of transition would be dynamic and fun for this project. So for this first frame, my comment here was that this was pretty static frame with the baskets in the middle of the frame, we can't really see the ingredients that well. So this would be like a really good opportunity to use distortion tools and abstract things a little bit to see what's in here. Like maybe we see the top a little bit more. Otherwise, I found this like movement this way to be very dynamic and interesting and Great lock up here. So let's see what happened here with the mood board Sean really was trying to nail I guess a feeling of being in the wild and I think he did a good job here So, okay So here's the first frame. So he decided to tip the basket over so we could see the ingredients better. And then you've got this amazing flowing transition frame to this lockup with two flavors in the wild. And you're really consistent with the styles of all the line width are consistent The compositions are strong and the color value is a little bit pale like I would have added maybe one darker color maybe like a dark brown Would have like made things pop up a little bit more on the page But apart from that This logo here is a bit tucked in up here, but too much. I would put it beside these jars. I love the detail on the jars, by the way. And so that's a design tip. A design tip is alignment. Okay, so we're doing illustrations to communicate a message, which is very close to... So we use the same kind of tips or rules as design graphic design. So in this case, alignment, the principle of alignment, alignment states that nothing should be placed on the page arbitrarily. So every item should have some kind of visual connection with something else on the page. So in this case, the logo placed a little lower here, kind of in line with these jars would make this more readable, more pleasing, because my eyes are attracted here right away and then if I just have to kind of slip over here to see the logo, it's less, this is a little jarring that you have to look up. Okay, I hope I'm making sense. But anyway, Sean, amazing work. Love it. I think my only comment here and I did a little drawing, it would have been nice to have this frame a little bit more in the middle of the action like maybe this bottle falling of the earth is basket falling a little bit more shading a little bit more contrast on these elements at the front I would have made them look stronger like what I said before like maybe a darker brown Can use that and then so you can imagine as this is falling Then the milk and everything falls out or flies off or maybe the same with this honey. So yeah, awesome. Let's move on because I have lots to show. So here's Lauren. Lauren was thinking about just going from the kitchen to a big yummy mess. So I love this mood board. I really can tell you were going for this painterly texture but also very graphic. Let's see how you incorporate that in your work. The color palette I find a bit muted here if you compare it to your mood board. See how you got this pink and this yellow. It just seems really crunchy and yummy. over here is kind of muted. So I wonder if it's a bit I'm not gonna say dirty colors. It's not dirty. It's just kind of muted. Maybe I would have tried to These more joyous colors here, but anyway, so Nice composition. You've got this lovely research you did on these vessel shapes and the blender going off and milk flying everywhere and then this like puddle. When you use a client's logo, it is important to keep the client's colors. This logo is supposed to be red. So that would have worked totally with your palette. You could have added a little bit of red here and here just to unify everything. I wanted to show this from Nicholas because I just, this was just so different from the other frames. Just with this big chunky, like linen texture to me really feels like a, you know, warmth recipe book homemade. So I think he did a great job conveying that kind of warmth feeling here. And also you have this tilted kind of perspective which is dynamic and then you can imagine the camera flying up and seeing all the ingredients and then the lock up here is where I had a bit more trouble imagining how you would move from this table with all the yummy ingredients to here. It's kind of far away I wonder how that's going to happen. And these containers here, to me, don't feel the same. It doesn't have the same feeling. This is very realistic and this is more cartoony and graphic. So that was the thoughts going through my mind here. And this tablecloth just seemed a little bit, this shadow, these shadows are too strong. It just looks dirty here down here So I'm wondering and the logo could be lower as well, but yeah, I was wondering Hmm, you know, you've got this table cloth. It's very flowing Maybe somehow the table cloths flies over here or I don't know. I feel like These frames are really really strong and then here We don't really know how this comes to here. But anyway, just love your color palette and the very unique look that you've created. Moving on to Mike. Look at these lovely frames. So Mike decided to use a lot of outlining and transparent elements and seems like you just use color on everything smoothie. So here's a hand reaching for these vessels and then everything flying out and you added another action frame and with the lock up with stuff still flying off in the air. So I guess some of my comments would be just like these drips. Certain things are outlined and that looks great. Other things are outlined and it just doesn't look quite right as right. Like over here you've got this gooey liquid coming down and then this looks like water. It doesn't actually look like this stuff. So this would have been nice to just put some volume in there. Same here. I would have liked to have seen the whole vessel in this frame and not cut off the bottom, but I love how simple the background is. It doesn't distract from the main attraction at all. This transparent hand, a little bit hard to see, but I love these things flying out. And I'm wondering, you've got pieces of cookie here. I'm wondering if you can have pieces of something else here like strawberries or macaroons or whatever they are. And I guess there's no resolution and then just stuff keeps flying forever. I don't know. But just a little tip before I move on. I noticed that some of these cookies are blurry. So this is because you probably created the cookies this size and then just kind of scale them up to fit them here. So scaling up in Photoshop doesn't really, unless it's like a smart object, it'll pixelize, it'll become all fuzzy. So in this case, you would have had to just create these cookies just bigger than, at a bigger size and then scale them down as needed or just draw another one. That's not fuzzy. But Mike, awesome job moving on. Okay, Lee worked so hard on these. This is version six. I had to show it. Just so much work went into this. So lots of textures, a great value structure, also in the color palette. So this is the first one and then you get to the action with the milk dropping into I guess the middle class and then the lock up enjoying the smoothie at the beach. So great use of texture, great use of using these shadow to really anchor objects in the scene. My only little nitpicky comment was that I would have converted these cookies like that would have put them brown with white bits in them because you've got a lot of white here and you looks great with these little brown bits. I guess it could be coffee falling into the milk. And I believe, oh yeah, I believe that you were saying that this beach ball This would this would swirl around become a beach ball and kind of bounce away and reveal the beach. So Lee awesome so beautiful I should be proud and really proud of this work that you did and last but not least Mattias and Let's check it out. First of all, you've got your drinks after that you've got milk flying off and then falling into a cup very simple idea, but effective and I think my only comments was that What was what were my comments? Let me check it out. Oh, yeah These vessels here you see how this one kind of gets this outline gets lost over this one. Maybe you could have used that pink outline here as well. So this could pop off. I would have liked to have seen maybe a bit more shadow, a bit stronger. This looks like it's floating and maybe move this whole group left a little bit more so that it seems like there's imbalance. There's nothing here. I would have Maybe or put a cookie or something here to balance the image. And also, oh yeah, great job. I forgot to talk about this, but when you create frames for an animator, it's great to add foreground elements and background elements just to create layers of depth for animation. So Matthew asked a great job here, put this huge cookie at the front and the logo here very visible on the glass. Whew, that was great. Okay, that's it for feelings. Stay tuned for the next recording where I talk about globe trodders.",
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