Final frames – CIP Microsoft

The final part to this was to bring it to life. At this point I was tired of all the projects and wasn’t sure if I could complete all the scenes I had planned but went for it anyway, one by one. I tried to include the logo at least, if not the Surface itself and tried not to be lazy and skimp out on ideas. 

I was rather happy on how my final images came out and could only wait to see the final video after the rest of my group had edited and added some fitting music to the whole thing. I think I did well in the amount of time I have myself and if I had to change something it would be to add more frames to make it a little longer as well as more fluent. 

Story board

My idea was pretty simple so I wanted the story board to be the same. I kept it black and white as well as quick sketches of the initial ideas of how I wanted the story to flow. It wasn’t supposed to be clean animation flow but more of a quick hectic “throw it in your face” bunch of ideas or in any case possibilities. The idea was of course “infinite realities”. 

Brainstorming For Microsoft

I was completely lost for ideas at first and kind of pushed the project aside when I was prioritising the Collection book but did ask around exactly what the brief was asking for since I didn’t know. 

Took a while but I eventually started coming up with ideas and noted them down in a brainstorm. I tried to think about my target audience, how I could show this idea on a different way. I had started to see adverts for the Surface whilst waiting for YouTube videos and so I kind of saw what already existed and thought about creating something that was far from what it was but was still possible to achieve with the Surface. 

Microsoft Surface – CIP

The last project for CIP was something that was supposed to be simple and easy to complete – at least compared to the other two CIP projects from this year. The aim was to great a short 1-2 mins video or animation of your choice, showing the “endless possibilities” Microsoft Surface without actually showing the product and being as creative as one likes. 

Social media page

For some reason, having a social media page was on the list of deliverables for this project so I went ahead and created a little page for my future Roman Road Market idea, as if I was a start up business looking for someone to develop my ideas. Surprisingly I actually received followers and likes even though the market was not real and neither was the prospect of it happening, however it showed that perhapes people were into the idea of it existing which would make my idea a success.

Riso Posters for the final outcome

One of the last things I needed to do was complete a set of Riso posters to accompany my blue prints. I chose red to go with the whole market theme because with a lighter shade of red, it looked more pinky and really complimented the look of the stalls. I also code blue as the Riso blue is a darker version and I thought would contrast the red nicely and lastly I chose black to give off that old fashioned faded look as if the blue prints were found years in the future. 

Final Blue Prints

So after having a play around, I figured out that I blue prints are just the technical drawing of a structure or building (I mean I knew this but it’s different actually drawing in the right style). I knew what I wanted the model and the design to look like so I just went ahead and tried to make it look realistic as possible (for what it was). 

I may not have the trampoline lanes on models but I knew it was a feature I wanted to actually appear on the design since the concept of the solution still stands. I also created a blue print of just the stalls because they were equally an import part of the market and something I would have to specially design if the market wasn’t be made, same as the overall structure. 

Trying something blue

I thought since I was doing a model and ultimately designing a structure into Roman Road, I cold try out making blue prints for the market, as if I were trying to sell it to some future developers. 

I researched blue prints before diving in to create some so I knew the look I had to go for so that people could see/ understand that it was indeed a blue print I was trying to recreate. My first attempt wasn’t so bad but it wasn’t quite as clean and professional as it should have looked for it to work. 

Jump forward in time to where a market was built…

I wish I had more development pictures for this process but with all the stress and pressure to get it done, I forgot to record the process with images. 

I used a mixture of super glue and PVA glue to stick the foam boards to the box. I cut small holes into every layer to stick the straws in so that A. they would support the market tiers and B. they would represent the elevators (only I forgot to add littlelifr doors as I planned… ops). The waffer stalls were a new development. The original stall I made, although cute, was impractical and would not fit more than perhaps 3 or four in the box so I had to find an alternative way to create little stalls that still looked like stalls as well as easy to reproduce and place in the market. The rainbow strips and fruit pastels weren’t exactly my original choice for decoration but turned out working very well for what I needed it to. I also used Mikado sticks to hold up the structure in places it was lacking support ans I knew would soon cave in to. I also added people in the end to bring the market to life and show perspective to the market – so you could really see how it would be used. 

Rectifying mistakes and trying something new

So I had to change what I wanted to use for the market tiers itself as well as find a way to paint the clouds in the box so it looked like the sky as all I had managed to do was paint the box blue (I didn’t have any normal white paint for clouds at home). 

So I had a try with Anastasia’s white spray paint since I’d never tried it before and it looked like spray paints were the right effect for clouds. It was trial and error to see how best to get the clouds I wanted (as well as figuring out what clouds I wanted).Once I had figured that out, I was onto assembling the tires. I had forgotten to take pictures but I used the same foam sheets from the first market to create the layers to this, except this time I disguised them and painted them pink. Which came out better then I realised when I had people asking if they could taste some – thinking it was edible – which is perfect cause it’s supposed to look like it’s made entirely from candy. The gems round the edge are also stickers, not actual sweets and this made them a good foundation to build upon because I knew they wouldn’t crumble.