If you end up ahead during the next week, you can choose to create some stickers, holiday cards or both. Submit these for BONUS MARKS. For your stickers, you can create characters, icons, logos etc. But they MUST be vector linework created by you. You CANNOT simply copy/paste images to print. Each student will be given a tabloid sized amount of vinyl sticker material. For holiday cards, you can choose to design a full size letter page, or flip it horizontally so that it can

CLICK HERE for our last project before the break.

For our last project before the break, you can choose to create some stickers, holiday cards or both. For your stickers, you can create characters, icons, logos etc. But they MUST be vector linework created by you. You CANNOT simply copy/paste images to print. Each student will be given a letter sized amount of vinyl sticker material. For holiday cards, you can choose to design a full size letter page, or flip it horizontally so that it can be folded.

Continuing our vector artwork, you are going to design coins/tokens. We will learn how to work with text as outlines and on paths. Focus on silhouette style or black and white shapes. Design a MINIMUM of 3 coins/tokens. Pick your favorite to get cut out.

Although you may still use Illustrator during our Choice Module, this will act as your Final Vector Project. Have a look through THIS LIST and select a large project or a set of projects that will take you approximately 4 classes. This will count as 2 Project Marks.

CLICK HERE for your next project.

CLICK HERE for your Client Logo Design project.

CLICK HERE for our next project.

Let's introduce a couple more tools... Bezier/Anchor Point Tool Shape Builder ...then using what we have learned we will create some characters. CLICK HERE for that project .

What's the difference between a BRAND, a LOGO and an ICON? CLICK HERE for a video. CLICK HERE for a brief intro into Branding. CLICK HERE for your "Company Rebrand" assignment. Done early? Try this... LOGO PARODIES.

CLICK HERE for our LAYERED SILHOUETTES project. FEEL LIKE YOU ARE DONE? Try making some like THIS to enhance your mark...

Our next tools some of the most widely used tools across all forms of design. The PEN TOOL, ANCHOR POINT TOOL and BEZIER HANDLES can be found in all areas of Digital Arts as actual elements of design as well as controls for different settings such as graph editors in video and animation. There are many approaches to using these tools. We will show you an approach that tends to work best with beginners. Always use Shape Tools first if you can before resorting to the Pen Tool.

CLICK HERE for our next Vector Project.

Let's dive into VECTOR Design... Let's start with talking about the main difference between VECTOR & RASTER images. Then, we will do an intro into Adobe Illustrator - we will start with some very basic tools like... BASIC SHAPE TOOL BLACK ARROW MOVE, SCALE, ROTATE COPY, REFLECT WHITE ARROW FILL & STROKE LAYERS Using these tools let's make a Pepperoni Pizza, Snowman, "Southpark Style" character. Next, we will introduce another tool to really maximize the use of these tools...

Let's do a really quick review of terms you should know from DA10. RASTER vs VECTOR PIXELS > PIXELATION RESOLUTION > DPI/PPI .JPEG .PNG .AI .PDF .PSD Next, we will do a quick review of some of the key vector drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator... New Art Boards(Documents) Arrow Tools (Black vs White) Layers & Sub Layers Transform (Scale, Rotate, Position, Reflect) Arrange Shape Tools Pen Tool/ Bezier Handles Stroke, Fill, Gradient Pathfinder/Shape Builder CLICK HER

We are going to start the course with something called VECTOR DESIGN. Our Vector Design Software will be Adobe Illustrator, lets begin with an intro into some of the basic (but very important) tools... White/ Black Arrow (Selection Tools) Pen Tool (No Curves) Shape Tools Fill/ Stroke Transforming Objects (Move/Rotate/Scale/Flip) Copying Objects We will then jump right into your first project - BASIC SHAPE ANIMALS

Here is a bonus project you can work on if you are ahead. CLICK HERE to see the assignment.

For our final film project, you will have some choice in what you create. This is a double weighted project. Choose from the following list of projects, or pitch an idea to me ... VIDEO IDEAS ...you can work solo or in a group, just be sure the work load is fair and will cover the majority of the class time you are being given. You can create one large project or multiple short projects.

For the final video project you will get a few choices of what you would like to do. Choose one of the following... ADAPTED FOR FILM SPOOF/ MOCK AD YOUR CHOICE - Make a pitch to me about a film you would like to make. Length will depend on how complicated the editing/filming process is. You can choose to create one longer project or a couple of shorter ones. You should be planning for this to take you about 4-5 classes.

CLICK HERE for our next project. CLICK HERE and HERE for some examples of camera Magic. SAMPLE FILES