Medieval Booklet Production Final Session

Session Review

Further editing the green man illustration, I included the subtle animation of his eyes glowing into flash. However, this was a tedious process since I originally planned to convert the three frames into a gif and import to flash’s library. Moreover, the MAC desktop I was using on the campus for some strange reason would not allow me to save the frames for the web and successfully convert them into a gif file.

Creating Green Man animation By Sebastian Jones

In addition, Mantas had finished the illustration of Joan of Arc as instructed and I was impressed by the likeness to the original painting. Once Joan of Arc was painted and imported on to her biography page, both Mantas and I proceeded to make sure every topic page contained information and place every the illustration we created onto their appropriate pages.

To conclude I was pleased with this session mostly due to Mantas being more focused and helpful and our teamwork had improved since while I coloured his illustration, he pasted his information onto the blank pages.

References

Luke Mastin. (13^th April 2012). The Enigma of the Green Man - History of the Green Man. [ONLINE] Available: http://www.greenmanenigma.com/history.html. Last accessed Thursday, 14^th May 2015.

The Green Man. (Thursday, 14^th May 2015). The Green Man in History | The Green Man. [ONLINE] Available: https://thegreenman.wordpress.com/the-green-man-in-history/. Last accessed Thursday, 14^th May 2015.

Medieval Booklet Production Session:11

Session Review

Editing the holy grail graphic

Throughout today's session I have coloured and shaded both William Wallace and the holy grail illustrations; however, this time I have applied a Gaussian blur to both illustrations to give the illusion of them appearing to be water coloured artwork blending into the parchment paper.


By Sebastian Jones

Medieval Booklet Production Session:10

Session Review

Throughout his evening session, I have continued to fill in sections of information for the iconic figures and Robin Hood topic pages. In addition, I have drawn a nice hand-rendered sketch of a medieval market place as the main graphic for my culture page and will look magnificent once scanned and shaded.

Once I returned to University campus I begun to further edit Mantas’s drawings knight sketched fix the anatomy of his legs and feet and position the shield onto his left arm since it looked unusual standing up straight on the ground.

Further advancements to the booklet have been made such as the completion of button navigation and the composition of text and images have been aligned to fit within the confinements of the screen.

References

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By Sebastian Jones

Medieval Booklet Production Session:9

Session Review

The Lord of the Rings:The Return of the King game menu visual button reference

Throughout this evening session, I have continued t critical review the topic categories in my booklet and have decided to change particular categories such s hierarchy and replace it for religion since describing the religious vie of the period would be a fundamental subject to read. Instead, my paragraph of the hierarchy will be placed in the cultures main page giving a brief overview of medieval culture and how it was structured.

Furthermore, the various homepage buttons have been renamed to contents since this booklet is to give the illusion of being a book. Additionally, The fourth category of Myths and Legends has been renamed to "Folklore" since the word folklore.

I have also thought about the design of the navigational buttons and after observing game menus from Lord of the Rings Conquest have decided to use another bold font for the main categories as the buttons instead of bold blocks.

References

http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/351893-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-return-of-the-king-windows-screenshot.jpg

By Sebastian Jones

Medieval Booklet Production Session:8

Session Review

Comparison of of the old(right) and new(left) page design By Sebastian Jones.

Following on from yesterdays drawing session I am applying more visuals and filing every page of the booklet with information. Furthermore, one of my critics from Friday's session wrote on my review sheet that I should perhaps use a parchment paper texture instead of a painted background.

After browsing the internet I located a parchment texture which added a fine quality to the pages of the booklet. In addition, I will increase the screen resolution in order for the background to fill the stage even when the user viewers the booklet in full screen no quality will be lost.

Furthermore, the book emblem that mantas was edited into a texture instead of an illustration. Additionally, once I tediously moved al of the existing frames down the timeline to make room for the new cover page I was forced to eliminate existing action script codes for it would have been very complicated and be a slower process of cleaning up code.

Chosen booklet parchment texture provided by Textures101

So I edited my flowchart of events and will begin recording the new booklets actions.

References

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/medieval/images/23.jpg

http://textures101.com/view/2609/previous/Plain_Paper/Coffee_Paper

http://www.myfreetextures.com/background-image-parchment-paper/

Lucy Lisa. (1^st May 2015). Black Marble Floor Texture - Home Decorating Ideas: [ONLINE] Available: http://happylizard.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/black-marble-floor-texture.html. Last accessed Tuesday, 5^th May 2015.

  http://www.colour-affects.co.uk/psychological-properties-of-colours

By Sebastian Jones

Medieval Booklet Production Session:7

Session Review

Medieval typography visual reference

After receiving critical feedback on my current booklet design I agree on the feedback that I received stating I needed to make the booklets design more engaging and visual appealing. This is also common knowledge to me since I have tried giving my teammate Mantas a chance at contributing a sufficient amount of artwork; however, the rate at which he draws is poor and the quality of drawings is either unfinished or poor so I have made the decision to stop relying on him and create the remaining artwork myself.

To begin with, I have begun exploring medieval typography by browsing through old books such as(...) and on the internet. In addition, I have measured the reference image and the square measures at 2 centimetres for width and height.

The reason for me designing creative text for my booklet is in order for me to use artwork and appealing colours to capture the viewer's interest on each page.

References

Time Ref.com. (24 April 2015). TimeRef - Medieval and Middle Ages History Timelines - Medieval History:. [ONLINE] Available: http://http://www.timeref.com/people/people_index.htm. Last accessed Sunday, 3 May 2015.

Dieter Steffmann. (Sunday, 3 May 2015). Old London Font. [ONLINE] Available: http://www.dafont.com/old-london.font. Last accessed Sunday, 3 May 2015. 

Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections. (23 June 2003). Evolution of the Medieval Book. [ONLINE] Available: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/medievalbook/intro.htm. Last accessed Sunday, 3 May 2015.

By Sebastian Jones

Medieval Booklet Production Session:6

Tuesday 28th April 2015

Session Review

During today's session, I have taken one of Mantas sketches the Knight drawing and applied some shading to it to replicate the style of illustration seen in the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 motion graphic opening. In addition, I spoke to a fellow classmate named James who previously undertook this module and he talked in depth about his concept and finished product, I proceeded to ask him on what resolution size he used for his informatic booklet.

James had informed me by commenting that he used a resolution of 800 pixels wide and 699 pixels in height. I then proceeded to apply the same resolution settings and now the stage(screen) was large enough for me to fix the composition of text and images and finally the booklet started to visually look like the medieval codex's I used as image references in my mood board, especially with a darker shade of brown which was made to create the illusion on of stained pages.

By Sebastian Jones