Making the border

I wanted to use a rather flashy border for this Jacques piece, to achieve a similar affect as the mojo magazine heres what I did.

I decided I wnted to use Polaroid kind of old fashioned shots, as they had just came arund at this time.

So first I whent into illustrator and made a brush.


I first made the basic shape and colour of a polaroid picture.


I then duplicated it and clicked on create scatter brush, and adjusted the setting until I found something I liked.

I then created my double page spread page and drew these polaroid patterns around it for a border.

Mojo mag

Heres a rather interesting spread from Mojo, I like how the texts surrounds the image but doesnt over crowd it. The colours work well together too and the text fits the imagery really well! I'd like to maybe use some of these elements , though this will depend on the way my article looks!

Research for the website

I looked at a site for the magazine uncut to see how websites related to articles, you can see on this article that the uncut werbsite format is very similar there mag format. So maybe I should think about doing the same with my website.

This is a scan in from mojo magazine, this isn't the best representation of aspects I would like to have implemented in my magazine (this is because currently I don't have access to a scanner). The things I like about the "Uncut" and "Mojo" magazine's are the way there spreads have a theme, you can see in this one that they have chosen to do an old fashioned article style. The way the text works with the borders is really niece, the border in perticular, I think adds alot of character to this page. The colours also work well toether, though I dont think the imagery works well with the spread, for the theme is classy and quite elegant, but the picture is of a modern prick craving attention in the most annoying way. The content of this magazine bores me, but the style and layout are niece. A themed style I think, will work well for Jacques, maybe Black, White and Gold with caligraphy writing, anyway we'll see.

Animation Development

Sometimes whilst animating if I did a turn using key frames , the turn would go wrong shaped and I 'd have to mess around with the bars at the bottom and fiddle with them until he turned cleanly.

Back To Jacques

For one of my latest briefs I'v been asked to create an article , with my own text. I've chosen to do this on Jaques Brel (I did a psot on him a coupe of months ago). He was a Belgium , who sang in French , from 1940 to the late 1960's . In England he isn't very well known, though in France he's quite a Legendary icon. There's a Jacques Brel station on the Brussels train line (Brel lived there for a long time and even wrote a song called "Brussels"). Jacques music for his time was rather wild , unlike most of the mainstream performers Jacques didn't conform to the subdued style that was common in that period. Jacques would act out his performances with an ever present flaming vigour , his views both political and social, emphasised in pure poetry. Edith Piath recognised Brel's performing brilliance .

"He goes to the limit of his strength because, through his singing, he expresses his reason for living and each line hits you in the face and leaves you dazed." Edith Piath On Jacques Brel.

I'd like to create a rather classy double-paged spread for this piece , using iconic imagery of Jacques (I may edit these or use natural pictures). My double page spread should be appealing to an older and younger audiance (like something from rocksound or uncut)

Below is an example of the imagery I'd like to incorperate , you can see from this picture the expressive nature he has.

Models, set and {ainting

I modeled the Fish using the extruding faces technique and then smoothing it at the end, I added the eyes by adding a sphere to it then paretning it with the body, I couldn't create the warter effect very easily so created a large nurb sphere, put a floor surface down then pianted it. The paint tools are easily useable for you create , your colour then, you can play around reflectivness and opacity etcet, I gave my gold fish a shine! You can drage the colours on with the middle mouse button or paint different sections with the section shader.

Grrrrreat!