Nickykilduff's Visual Language Blog

nickykilduff — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:26:52 +0000

The story here is that there is a football match in a military controlled country. There are soldiers surrounding the pitch. There is a bad tackle and a huge fight breaks out. It starts to get out of hand and the army surround the players. The army tanks roll in and open fire on the players. After massacuring the player they leave it up to the foot soldiers to execute the survivors. Then the whole army leave all the players lying dead on the pitch.

Week 10

nickykilduff — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:20:02 +0000

The assignment for week 10 was to take a popular figure and make them good or evil. I chose Arsene Wenger , Rafa Benitez and Alex Ferguson to make evil but they are already pretty evil.

Evil Men

Week 9

nickykilduff — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:29:24 +0000

This week we looked at Gestalt principals of perception eg:

Similarity
Continuation
Closure
Proximity
Figure & Ground

Week 7

nickykilduff — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:07:57 +0000

This week we look a some principal ideas of visual language. Examples are

simplicity
unity
emphasis
contrast
balance
space
movement
proportion
the golden mean
the rule of thirds

We also took the photographs for our storyboards.

My team:

Robert McCann
Mark Power
Nicholas Kilduff.

Scratch and Stiff

Week 5

nickykilduff — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:24:44 +0000

This week we looked at Image Types, Resolution, Graphic Applications Overview and Photoshop in more detail.

Week 4

nickykilduff — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:23:28 +0000

Week 4 was an assignment trip to the botanic gardens. In which we looked at pattern, colour and texture. We then had to put these elements into practice and sketch some of the things around us in the gardens.

Week 3

nickykilduff — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:20:13 +0000

This week we looked at the use of colour. Some of the elements of colour we looked at are :

The Colour Wheel

* Pimary colours * Secondary colours * Tertiary colours
Colour Componants

* Hue * Value * Intensity *Temperature
Colour Schemes

* Warm & Cool * Monochromatic * Complimentary * Split Complimentary * Triad * Analogous
Colour & Perception

* Chromatic Adaptation * Luminance * Brightness * Additative Colour * Subtractive Colour

Colour Psychology

Week 2

nickykilduff — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:14:44 +0000

This week we had a more in depth look at visual language and we saw some examples at work in comics, animation, informational graphics.n part 2 of our morning session, the creative use of Line, point and shape were examined and in our lab session we put this into practice.

Week 1

nickykilduff — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:12:51 +0000

In week 1 the overall outline of Visual language was introduced, including some of the areas we will be studying. We then had 45 minutes to write a short paragraph of a story and sketch parts of the story.

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Week 7

Week 5

Week 4

Week 3

The Colour Wheel

Colour Componants

Colour Schemes

Colour & Perception

Colour Psychology

Week 2

Week 1