Thursday, October 21, 2010

Taxonomy of shoes
This is my initial idea for my Taxonomy/Folksonomy project on shoes, this ones a rather technical animation. For this I am going to show how each part of the shoe is assembled using 3Ds Max, above are the 3d models I am going to model. However for the last part I want to add abit of story and meaning to it, rather than just showing how a shoe is assembled, I want to show the origins for parts of the shoe, when all parts assemble, the screen will show a different country of the globe then zooms into a location showing where the shoe lace came from and unites with the shoe as a whole
Here I want to shoe the audience from a perspective where parts of the shoe comes from different places of the globe and unites in one location.


Friday, October 08, 2010

Professional profile:
This one is laid out like a CV key pointing out the important words, the top groups are all software names which i grouped them all together .

We have looked at typography, we are to produce a piece using 50 words and no imagery, this one is a personal profile page, here I have key pointed out the important words and used different style font to express the meaning. I catagorized each into personailties, interests and hobbies. However there wasn't enough style to it, perhaps it needs something to pull it all together, right now its quite messy but it was a good experiment.

This one is a interview which is a mix of professional and personal profile, some word got repetitive so I grouped it all together to create an illusion.

Overall it was a good set of experiment but I think it can be improved by having some sort of style and meaning to it. However it was challenging as it had words more than sentences so it was hard coming up with a style to be set in stone. I had an idea of putting all the words and sentences together to create an image or another word like my name, but I thought that it was a little bit too common as it has been done before
For this module, we are to design a character to model in 3d, the plan above is my final chosen one, Plant boy is the name, a character from part of my series i made.


These were the early designs, left one has character but abit too evil looking, right one is abit too plain so in the end I decided to combine both of these characteristics in the final one

Sunday, October 03, 2010


We are given the 2 words Taxonomy and Folksonomy and then the subject of it is based on shoes. Firstly, Taxonomy from what I learnt is the classification and Folksonomy is the connection and the origins of something. So here I divided the shoes into catagories for the Taxonomy, everyone one of these are somehow connected, for example a football trainer falls in between style and purpose. From my research, Folksonomy is like a detailed and zoomed in version of Taxonomy, here on the graph you can see the Folksonomy list with smaller fonts inside each section.