Week 4 - Day Five

So I managed to get my trees sorted on the software for the laser cutter. I did my test too so I can finally tick off the experiment for that. I have't managed to laser cut the required amount of trees though. Actually, I never got the chance to, I honestly don't see the point in creating a timetable to allow people a half hour slot on the laser cutter if the room is going to be locked. Today in my mind has been a waste.. waiting for time that wasn't going to happen but on a more positive side I experimented with textures for backgrounds after my friend suggested wetting the paper and hen making splotches of colour from acrylic and inks. I tried out normal paper from the store cupboard, brown parcel paper and my dark blue card.  I preferred the green grass colours compared to the brown mountain but my favorite was on the dark blue card (need to get pictures of these as I only have the brown as an example on my phone). I don't think I will use this technique though as I am running out of time.

Another postive from today; I was given an example on how I could use a green screen effect in my animation to create the background in. I like this idea and want to try it out. As I cant get ahold of large amounts of green paper to cover at least three sides of a box opened up so the top is exposed and the front, I will use pink sugar paper as I currently don't think I will be using pink in any of my props or creatures. I do need to test it out though to see if the program I will be using will effect any other colours if I choose to use pink as a background that I change. The green (pink) screen will allow me to make a smaller scale background, possibly with larger amounts of detail in. This eliminates the risks of running out of paper of a certain colour and makes it easier if I make the backgrounds too short to run smoothly.

Was finally asked to day what space I would need for my exhibition and at the moment I need an Ipad, cable and charger, Two plinths in which I can put a board over to support the ipad and props on. I think I also get two boards in which I can put my photographs up on once I get round to sorting out my characters for the finals. Needs to be a busy weekend.. also need to update my logbook as I've not touched it much for the past week.