Land of Art Ph14:Ch4 - The Panoramic Effect
Last time the panorama was one of my favorite types of graphics, yet for landofart Phase 14 Challenge 4 we had to use a different method of creating it and that initially threw me off. I even contemplated handing in one of my Golden Tickets so I could skip this challenge. But buying points always feels too easy for me and I decided to at least make an effort.
To get in the mood I started the old fashioned way, which is to find an image and frame it within the 500x100 pixel format to then cut it up into five icons of 100x100 that work as stand alones. I love figuring out how to capture the best cuts of the image and the scene I used from The Breakfast Club is perfect for this method:)
I made two of these panoramas, one with text and one without:
(The font is Wild Creatures Alt 1 by Ana Parracho.)
After making these, I thought I was ready to start on designs following the "new" method, where you must use multiple images to create a 500x100 piece of art and then split that panorama design into five individual icons.
I really struggled, because to me it seemed like I was supposed to just clunk five individual icons together to then split them up again. As you can clearly see from my first set-up, that's how I approached the design with five portraits of Christopher Walken, blended together.
But then I looked at my original BreakfastClub scene I used for the panorama graphics up above and I noticed the faces of each of the characters would make excellent close up icons. So I started playing with that image to make a composition that would work in a Panorama and then I got the hang of it!
By the time I got to my last design, I actually had fun with this graphic type again, so I'm really glad I gave it a go:)
Here are the panoramas I handed in for this challenge:
For this last one I used images from Druck, the German remake of Norwegian series Skam.
Featured is Matteo, who is confused when he crushes on David.
I especially love the last two icons which are of one expression, but feel like two moods, look:
See what I mean?
What do you think? Do you prefer the first or second method of making Panoramas? Which one is your favourite?
J.
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To get in the mood I started the old fashioned way, which is to find an image and frame it within the 500x100 pixel format to then cut it up into five icons of 100x100 that work as stand alones. I love figuring out how to capture the best cuts of the image and the scene I used from The Breakfast Club is perfect for this method:)
I made two of these panoramas, one with text and one without:
(The font is Wild Creatures Alt 1 by Ana Parracho.)
After making these, I thought I was ready to start on designs following the "new" method, where you must use multiple images to create a 500x100 piece of art and then split that panorama design into five individual icons.
I really struggled, because to me it seemed like I was supposed to just clunk five individual icons together to then split them up again. As you can clearly see from my first set-up, that's how I approached the design with five portraits of Christopher Walken, blended together.
But then I looked at my original BreakfastClub scene I used for the panorama graphics up above and I noticed the faces of each of the characters would make excellent close up icons. So I started playing with that image to make a composition that would work in a Panorama and then I got the hang of it!
By the time I got to my last design, I actually had fun with this graphic type again, so I'm really glad I gave it a go:)
Here are the panoramas I handed in for this challenge:
For this last one I used images from Druck, the German remake of Norwegian series Skam.
Featured is Matteo, who is confused when he crushes on David.
I especially love the last two icons which are of one expression, but feel like two moods, look:
See what I mean?
What do you think? Do you prefer the first or second method of making Panoramas? Which one is your favourite?
J.
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