Portfolio: My finished BA paper

[zeromancer1972]

only saw a few pics but had trouble with the texts - they seem too layered to me, but i can say that the pics are great!
what filter did you use for this effect?

good luck for your BA and keep going!

[phobos]

Nice to hear you like the pictures. I haven't used any filters it's just 3d elements layered together in Photoshop.

About the typography.
The concept here is that you're actually watching his thoughts. It's like you're in the middle of his brain and his thoughts pass by very fast. He is seconds from dying so his thoughts are very fast and mixed. That's why I used a very small leading. You might have noticed that I used different font sizes and regular and italic sizes. The main thought behind it is that you are watching an internal dialog with himself. The phrases with the regular font are the ones from the part of the hero who is solid to his thoughts and the phrases with italics are the ones from the part of the hero who always questions his actions and is very unsure.
I think it's very readable on the actual printout.

[zeromancer1972]

i fear this would be a problem that I have on my screen regarding the types... first i thought it is a design of a cd-booklet coz of the unconventional measures.

only layered 3d u say? ok, this would be a further projekt for me to achieve similar effects :)

photoshop rulez :buttrock:

[LordShaitan]

I only saw the first couple pictures because i was to impatien to wait for the rest, and if you were to show this to employers online i belive they would feel the same way. Cut it down into smaller segments if its goign to be online, or just do it on a webpage.

[phobos]

Shaitan I don't want employers to go to my site and download it. It was just for you guys to look at it. Sorry but 4.8MB is as low as it can go. I'm on a 56k modem here and this takes like 15 minuttes to download. It's not that much time. Maany of you have ISDN or better connections.

Anyway here is a short explanation
for you to better understand the images



The bulb scenes symbolize the characters life. That's why it's repeated so many times. The images are like the actual physics of the light bulb. Before a light bulb is about to be burnt it lights much more than before. Than it light out and on the last step is ruined. (the explosion scene of the bulb at the end.) The colors of the bulb that get out symbolizes the soul of the hero thats getting away.

Now for the rest of the images
Page4 (the eyes): It's the scene when he gets hit by the car. The light from the car are over exposing his face and the character is very terrified.On the right side of the image you can see a figure motion blurred. He's the character beign blown midair by the car. (Nobody sees this!!! And I've modelled 10 different positions for this one...). What I like in this image is that you can see 2 different states of the character. One is when the car is reaching for him and going to hit him and the second where he is actually hit.

Page6: It's the man who hit him. Because the character is loosing his senses he can't hear what is he talking about. Thats why the text is blurring and gradually vanishing. Again we see 2 states. One is the man who is trying to see if the hero is ok and second the character loosing his senses.

Page 7: Bulb scene. Here we realize that something isn't going right with the character. This is the image that symbolises that his death is starting to take place

Page9: This scene symbolises the state of the hero's mind. All his memories that he thinks are stored in boxes are starting to open and flood his mind. That why the scene is full of light.

Page 11: This is his most recent memory. He's on a bar and he's not having fun at all.He thinks that all the people there are some faceless with no personality people. They all look the same to him. Notice the star that are starting to take over the picture. At this point he's taking a slight control of his senses. The stars are the stars that he sees when he is lying down on the road. Notice the stars on the first picture. From this point on he's starting a flashback on the past

Page 13 (The box picture). We all remember our childhood full of innocence and happiness. The only disturbing thing in the image is the hard shadows that symbolise his recent state.His mind is telling him that something isn't right. Also notice the cubes. His mind again is thinking about ways to tell him that something doesn't go right. You will see the word "death" on the cubes. Also notice on the background the clock that's ticking. We all have an inner clock that helps us realise what time it is. Noon,morning etc. This is our heroes clock alarming him that time is passing by.

Page14: The bulb again. It's startin to loose his lights and a week light is starting to flow out of the bulb.

Page 16. The female body symbolises all his sexual partners. No matter how our sexual partner is we always visualise him with the best possible way.

Page 18: The lack of communication. Our hero is talking to another person. It's not one person it mainly everybody. Remember the bar scene. Everyone is facelles and same for him. This is exactly it. A facelles with no personality person.
On situations like these (accidents) our mind is starting to not work right. So his mind is projecting all sorts of stuf. With this image the hero is starting to see all kinds of illussion. The illusion on this one is the white man on the door on the right page. It's our primal fear I guess that someone is watching us. The clock on the right again is a reminder of the passing time.


Page 20. The hero working at a fastfood. He hates his job and as youg uessed right it's one hell of a rushed image!!! Notice the clock again on the background and the stars. The second time he gains his senses.

Page 21: The background is getting really dark and the light symbolizing his soul is starting to get thicker and with more light.

Page 23: This is our heroes hand touching an empty frame. He had a picture of his girlfriend there, The shadow on the ashtray is inverted just to make the image uneasy and to visually show that something isn't right.

Page 25. Questioning religion. The hero thinks that he will burn in hell

Page 27: I like this image very much. It was a very fastly done image but has strong compoasition I think. It symbolises the spirits coming near the chinese (errm) thingy.

Page 29: Although you can't see it it's a fully modelled elevator that takes the hero down. Meaning hell. That's why I used these kind of colors. The phantom figure behind him is actually him. It's like an out of his body experience.

Page 30. This is the part where his illussion are taking over him. He realises that he can't go to paradise cause he wasn't a so good man. The door symbolises heaven. It's unreachable and has so many lock. Instead he can access all the stairs that all lead downstairs....

Page 31. The light bulb has cracked and his soul is out. One tough scene to make. The light bulb can explode reallistically and can be fully animatable

Pages 32 and 33 symbolise again the death of the character

Hope this helps to understand my images better.

[stephen2002]

It's really intersting, I don't think it works very well as a PDF file though This is the kind of thing that was designed for print and it feels very clunky on the computer screen.

Good job though, I'm sure it looks excellent printed out on some photo-quality paper :)

[phobos]

Thanks stephen. Glad you like it. It's gonna be printed on a velvet 170gr paper and binded like a real book with a hard cover. I'm waiting impatiently until it gets printed and binded!!!!

[phobos]

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