Jay Payne, a tutor at Huddersfield University came to present a lecture this afternoon, focusing on his personal career and how he achieved it to his full potential. Before the lecture began, we were to open our sketchbooks, and sketch whatever we felt would help us understand elements throughout the presentation. If this wasn't helpful to us, we could sketch anything we liked, to create a starting point for our future designs and ideas. Then, the lecture began: He started doing graphic design and technical illustrations, creating a sketchbook full of hand drawn images to help him explore. Sketching is a very powerful way of working he explained. Exploring many different practices, he displayed his website created personally, giving us an insight as to what he's achieved career wise. He has done basic graphic design, constantly creating new fonts and design ideas, he's also done technical illustration which involved a lot of doodling, keeping sketchbooks, and a lot of time spent on a drawing board. Many of his drawings developed narratives. Prop making was also a career he took part in, and then went on to 3D model making. More recently, whilst working at the university, he has done motion graphics. Most of it was self taught, which portrays his good research skills, helping with practice and development.
"I am yet an undefined practitioner" Jay Payne.
One of the titles of his research is 'In search of the invisible'. An idea of two aspects to our nature; an outside world and an inside world. We consider ourselves as creatives - we have an inner world, trying to describe things in the outer world. His starting point for this research was an animated sketchbook. He made it look interesting by creating a short animation to display the work he'd drawn. He used dark music (The shaw institute), and the animation focused in and out of specific parts of his drawings. Effects were used to blur elements out, which were then focused in on. I thought it was interesting and a great way to pull certain elements that he had designed to the front. It didn't involve too much animation, he explained that it was just a few layers in After Effects.
"Take your inner world seriously" Carl Gustav Jung.
Imagination using sketches, helps us to understand ourselves. We have to research, it is part of the design process. Lastly, we were shown a video that I can't remember the name of. It expressed a journey in a very creative way. An interesting effect was used that prevented us from viewing the real picture. We as creatives could see inside the video and pick elements from the animation that lead us to other ideas based on the imagery throughout.
The lecture was over, and I had a few sketches that I had quickly put together. I had a song in my head, 'Put your records on' by Corrine Bailey. So I created two small images with a few words from the song. This imagery was also helpful for Sara's animation session that I have on the coming Thursday. I could use these sketches in my animation, as this piece of work was given to us as a bit of homework.
