Zoe Smith CMP Blog

Upon finishing Altered States Part 1, I started a two week project to 'wrap up' the Altered States project. I could make whatever type of...

Above: Final piece version 1 Above: Final piece version 2 I have detailed my process for creating the final pieces below. Below that is a...

With my character sketches done, I moved on to sketching an idea for the background. I knew that I wanted a split background (Look at my...

With my mood sheets and game research fresh on the mind, I went ahead and started sketching whatever came to me. The first thing that I...

Before starting any design work, even with my mood sheets complete, I wanted to make sure I looked at some games that I have played to...

Colour, time and reality - these were my main focuses while trying to come up with a game concept that I could illustrate for. Why time...

Upon finishing Altered States Part 1, I started a two week project to 'wrap up' the Altered States project. I can make whatever type of...

Over Tuesday and Thursday, we had a workshop on filming techniques, specifically the Kuleshov effect. The Kuleshov effect in its purest...

As a follow on from the previous workshop (Working with the Grid), we took a selection of our work so far and used our new knowledge on...

Today's workshop was all about working with layouts with and without the grid. The grid is an often invisible set of columns and or rows...

Today's workshop was essentially the same as the previous Altering Photos workshop, except it was a requirement to use Photoshop to do...

In today's workshop we were taught how to use a darkroom and an analogue film camera. The morning we spent in the darkroom was something...

Friday's workshop was about altering some of the photos we had already taken during the course of this project, to make them fit more...

Across Tuesday and Thursday, we had the option to choose between two workshops- one on filmmaking and one on concept design. At first, I...

On Monday, we had a workshop exploring stop motion animation. Given that I wasn't sure what to expect from this workshop, I figured it...

On Friday, we had a workshop teaching us about the basics of Adobe Lightroom Classic. I took my favourite shots from Thursday's workshop...

On Thursday, we explored a few different methods of alternative image making. We tried slow shutter speeds, back projection and an...

On Tuesday we had two more tasks other than animating our GIFs- learning to create Contact Sheets and a Library Induction. The first...

On Monday, we were asked to create a Mind Map and a Mood Board on the theme of Altered States. As well as creating these initial...

This upcoming project is absolutely packed with opportunities to learn new things and investigate new concepts. Given that we will be...