Zoe Smith CMP Blog

This week was much more productive than the last. Monday and Tuesday were spent gathering any outstanding pictures for my sketchbook for...

This week was a little slow on the project progress front. I spent the majority of the time catching up on written work (evaluations...

This week was a very difficult one for me, and I was unable to do much work at all during this time. The only thing I was able to do was...

This week, I finished my project proposal. Initially I wasn't completely satisfied with it, as I felt it was lacking something, but I...

PLEASE NOTE: This proposal is outdated. For the fully updated version, please see my post from the 26th May. This is my FMP project...

The majority of this week was spent working on my project proposal. I encountered a few problems during the week however, as my MacBook...

Due to personal circumstances, all of my work from the middle of stage 2 was pushed backwards. I have been on catch up until today, so I...

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...