Day: September 23, 2015

Today was my first workshop with Clive; he demonstrated a range of Augmented reality apps and variations. I downloaded an app straight to my phone where I was able to try out some of my own augmented reality.

With this app I was able to place objects within a room and scale and position them to appear as if they were actually in the room. I was amazed that an app could do this and I didn’t need any fancy software to create something like this. Clive also spoken about another app called Blippar, this is an app, which you could place over a well-known brand, and it would tell you different things about the brand.

From reading and understanding the brief the next couple of weeks I will undergo a series of workshops, two workshops within each sector:

• Branding Design & DTP
• Motion Graphics
• Visual Effects
• Digital Interactions

After completing the 8 weeks of workshops I will be tasked to incorporate all the skills that I have learnt along the way into a one-minute video. This will be my own personal digital portfolio, which demonstrates my skills, and techniques I have absorbed over the skill cycle period. The convergence task is a total of 30% of this semester’s grade; the other 20% is the R&D Presentation.

After reading through the brief at first I felt confused because as a student I don’t really feel I have yet developed into an artist. There are things I enjoy doing, and I feel I am good at but nothing as of yet that sticks out to me. I still feel like the world is my oyster and I could be taken in any direction, it’s just a case of finding that ‘something’ that inspires and motivates me each and every day.