Context of Practice 3: Sound and Vision

Tie Fighter Animation Test from Adam Allsuch Boardman on Vimeo.


This video is more of a proof of concept, as I would rather produce quick .gifs so that I might focus on the screen prints and subsiquent potential products. I borrowed the audio from an older ambient track I produced as part of a concept album. Although on reflection, sound effects would have been more appropiate.

Perhaps if I find aditional time after the final crit, I could make all six full animations, but that may not be particularily necassary when my time could be better suited to refining evetything else.

Context of Practice 3: Final Print Designs

Here are the final resolved positives for each of the six designs. It was always my intention to stick to the original trilogyof films, focussing on the Kenner toys of the late 70s and early 80s, as these have become synonymous with Star Wars merchandising. The prints include many of the obscure trivia I found during the writing of my dissertation. Much of the information regarding the toys themselves were found on various Youtube videos involving the uploder restoring the now vintage items.
I am very pleased with the aesthetics, and I will test the line art on a variety of stocks. Perhaps I am only dissapointed that I didn't get around to drawing the Lambda Shuttle.
 

Context of Practice 3: Developments [7]

The drawing process of these models took a good amount of time, in-fact it too long. I had made the decision to return to drawing the imagery through entirely digital methods, as notions of analogue integrity are null compared to being able to finish the images on time.

Context of Practice 3: Reference

I have assembled a board of illustrative diagrams. These will inform my process somewhat, however I have had trouble finding that many that have an isometric rigour.        <a data-pin-do="embedBoard" href="https://uk.pinterest.com/allsuchboardman/diagram/"data-pin-scale-width="80" data-pin-scale-height="200" data-pin-board-width="400">        Follow Adam's board Diagram on Pinterest.</a><!-- Please call pinit.js only once per page --><script type="text/javascript" async src="//assets.pinterest.com/js/pinit.js"></script>  

Context of Practice 3: Developments [6]

 

The composit .gif image was the result of a good day's worth of drawing, improving upon the previous attempt at drawing the Millenium Falcon. Using additional reference I drew the Falcon far more constrained to an isometric grid.

I printed the  imagery out and filled in the majoirty of the detail using fine-liners. Filling in the details with an analogue process was an attempt to reduce time expendature. On hindsight, perhaps the effect would have been aesthetically identical and indeed, drawing the details analogue took a good amount of time.

Context of Practice 3: Peer Review

During this session I brought test screen prints as well as the initial hand-drawn isometric drawings I had produced. I received two sheets of feedback from self-confessed non-Star Wars fans. This was a rather good thing, as I could gage whether my project made any sense to someone unfamiliar with Star Wars. 

They seemed to get the gist, however they raised the important question; how will I differentiate the drawings as pictures of toys rather than pictures of the fictional vehicles as depicted on screen?

As a result of this review I have decided that it doesn't matter if I do produce the imagery completely through digital means. It is my purpose to accurately portray these products, and rigorous isometric drawing is much easier to product on the computer.

Context of Practice 3: Developments [5]

I have tested out a couple of more informed visual concepts. One of my older ideas involved describing how designs were developed, or how they referenced to well-known popular culture imagery.

The image on the left seems the most successful, following the structure of some Sears diagrams, I added a key to the image, showing the individual elements that resulted in the now recognisable Millennium Falcon design.

Context of Practice 3: Kenner Millenium Falcon & Sears

The Millenium Falcon set arrived in 1979, intended for the use with the 3.75" action figure range.
I am currently unable to find any reference to the artist responsible for the diagramatic instruction sheets, they are somewhat reminiscient of the Sears range of exploded diagrams. The line art is simplified in some areas and peculairly faithful to the details in others, most notably the exhaust areas on the top cover are very accuracte. The artist very likely had the actual toy to draw from, or at least a series of promotional images to trace over. I would like to refer to this aesthetic in my own responses, using a more formal grid to align the imagery.

Context of Practice 3: Developments [4]

I have developed a more refined study of Kenner Star Wars toys, including the Millennium Falcon and Snow Speeder. It took some amount of time to construct reference imagery for the torn apart diagrams. Traders and collectors post a good amount of pictures on sites such as Ebay. These traders often sell spare parts for vintage Kenner toys, which is useful for understanding how the toys are put together.

Using an isometric grid, I draw the individual parts in an exploded diagram-like format.

I am struggling with the purpose of the drawings, as at the moment I would suggest all of my progress amounts to being fan-art regurgitation.