Hey guys, it's great we got this blog together, but now it's time to start putting it to use! We have a month now before CDA classes start and by then things will be even more busy for us. I think now is a good time to start figuring out how we'll utilize this blog. I'm just gonna put some of the stuff we've gone over in our conversations just to have it be out here, and we can discuss here too.
Monthly Assignment May 2013: Superheroes of the Renaissance
To have a rough time-frame I think we should maybe have ideas by the end of the week. Not even thumbnails, but if you can do that great, but I think it is important we research, and really sort out our plan before jumping into design stuff. So if we could post our ideas/plans later this week and bounce ideas off of each other I think that could be very useful! Here's some stuff to help us get a jumpstart:
Things to consider:
- The location of your story.
- Limitations of technology.
- Social situations of the time (such as being a lady, if your hero is a lady)
- How will your story be told? Will you treat it like a live action film, a video game, an animated film?
References:
Wordy references:
http://www.learner.org/interactives/renaissance/middleages.html
http://www.erasofelegance.com/history/renaissancelife.html
http://www.renaissance-spell.com/Renaissance-Life.html
Pictures:
http://www.cwu.edu/~robinsos/ppages/resources/Costume_History/renaissance.htm
http://www.nimblearts.com/Costuming/Costuming.html
http://karenswhimsy.com/renaissance-clothing.shtm
Sketchy Sundays!
We all know it can be a real undertaking to work on an assignment such as that, that's why our focus doesn't have to be a completed assignment, or an assignment at all. Meeting up on Sundays is nice- but what about the rest of the week? Or the art that we don't see each other work on? This is the place to put all of that. It's all the benefits of meeting up on Sundays without the Starbucks or cupcakes! I plan to post soon, and I hope we can really get the ball rolling on posts. Even "doodles" I think are important to post.Tags:
I think we should have a rough plan on how things should be tagged. Ideally everything is tagged with your own name (like on CDA blogs), and photo reference (like stuff gathered from field trips) could be tagged as "photo reference". I think maybe the year should be tagged too for easy viewing in the future. Maybe we could tag the project as "Ren Heroes" or something. A post like this I'm going to tag "text" just for the sake of personal organization.
So like an example of tags would be like: #Sxyvaan Pichon, #photo reference, #2013, #Ren HeroI'm just kinda thinking aloud now, haha, I guess that's everything I can think of.
