Design Ideas – Page 2 – The Bearded Brew Project

Individual Gantt Chart

Alice Louise Eagle / November 2, 2015 / Design Ideas, Idea Development, Web Development

Hola,

Below shows the Gantt Chart that Alex and I intend to follow in order to carry out individual tasks. We have decided to avoid making someone a developer and designer and, instead work collectively on both. However, in the lead up to the build of the website, Alex has mainly taken on the designer role, whilst I have been testing out different routes to follow with the development. This has allowed us to work on both sides of the project, in order to expand our skill set and have creative input in every aspect. It can sometimes be difficult working within a group, and usually specific roles would be given out to individuals but our overall aim is to create something awesome, and we work best when putting our ideas together throughout every element of design.

– Alice

Photography Studio 2.0

Alice Louise Eagle / October 13, 2015October 19, 2015 / Design Ideas, Idea Development

Tomorrow morning, Alex and I intend to spend a couple of hours in the photography studio, in order to finalize on the images used on our website. We have decided to give the ‘Agisoft Photoscan’ one more attempt and if this continues to not work, we will create a 3D moving giff in photoshop instead. We are doing this because we want to maintain the idea of doing something different and more advanced. It’s easy placing 2D images on a webpage for audiences to look at, it’s a step further if they can interact with the images themselves. The entirity of the website will consist of 2D and 3D design elements as they do work well together. However, since we have both spent some time working in 2D, we want to try something new.

We will update you tomorrow on how the images turned out, fingers crossed for ‘Agisoft Photoscan’ being our friend in the morning!

-Alice

Animation Story Board

Alexander Brown / October 7, 2015October 19, 2015 / Design Ideas, Idea Development

So I had a go at making a story board for the animation, based on the story I came up with about the Bearded Brew.

Excuse the terrible art skills, i’m hoping the animation will look a little prettier, but hopefully you get a rough idea of what’s in my head at the moment.

I’ll now start to create the assets i’ll need in Photoshop, and brush up on my After Effects skills!

And I suppose maybe have a beer as well.

– Alex

Agisoft Photoscan

Alice Louise Eagle / October 5, 2015October 19, 2015 / Added Research, Design Ideas

THE SOFTWARE DOWNLOADED AND IT’S AMAZING!

Whilst in the studio, we thought it might be fun to try out some 3D stills of ourselves. This involved us having to stand still in front of the back drop, maintaining the exact pose, whilst the other took photographs in a 360 motion. We firstly tried importing one of the series of pictures of the beer into the software, but this didn’t work so well. Therefore, we thought if we practiced with the images we took of ourselves, we could later come back to the beer and have another go.

The initial result :

It’s the first time we have used this software and it’s already pretty impressive, we think our lighting may have been off in the studio though, hence the image not being as clear as we would like. The software itself is really simple to use considering how complex the idea behind it all is.

We will hopefully be back with another post about how our pictures developed through this process, with pictures of beer next time though.

– Alice and Alex

– Just a quick update

For some reason the photos we took in the studio weren’t working as well as we’d hoped. It may have been down to the lighting we chose, but we are unsure. However, after playing around I managed to get a bottle of the brew to look kind of ok. Obviously we still have a long way to go, but the software is amazing!

Hopefully i’ll have an even better update!

Alex

Photography Studio + Beer

Alice Louise Eagle / October 5, 2015October 19, 2015 / Added Research, Design Ideas

Hola,

So this morning we spent some time in the photography studio, taking some pretty awesome pictures of the Bearded Brew. We decided to take a couple standard pictures, using two soft boxes and a white back drop…

We also found some gingham material in the studio and thought the picnic approach worked quite nicely.

The main purpose of this studio time was to take some 360 degree stills that we could later import into ‘Agisoft Photoscan’ and have a mess around with it to see how the software works. We want to be able to show 3D images on the website itself, so when potential customers are viewing the product, they have a more immersive experience.

We are currently downloading the software and have our pictures ready to upload!!

– Alice and Alex