A look at the design process, thinking forms and function. We look at how unity binds and holds a cohesive design together. The demonstration and assignment involves deconstructing the complex and building from simplification.

Apply labels and defining design parameters, then use such labels to design basic props, applying the additive and subtractive transformations. These all tie into the core concepts of shape design. The demonstration and assignment covers shape design from cues students will be tasked with creating 3 pages of designs using based off primitive shapes.

This focuses on taking the lesson of adding and subtracting basic forms (wk1) with the idea of problem solving with clear intents (wk2) and setting up design parameters to come up with designs from everyday household objects. The demo shows how to extract the form language of a vacuum part to design space freighter.

Shapes are brought up again in a lecture on style and designing guides to work with our selected project. Then we look at balance and rhythm and how these elements are tools to arrange compositions and sequences. For the demonstration and assignment proportion we will look at creating props for our environment world from week 3.

With a project choice underway, in this week we focus on the basics of structure and architecture design. Everyone will design a singular dwelling from your project.

So now we have a project and geographical props from (wk4) and structures from (wk5) and will now compose a shot to show all the designs.

Mind mapping: creating an organized list of items based on function and story cues for design details. Pattern and texture and then examined in bringing our details to life. The demonstration and assignment video shows student’s techniques utilized sketching for production as we design an interior setting to our world.

After a brief recap, this week will focus on vehicle and prop design. We will apply all techniques from last weeks to build strong shapes, silhouettes, proportion, curves, line, horizontal vs vertical precision vs spontaneity, contour vs gesture lines into your designs.