After learning some sound editing and animation skills, the first-years in IMY 120 were given a project in which they had to tell a story that begins with a verbal narration and ends with an animation. The best project is shown below. It was created by Kiara Hodgson.
Category: First-year design projects
IMY 120 | Digital Representation | 2023
To practice their skills with image editing, the first-years in IMY 120 were given an assignment where they had to creatively combine at least 15 different images to create a digital representation of themselves.
Kiara Hodgson
Brendan Du Plooy
Akhona Phoswa
Nolan Kuhn
Johnny Wilkinson
IMY 120 | Isometric artwork | 2023
While learning Adobe Illustrator, the students in IMY 120 were given an assignment to convert a room in their house into an isometric artwork. Here are the best submissions, in no particular order.
Louise Bruwer
Ben Van Zyl
Lineo Khabane
Kiara Hodgson
IMY 120 | Animation projects
After learning some sound editing and animation skills, the first-years in IMY 120 were given a project in which they had to tell a story that begins with a verbal narration and ends with an animation. The best projects are shown below.
3rd place: Cheyenne Scheepers
2nd place: Joshua Schröder
1st place: Matthew Rottcher
IMY 120 | “Frankenstein Monster” character | 2022
To practice their skills with image editing, the first-years in IMY 120 were given an assignment where they had to creatively combine at least 15 different images to create a “Frankenstein monster” character and make it look like it is part of its background.
The best submissions are shown below in no particular order.
Daniel Lukyanov
Jay Mashele
Mia Hand
Shiza Butt
Matthew Rottcher
Kristi Matsila
Danae Swart
IMY 120 | Isometric artwork | 2022
While learning Adobe Illustrator, the students in IMY 120 were given an assignment to convert a room in their house into an isometric artwork. Here are the best submissions, in no particular order.
Danae Swart
Keaton Botha
Matthew Rottcher
Shiza Butt
Yantha Wolmarans
IMY 120 | Personal brand logos | 2022
The first years in IMY 120 were tasked with using Adobe Illustrator to create a logo for their own personal brand for use on a portfolio website. The best logos are shown below.
IMY 120 | Digital self-portrait | 2021
To finish off the section on Photoshop, the first years in IMY 120 were tasked with creating a digital self-portrait around a main idea about themselves. The best submissions are shown below in no particular order.
Thomas Isebeck
The main idea was to create a composition that captures my personality and interests in a quirky way. I enjoy writing and reading a lot, which is shown with the pen and books. Photography is a part of who a am as well, specifically macro photography (this is why there is a camera and a miniature scene). I have a fun, yet strange way of thinking about things, so I made the character intentionally look strange.
Ndzalama Maluleke
The main idea behind my work is being artistic. I made the image of myself and the wings black and white in contrast with the background that is more colourful to represent my idealistic nature. I am also love reading and giving the books the quality of flying is how I feel when I am reading. The words come to life; I see and feel what I read.
Keelan Matthews
The main idea is to express my love for Japanese culture and use of anime as an escape, as well as my love for music. I am situated in a Japanese environment which symbolizes my fascination with the culture. The shrine is a gate to a fantasy world where Pokémon are escaping from – referring to my means of using anime to escape reality. I have headphones on and a keyboard next to me which symbolizes my love for music production.
Tayla Orsmond
My self-portrait describes my dreams, imagination, and my love for mystery and fantasy stories. It is uniquely mine because it shows how my mind, and my imagination works. It includes my favourite animal (rabbits), the castle which represents my love for fantasy (particularly one book, The Priory of the Orange Tree, which takes place for the most part inside a castle), and mushrooms which represent the forest, the one place most soothing to me where I go to find inspiration for my stories, daydreams, and drawings. The figures in the sky represent how my dreams are often bizarre and abstract, and often feature some sort of ghost/spirit or mythical being, even though I am not religious (they also represent my mindset while daydreaming – completely happy in my own world).
Ross Tordiffe
The main concept is that I am a creator of things who loves making art in various forms and putting it out into the world, even if it’s only for my own satisfaction. My self-portrait is a representation of how I add my own creations to the endless expanse of content and art that exists in the world, which is shown by the small river of my creations in the vast ocean and of other forms of art. The Items in the river are representative of the art forms that I usually partake in (music, digital art, etc). Usually, I don’t feel the need to advertise or deliberately bring attention to the things I make, so in the portrait, I’m simply sitting quietly, creating away.
IMY 120 | “Frankenstein Monster” character | 2021
To practice their skills with image editing, the first-years in IMY 120 were given an assignment where they had to creatively combine at least 15 different images to create a “Frankenstein monster” character and make it look like it is part of its background.
The best submissions are shown below in no particular order.
Tayla Orsmond
Ross Tordiffe
Francois Smith
Cole Toerien
Andreas Lysandrou
IMY 120 | Isometric artwork | 2021
While learning Adobe Illustrator, the students in IMY 120 were given an assignment to convert a room in their house into an isometric artwork. Here are the best submissions, in no particular order.
Dhairiya Chhipa
Thomas Isebeck
Keelan Matthews
Tayla Orsmond
Connor Roberts
Ross Tordiffe
