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.
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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
IMY 120 | Best RedBubble designs | 2021
For their first project in IMY 120, the students have to use Adobe Illustrator to create a tshirt, mask or pillow design for the RedBubble.com store. Take a look at the best designs below.
Amantle Bodiba
Ashir Butt
Dhairiya Chhipa
Andreas Lysandrou
Keelan Matthews
Tayla Orsmond
Ross Tordiffe
IMY 120 | Personal brand logos | 2021
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.
First-year animations (2020)
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: Miguel Rebelo
2nd place: Stewart Coetzee
1st place: Mark Grosvenor
Digital self-portrait projects (2020)
The first-years in IMY 120 put their Photoshop skills to good use by creating a self-portrait that describes an aspect of their personality. They needed to use at least 15 different images to create the composition. The best submissions are displayed below (in no particular order) along with a description of the self-portrait from the student.
Francesca Strydom
I am an adventurous person and love trying new things that excite me. Many of the activities shown in the artwork are things I enjoy doing, such as hiking and snowboarding, and the rest are all on my bucket list. Even though the way to get to all the activities is through the mountains (and can seem difficult), it is worth it to persevere though the hard times to experience something so exciting, this is a metaphor for how I live my life. And finally, I like space which is why I integrated the space looking sky.
Ayaaz Street
My self-portrait’s main idea is to represent my curiosity, thirst for adventure and love for sci-fi and fantasy. This is shown as my self-portrait because my curiosity is shown by the man looking into the night sky with his telescope, he is shown to be search for his dreams. Another aspect would be the location and tent shows my thirst for adventure and love for travel, this is also symbolized by the Sagittarius sign in the sky as this sign is known for its adventurous spirit and love of travel. The final aspect would be the mysterious objects like the UFO abducting people, the dragon flying by the moon and the Sagittarius sign in the sky, these all show my love for sci-fi and fantasy and further represents me as I am a Sagittarius and the dragon is Toothless from How To Train Your Dragon which is one of my favourite animated movies.
Miguel Rebelo
The main idea of my self-portrait is the core belief that I hold that books are magical and are able to influence our realities. This self-portrait is representative of me because books are one of my main passions in life. I am studying publishing which means that I will be able to utilise, and direct, the “magic” that books possess. The self-portrait also contains other parts of me such as my love for writing and coffee.
Alexa Pettitt
The main idea of my self portrait is to communicate that I am a day dreamer, that I am able to come up with other worldly scenarios to keep myself entertained and satisfy my need for creativity. This represents me as it represents how I think and how I process life without getting bored. This expresses the child-like quality I still possess as I still dream of a world of magic, I still remain positive and see the brighter side of things even if its near impossible. I escape through my thoughts and they are what shape me into who I am, they impact how I cope, how I stay awake during the most excruciating lectures (COS) and how I am determined to keep creativity alive in my life.
Lakshita Padiachey
The main idea of my composition is to represent myself through my love for art and being creative. I am creative and love art. I relate to Frida Kahlo and Vincent Van Gogh because they would paint self-portraits in a non-traditional sense to not represent their physical appearance but their emotional state. The lines, curves, colors and techniques that they used represented their inner self more so than their outer self. Hence, I created a merge of them with their artworks to show my love for art and how art is a way for me to express myself emotionally. I also represented my love for both fine art and architecture through the cathedrals and various artworks.
Benjamin Osmers
The main idea of my self-portrait is to showcase two sides of my personality/thinking. One
side is logical and analytical, where the other is very creative. I am a photographer; hence the self-portrait contains a photo of my taking photos. I am very adventurous and love the outdoors, hence the mountains. I have a mechanical engineering degree, hence the equations inside of the aurora in the sky. I like the idea of our world seeming very surreal at times; thus, I have added the aurora. The spaceship, moon, space boots and flag on moon represents my lifelong dream of becoming an astronaut. My creative side is represented by the overall dreamlike look of the composition. My head is cracked open and inside is a collection of different color’s. This, along with the streaks of color above my head also show my creative side.
Rhyne Murray
The main idea is to convey my two personalities as well as show how my life is more on the tranquil side of things, whilst watching anime with friends. The right side indicates my calm and collective side with the lake and trees as well as my love for Japanese traditions.
The left side portrays my dark and mysterious side with the unsteady waves and dark mountains and somewhat of a rough life I had through my young days. And the middle where my friend and I watch television is my closet weeb side (love for anime) and the volleyballs behind our heads shows my active side playing volleyball.
Michel Mampa
The main idea that I’ve come up with for the project is to portray that I am a creative and I have an artist’s perspective. The artwork that I have created represents an idea of how I view things in reality. Instead of viewing in black and white and solving problems logically, most of the times I tend to do things creatively and artistically. In the artwork I showed how the general pictures look like in reality and have showed how I perceive see them.
Illustration for a product – IMY 120 project
To put their Adobe Illustrator skills to the test, the first years in IMY 120 were tasked with making a design for a product on RedBubble.com, an online store where artists can upload their designs and place them on products. The students could choose between a tshirt, mask or pillow to design for.
The best projects are shown below in no particular order.
Benjamin Osmers
Lakshita Padiachey
An Qi Zhang
Ayaaz Street
Francesca Strydom
