More Logo Ideas

From experimenting before, I know that I want my M and W to link.

I like the one I chose before but I thought it felt too corporate, too sharp.

Particularly when Animation is all about fluidity and movement.

Therefore I decided to experiment with my signature as it's very loopy and loose.

I'm quite liking the looks of this one.I made subtle changes for each one, like how scewed the MW is, what colour the dot of the 'i' should be. I also really quite like the MW standalone logo. I'm not sure whether to include the dot. It gives it a quirkiness but I'm not sure if it works. 

Weebly, Wordpress or Wix?

Today we were introduced to a couple of web-hosting providers.

I liked Weebly instantly

It seemed very simple to use in order to achieve a good, professional-looking website. Initially from appearances and the interface I thought I would prefer it.

However, I soon found that it was very limiting in design. A simple element like the ability to change colours of aspects of the website was either impossible on certain templates or had very restrictive palattes on others.

This frustrated me very quickly as I couldn't see how I would personalise it the way I wanted it. I didn't want to own a website that looked exactly the same as many others'.

Wordpress wasn't impressive enough

Although I could see that Wordpress had its uses; quite a range of nice tools and possible plugins if one was to pay the premium. However, I didn't want to have to go to all of the trouble in order to keep my website from looking like a blog. Every single section seemed to need to be 'unchecked' so as to keep everything appearing basic.

I wasn't feeling it.

Then, I visited Wix.

I couldn't believe the difference. Suddenly I had so many more choices (I could even personalise the social network icons with my own designs if I so wished!)

Everything seemed to appear much more professional and I suddenly felt really happy that I could create a website that I really loved from another really easy and clear interface. Furthermore, I would be able to make future changes to it easily. I believe the reason it appears more professional than Weebly, is that it uses Html5 customisable coding; so this leads me to believe that the designed templates are somewhat more complex.

Wix is definitely the one I'll be choosing to create my site.

Thoughts on Html coding

I'm not keen. The main reasons are that I don't have Dreamweaver so that would make things difficult and I hate the idea of having to 1) Purchase a template 2) Have to go to so much trouble to change and customise your website when Wix has a great interface where it changes it all for you. And from what I've seen, both achieve a very similar standard of professionalism in appearance.

Showreel

We' had Melvyn for a few lessons to learn how to make decent showreels in the minimum time needed.

We looked for various showreels online to find what worked well and what didn't. I found that on showreels that weren't as successful either went on too long, weren't critical of their own work and showed a lower quality of work or didn't have any contact information within the actual video to clearly indicate who it was made for.

A showreel that I chose to be one of the best was by a company I really like called Giant Ant:

Although longer than what we're aiming to produce, it is full of varied and interesting work showing a vast range of skills. I believe it could actually be shorter and work just as well but they are clearly a company that produces a lot of work and so wishes to show as much as possible.

I'm happy with what I made in this time; it really taught us to be disciplined with our own work.
The main structure we all used was Begin with best work and End with best work.

I can't wait to clean it up and ask for permissions for the music.

It's great to be able to display your best work presented in a quick video. It creates impact.

Logo Ideas

I thought I'd put these up:

I was just experimenting with my 'brand'. I actually have been thinking that my name is too complex to remember. So many people do not pronounce my name correctly and certainly can't spell it so I'm wondering if this will be a problem for me.

On the other hand; there won't be many Micky Woznys out there.

I'm considering using purple; I tend to change my hair colour a lot but I always end up going back to purple after a while and it's quite a gender neutral colour so I thought it would make sense for me.

I've also generated my own font - using my handwriting. I believe this is quite a nice personal touch. I asked some friends which logo they preferred and they immediately picked one that was in my handwriting. They didn't know it was my handwriting. I asked why they chose it and they said 'It just feels like you'. Therefore I think I might incorporate my own font in my brand. Perhaps.

I like the third down on the right. The 'MW' would be nice to use as a stand-alone logo. Still got a lot of development to go though; I'm not happy with any of these.

Presentations

We presented today. It went quite well.

I happened to create a 'rough' showreel for it which I was relatively happy with. I'm looking forward to next week when we learn how to properly make one; it will hopefully appear much more professional.