Logo design

Logo Design

Adobe Illustrator

In order to create my logo I first started off with a blank canvas. I then used the ellipse tool to create three identically sized circles and three straight lines at different angles. I then placed them together so the shape resembled my logo design. I then used the eclipse tool again to create 3 more circles and placed them above and in between the circles I had placed earlier. After this stage I selected the shape builder tool and selected all the negative space within the shapes I had just placed and effectively created a new shape. It was a bit temperamental though as the points of all the shapes had to be exactly lined up so that the shape builder tool would work. If the shaped were slightly misaligned  I used the pen tool to select the points nearest and just slightly move them so they were properly connected. Once the general shape was created i then added a blue colour that i thought fit in with my space theme and added some effects on the logo like bevel, drop shadow and dissolved edges.

That is how I created my logo and i think it looks nice next to my title on my game insert.

Premiere - Game trailer

Game Trailer

Adobe Premiere

To start my game trailer project I opened Adobe Premiere on the PC. I then created a new project and named it appropriately. As I was starting off with a blank canvas here I referred to my ideas at the start.

At this stage I created a bin folder so that I could import my video files into and keep them organised.

The footage I chose to use was some in-game footage from both Star Citizen and Counter Strike as well as the Star Wars trailer. I opened the bin folder and Right clicked the mouse button and found the menu item 'import', then navigated to the file I wanted to use then pressed okay so that it loaded into my project.

For this stage I went though the footage that i had imported and selected the specific frames that i needed. I then clicked and dragged the scenes onto my timeline. I then repeated this stage with all my footage til I got a trailer that i thought was acceptable.

for the last stage I merged the scenes together that i used and then added transition effects to my trailer. I think I did do pretty well but I needed to add some scrolling text and some other effects to the footage.

Completed Illustrator Game Disk label - Final Render

Illustrator - Disk Label

Game Disk Label

Adobe Illustrator

1. To start my game disk off, I started with the guidelines for the content and bleed. To create these I used the Ellipse tool and pressed Alt+Shift while shaping it to keep it symmetrical, then just shaped it to the size I needed.
   
2. For this step I added another guideline and then used the Type-on-path tool in Illustrator to type the name of my game around the curve of the disk. I also made the logo separately in illustrator and imported it into this one I will show more on this later. 
   
3. To add a Background I imported an image from in-game footage of Star Citizen and placed it in the right place using the selection tool. While I was at this stage I added the pegi rating image and the PC DVD logo.
   
4. For this stage i am just pretty much adding finishing touches and making sure its ready for a render.
   
   

Update

Since my last post on here i have further updated my cd cover to add on the copyright text around the edge using the text to path tool. I also added a mushroom cloud logo on the cover using the pen tool.

Completed Photoshop DVD Amaray Style Case - Final Render

Introduction - Hi there!

Hi there!

My name is Mark and this is my blog. In this blog I will be documenting how to create a Game/DVD case, a Game disk label and a motion picture trailer created using edited footage.

As part of my University course I have been given the task to create these 3 items using industry leading software such as the Adobe Creative Cloud. This suite of packages has many applications that were perfect to use for this project. I would have to edit and manipulate pictures using Photoshop, I would then create a logo and disk label using Illustrator and finally I will create a trailer for my game using premiere to edit footage.

To start of with......

To start of with I think that by completing this project I would have gained some very important skills that can be used within the I.T industry across the world. First off I will decide on my theme and type of trailer I want to do. In my planning I used 4 different genres of trailer in which I could use.
These are; Action movie, Sci-fi/Space game, Comedy movie and Documentary.

1.0

Brainstorm results

From my brainstorm ideas[see 1.0]  I chose the space game genre of trailer because I am a great fan of this genre and also think that it will have a lot of different scenes that I can use in my trailer. I will further explain this when I am going through the design of my trailer using Premiere. The idea I decided to use was a combination of Star Citizen; A space game that is still in alpha stage and Farscape; A Australian TV program produced originally by Nine network and ran from 1999-2003.
I may also be using star trek footage or themes throughout my design process and final design.

Photoshop - DVD Amaray style case

DVD Amaray Case

Adobe Photoshop

1. To start my amaray case I first set the correct size (which i acquired by measuring a real case) 28x18  and dpi - 300dpi. I also set the colour to be CMYK for print instead of RGB which is normally used in web. the next item to be setup are the guidelines within Photoshop so that I knew where to put the content. These guidelines are called the bleed line and the content line the first inner line is for main content and the bleed line is the line that the DVD/Game sleeve would be cut down to size to. I also created the spine guidelines to keep the spine separate from the front and back.
   
2. The next step I took was to add a high resolution (1920x1080)background to my design by adding a new layer ( by going to Layer>new>Layer... or Shift+Ctrl+N) and copying and paste the image file from its original location. The image above is the image I used to create my background. Once i had inserted my image onto its layer, I then wanted to split the image in half so that I could swap the two faces around. the advantage of this is that I can use the busiest side of image as a focal point . To do this I selected one side using the rectangle selection tool and added it to a new layer and then selected the other side and put that on its own separate layer. Once that was completed I created a background for the spine using a gradient of black and white.
   
    
3. Now I have my background in place and my spine in place i can start with the other parts of the design. Im going to start with the name of the game which in my case is (Starscape Citizen). So I selected the horizontal type tool and placed it on the front of my dvd sleeve. I then typed in the name of the game. Once that was done i changed the font to one i thought was quite futuristic and fit my theme (which turned out to be Racer Regular for me!:)). I then added effects to give the words a slightly different look. First I added an bevel&emboss effect to give the letters a 3D look, i also added a stroke effect to give the letters a silver outline and also a gradient overlay to add a light rippling effect to the letters and a drop shadow to more enthesize the 3D effect. 
   
4. For this the 4th stage I did the same as I did for stage 3 except I rotated it 90 degrees then added effects such as; stroke, gradient overlay and drop shadow. This gave my title a slightly burnt and crumpled up look.
   
    
5. For the 5th stage I added 4 pictures which are from in-game footage of the game Star Citizen. I added this images in all on their own layer and also changed the lighting to be lighter and the colour to be deeper.I also resized and reshaped the images to fit into the flow of the whole sleeve.
   
6. During this stage I added the pc logo on front top left and top of the spine. I used a rubber tool to round off the logo on bottom right corner. I also added the pegi rating logos on front and back as well as warning logos and the barcode. These where all put on their separate layers and resized accordingly.
   
7. Next to be added to the sleeve is the game summary, the legal details and the steam logo because my game would be released on steam (if the community accepted it of course). The game summary I wrote myself and then added a white background which I made slightly transparent to increase the contrast of the writing and therefore become easier to read.
   
8. The last stage of my game case is to add my logo to it. I did this by first creating the logo in illustrator and then importing it into photoshop. I then positioned one near the logo on front page and the resized and positioned one at the bottom of the spine. 

Ideas for a trailer

Hello again.... 

In this post I will be gathering different examples of DVD amaray cases and DVD/game disk labels.I am using these as examples for part of my university course.

My ideas are:

• action movie
• laptop review
• family movie
• university guide video
• xbox or pc game.

Here is a template to give me ideas

Here is a cd cover I may take some inspiration from.

This is an example of a game sleeve for pc.

This is the cover for Star Citizen a space/sci-fi game on pc.

This is an example of a games for windows cd label.

This is some concept art for the type of ships in the game Star Citizen.

Here is a DVD Case design as reference.