by Amanda Daniels-Allen | Apr 23, 2010 | Guest Blogs |
Wednesday
I digitised frame A which displays Miss Koogar discussing proposal with a client. I tried to recycle as much as artwork as is possible without impairing the quality of the image. This adds to consistency and improves work-flow. Much of the recycled components have to been altered drastically but still save time in the long run.
The eyes, there so many layers within such a small space. They had to be redirected towards the clients. Adjusting the eyes is really what took the most time in this frame. There is much more to do than just moving them from their original position. All of the opacity’s have to set to the correct levels and the scale and the shape have to be accounted for also.
Friday
I’ve been making embellishments to the existing frames and tweaking them here and there. Such as adding steam above a mug of tea, I put suggested text on the sheets of paper, I increased the weight of line on smaller objects. Some of the adjustments. I added another client who has been dark into frame A gave her/him a navy blue tone to distinguish the two clients.I changed the colour of the text in frame I from a navy blue to light blue to improve the overall uniformity of the colour scheme.
I began digitsing frame F (the final frame of the comic strip), which shows Miss Koogar placing a package into an old fashioned postbox. I have been experimenting with different colours of the postbox as the traditional postbox red doesn’t existing within the Koogar palette. Currently it’s set at medium purple and is looking good.
by Amanda Daniels-Allen | Apr 21, 2010 | Guest Blogs |
Today has been a great day, very different and fun!
This morning Koogar was co-hosting a Marketing Forum with Azzure Marketing. The forum was a great success, both Amanda and Julie were extremely confident when giving their presentations and their topics were different, direct, informative and above all useful. So I hope everyone who attended agrees and has taken something away from the event that they can use to take their business to the next step, whatever that step may be.
Throughout the afternoon I have been doing a lot of follow up work, mostly dealing with emails, forms, paperwork etc so not as exciting as this morning, but it has to be done and to be honest, I’ve even quite enjoyed doing it!
You may have noticed that it’s just gone half 5 and I’m only just posting my blog. Well, this is because I’m off shortly to another networking/ forum to learn about the importance of SEO, which I’m almost certainly going to find helpful and I’m really looking forward to it.
So all in all a long day at the Koogar Head Quarters and beyond, but all relevant, new and exciting, which is just what you want out of your working day!
by Amanda Daniels-Allen | Apr 19, 2010 | Guest Blogs |
Today has been rather exciting for me as I took part in a meeting (which I set up) between myself, Amanda and someone I met out networking last week. The meeting went well and hopefully both Koogar and the company involved will be able to complement each other perfectly. Needless to say that Amanda and myself were both happy at the prospects that the meeting produced.
So a very productive start to the day- all of this accomplished by 11 am!
For the rest of the afternoon I wrote up some campaign details that Koogar will hopefully start to promote come May. I also took part in a brainstorming meeting- couple of hours with Amanda and Andy coming up with new ideas for Koogar and elaborating on the ones already in the pipeline.
So overall today has been a very creative day!
by Amanda Daniels-Allen | Apr 16, 2010 | Guest Blogs |
Wednesday
I made some alterations “emailing the proposal” frame. I removed the toolbars, which allowed the viewer focus strictly on the email the window. In “the presentation” frame the line work is relatively simple so I was able to use the “stroke tool” in Photoshop. The stroke tool creates outlines around shapes, which really helps my work-flow as I do not have to spend large amounts of time manually selecting the areas to fill.
Friday
I continued working on the comic strip again today. I digitized the “client requirements” frame, which depicts Miss Koogar going over a checklist of a client’s website requirements.
I also updated some of the previous comic-strip frames, tweaking the images here and there. Limiting the colour scheme, giving the frames a more uniformed appearance. A lot of the frames still needed the tonal work and shadows adding. Once you add the shadow to an image it always gives it more life. The computer screen in the “emailing the proposal” frame was angled little to harshly so created a new image of the computer screen at much more gentle angle.
I have used a number of different camera angles in the comic strip which are beginning to emerge. This variety makes the storyboard more visually interesting and helps to engage the viewer.
I’m really pleased with the way work is going right now, the Comic Stip project is coming along well!
Thanks for reading!
by Amanda Daniels-Allen | Apr 14, 2010 | Guest Blogs |
Well it’s Wednesday afternoon and I’m happy to say I survived the BNI meeting yesterday! Only kidding, there was nothing to survive. I was welcomed straight away and was made to feel comfortable and didn’t even have to use my script card when doing my 60 seconds hurrah!
Since then I have been talking non stop about BNI and networking etc. Despite all my yapping on though I have done quite a bit including creating some wording for a new page Koogar is going to launch very soon, which will also be using MissKoogar!
I’ve again been designing some new questionnaires, creating a spreadsheet and creating the wording for several other new pages Koogar wants to add. So its been all go today, which is the way I like it!
Oh and hope you all found this week’s Marketing Tip helpful, so there’s no excuse now leaving a subject box blank!
by Amanda Daniels-Allen | Apr 12, 2010 | Guest Blogs |
Hi there!
Today has been a productive day- creating questionnaire forms using Google Docs so they look really professional, following up some future publicity for Koogar, creating a mammoth list for Wednesday, arranging a couple of meetings for Wednesday and much more! I even had time to go for a coffee with Amanda, where we discussed some of our ideas. So still working, but in my mind it acted like a break and I got to take a walk in the sunshine.
I’m also off to a BNI meeting tomorrow morning by myself to network! Argh!
So lots to blog about come Wednesday!
