For the next Visual Language brief, we had to make a turnaround of an object. I've seen these many of times, but would have never thought I would be making one myself in the future. The purpose of a turnaround is to give the viewer or whoever is looking at the object a 360 degree view. I have seen these a lot on shopping websites, especially for shoes!
I immediately wanted to do a turnaround of my record player, since it is new and I love the look of it, but I did know it would be a bit of a challenge with the details and shapes of it. Also because it is in the parts. Coincidentally, the name of the brief matches my object as well...
I had to first set up how I was going to do my turnaround, because it has to be the exact distance away from you in every shot. I ended up placing my record player on a large sketchbook and they thought I could slowly turn it around inch by inch. Further on I did come across the issue of my record player coming closer towards me, so that was something I had to watch out for and edit in Photoshop later on, but overall I found this way of doing it fair enough.
I started off doing my turnaround in pencil and then using a ruler and pen. This was my first result:
I think from a first attempt at a turnaround and using pencil and pen, I think it looks alright! It didn't take me as long as I thought it would, probably because for three or four of the frames I was drawing the back where there is less detail, but the frames from the front and side did take me quite a while.
Since I had a few weeks before the presentation session, I thought I would trace over my already drawn turnaround and make it a digital version.
I forgot to mention that I did 13 drawings because I seemed to not have enough of the 360 view in just twelve (though I could only fit 12 of the drawings on the image shown above). None the less, I really liked how this digital version it came out as well! I've never done anything like this before, and i've often found trying to turn an object or character in an animation to be very difficult so I am surprised I came out with something rather presentable. I do like this version more than the first try, simply because the lines are thicker and it looks more smooth.
I am glad I didn't end up drawing the object moving closer towards the camera, because I think after it was played a few times it would be really noticeable and not realistic at all! As a result I am relieved to have done a test before I went straight into the drawing as that would have just consumed a lot of time that would in the end, have been wasted. For my first turnaround I am proud of it, but it did take a REALLY long time. Even though it was only 12 drawings!
And because I love colour, I went ahead and coloured my turnaround as well...
I think this is definitely my favourite one of them all, because it really gives a sense of what the object is. I think it completely transforms my object now that I have added colour. My record player does actually look like this so it is weird to see on screen, but I am very proud of this result and I really enjoyed this brief!!
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