Last week me and Ben began to take the screenshots for the art book and create some pages using them. Once they were done however we had a group discussion and didn’t like how it was looking as it was rather boring due to the plane background and simply how the photos were showing off the environment but not in an interesting way. Me, Ben and Kurtis started coming up with different ideas and how we could improve our Art Book pages. We all agreed that we liked the idea of Polaroids. We developed this idea and grabbed a template from google and took screenshots using the script that I had sourced at the beginning of the project for the progress screenshots. Using this script we changed the settings around so that the screenshots would be taken at a 1000 x 1000 resolution meaning the images would be square; and fit nicely into the Polaroid template.
I had the idea of making it look like the Polaroids were stuck onto a pin board, and Ben & Kurtis liked the idea of them being on a table. We went with the table idea and Ben had actually used substance painter to put the Polaroids onto a mesh with a nice varnished wood texture, and then used marmoset to render out the images at a nice size that would fit the art book. We went from a pretty bland to design to something unique and far more interesting. Me & Kurtis were involved in planning but Ben put more time into this as he was the one who created the renders for the pages.
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