unit 30 - P5 - Feedback from your designs

Good Features of the Designs

• Graphics are well done

• Gradient of sky is good

• Good house style – makes the graphic image more realistic

•Reminder of youth/past (replicates older Mario games

Negative Features of the Designs

• Floor is a little unrefined – colour should be different to castle

• Turrets in tower not symmetrical

•A very simple design

Possible Improvements

1.Make the floor or the castle/tower colours different from each other

2.Add more detail to the steps

3.Multiple sky features

4.Make the flag pole a more noticeable colour

5.Make turrets in tower symmetrical

Improvement One

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 The first Improvement I made was changing the colour of the castle as it originally was the same as the floor, so the castle and the floor colour wouldn’t be the same. The colour of the castle has been changed to a darker brown, so it wasn’t the same as the floor or the steps. I changed the colour using the pencil tool and the fill bucket tool.  I used the pencil tool to change the colour of the smaller areas and the fill bucket for larger brick areas. This improved the image as the castle and the floor looked more like their own item within the graphic image.

Improvement Two

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The second Improvement I made was adding the M’s into the staircase to add extra detail into the stairs. I made the colour of the M’s red to replicate the colours of Mario’s suit and the M in his hat, so the M’s that I did would be associated with Mario more. I created the M’s in the staircase by using the text tool for each one. This improved the image as the staircase hadn’t much detail in the original image and so the lettering added slightly more detail to the staircase and since I used a red M in the image, the image overall can be associated with Mario more than it did already.

Improvement Three

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The third improvement I made was adding the clouds into the sky to make the sky seem less simple than it was in the original image. I made the clouds by using the oval tool 12 times for each cloud where there is 11 ovals to make the outside of the cloud and 1 oval to fill the middle of the cloud. I made the clouds grey to make them stand out more than if I made white clouds, but black clouds would over power the image. The clouds improved the image as they make the image seem to be less simple overall.

Improvement Four

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The fourth improvement I made was changing the colour of the flag pole, so the flag pole would stand out more on the blue background. To do this, I used the line tool to make the pole black and to make the top of the flagpole a different colour, I used the oval tool where the outline of the oval was dark grey to show a shading like effect of the oval. This improved the image as it makes the flagpole stand out more than it did when in the original image when the flagpole was green.

Improvement Five

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The last improvement I made was changing the turret sizes, so the turrets on the castle became symmetrical as they originally was fitted to the different layers of the castle. To do this I had to make the castle slightly bigger, so I used the line tool to make the brick like effects carry on and to make the outlines of the turrets, then I used the fill bucket to make the new sections of the castle the same colour as the rest of the castle. This improved the image as it makes the castle look as if it is fully complete now where as in the original image the castle looks as if it has an element missing from it.