Education City - Brief

About a week after i had sent off my application to Education City, I received an email from the creative director, explaining that they were very happy with the work they had seen and that they would like to send me a brief to have a go at.

I was provided with a password which would allow me to have a trial period using their product, in order to familiarise myself with their layout and style. 

My task was to design an app which would teach children how to cook a simple recipe. This was something that I knew wouls be a challenge because they style of Education City is very different to anything I have created in the past, and I have never designed an app before, however I gave it the best go I could. 

I haven't posted everything that I did for this brief, on this blog. This is because I didn't want to risk posting anything that the studio would prefer to be kept off my blog. As well as the design work above, I also produced an animation test with the assets they sent me, as well as more initial designs for the layout of the app, including the characters that were to be included. 

How did I find this?

Since I only had 10 days to complete this and send it back of, I decided to get started straight away. I found it to be a challenging yet enjoyable brief, and I loved the designing that I got to do. I decided just to do my best and then go from there, because I was still feeling slightly doubtful at this point, because the Creative Director had brought it to my attention that would have ideally likes somebody to start sooner then my first date of availability. 

This was also a challenge because it required me to animate using the symbols and assets they had provided fr me. Having been so used to animating hand-drawn frame by frame animation, it took be a little while to get into the swing o fit.