{"id":1525,"date":"2025-05-14T17:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10680389\/?page_id=1525"},"modified":"2025-05-19T12:40:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T11:40:23","slug":"week-12-05-05-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digitalspace.bradfordcollege.ac.uk\/10680389\/week-12-05-05-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 12 – 05\/05\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wednesday 07\/05\/25 – Today I will create a small cover\/logo for myself that will allow me to publish my tracks on Landr. This is the Metroid logo (which undergoes many small tweaks and stylisations depending on the era), and I plan on creating my own logo based off of this. I enjoy purple hues alot more than the reds, and so a lighter blue steel colour would fit instead of the greys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These are E-Tanks (below) from the Metroid games that use pixels. Their design is relatively similar throughout the franchise, only ever shifting in colour when new palettes are introduced. I would love to use an ‘E’ as the album cover’s letter of choice because then I can call the release “Recharged”, a reference to remastering or giving new life to the tracks I chose to remodel. By Friday I should have a logo to work with using Clip Studio and my drawing tablet, and various tools I have at my disposal on the app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Friday 09\/05\/25 – <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I DID IT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Informalities out of the way, I actually did this logo in two hours yesterday. I’m quite proud of it, and ontop of that, I made another track!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is the cover for my Album, titled “Recharge”. There are a few things to talk about regarding the choices of shapes and colours, and I have screenshots of the process going along. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three bars leading up to the “R” is a reference to how Metroid usually works health, measuring it in bars for how many energy tanks\/capsules you have. In this case, Samus, or the protaganist, has four bars, about to gain five as the hand reaches for this orb I designed to replace the typical E-Tank look. Paired with a gaussian blur effect, this makes the orb look somewhat magical, rather than a scattered piece of technology, which is rather fitting for the whole “Otherworldly” theme, which could be magic, or something with a floatation device inside. Eitherway, I am proud of how this turned out, and I will post the screenshots below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Initially, I worked the shapes and anatomy of the hand before adding any lines or details. I knew I wanted this to be the main eye-catcher of the album cover, so I made them as big as I could on a 3000×3000 canvas witthout touching the edges.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Then, using a colour palette from a “reconceptualized” design of Samus Aran, I had an analogous scheme that would work well. Note how I also began work on the Album name card in the top left, but it is positioned differently to the end-product. This is because in the midst of making the outlines and colour layers, text layers couldn’t be edited directly, and I had to find a workaround and start on it again. I also added an inner layer to the E-Tank, which was a darker colour to break up the shapes and see what I had. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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For this progress check, I coloured in the card and E-Tank with similar colours, using the mostly enveloping (see colour wheel) purple-blue for a base, and then chose yellow to go along with it. Energy is usually measured in bright yellow in-game, so I chose Recharge and E to be yellow with slight orange borders that can be seen if one inspects closer. I also used the third (maroon) to border the E-Tank which is a lovely combination with the red, being easy on the eyes (especially when I chose to gaussian blur them in a later iteration).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I sped through the process of creating the hand’s lineart, colours and rendering – I chose for it to also use that same blue-purple and chose highlights of a light blue, with a deep purple for shadows. The flex-joint parts are just a simple black with purple shadows, and the steel parts are grey shadows with green-tinted white for scratchy, worn highlights.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That was the process for creating my Album cover, and I love my finished result. I also asked some people their opinions on it and they loved it – can’t post screenshots since they swore every two seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With all my tracks done, all I need to do now is distribute them and then, I can write my evaluation. I spoke in an earlier weak about how Landr distribution works, so I’ll do it now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(10 minutes later) Landr is very fussy about getting details right. I apparently already have something under ZebesDweller (artist name) and for that I can’t upload it? Strange, really. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turns out their system for “using artist data” on the same five tracks is just not working, so I manually had to add the same info five times to the tracks. Annoying, but I’ve done it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I won’t monetize it for now just because this is my first time using a distributor and I do not want to run into any legal trouble down the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And now, I await an email back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Updated Weekly Project Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week<\/td>Original Plan<\/td>What Actually Happened<\/td>What I Learned \/ Reflected<\/td><\/tr>
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Finalise and publish tracks.<\/td>		Designed and completed the album cover using your own art; prepared tracks for release.<\/td>Learned how to visually present your work and complete a consistent branding for your EP \u201cRecharge.\u201d<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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