You are to design and develop a dynamic logo to promote your gaming company. You will need to come with a name for your company first and then use Adobe Illustrator to design the logo. 

From there you will then take your logo into Adobe After Effects to make it move. You may wish to also add sound to your composition.  

Tasks:

1) With others in your class come up with ideas for what your gaming company could be called. Develop a range of ideas and font options. Select one and share it with the class. 

2) Learn the basics of Illustrator using the tasks below, by the end of the lessons you should be able to do the following skills: 

• Draw shapes

• Use the text tool

• Change stroke and fill

• Align objects 

• Use the pathfinder tool

• Use the direct selection tool 

3) Research a range of professional logos by searching on www.seek.co.nz

3b) Design 3 potential logos in Illustrator, ask your friends (end-users) which one is their favourite and then select one as your final design. 

4) Learn the basics of Adobe After Effects  using the tasks below, by the end of the lessons you should be able to do the following skills: 

• Create a composition

• Animate an object along a path 

• Fade an object in and out

• Rotate an object

• Zoom

• Use text effects 

5) Import the logo you have selected into After Effects and animate it.  

Task One: Getting started with Adobe Illustrator

Learn the basics of Illustrator and create an A4 sized (21cm x 29.7cm) art board to  use for the following tasks.

Task Three: Align tool 

Learn how to use the align tool and play around with aligning and arranging different combinations of shapes.  

Task Five:  Pathfinder tool

Learn how to use the pathfinder tool and play around with combining and cutting out different shapes to make new ones.

Extension - have a go at making the android logo

Task Seven:  Pen tool

Learn how to use the pen tool to draw bezier curves

Extension - have a go at making the spider / web man logo