GIF, Business cards and postcards

 I attempted at making a GIF in Photoshop to put into my showreel, which I have created in AfterEffects.

However, AfterEffects does not take into account frame delays or same frames in a row. This meant that the GIF was played and completed almost instantly, which I disliked.



The way the gif should have been played. AfterEffects does not loop GIFs forever, but plays them once, regardless of the GIFs settings in Photoshop.

In the end, I took the image of the closed eye frame to add simple effects to at the end. The effect is a layer of light that emits from the cracks upon the baby Magma Dragon. While not shown here, they are shown below.

The light changes intensity in the showreel but here it is set at an Opacity of 50%.
As part of our submission we also had to submit designs for business cards and postcards. This image, I felt, was perfect for a business card as it was in the showreel (so people could instantly know where it came from), it shows my style of art very clearly and is eye catching.

For the postcard I chose to use the full grown dragons to fully compare them. I added a shadow gradient to each one to give them more depth.