Digital skills and meeting action points

On Friday we had a discussion of our digital design skills and which programmes we would like to learn or get better at.

Athanase

Photoshop - 4

SketchUp - 3-4

GiS - 5-6

Anka

Photoshop - 3-4

Video editing - 4

Wants to learn/improve: AutoCAD and Photoshop

Mark

Photoshop - 7

InDesign and Illustrator - 8

SketchUp - 7

AutoCAD - 2

Wants to learn/improve: AutoCAD, Website design, Video editing

Jenny

Photoshop/Indesign - 8

SketchUp - 5

Website - 3-4

Wants to learn/improve: AutoCAD, digital modelling, GiS, Video editing

Lili

3D Max-5

Photoshop - 8

AutoCAD - 4

Wants to learn/improve: Video editing

Stevie

Photoshop - 5-6

CAD (2D) 

Video editing (final cut) -5

Websites (Dreamweaver)

Wants to learn/improve: AutoCAD, SketchUp, Digimap

GROUP OBJECTIVE

We have decided we want to incorporate as many of our existing digital skills as possible as well as learning new skills.

Upon consultation with course tutor, David Watson, we think that video editing might give us the flexibility that we want to present out project on a convincing and exciting way.

With video editing material we can incorporate 3D Autocad massing models, walk throughs in 3D max detailed/rendered areas,  photoshop rendered 'scenes' to give an idea of a particular development, vox pop interviews with people who live/work or visit our site area etc. 

TASKS

Before our next meeting we need to:

1) research inspiring design videos and posting them on the blog for the group to share. Googling Design blogs and looking around on you tube might be a good idea.

2) pretty unanimously we all want to learn 3D cad, so we need to look at online tutorials of 3D cad to give us the knowledge we need to create our massing model. 

Good places to look for 3D Autocad basics

There are also tutorials on 

3D Max

Photoshop

Web Design

3) decide on our design (UDP on Wednesday)

4) JH to set up a free website and move the blog there and make it the centralised repository of our work/project.