Time Sheets

Obviously my prices are slightly exaggerated and improvised... I took the actual price I paid and added pofit in certain areas. Some things obviously really didn't cost me anything because it was student work, but my intention is to simulate a client job.

Deck Time Sheet

Sketches $70

Font Fee- $100

Style Guide -$200

Sample Deck and Print -$200

Design Time - 6 hours

Deck Paint/Mount Fee - $100

ROM Sheet

Megalodon Tooth Model Creation

Materials - $25

Photography - $165

Time - 2.5 hours

Two Font Megalodon Style Guide

Fonts Fee - $200

Sample Images - $250

Swatches - $40

Time - 2 hours

Mesozoic Style

Concepts

Here are some sketches I made leading to my design. In the final concept work (bottom), I had been thinking about the fossilized archaeopteryx surrounded by its feathers and a living spinosaurus and carnotaurus coming out from behind them.

Mesozoic*

Deinonychus Reposed*

The tyrannosaurus was certainly king of that previous image; the other side, out of balance with a docile deinonychus stroling lazily the other way, as if uninterested in skateboarding. It seemed time to have this deinonychus make you think twice about which side to grind on...

Progress*

Preview...*

I have yet to add my name, text and of course, die of exhaustion... I'm also considering bringing the pine-scales inward a little more... But here's the nearly completed board...

Pine Cone....*

What's so prehistoric about that?

Deinonychus Ai

Archaeopteryx Ai

T-Rex Ai

Modern Feather

For my copying, flipping and scaling enjoyment...

Just a little more feather

This feather actually took some time. I mostly used the brush tool, creating each barb individually

Template

Yes, in my last post you might have noticed I had laid out a couple layers I hadn't shown yet.

I heard a couple people wondering about whether we were given a template. I just created mine.

Pulling The Feather Out of The Rock

I dumped the colour info pulled some strings on levels in photoshop. In illustrator I added the stem where it seemed to go. To improvise a little reconstruction and help complete the image where the feather is not visible on the rock, I created yellow guides to show me how far out to bring the plumage. Let the tracing begin.

Ancient Feather

Although archaeopteryx was the first discovered dinosaur discovered with feathers, more recent science is showing evidence many dinosaurs had feathers, though most of them probably for display. This feather was the earliest discovery and has long been thought to have belonged to archaeopteryx. I have decided to follow that possibility and use the image in my design.

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090318/full/news.2009.172.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Archaeopteryx_(Feather).jpg

And...

Tyrannosaurus rex. I took this photo when I went to ROM in late December 2009

A Couple of Sources...

Deinonychus antirrhopus (a large relative of velociraptor)

and

Archaeopteryx lithographica (the first discovered mesozoic era animal to have evidence of feathers). This is the "Berlin Specimen," the second skeleton discovered.

http://www.dinosaurus.net/pics/deinonychus_skel.jpghttp://www.trilobita.de/gallery/others/archaeopteryx1/archaeopteryx1.jpg

Mesozoic Mind Map