Walking with Dinosaurs: A Viewer’s Guide is a special on PBS highlighting the most memorable parts of PBS’ hit show, Walking with Dinosaurs. What sets this special apart from Walking with Dinosaurs is its inclusion of discussions with paleontologist, and
WALKING WITH DINOSAURS:
A VIEWER’S GUIDE
PBS FREELANCE PROJECT
Art Direction: Jim Hoppin
Illustration, Client Work, Freelance Design
After deciding on a direction , the next steps were to think about the project logistically. This had to be a scaleable, repeat pattern that could be used for anything Adobe wanted in the future. To achieve this, the illustration was refined and built in Adobe Fresco, so that it would be a vector pattern, that could later be taken into photoshop to be defined as a pattern.
ACCURACY MEETS STYLE
Line art was kept bold and graphic.
Primary colors were used, with burst of pink, to keep a vibrant, fun and bold look.
After the second round of discussions the main note was more! More textures, more of the space filled up, more characters.
Next Steps: More
Finishing Touches
After getting positive reception, it was time to bring the illustration in photoshop to add a little bit of texture and noise, and of course, make it into a pattern.
Results:
The client decided to use this pattern on a notebook to advertise the Creative Apprenticeship. While I didn’t receive my copy yet, stay tuned to see!