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Creating a sports mascot, part 1

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Creating a sports mascot, part 1

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Welcome to drawing vector graphics laboratory. The project I want to take you through in this movie is creating a sports mascot design. Consider this a mini-course covering key areas of design and development for this specific genre. So let me take you through it, and deconstruct the process we use to create our final design motif. That is a mascot character for Timberline High School, my alma mater. Now, when we look and audit the current identity system being used by Timberline High School, it's very fragmented. The top left motif with the shield and the hands dates back to when I went to high school there. Now, that's pretty old, that's a long time ago, and it's just not very engaging. It certainly doesn't fit the modern aesthetic for sports mascots as is today. Now, the motif right below it isn't bad, that's probably their best graphic they use, but I think we could improve upon their sports mascot a whole lot more, and the image on the right on the uniform just doesn't look good…

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