The studio has honed their skills in illustration, animation, CGI and grading to consistently achieve the full potential of even the most demanding briefs.
The creative process requires a deep understanding of a brand’s style and values. Combine this with our extensive technical knowledge, innovative approaches to storytelling and creativity, and that they will turn your vision into reality.
What they do
Whether the client's requirements are retouching, compositing, CGI, animating, grading, or visual effects.
- Creative Direction
- Photographic Retouching
- CGI Creation
- CG Animation & Visual Effects
- Video Grading
- Concept Design
- Matte Painting
- Epson GMG Certified Proofing
- Secure Client FTP
What experience I have gain from them?
During time at Digital light in the summer holidays, I have gained more skills within the software Photoshop. The work experience that I had was only around five working days, within these five days I had a different task to complete. These were in the following order:
- Retouching images
- Creating an advert poster for the perfume "Alien"
- How to colour a photograph professionally
- Adding jewels, eye lashes, eye shadow and retouching a photo of a women.
- Practicing on outlining an object
- Practicing on photo filters
When retouching an image of a person skin by using either the plaster tool or the stamp tool. This can cover up any imperfections on a persons face like spots, moles, beauty spots, blemishes, pores or tattoos.
Then creating a advertisement for the perfume "Alien" I had to use vector images that they had stored for me and use the layer effect to help blend or brighten perfume. This could either be in form of a velvet or silk fabric, smashed or shattered glass or diamonds. Then on I would build up the image until I was satisfied with the finish results.
For the colouring an photograph professionally, I watched one of the employee colouring professionally. She had a range of layers in the photograph that she was editing, the client which was a photographer gave her a brief that he wanted the image to look more vintage looking. So first she highlighted to me, was to retouch the model this include the skin and figure as the brief stated for her to me more thinner and have more polish skin. Next was the background of the photograph it should have a deep shadowy colour which showed vintage but in a sophisticated matter. The colour professionally part was very technical and complex, there are so many layers for each part of the colouring part. For example, lighting and darkening the areas, getting rid of reds, blues and greens (curving layer), using a brush but lowering down it opacity to make the image look softer than shaper, adding more exposure and contrast to the image, and adding colour on specific areas e.g. eye shadow on model should be more brighter and have shimmer.
Next task was an edited image of a photograph of a women models face, they showed me the original and the edited picture. By learning the new skills, I had to recreate the same edited photo with the same details e.g - more eye lashes, glowing plastic skin, jewels on eyes and blue eye shadow on the original photograph. During this task, I did find some difficulties when doing adding the eye lashes. One of the employee in the studio, advise me to use the pen tool to draw the lashes, however once I did this for a while the lashes looked very illustrated than realistic. Then the boss of the studio, Dan, advise me to use the square tool on the area of the lashes on the model had. Then copy and paste it, use the darker layer to make the skin merge and only the lashes showed. Finally place it and shape it on the lashes which are much smaller. After that trial and error, I was able to use the same technique when adding the jewels on the upper lid. Another technical part of the process of editing the photograph was adding the blue eye shadow on to the lid, I had help from the boss of the studio and he advise me to use the colour curve layer to make the image blue, then make that image multiple and place it underneath the original image. Once that is down use the rubber/brush tool on top of the lid to get rid of the skin and there is the blue eye shadow on the model.
Then I had a practice of outlining an object on Photoshop, I usually use illustrator for this kind of process. However, it is helpful for me to know how to outline an image on PS as well. It is a similar to outlining a object in illustrator, but there is only minor differences when doing it PS.
Finally, the last task of my work experience was to practice testing on a photograph. In photoshop there is a filter section on the top on Photoshop. There will be an variety of different filter effects to test on, this is what the studio does when editing a photograph professionally.
Overall experience, I really enjoyed doing work experience there. The studio has taught me new things on how to edit my photos professionally especially in a higher quality. Even though the studio focuses more on photography work than graphic design work, I still believe it was helpful and important for me to do work. I can bring this type of techniques in to the future briefs that may involve this type of work process. In conclusion, I would definitely do work experience at Digital Light again, especially when you get an actually feel of working in a studio, using tablets to work on, what technology and software they use.
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