Creative and Digital Media

VCE VET Creative and Digital Media students produce digital works that encompass web development, games and multimedia design, content writing, audio, film and video, photography, static design and animation. The works selected for this exhibition demonstrate a range of capabilities, from traditional creative skills to engagement with and use of the latest technology and concepts.

Blake Andrews

Assumption College, Kilmore
Taungurung Country

An illustrated still showing a close-up of a goose’s face. The goose has large blue eyes and is wearing an army helmet.
Goose McCain by Blake Andrews, Top Designs 2022. Image courtesy of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.

Goose McCain  

Animation
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Animate, Audacity, GarageBand

Goose McCain is a combination of concepts that I enjoy from video games I play. The animation is told from McCain's perspective, as he fights to break out of a facility. While escaping, he is plagued with false memories. My creation of this animation is based on a character design I generated pre-production and the animation included a lengthy storyboarding process.

Lara Bright

Assumption College, Kilmore
Taungurung Country

 

Lara Bright's Website Folio

Website
Adobe Dreamweaver

My website folio compiles all my art created over the past two years. Across five main webpages and three subpages, the website documents an extensive range of industry-standard work, including 3D models, character design and game environment design, in addition to an animated trailer. My main objective was to make my website simplistic and modern, whilst being accessible to all audiences. I used a high contrast colour scheme with screen-friendly fonts so that the information could be easily read. I also aimed to make my website unique by using text and image animations, as well as including different assets such as a FAQ attribute with HTML and CSS.

Allanah Charlton

Mentone Girls' Grammar, Mentone
Bunurong Country

The home page of a website, showing an illustration of a bedroom at night time. A person sleeps in a bed, with a cat on top of the covers. Plants and fairy lights surround them. Overlaid text reads ‘Allanah Charlton’, with links to different website pages at the top.
Website by Allanah Charlton, Top Designs 2022. Image courtesy of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.

Portfolio Website

Website
Adobe Dreamweaver

My portfolio website was inspired by extended periods of lockdown spent in the comfort and familiarity of my bedroom. The website consists of multiple pages of a bedroom at different times of the day, including dawn, sunrise, midday, sunset and night, to encapsulate the times in which I was stuck inside my bedroom during 2020 and 2021. This was a period of time that allowed me to develop my own personality and individuality, which I incorporated into my work.

Georgia Clements

Mentone Girls' Grammar, Mentone
Bunurong Country

The home page of a website, with a pink background similar to a computer desktop. Three tiles overlay the background, with illustrated characters and links to pages titled ‘About Me’, ‘Character Design’, and ‘Brand Design’.
Website by Georgia Clements, Top Designs 2022. Image courtesy of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.

Portfolio Website

Website
Adobe Dreamweaver    

My website is a porfolio showcase of the work I have created for school and in my own time. I aimed to use this website to present my capabilities in an appealing manner, so the website itself is also part of the portfolio.

Quinn Clements

Mentone Girls' Grammar, Mentone
Bunurong Country

The home page of a website, with six characters illustrated in various styles. Text overlays the images, with links to pages including ‘About’, ‘My Characters’, and ‘Contact’.
Website by Quinn Clements, Top Designs 2022. Image courtesy of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.

Quinn's Personal Site

Website
Adobe Dreamweaver, Coda 2, Atom

My website is an introduction to myself, and is supposed to tell the viewer about me. It showcases everything I like, such as art, cats and leadership. After visiting, I hope that everyone can understand me a little bit more, through interacting with my website.

Olivia Desmond

Mentone Girls' Grammar, Mentone
Bunurong Country

A title screen, showing an illustrated forest at night which is illuminated by fireflies. Yellow text reading ‘The Bayou Killer’ overlays the image.
The Bayou Killer by Olivia Desmond, Top Designs 2022. Image courtesy of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.

The Bayou Killer

Animation
Adobe Animate

My animation tells the story of a serial killer during the 1920s in New Orleans. The animation is based on my original story with original characters. I used processes and techniques, like brainstorming, character sketches, story-boarding, frame-by-frame and motion tweening.

Emma Dodds

Warrandyte High School, Warrandyte
Wurundjeri Country

A still from an animation, with two illustrated echidnas set against a bright green background. Pink text in the center of the image reads ‘E is for Echidna’.
WIZ KIDS Educational Program by Emma Dodds, Top Designs 2022. Image courtesy of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.

WIZ KIDS Educational Program

Animation
Adobe Animate

My animation tells the story of two kids, Chloe and Jack, going on an adventure through Australia to find Karl the kangaroo. On their way, they come across different objects and characters, who help them on their journey and help the audience learn the alphabet. I used processes and techniques such as storyboarding and motion tweening.

Aimeree Manabat

Taylors Lakes Secondary College, Taylors Lakes
Wurundjeri Country

A still from an animation, with two illustrated lifeguards in front of a pool. A speech bubble in between the lifeguards reads ‘with summer just around the corner, we all want to have fun and cool down in the water’.
Water Safety for Parents by Aimeree Manabat, Top Designs 2022. Image courtesy of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.

Water Safety: For Parents

Animation
Adobe Animation

My animation, Water Safety: For Parents, brings to light the potential dangers that children may encounter when they are near water. My intention was to educate parents about water safety precautions and to help them recognise the risks. This is especially essential with the concerning statistics of water-related incidents among Australian children.

Lila Ni

Haileybury, Keysborough
Bunurong Country

A still from an animation, showing a close-up of a vampire character wearing a red hood. The character’s eyes are obscured, and their mouth is partly open, revealing fangs. Red lines overlay the image.
RED by Lila Ni, Top Designs 2022. Image courtesy of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.

RED

Animation
Adobe Animate, Illustrator, Photoshop, Media Encoder and Premier Pro

My piece is a movie trailer for RED, a film about a vampire girl, based loosely on Little Red Riding Hood. My animation takes the audience on a journey with the main character, Red, as she traverses a danger-filled wasteland. Throughout the trailer, frame-by-frame action sequences and tweened sections of text generate excitement for the action and intrigue about the world. The sections of action are cut from places in the film, creating a miniature narrative of Red fighting mutant wolves. The in-between sections are animated word sequences, which imply a much larger narrative of Red visiting her Grandma, leaving a lot of room for mystery.

Ruby Ridgway

Kingswood College, Box Hill
Wurundjeri Country

A still from an animation, showing a girl snorkelling. She has long brown hair, and is wearing large goggles and a pink top.
Save our Reef by Ruby Ridgway, Top Designs 2022. Image courtesy of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.

Save our Reef   

Animation
Adobe Animate

My animation follows a lighthearted story of Kasey and her brother Jarrah, who have travelled to the Great Barrier Reef. Through their experiences, I aim to inform audiences about the terrible damage being done to the habitat and how life other than our own is suffering. I used common production processes, such as storyboarding, brainstorming, tweens and rotoscoping, in the creation of my piece.

Chloe Toop

Kingswood College, Box Hill
Wurundjeri Country

A still from an animation, with a Tasmanian tiger character standing in a bushland environment. Images around the Tasmanian tiger show a spray bottle, a house, and a sign reading ‘National Wildlife Park’.
Endangered Species Day by Chloe Toop, Top Designs 2022. Image courtesy of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.

Endangered Species Day

Animation
Adobe Animate

My animation explains the upcoming Endangered Species Day, with the narrator being an extinct Tasmanian Tiger named Wayne. I used this narrator to visually show the impact of animal extinction and why we should aim to help. I also dressed him as a school boy in order to relate to the target audience of teenagers.

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