A Whole New World (floating mountains project)

This project was called the floating mountain. Pretty self explanatory, right? The concept was to use the quick selection tool as well as getting rid of pixel fringe. We also were to give the illusion that the mountain was somewhat in the clouds. This was pretty tricky and involved moving a couple layers around and selecting only certain parts of the cloud. Not only did we have to put a mountain in the middle of the sky but we also needed to erase the previous name and add our own. In order to do that I needed to use the eyedropper tool to select parts of the sky and clouds to make it just look like more sky and clouds rather than words. Then I had added a text box to type my own name. I called it 'A Whole New World' because I thought it suited a mountain in the sky well because that is completely not real. Making it, a whole new world. There were also changes made such as contrast and color dillusion. But that is the main idea of the whole project and I learned how to use lots of different tools. My favorite being the quick selection tool! 

Motif and Repeat Pattern

The scope of this project was to create a motif and a repeat pattern that would match the inside of our graphic design classroom. We were to make sure the colors were exactly the same and that the motif was radiating out from the center. My process included making and duplicating the same shape as well as different shapes. I decided to use the pathfinder tool to look at different shapes within. I also decided to use the live paint bucket to be able to paint the exact shapes I wanted. This project was not very hard in my opinion. The tricky part was making sure the motif actually radiated from the center correctly, and also that the repeat pattern could repeat off the page. I personally enjoyed making this project because it was a simple yet modern thing and that is kind of my style. This was a great project to be able to experiment with shapes.

                  MOTIF
                                                                                                                            REPEAT PATTERN

 
 
 
 







 

Creative Pieces and Pencils

My Creative Pieces: To the right are the creative pieces I have made. They look like weird space things, right? Well, actually they are space emojis. The moods that I replicated were a happy, excited, and annoyed moods. The Earth was just made to add more space effect. Also, the flag is on the earth and not the moon because I wanted to make sure people knew that it was actually Earth and not just some random planet.  I chose to make my different emoticons in space because I wanted a theme to my creative pieces rather than having two completely random objects. I also chose to make emoticons because I wanted to make something that was unique to other peoples' ideas. To make sure I added the uniqueness, I put my emojis in space and made them space themed. I wanted something that was a little more outside the box than my peers. Not just a basic everyday object such as a plant of some sort or a piece of sports equipment. I thought the space emojis would be a perfect way to incorporate unique and exciting in one image.

My Pencils/Pencil Cup: The pencils and pencil cup were an assignment that was given to our class. Its purpose was to show us different ways to use Adobe Illustrator and the different tools it provides. I learned that you can duplicate and move an object exactly where you want it just by using the control and shift keys. While creating my own design for the pencil, I figured out how to add more live paint bucket patterns. That was really cool because it gave a bigger horizon of patterns and designs to put on my pencil. I also learned how to make a curved line. This is actually pretty simple, all you have to do is grab the pencil tool and draw with the mouse whatever you wish to put on the canvas. I used this tool to write my name, then I moved my created pencil to the end of my name and made it look like the pencil had just wrote my name.  I also learned how to make the cylinder to wear you can put things inside of it. Then I was able to design the pencil holder and make it my own!

Finding Nemo Animations-Proffesional Project

                                        Finding Nemo 

              For this blog I chose to explain what kind of work goes into animating for the movie, Finding Nemo. A quick summary of this video is that the directors and animators explained how they created the animations in this movie. These people had to use lots of different techniques to create this film. Making a film like this takes about two years and a ton of work. These animators tell about what they need to do to know how to animate the movie and they talk about what some of the parts of animation they use. Before the animators can even start to animate the fish and the settings of the movie, they are told that they need to experience the ocean first hand. So that's what they did.  Once they had a good idea of the images they would need to animate then they started story boarding and making sure they had the story exactly how they wanted it. For the digital animation part of making the film they needed to focus on these things majorly: pacing of the film, motion, range of underwater color to track where the character is/was, lighting, surges/swells back and forth, matter and style of the water, facial expressions, and shading and texture. That's a long list. To put these elements in short, animators for this movie had to be very precise in the motion of a fish and in what underwater life is actually like. The story that was told was how animators created Finding Nemo and what they had to do to get to a point of creating it. One element of this that I can apply to my work is to get a real life feel of what life around me is like and make my animations come to life better. Another element that I have already learned is that you need to story board your idea before you start to actually create it. The creators did a really good job of making the movie seem like it was coming to life but not making it too realistic to where it doesn't seem like an animation anymore. That's because they took the time to go out and experience what they needed to for the film. It could improve by maybe not taking so long to get the job done. To conclude, I think this was a really well done movie and Finding Nemo is now probably one of my favorite animated films.


Finding Nemo  ( just watch part 1)

Graphic Design

         Graphic design is the art or skill of combining text and pictures in logos, magazines, books, etc.  The point of adding graphics is to portray a message to the reader or consumer.  In order to create the perfect design you need to put yourself in the shoes of the consumer. The color is very important when it comes to connecting your topic to the design.  Graphic design is about discovering new ideas and coming up with new designs for your product. It's very helpful to color coordinate the color of what your logo or image may be to what is being sold or consumed.  That's important because if you were to design a logo for a lawn mowing company, you wouldn't make a pink logo with swirl designs because that doesn't make any connection to people that you are providing a lawn mowing service.  Instead, you would maybe make a sharp looking green logo because green stands for nature in the world of logo colors.  There is much more to graphic design than just these things, a big part is being able to have some imagination and creativity. This is what makes graphic design, "Graphic Design".

DubFresh Project - Making it Happen

DubFresh - Making it Happen

        Our product was called, DubFresh. It is a toothbrush that plays modern day music. My role in the DubFresh project was designing the product packaging and also the product logo.  This toothbrush was designed for a younger audience. That of maybe teenagers.

DubFresh Commercial

      Below is the commercial for our product. It tells a short story of a teenage boy who doesn't want to brush his teeth because it is boring and, to him, a waste of time. His mom introduces DubFresh to him and tells him that it plays music while you brush. He goes ahead and tries it out. At the end he turns out to love DubFresh and tells the audience to get their DubFresh today. The commercial's purpose is to prove to those watching that this is a great product and that it works perfectly. For filming the commercial, I took the role of lead director and story boarder.

Summary

In conclusion, I contributed to the packaging animation, directing the commercial, and creating the product logo.  We used SketchUp to create all the animations, including the packaging design that I created.  Collaboratively we needed to come up with a good commercial that would catch the attention of the teenage audience.  We made that work by assigning certain roles for each person in our group.

DubFresh Commercial

The product for our group is called DubFresh. These products are toothbrushes that are designed to play music as you are brushing your teeth. The music can be whatever is desired but it is mostly dub step. The concept of the commercial is to show a teenage boy that doesn't want to brush his teeth getting a new toothbrush and enjoying brushing his teeth. The commercial is convincing people to get a toothbrush that their teens will enjoy and will encourage them to brush their teeth more often. Our slogan is "Toothtunes for Teens". DubFresh is a toothbrush that plays music to encourage teenagers to brush their teeth every night for the rest of their life. Teens will enjoy listening to their favorite music while improving their physical health and whitening their teeth. This product goes out to a greater audience. The audience of teens rather than that of younger kids or adults.