Assignment 6: 3D Pop-up Photo gallery

I was trying to make a moving photo gallery of my pitbull Luna.

I used Adobe After Effects to set up the ground plane, and put in all the pictures, camera and lights required for the assignment. I then exported the file and opened it in Premiere pro where I added an opening title and some music from incompetech.com.

I feel like the project was successful but I had some issues with the lights in AE, it was either too bright or not bright enough no matter where I moved them and that was extremely frustrating.

Assignment Four: Lowercase letters, numbers and symbols.

As with the previous assignment, I had the same issues and the same pulling of the hair and flinging coffee on the walls and floor. After a quick clean-up I finally had the finished assignment

I basically used the same programs and skills associated with assignment four.

I feel like this one is average, nothing special that stands out about it, wish it was better, but maybe i'll try to do a new font on my own time over break from school... hmm..

Assignment Three: Uppercase Font

So this one was a bit of a tough one for me, but I'll get to that in a minute. I was tasked with creating a custom font with all uppercase letters. I was initially excited for it, but it proved to be a pain when it came to using the font creator program.

I used illustrator and my graphics tablet to draw the initial letters then tried to copy and paste them into the font creator as instructed. It would not paste, just kept saying it was too large or complex, even after I had shrunk the letters down to an ungodly size.

I ended up having to save each individual letter in RGB format, export it as a JPEG, import an image onto the font creator, generate the glyph then re-size. This had to be done for all of the letters, and including the upcoming assignment...... I wanted to throw my computer out the window.

What I have as the finished project is so-so and would have been better if I wouldn't of had all of the software issues :(

Assignment Two: Making my own decal

So for assignment three I got to play around and design, cut, layer and weed out my own decal. I actually had a lot of fun with this one and my brain is now swirling with exciting things that I can put on my car, without making it look like an ice cream truck plastered with stickers.

Since I'm a big Seahawks fan, (Superbowl baby!!!) I decided to make a decal to show my love and support for the team.

When it comes to technical skills, I created the decal in Adobe illustrator by using the warp tool on the Seattle skyline and then making seperate layers for the two Seahawks lettering in green and white. I then took the files to school, saved them as an illustrator 8 file and imported them into the software that cuts the decals. I then proceeded to weed out the parts of vinyl I didn't want and to take masking tape to begin layering the three sections.

I think I did well on this assignment and it looks awesome on my car. I hope to create a few more before I graduate and learn what I can.

Assignment One: Animated photoshop brushes

So I've included my video above for this assignment.

Basically I was trying to accomplish an effect of swirls and lavishes being drawn right in front of your eyes, while still not distracting you from my fat cat Heidi.

When it comes to technical skills, I used four different programs. I started in Photoshop to choose my brushes and size my chosen photograph. I then exported it to Adobe Flash Professional where I animated the brushes by using a brush tool and slowly masking out parts of the effect. I then exported again to After Effects to give some color change using the Colorama effect and to (Gaussian) blur out the end of the sequence. Finally I exported it to Premiere Pro and added music which I got off of a royalty free site called incompetech.com. The music title is Vivacity.

I think I did okay on the first assignment. My brush masks could have definitely been smoother and not so choppy, but overall it gave a neat effect.

Intro!

Hey everybody!
My name is Shelly and I am a returning college student. I have three classes left before graduating with an AA in digital design, hopefully I can continue and get my bachelors but that costs money right?!

I am making this blog for my DDSGN220 class and hopefully you will all enjoy my work and not snicker at me behind my back ;)

When I grow up, (because being almost 29 does not make me an adult!) I want to work in designing advertisements or make movie posters or anything that will fall in my lap so I can pay off student loans.

So that's me in a small amount of words, hope you enjoy.