Final Project

This is the last partof my class. We were assigned to participate in the RotoBall activity where the ball enters from the left side of the screen and exits on the right. Overall, I really like mine. It's really random and I had a lot of fun making this animation.
I think that it was very sucessful. I got the point (imagination) across as I'd originally imagined and I really like this.
What really worked for me was the knowledge I'd gained in Adobe Flash. I knew how to create a basic animation and went from there. I don't like (and it didn't really work) how you can't really rotate the image left and right as I'd wanted to do to create more dimension.
If I do this project ever agin, I would do the fantasy side of it rather than the sci-fi side of it. Just to give me more of a challenge.
The most difficult thing about this was aligning everything so that it flowed well. Sometimes I'd be working on it and I'd realize that I hadn't gotten rid of certain frames in a spot and I'd have to go back and find where that was and then redo that part of the animation.
I learned how to delete frames while also keeping them there. I guess you could call it making them visible and then invisible so that I could use them whenever it was necessary to.

DRAGONS!?

So we were assigned to create a person or animal walking. I decided that I wanted to try to animate a dragon flying. I had to look up how a bird flies, which took longer than I thought. It was really interesting to see how an animator draws things step by step. I really enjoyed this project. I may just have to try doing this with a Disney character to see how that would work out....
Overall, I think this turned out really well. The Pirates of the Carribean music matched incredibly well. GO KLAUS BADELT! (It's He's a Pirate by Klaus Badelt.) I think it was very sucessful as my first hand-drawn animation project. I love this type of thing!!!
Hand-drawing this is what worked out incredibly well for this project. I hoestly don't think it would'vr turned outa s well if I'd drawn this on the computer. The only thing that didn't work as well was editing the music, but that was because I'd never done editing on audacity before so... idk....
If I do this again, I'm going to try using Disney character. But that's just because I'm obsessed. Hahaha! I would also try to remember to put the sun behind the clouds...
The most difficult part to my was making sure everything went as fast as the dragon was flying and making sure that it was also going the same direction as him so that it doesn't look like he's going backward- which would completely defeat the purpose of him flying.
I learned how to draw movement with characters which was SO COOL!!! :)

College Fair!!!

We were assaigned to create a logo for the upcoming college fair! We were given free reign of the project as long as there were no more than 2 colors used and that it could go into only grayscale and still look good.

Disney Design 5

This is my least fave. I didn't like putting the texture infront so it's not very good.
I would turn the opacity waayyyyy down next time.

Disney Design 4

This was the first one I did. I wasn't entirely sure what I was doing with this one so next tim, Ima be planning this out. haha!
I would change the texture in the background to black mickey heads rather than pink.

Disney Design 3

This one is another one of my faves. It turned out really well. I had probs with this one mainly bc i was running out of ideas. haha!
i learned that it's ok to put some layers over others bc they look better than if they remain behind my original thoughts/intensions.

Disney Design 2

This one is the best out of all of them. What worked the best was the style of font I chose and then accented by each aspect of the mandatory designs.
If I had to redo this, I would make the Mickey heads of my texture black rather than hot pink.... not a big fan of that one....

Disney Design 1

This one was the most fun to do because I drew each character and then uploaded it onto photoshop. Then I added color. This one turned ok overall bc I wasn't sure how to add all of my elements and make it look good.
I think the actual doodle was sucessful, but this design overall is just ok.

Grooveshark.com

So we had to make a play on words. I made mine for the free music website grooveshark. woot.

Airplanes Face Video

Mr. Sands told us to make a mini music vid using the same techniques as our talking mouths vids. I really like this mini vid, it took forEVER to do (2 weeks). I like the graphics I got to do at the end, but that may be because I was happy I finally finished... I dunno. I think this was a semi-sucessful project, buuuut if the viewer has epilipsy they may wanna be careful because this may cause seizures. I had to redo one of my pics (one of the major ones too) and it causes a weird flashing sensation that takes away from the overall awesomeness of the vid. My mouth sizes that I drew worked really well in my opinion. It relatively matched my face, which was nice. Again, the redo pic didn't work as well as I'd've hoped. Next time, I will make sure I save all of my pics before deleting them. That way all of my pics will match... The hardest part was being able to focus on the project for a while. After the first week, my attention span plummeted and it made my project take even longer. I learned to constantly save because if I'd lost any of my work, I would've cried.

The Rum Went Away

I was assigned to make this video using the common mouth pictues to create the illusion that my 'mouth' is moving to the words in the sound file. I really liked this project, but I didn't do the pictures right. I tried not moving, but I still did so the picture 'jumps' a lot, which is a little motion-sicknessy.
I plan on doing this again, but I'm going to put in a new background bc i think that's what's 'moving' to make the background jump.
Any tips for my next attempt would be nice! :D

Tux guy minimovie using bone tool

DC Trip Poster

We were assaigned to make a poster for the Art History Class advertising their trip to DC to tour many art hotspots. Here's how mine turned out.

Superheroes - Mainly Marvel

I got bored in comp. art because I finished my project early. Soooo as a comic book fan I decided to make a collage of lots of heroes. Maybe I'll do villans next. I dunno... ENJOI!

SUPERMAN!!!!

This was a random project I decided to do. I really like Superman and today for Nerd Day I wore my Marvel Superheroes shirt. Decided I might as well go for a theme today. XD
Mike would like me to specify that Superman is not Marvel, but rather DC. I know the difference, but he's being picky. Marvel > DC

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Happy Holidays!

We were assigned to make a holiday greeting card for Fall so I made one for Thaknsgiving! I hope you like it! There are a total of 3 because I can't decide which one is better.

S is for Shadow

Our Friday assignment was to create a letter using something that had that letter as its first letter. Wow... too many letters in the sentence. Anyway, I decided to use "S" for "shadow" (obviously). It wasn't too hard, I used mainly liquify and the clone tool so it took a while but it wasn't too bad.
I'd wanna try another object (preferably an animal) next time and try some new tools out on it.

Snake o de Earth

We were assigned to make an animal into something it represented. I thought that a snake (since it's stuck on the ground all the time) could represent the precious stones and metals that are from our Earth's crust. I used the clone tool to make scales of emeralds and sulfur. I also used diamond to make the tongue and rubies for the eyes. Amethyst was used for the pupil and the nostrils. The only non-metallic earth thing I used was ivory which became the fangs.
If I did this prject again I would try another animal and use objects like rakes or common items like that.
I like my snake. I think he turned out well. Yes, it's a he. XD