Animation

 

Animation is the rapid display of images to create an illusion of movement. As the images flash across the screen extremely fast it looks like it is all one continuous movement. To do so in Adobe Photoshop, you must go to the menu bar and click Window>Animation to bring up your frames. For each movement of whatever animation you are doing, you must make a frame for it. For example, the balls moving across the screen took 12 frames to do so.                  

To make my other animations, I moved them one frame at a time. For the cereal guy, I copied each of the previous layer for each new frame to keep the changes consistant. I then hid the layers I didn’t want seen on the previous frames. I then used the polygonal lasso tool to select the parts of the character I wanted to move and free-transformed/warped it. The same process and tools were used for the pikachu on the right but I didn’t use as many frames as cereal guy.

Character Design

The name of the guy above is Golem. He is an escaped experiment that went wrong. Scientist were trying to create soldiers from inanimate objects such as rocks and trees to use those instead of using human lives. Their first subject was Golem, using the most durable rocks to make him a walking tank. At first, it was a success. Golem showed amazing capabilites. He was able to withstand hundreds of bullets without cracking and to heal his wounds all it took was some sand. Soon though, Golem grew more intelligent and realized the true intentions of the scientists. Golem was actually quite peacefull, he didn’t want to be sent to war to kill people. So one night, he broke out of the lab he was kept in and ran away in the night. Now he resides in the Sahara Desert, far from humans as possible. He now serves as a mysterious helper. If he encounters any lost souls wandering the desert, he helps them reach safety. He hopes he can live the rest of his life in peace and helping others, not doing harm to anyone.

I created my character in Adobe Photoshop. Like my illustration post, I used the Wacom tablet. I made two layers for my drawing, one was the line art and the other was for the color. I used different colors to represent different types of rocks and joints for Golem. I used the burn tool to give my character shadows and I used the smudge tool to spread it.

Monster Illustration and Digital Painting

This monster, which I call a clawed-turtle, was created in Adobe Photoshop. But the mouse was not used in creating this monster, I used the Wacom tablet. The Wacom tablet allows me to draw and move things using a pen and tablet, similar drawing something on a canvas or piece of paper. For the drawing itself, I made two copies of the background layer. The layer on top was my line art or outlines of the monster. The layer on the bottom was my color layer where everything inbetween the black lines could be colored in without overlapping the outlines. I also used the burn and smudge tool to give my monster a little shadow and look darker.

 To create this digital painting, I took the original picture of a toucan and duplicated it. Next I changed the filter to Paint Duabs to make it look more “soft” like a real painting. I then used the Wacom tablet and used the smudge tool to smudge the pixels wherever I moved the pen. I repeated the last step to every area of the photograph.

Raster Self Portrait

I am usually a calm person, so I chose blue as a background color to represent calmness. The pictures of the basketball court and the track are there because those are the sports I play. There is a snare drum because I am a percussionist. My favorite vacation has always been Hawaii so I added a picture of Maui with its distintive clear water. I believe that for everything there is an opposite or counter to it. The yin-yang symbol represents this well. I see Nike every sport I go, and wear it almost everyday so I had to add the infamous swoosh.

To make my runner and basketball player stand out, I used bevel and emboss to make them stand out and give them a polished look. I used the burn tool to make the black of the yin-yang symbol even darker to contrast agaist its other white half. For the basketball hoop, I used the spot-healing tool to clean up some of the rust on the hoop. I bolded and made my font for my quote red to make it stand out and contrast against the blue background. I lowered the opacity for the nike swoosh and gave it a drop shadow to add more depth to it. For my own picture of myself, I lowered the opacity so the yin-yang symbol behind it could divide my face with brightness and darkness.

The rule of thirds is basically breaking down an image into thirds, like a grid. If you put points of interest along the lines or on the intersections, your photo becomes more balanced and natural. For example, the black and white dots of my yin-yang symbol and matched with two intersecting lines of the grid. The free-throw line of the basketball court picture lines up along the second line of the grid. The runnner and basketball player’s right foot match with intersections of the lines.

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Parking Permit

The goal of my parking permit was to make the name of the school stand out but still be simple overall. I think I achieved this goal. The school colors, cardinal and gold, were primarily used. The white space is for the ID numbers.

To create the parking permit, I used Adobe Photoshop. The gradient tool was used to make the background. I used the rectangular marque tool to make the white space. For the words “Roosevelt High School,” I used a few layer styles like adding a stroke, bevel and emboss, and drop shadow.

Illusion

The picture above is a leopard-shark. It was created using adobe photoshop. Inspiration came from me having a facination with sharks and I wanted to put a spin on the species. Everyones seen and heard of a tiger shark, but not a leopard shark.

Both these two images were used to create my leopard-shark. I thought these two pictures worked well together because both animals are in a more horizontal pose so aligning them would be a little easier than if the leopard was sitting or the shark was faced a different angle. Both of the lighthing conditions are similar, as both animals are a little brighter than their backgrounds.

In photoshop, I used a layer mask on the leopard. Next, I used the paintbrush tool to mask out the leopard’s background, tail, legs, and head, leaving only the body and its spots. I then warped it to align it with the hammerhead shark’s body. I lowered the opacity to give the body the “underwater” look, as sharks do live in the ocean. I used the clone stamp tool to cover the rest of the shark with the leopard’s spots. For the top of the background, I took an image of a ice covered lake and masked out everything but the top. I then gave it a drop shadow to add depth to the picture.