self portrait

Animation

For this assignment I just had fun playing around really. The one with the alphabet was my first so I was really just trying to figure out how to get the layers and frames to line up how I wanted them too. The second one I wanted to use photos. I wanted to make it look like the legs of an animal were moving as they walked but I couldn't make it look really enough so they ended up just hoping across the screen. I think I like my last one the most. If I had more time I would have liked to add more destinations for the ball to bounce through.

then, now, when

The first image is my now/then. It includes Cheney, NYC, and camp. I'm currently in the mindset of wanting to be in NY, and at camp, but i'm stuck here in Cheney for a few more weeks. My second is where I'd like to go. It includes places of where i would like to live, or visit. Including Seattle, Florida, New York, Dublin, and Australia, 

Oh the places I have been....

I had fun with this assignment. The first one i did was for NYC. I've been able to visit there at least once a year for the past 4 years. When I think of NYC I like thinking of it at night with all its neon lights and craziness. I also added a few elements of some of my favorite places there. My second it for Tokyo, Japan. It was the first time I traveled internationally and it was very overwhelming and confusing. I tried to capture that in my piece with the over lapping of the maps. It was also a very color full place full of interesting people. My last one is based on Camp Starlight. It has been my summer home for the past 4 summers, and will be this summer as well. It has a special place in my heart and there are many layers to camp and why I love going there. Its fun, and hectic, and crazy, and also just a beautiful place.

Rural Landscape/fantasy

I enjoyed this assignment much more than the last. I didn't feel like I had to be so critical of my work in trying to make them look realistic.I had fun with the fantasy ones in particular. I played around with transparency, and colors a a lot. I also felt for the landscapes it was much easier to get the composition to look more realistic, than it was when having to use buildings.

photo realism

I had a hard time with this one. I kept wanted to warp things around or change colors and make them more funky, but instead I tried to make them as realistic as I could. I still don't think they are all that successful. I think it's pretty obvious that some things were added to the original photo, but I tried my best at it. 

Text

I started out trying to create the image of the word I was using. Which was the tree one. After working on it for a while but not really liking who it came out my thinking towards the project changed. I then thought of more simple compositions. I started playing around with a black background and trying to make the text pop and I managed to make it glow. So the neon lights one was by accident. Then I wanted to use color in someway and I just got the idea of spellin out a color with another color that was spelt with another color. Made sense when I thought about it. For the Penguin, I wanted to give the imagery idea another shot. I think the penguin was much more successful than the tree.