Fun and fancy text

Using Adobe Edge Animate has always been a joy for me to work with.  Getting to make something that looks really cool, was exciting this time.  Here are the two pics that I made for this one, a word before it is decorated and then the word after it is decorated with the very things that the word defines. 

The feathers that I used are from the body portion of a peacock.  I wanted the word to feel like it was one whole entity with it's feathers on, so there is parts of the letters that blend into the ones next to it. 

Gaming

 

A screen shot of the game I made using Construct 2.   You control the cannon, that shoots carrots, to kill the rabbits.  I enjoyed using Construct 2 because it made it very to put together the game with all of the right behaviors and actions.  I do wish I had more time to work on it so that I could do some real fancy stuff.

Word press things

So another blog was made.  This time using Wordpress and customizing as much as possible to make it as un-blog like as possible.  Yeah, a bit counter intuitive.  So I decided to treat it like another site for my profolio.  There is alot of little places and menus to go through with things to change.  Not sure of what all of it is, but I think i got everything that I wanted to.  Hope it works.

Dancing of the cards

 

A video done in After Effects that cuts up a picture and them makes them dance according to the settings and an image set for the intensity.  I used some of my own pics in black and white for the intensity comp and a HDR photo of glass to make the cards out of.  I found it to be very easy to do, but the possibilities to do more complex things...maybe when I have more time to dedicate to it.

Newsletter

Using Dreamweaver, I designed a newsletter that can be easily emailed.  The group is real, but the information is stolen from some random car club newsletter.  Having just finished the website, I felt very comfortable in creating this, but like to keep things simple.  Very simple.  I could see this being a skill that will come in handy in the future.

Website

So I used the few and shaky java skills that I have to design a webpage pro folio.  Having the ability to use a pre made CSS sheet really helped with figuring out what to do.  It is not completely linked and filled out but I think I made a really good start.  I also figured out that my java skills is not as shaky as I thought it is.

SLAM Covers

These are the two designs that I have made for the cover of the SLAM magazine assignment, both using Illustrator. The first one is a picture of a path that is coming out of its picture frame.

The second one is a simple and abstract design that uses the Live Paint tool.  It was also nice to have a simple design to work on after the more complicated picture frame.

Personalty I think the picture frame is better because of its artistic quality, but I do enjoy the colors and simplicity of the second.

Shape Animation

This is a simple shape animation that I made with After Effects.  I think it cake it out ok considering that I only spent 4 hours on it, but I could do such much more.  It gives me a feeling that it is unfinished with that empty space at the end.

Online Photo Gallery

This is a gallery of some of my photos that I have taken over the last year.  The gallery uses jquarry to display the photos and navigation to look through them all.  I did a little customization using Dreamweaver, but I decided to be cautious in my changes to be sure that it will still work.  I think I would have done more if I had taken the web design class first.

3D gallery

This is a 3D art gallery of some of my art work that I have made over the last year of school. I used After Effects to make it. It went fairly smoothly after I figured out how I was going to have the camera and artwork interact.

Vinyl sticker

A number of weeks ago, we had to design in Illustrator and then cut a vinyl sticker with a vinyl cutter.  I designed something with my daughter in mind.  I enjoyed having something so tangible as a result. 

This is a picture of the sticker after my daughter placed it where she could enjoy it.

And this is a pic of the Illustrator file that was used to cut the vinyl.  The words are Swedish for 'Fox Rose.'

New cardgame

The point of this assignment was to create designs for a new card game that the teacher created.  The four designs are 1) the back illustration, 2) a wall segment, 3) an attack card, and 4) a defense card.

Competition cont.

The word for this assignment is 'grunge'.  This is the poster for the event.  I used the logo that I designed to embellish the stone like background that I made in Photoshop.  Wish there was more information to put on the poster, but I think there would be enough room on the bottom for what there would be.

Competition

Our class was given a 'service learning project' where we were to design a logo for a yearly event that a local company is sponsoring.  The goal is to make a design that they company will like and there for adopt to use.  Ah, the publicity...

I designed a color and a gray scale versions for both a white and a black background.

A poster is design for the event will be the next part of this assignment.

Painting?

For the next assignment, we were to practice drawing/painting using a graphic tablet.  I had taken an Art class last quarter so I decided to try painting as best as I could without paint.  I was inspired by a picture of a Northwest forest and used Photoshop because of the great brush control available.

More writing

This is the lower case and numbers with some puncuation that goes with the upper case letters that I posted already. 

Someting to type with

The last two weeks has been about creating a font of my own design.  I designed a decorative font that I have been toying with for about half a year now.  It is based in my 13 years of knowledge in calligraphy.  I am interested in knowing if anyone would want to use it.

First assignment

For this assignment, I placed brush/stamps on a photo in Photoshop, then animated them in Flash using mostly masks. The iris effect was added using After Effects, and the title and music was added using Premiere Pro.

Another begining

I am a single mother of a current 15 year old (crazy teenager) and have decided to go back to school in the hope that I will be able to get back into the work place.  I picked graphic design as my new career path because of the skill that I have developed in Pyrography, or more simply known as wood-burning.  I have pictures on my deviant art page if you are wondering what that looks like.  I look forward to sharing the results of my design classes here.