After Effect Sunburst Tutorial

For this assignment I had to follow an After Effects tutorial. The one I chose was from videocopilot.com (http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/solar/) which involved creating a sun flare.
I used a ton of layers in After Effects and used a lot of the effects that come with After Effects. I animated the layer effects to make it look like an actual fire burning.
I like how this turned out. But it was a bit too power for my laptop to preview while I was making it, so I'm not a huge fan of how some of the sun burst just suddenly disappear. If it didn't take so long to render on my computer I would go back in and fix them

Infographic

For this assignment I was creating an infographic about the struggle of putting on skinny jeans. To create this infographic I used Illustrator. I added drop shadows to the boxes to give the poster a more 3D look, which I thought looked better than just keeping it flat.
I think this assignment turned out okay. I like how the woman struggling turned out, which I was certain was going to turn out terrible.

Flower Garden Short Film

In this assignment I edited together a series of video clips to make them look like a seamless movie  scene. In Premiere Pro I edited out the green screen using Ultra Key and changed the people's coloring to black and white with the Lumetri Color correction.
I think it came out alright considering I've never actually edited together a scene.

Vintage Artwork

In this assignment I was creating an Illustration based on a vintage illustration. In Illustrator I traced the original image with the pen tool. Each color was put on a separate layer. I had to go back into each later at the very end to make sure that no white was showing through.
I think this assignment came out nicely. Since a lot of the colors overlapped different colors in different places, it was a little tricky trying to keep all the colors on separate layers, but I was able to get it figured out in the end.

Steilacoom T-Shirt Designs

For this assignment I was creating a 4th of July based t-shirt design for the town of Steilacoom. We were only allowed to use red, white and blue as the color scheme, which made the design a little more difficult than I would have thought.
I took the image of Steilacoom town hall and did an image trace in Illustrator. I then changed the colors of the building to red, white and blue. I wasn't sure if we were allowed to do different shades of those colors, so I just stuck to the same 3 colors. I then took the image trace and uploaded it into Photoshop and used different brushes to create different looks on each design.
I really like how these designs came out. I particularly like how the American Flag design turned out, because it wasn't like the other t-shirt examples we saw in class, which almost all seemed to feature fireworks.

Pop up Animation

In this animation I was attempting to create a pop up style animation. I created the images in Illustrator and then created the animations in After Effects.
The characters took a while to create and I like how those turned out. But I'm not too crazy about the animation part of it. I wasn't sure how to adjust the pivot point on the images so that they rotated around that instead of in the traditional middle point. I should have looked it up and figured out how to adjust that point to make the pop up animation look for like a pop up book.

Background Mattes

For this assignment I created two different backdrops. The top image was supposed to be a cemetery and the bottom was was a neighborhood with a toilet paper covered tree in the foreground,

I used Photoshop and took elements from a bunch of different images and then created a single composition. I turned everything black and white and adjusted the temperatures and contrasts so that all the elements looked like they belonged together.

I like how the cemetery turned out, but I'm not too crazy about the neighborhood. When I first did the picture I just had a tree and tried to paint toilet paper onto it. Turns out that it's actually very hard to paint toilet paper and make it look realistic. I tried a bunch of different brushes until I gave up and then tried to find a toilet paper covered tree online. That was also very hard to cut out. It took a while. I also wasn't sure how to make the tree look like it was in the foreground and also show that the tree was in a neighborhood.