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.

Asteroid Field

I opted to create an asteroid field for this assignment as opposed to doing a timelapse video. I feel like I have a lot of room for improvement with 3d design and decided to take the opportunity to work on those skills.
I created this in Lightwave. I followed the tutorial and created one 3D asteroid, applied a texture to it ad then duplicated it a bunch of times. I grabbed a space image from Pixabay to use for the background.
I think I did pretty well on this assignment. If I were to redo it I think I would have applied a rock texture to the asteroids instead of just messing around with the colors like the tutorial said to do. I think it would have made it more realistic. If I knew how I would have liked to make the background image look like it was moving, make it look like the image was actually burning instead of being a still image.

Wordpress website

jkelley2017.wordpress.com

In this assignment I created a website using a template from wordpress.com For my website I decided to fill it with pictures of cute puppies, because who doesn't love puppies? Heartless people, that's who. The header image is a picture taken of my sister's little Boston Terrier puppy. Don't let the picture fool you, she's a feisty little thing. The rest of the pictures are royalty free images from Pixabay, my favorite is the puppy with the flower. 

This assignment seemed pretty straightforward and simple. I'm okay with what I did, although I don't think I'd ever use this as an actual website for anything. But the assignment definitely gave me some ideas for how to design my website for the 230 class. 

The Wall Playing Cards

In this assignment we were asked to create a design for the back of this card game and also damage, reinforcement and wall cards. For the wall card I decided to go for more of a medieval castle looking wall. I thought the design would be more interesting than just an ordinary brick wall. For the damage card I used an angry face emoticon for inspiration and turned the face into a bomb, I wanted to do something a little different than the designs I saw in the introduction video for the reinforcement card. Instead of just showing tools I wanted to incorporate the person doing the reinforcement into the card. As for the back of the card, I used an image of an exploding wall from pixabay and enhanced and changed the colors of it in Photoshop. I then took it into Illustrator and did an image trace on the image.
I'm happy with my designs for this assignment. I wanted to make the wall card look more 3d, but since I spent so much time on the backer card, I ran out of time.

AE Shape Animation

For this assignment I was animating vector shapes in After Effects. I was trying to create a sort of kaleidoscope effect.  I used the star tool and changed the number of points. A lot of the animations were done by messing with the shape dynamics and some were done with the twist animation.
I'm okay with the way this turned out. I wish I could have spent more time on it and add more shapes and have the animation go faster, but unfortunately I ran out of time.

Vinyl Stickers

In this assignment I was creating vinyl stickers. The wolf is a single color sticker and the penguin is a three color sticker. I created the design in Illustrator and then used the vinyl cutter at school to cut out the pattern for the stickers.
I really like how these turned out, especially the wolf. I've never created a sticker before, so this was definitely a fun, new assignment and really enjoyed doing it.

Photoshop Painting

For this assignment I was trying to create a painting in Photoshop from a picture I took in Hawaii a couple years ago. In Photoshop I used the live brush tool and a variety of different wet media brushes to turn my picture into a painting. I love the live brush tool because it allows you to pick up colors directly from the photograph which makes the colors look more realistic.
I'm happy with the end results of this painting. The clouds and the water took a long time to do since I was using a fairly small brush to get all the details I wanted, but I think it was worth the time I put into it.

Drawing Tablet

In this assignment I was trying to make a lifelike animal portrait using brushes in Photoshop. I used a drawing tablet and was able to create a lot of detail using a variety of stipple brushes. I had a picture from Pixabay that I used for reference to get the colors and outline right. What I liked about the stipple brushes was that I was able to get a wide variety of colors into my composition.
I feel like this was a very successful assignment and was happy with the results. If I had more time I definitely would have continued and finished the whole tiger.