My Worm Animation

Worm Animation

 What was the project?

           This project was called "The Worm Project." The first step to this project was to make sky, ground, a worm, and if time permitted some clouds, in Adobe Photoshop. The gradient tool was used to make both the blue sky and green ground. Just to note the grass and sky are separate layers. I made a layer for the worm and the worm was made by using the paint tool. I made a layer for clouds as well. I made the clouds and the worm look 3Dish by using bevel and boise. Once everything was touched up in Photoshop I saved the layers into a file. Then I put the file into Adobe After Affects project window. I then used a new tool called the push pin. The push pin creates key frames that let you to warp a spot in an image were the push pin or pins exists. Once all of the pin key frames were set to were I wanted them. I used another tool that is called glue. This tool helped keep the worm in place. Once that was done and all of the pins were in place, I put them in a group hidden from sight. This put them out of the way for the next part of this project. Next I used the tool that is called "Noll," this tool keeps things from moving off a certain point of travel. In this projects' case the Noll makes a layer which, is used to keep the worm from moving up and down as it moves across the page(screen). So I connect the Noll layer to the worm layer. I just use the position key frames, setting them every 10 frames to make the worm move gracefully across the screen. Finally I made the worm a shadow.  Once that was done I rendered the animation, posted it on YouTube, and Embedded it into this blog.  

What did you learn?

            I learned how to use the pin tool in Adobe After Affects. The pin tool allowed me to make pin key frames and attach them to my worm. Once the pin key frames were set in place I was able to maneuver the middle and back pin key frames, up and forwards a little to make it look like the worm is scrunching up before it takes it's next "step" foreword. I also learned how to use a tool called Noll. I learned how to make a shadow in after affects too. I first copied the worm layer. Then I just had to flip that copied layer horizontally. I turned the color of that layer to night black. Finally I gust turn the opacity down and soften the edges of the shadow. 

How did it go?What would be done differently?

             This project went pretty well. I would have loved to have been able to make the clouds move across the screen. I also would have made the worm larger so that it wouldn't look so small. I was also little crunched for time, so I was not able to animate the clouds sadly. This project was lots of fun. I can not what for the next project I get to do and all of the new things I will get to learn.     

   

Bouncing ball Sophomore year

Bouncing ball Sophomore year

                                              What was the project?

This project was an updated version of my freshman E9 bouncing ball project.  The first step was to make the sky layers. I colored the first layer blue for the sky using the fill tool and using the gradient tool to make the illusion of light. Next, I made new layer then used the brush tool and changed the look of the brush to look like long blades of grass.  After that, I made a new layer and made a circle using the circle tool.  I was assigned to make a circle using the circle tool on photo shop. I used the gradient tool to make the circle look like a ball. I copied the grass layer and put the copied layer in front of the ball layer and I offset it lower than the first grass layer to make the ball appear to be sitting in the grass.  I then added some clouds in the sky by using the paint brush tool. Next, I put my photoshop work into a project file in adobe after effects. In after effects I used position keyframes to make arcs that the ball will follow.  I used the scale key frames, after making the arcs, to make the squash of the ball for every time the ball hits at each bottom arc. After the squashes were made I made the stretch with the scale and rotation key frames. So, after and before each squash I made  scale key frames. Which narrowed the ball and the ball's height got taller. I then used the rotation key frames to tilt the ball to look as if it was in line with the sides of the arc. After, the ball was finished being animated, I made the clouds move across the screen by just using the position keyframes. Finally, I exported the animation and put it on my Youtube account.    

What did you learn?

I learned that animation takes a lot of time and that some animations are made up of many, many, and many key frames. I learned how to use Adobe After Affects and Adobe Photoshop. I learned how to use a gradient on the ball and the sky. I also learned how to change the paint brush tools' shape to look like grass. I also learned how to use Adobe After Affects. I learned how to make arcs in After Affects, by using position key frames. I also learned how to use the scale and rotation key frames to make the ball squash and stretch.

How did it go?What would be done differently?

The project was relatively simple. The animation turned out very good. However, I had a problem with trying to get the layer effect bevel and boise on the ball to get the ball to look 3D but it was not working so I had to opt for the gradient tool instead.

Graphic Design Sophomore Photoshop Work

My First Sophomore Graphic Design E-Comm Work

       This past week I have sharpened my knowledge, on the ends and outs of editing photos in the Adobe program Adobe Photoshop. The photos below are all of the finished projects I did in Photoshop, organized from my first project to my last. 

     The three photos below, I edited with the tool called the Content  Aware Fill tool. This tool helped me touch up unnecessary spot in each of the photos. All I had to do was make a selection using either the square selection tool and/or the lasso tool. Then I clicked the Content Aware Fill  tool which takes the colors from other parts of the photo around the selection and fills it the spot in.  You can also use this tool to move logos around and remove logos, as shown in the third photo down.      

Now for the photo below, I used the tool called the patch tool. The patch tool was used to remove a logo from the man's shirt. To use the patch tool I had to use the lasso tool to make a tight selection around the logo. Then I had to deselect part of the shirt once it was moved then I used the patch tool once again to remove the remainder of the logo.  

This photo of a model, shown below, was edited by using the clone stamp tool and the Healing brush tool. I used this tool to remove a tag from her coat by using the clone stamp tool. Then once the tag was removed I added texter to the part removed by using the clone stamp tool.  

This photo shown below was edited by using the clone stamp tool and the patch tool. I used this tool to remove a poll that looked like it was sticking out of the man's head.  

The photo pf the little boy was edited by using the spot healing brush. I used the spot healing brush to remove very small specks of dirt from the boy's face. This tool lets you remove very small detailed parts from photos. 

The collage of photos shown below used all of the tools I learned about to follow a guided video on how to build a college of different shots of this girl. I combined all of the tools I described above and watched a step by step video on how to put together this collage. 

This photo was the challenge which combined all of the skills I learned, letting me and my imagination go free editing this man and landscape photos together to make a master piece. 

The photos below are my branding, billboard and flyer photos. I used the skills I talked about in the upper photos to make each of these photos. 

What was My  favorite skill I learned and why will it be valuable in the future? What were my strengths/weaknesses?

My favorite skill I learned had to be the Clone stamp and Patch tool. These tools will help me in clean up some unnessisary marks or mistakes in the future. My strengths had to be that I had some knowledge in how to work photoshop which helped me work through each of the editing videos that helped me edit each photo,(except the challenge there was no video). 

What would I do different? What would I do the same? Why?

I would have liked to have had more time to work on making some of these photos so they look more cleaner edited. I would do the challenge the same because I loved the way it turned out.  

Conclusion 

These projects were very different than I am used to but I feel like most of them were successful. I loved the Challenge that was my favorite part of the whole project.