Kinetic Typography Video Write-Up

This typography video is called "Ogres are like Onions". The audio is from the first Shrek movie. It is taken from the scene where Shrek and Donkey are going through the sunflower fields to see Lord Farquaad, and Shrek is telling Donkey about how ogres have layers. I made this video in a program called After Effects and edited the audio from Garage Band.
The thing I like about the final product is that I some-what figured out how the program worked. On reflection, I would probably change the program to one that would be easier to use, so that way I could finish it. My design choices were simple. I tried to find the Shrek fonts online, but they had things wrong with them, so I found a font in After Effects instead that looked like the font from the fairytale book from the beginning of the movie. I'm not completely sure what I did to get the final product to be honest, I just did it. But to get what I have, I asked my friend Hannah for alot of help and I also watched alot of tutorials on YouTube for what to do.
The challenges that I had with this video would be trying to understand the way to animate the words and import/export the audio. The solutions that were successful were when i figured out how to get the blue background and figuring out how to make a few words move. (I needed help to get the other ones to move.)

The Video is above. (I apologize for the in completion.)

Digital Self Portrait Painting

For CyberARTS, I had to design a self portrait of myself in photoshop using one of the at styles we covered in class. I chose Colour Field. 

And this is the recreated version on canvas.  The composition is exactly the same because before I painted,  I opened the photoshop document and traced it onto the canvas. 

Comparing the two, I think the canvas looks almost the same. The composition is the same; but the difference wold be the colours. the shades of the pink, light blue, dark blue and green are just a bit different because it was hard to mix the exact colours. Although, I think the dark blue is pretty close. At the beginning of the painting process, I had to paint it in black and white. The only catch was that we weren't allowed to use store-bought black paint. We had to mix our own. Mixing my own black was difficult, because i had to mix the right amount of dark blue and add the right amount of yellow to darken it. That was one of the hardest parts of the assignment. 

The other hardest part was putting the tape down straightly to paint the three stripes. Putting the tape down was hard, but I got it. 

I had a slight problem with the actual image in photoshop, where the image got distorted, and since i traced that image onto the canvas, the painting looks a bit distorted. 

Culminating Poster

In CyberARTS, each of us had to make a poster for an event for our culminating.

My Creation Process: First, I started researching cool ways to make a poster online. After that, I decided to goof around and see what I could do. When I thought about the assignment, the poster was for a digital arts showcase. When I thought "digital", I automatically thought "cameras and computers". My teacher said that we could use pictures from the internet, but we had to edit them, so they didn't look like the original. So after thinking, I took a picture of a camera from Google and put it into Photoshop. After that, I looked through the Filter Gallery and saw the Style folder thing and saw the "Glowing Edges" effect. I clicked on that and the camera instantly went black and the white on the camera had a neon glow-like effect. 

I was then finished with the camera and I opened a new project. After that, I started to work on the background of the poster. I chose blue because it has a soothing feeling to it and it looks good with black. The plain blue looked boring, so i looked for a cool effect to use. I went to the top bar and clicked on "Filters". I saw a "Tile" effect and I clicked on it. It made my background look like tiles :). I liked the tile effect, but I wanted it to look more digital in a way; so I went back to Filters and clicked "Liquify". I then started to liquify the tiles and making the white lines look like an I.V. 

The font is what i worked on after. I used the Poplar Std font. It makes the name of the event and the other important details stand out. 

The computer I also got from Google. I used the "Eraser"  filter to delete the "Apple" symbol. I then also put some "Noise" on the computer to give it that digital look. 

The Gradient on top was the last thing I did. I clicked on the "Gradient" tool on the left side bar and selected the first one. I picked a dark blue and made the gradient. The blue then blended in with the background. 

I feel that the images I chose work with the event and what it's about. They are both digital.