Holiday Project

For the holiday season, our Visual Design instructor had us create a self-directed project. Because of my love for Disney, I decided to create a short animation starring Oswald and Mickey, where they would have a snow ball fight. I had used the Animation window in CS2 before, but this is my first experience with the Timeline feature in CS6. They are very similar, but the Timeline feature has a few more options. It wasn't difficult to switch between the two. Below is the frame-by-frame animation that I created as a gif.

Portfolio Update

In honor of completing the fist half of my Junior year, I've updated my portfolio to include even more pictures. I created a logo to don the front of my portfolio from earlier in the year (And, if you haven't noticed, has the honor of being my favicon for this blog). The colors remain mostly the same, but fonts have changed and text has been added. Below I have included a few pictures from my portfolio: the cover, the about page, and an example page.

Choke Lift

One of our recent projects in Visual Design was to create a simple fight scene in Adobe After Effects within our group. My partner and I decided to create a scene where someone chokes another by lifting them up by the neck. This project taught us how to use KeyLight and how to alter video in After effects. One difficulty we had was making the hand look realistic and not choppy, but we fixed this by manually altering it frame by frame. Below is a frame from our video.

POP!

This week in Visual Design we learned how to create pop art of ourselves in illustrator. I learned how to make a pattern and how to change the style of a stroke. I had some issues figuring out how to make the pattern, since the tutorials were not very clear. After a bit of searching, I figured it out very quickly on my own. This project taught me how to solve a problem on my own as well as some very helpful techniques which I hope to use in the future.

Before:

After:

Don't Feed the Trolls

This week in Visual Design we were given a tutorial on how to create a troll in illustrator. The troll is a play on internet trolls and those from fantasy, as shown below:

In the original tutorial, the phrase "YOU SUCK!" is meant to go over the troll's head, however I was unable to download the font. The project was fun, and I learned a lot about creating brushes and swatches as well as using the transparency window.

- Emily Hazen

Logo Project

This week in my visual design course we were required to create logos for companies. We were only given the company name and could not communicate with our "clients," as this was just an exercise in designing and creating logos. Below are my creations for the companies "Momma B's Bakery" and "Vero." Momma B's is simply a bakery, and Vero is an eco-friendly water bottle company. I created several logos, but these were my favorites:

 

The assignment specified that the logos must look nice in any color, especially black and white. Here are my logos in black to show that they are not restricted to their corresponding colors:

 

 



I created two other logos, but I decided that they were not quite as good as the ones featured above. Here are my scrapped ideas presented below:

- Emily Hazen





Sneak Peek!

 

 

 

I will be creating a portfolio in InDesign this year containing images I created using various Adobe products. I currently only have images from my sophomore and freshmen year, but junior and senior year images are soon to come! On the cover, you can see "Eye of the Beast" (2012), "Special Effects" (2013), "Chocolate Milk Frog" (2013), and "Super Selections (Overlook)" (2012).