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.