Austin Calkins – DMA212 – Project 4 – Final

For this project, I decided to just create the map of my hometown, Cheektowaga. I went for a blue and orange/red color scheme for the map, as they are complementary and some of my favorite colors. Even though Cheektowaga does not have too many exciting places, I made sure to mark the highlights of the …

Austin Calkins – DMA212 – Project 3 – Final

This is my product package. When I think of milk, creamer and dairy products, I usually think of more pastel colors. For the background pattern, I made a combination of more pastel colors that reminded me of these product colors. The cream color, the blue colors and the orange color were appropriate for this. I …

Austin Calkins – DMA212 – Project2

For Project 2, I decided to take the photos that I made and edited in Project 1 to create a Facebook page for if my character, Fulgur, decided to become a DM like myself. This could also be a suitable composite image for my own profile as a DM of D&D since he is my …

Austin Calkins – DMA212 – Lab 5

I learned how to use the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator to make corners and curves. We made different lines and shapes using the pen tool. Before doing the exercises, I found the pen tool challenging. While the follow-along helped me learn how the pen tool works, I still find the tool confusing and had …

Austin Calkins DMA212 – Lab 4

In this lab, I learned a variety of ways to make textures from scratch and how to make a texture from an already existing photo. I have made a “Space Time” texture from a picture of space and a clouds texture from the complimentary colors of blue and orange. Overall, I like the clouds option, …

Austin Calkins – Project 1

For my first project, I decided to focus on a hobby I have grown to love, table-top roleplaying games (TTRPGs) such as Dungeons and Dragons and Starfinder. However, the hobby didn’t start as one at first. I started playing TTRPGs a few years ago with a group of people from the Fusion gaming club at …

Austin Calkins DMA212 – Lab 3

I learned how to use some of the tools in Photoshop in order to create mask layers and hide the background of images to put onto a different background. The banana was done with the pen tool, while the rose was done with the magnetic lasso tool. Overall, I found the lab fairly easy. I …

Austin Calkins DMA212 – Lab2

In this lab, I learned how to retouch images. I scanned two of the things that going to use for my first project, which is going to be a portfolio of images pertaining to one of my favorite things, Dungeons and Dragons and other table-top role-playing games. One of them is the D&D book and …

Austin Calkins DMA212 – Lab1

In this lab, I learned how different forms of acquiring images affects the quality of the image. The images that were taken with the high-end camera were brighter, sharper and higher quality. The scanned images retained the full size of the scan even though the objects or images weren’t the full size of the scanner. …

DMA 201 – Project 4 – Video

For this project, I learned the basics of Adobe Premiere and GarageBand to make a video based around an emotion. The project was not that hard. I enjoyed making the music for the video. Filming clips was a little more difficult because of it being around an emotion, but I’ll talk more about that later. …