Author: timn11

The Unsplash image that I chose was better in subtle ways in my opinion. The brightness in the colors in the foreground really show what the image is all about. The lighting was better in order to capture the true elements of the ice. However, I liked how well portrait mode on the iPhone replicated the image which was what I was trying to go for. I selected two Unsplash photos and replicated them as best as I could on my backyard rink.

For this lab, I could not get access to a scanner, however I used a scanner app to try and replicate a scan as much as possible in order to compare images. The magazine ad vs. scan looked very similar. The pixilation looked identical, but the color in the scan was much clearer in my opinion. The image that I would choose for a poster would be the scan. It’s brighter and more clear and you can tell from a distance.

The drawing scan turned out better than the original image taken. The color in this scan is also much brighter and sharper. This allows the eye to focus more on the fine lines in the drawing of the ice skate. There is an equal representation between the two images, however the scan is brighter and draws my attention more.

The scan of the 3D object turned out very bad. I would choose my image over the scan. The scan couldn’t quite seem to capture the color or shape of the legos. This caused for heavy pixilation and discoloring.

This project tested our ability to merge images together to create a singular image representing a metaphor. The metaphor that I chose was “The world is a stage”. I learned how to think critically and put words into an image that made the audience think. The goal was to make sure we replaced the words with images that symbolized what we were talking about. For me, I took spotlights and made light effects shining on the earth with the drama masks making thing theatre. This project overall was more on the difficult side in terms of trying to figure out what images worked best with what I was trying to portray. The challenge was getting all the images to become one cohesive statement. When looking back, I could have added more light filters to my spotlights to give the effect even more of a pop. This assignment was well designed and I really enjoyed completing it. This project I decided to really focus on my pre-draft sketches which helped me a lot. The brainstorming phases helped me translate my ideas into an image.

Project 2

During this project I learned a lot about color and the importance of different schemes. This showed me how different color patterns can come together to really create an image that tells a story. Overall, this project was easy in terms of getting into the actual creation. However, I found this project very challenging to make sure everything looked as perfect as it could be in order to comply with the requirements for each of the art boards. I enjoyed working on this project, especially being able to see how things come together starting from just a blank idea in my head. It’s fun to see your creations come to life in some shape or form. Overall, I think I could have done more sketches and played around with Figma before I started. This would have allowed me to really understand the shapes and tools in order to make each landscape better. I think this assignment was perfect in terms of what needed to be accomplished. We were focusing on color and we were able to accomplish those tasks in four different art boards. I will definitely use what I learned for future projects. I have been able to get a small foundation on the basics of color the I need to take with me now as I move forward. The critiques definitely helped me understand what I needed to work on and what I could have done to get better.

(I had a little trouble exporting the art boards from Figma because of my layers so I had to resort to screen shots)

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1. What did you learn?
2. What was easy?
3. What was challenging?
4. How could your submission be improved?
5. How could I improve the assignment for the next class?
6. How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?
7. How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?
8. In the abstract set I learned how to group similar shapes in each dartboard into one cohesive storyline. I chose the rhyme Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and tried to incorporate diamonds, squares, and triangles in my first set of artboards. While doing this set, the easiet thing was choosing what shapes I wanted to use in each set. The difficult parts were when I had to place them in order to tell the best story while also following the Gestalt Principle I had to use in that artboard. If I were to improve this project I would definitely do more preliminary sketches to have a better plan. Personally, I thought the assignment was well explained and wouldn’t have any changes to suggest. I will take what I learned with this assignment and use these simple Gestalt design principles for the rest of the semester when I’m designing simple projects. When doing this project, I went back into the PowerPoints and looked at some of the designers and what they would do in order to catch the eyes of my viewers in my designs.

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1. What did you learn?
2. What was easy?
3. What was challenging?
4. How could your submission be improved?
5. How could I improve the assignment for the next class?
6. How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?
7. How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?
8. During this set of designs I was able to learn how to take standard figures and make them into a story. Unlike the abstract set, this set was much easier to do because I had so many options to choose from. The challenging part was that I had so many figures to choose from that I had to make sure I didn’t overdue each artboard. This set could have been better if I evaluated first all of the figures, and just like the abstract set, do more preliminary sketches. This assignment was well put together and easily explained therefore I would not make any changes. The representative set taught me to have a larger eye for what figures and shapes are important which I will take with me for future assignments. Using the PowerPoints allowed me to better understand each principle and what they called for.

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While doing this project I had wanted to make it as uplifting and happy as possible. Those two emotions was what I was going for when I created this video. The inspiration started with the sound I had created in Audacity in Lab 7. I realized that I could do something with its upbeat tone. The sound itself makes you almost smile. The footage I chose and created were things I had collected over time either just before quarantine or during quarantine. First, I took some photos of the trees and lamp post in my yard in front or behind of the sun. I thought I could play around with the light and see what I could come up with. Aside from that, I had a couple of still videos showing trees and wind coming in. In order to show some happy emotion you always have to have people dancing, so I added a video of my friends and I dancing at a retreat we work at for young high schoolers. I feel like I took a different approach to this final project with the images I chose. I would have loved to have gone out and taken pictures of the city and strangers, but realized the amount of content I had in my own backyard and bubble. Looking at the article from the New York Times, I learned how crazy it is now in the world that we have so much content that is absolutely free to us. All we can do if we wanted is consume consume consume and learn from what we watch.

In this project I learned a lot about how to create a basic start up 1st person shooter game. We learned how to create basic terrain with basic features such as mountains, grass, and trees. This project was one of the more challenging projects that we have done so far. I would say that going along with Tyler was nice in order to maintain a good pace and go step by step. This project overall was pretty challenging, and definitely more challenging than I had expected. There are lots of tools and different things that are needed to be known in order to figure out how to place or do certain things. Overall, my submission is pretty basic and I’m aware of that. Due to the recent circumstances I couldn’t add more extra features such as water or anything. I was having trouble transferring the game back into Unity in order to add more things to it. Things to look for in my project would be the forest that I included in one of the corners of the terrain just to make it look more interesting. I honestly would say having Tyler go along step by step was a very big help and would say to continue to do that. It allowed for everyone to follow along, but also give their own personal touch to their individual games. I would definitely take away some of the basic skills of trying to learn new programs to help assist me in the future. I think going back and re watching the video Tyler recorded was helpful in understanding what to do with certain things.

During this project I learned a lot about simple coding and website design. Being able to look at the code given and changing it to your own was really cool to do. Once I got the hang of how to do everything it became much easier to work through everything and make changes. There was some challenges along the way such has creating spaces and deleting lines that I didn’t need to use. I think overall I could have played around with the color schemes a little more as well as exploring different fonts and more creative design techniques. For the next time this assignment is presented I think maybe a little more information on how to delete things or anything like that could be included. Other then that everything was pretty self explanatory and easy to work with. This assignment taught me to think a lot more about creativity. I will be able to use this in future assignments because of what I was taught with this project. A basic tutorial video helped me maneuver with certain areas within Brackets.

Overview of what the structure of my website looked like after changes were made.

During this project I learned a lot about Photoshop as a program as well as different techniques when it came to manipulating photos and placement. As I continued the project I was able to do different things that helped me create my card. Through this process it was not as easy as I thought it would be. Using the different tools to layer and cut different images was challenging and time consuming. The most challenging part of this project was tracing the bunny and placing it behind the grassy background. It took multiple attempts in order to create that effect. Looking at overall improvement I would definitely look at how I placed my images and the quality of them. You can tell that this looks like a very beginner card that could be improved. Overall, I thought the way the assignment was presented was clear and fair. I don’t think there needs to be any changes to it. In the future, I will be able to use the techniques I learned a foundation when learning my next project. Different videos such as the class demonstration video and basic tutorial videos I looked up helped me with this project.

1. The pixels were chosen to show how different colors went with each other and which ones went with each other. By choosing different pixels, these selected pixels became sectioned off from the rest.
2. When the checkmark was clicked, the pixels selected would be eliminated from the rest of the noise background.
3. The final photo with the noise background and the apple looks like a throwback photo with the apple photoshopped onto the background.
4. Other ways to generate imagery from scratch could be from looking at other images for ideas, taking your own photos or sketching out ideas.