Summer Wars movie poster

 

Gourmet cat (food)

ABOUT

In this project we had to make a container for a product. I went with cat food in a can. I spent the most time on my label, and I really like it. Being gone for about a week, I missed a lot of what we were doing, but I caught on quick. I made the can first, a cylinder. I had to expand the sides of it to get the right shape. I used extrude to make the indents in the top and bottom of the can. For the label I drew all the pictures and logo, and used a pre-installed font for the title. I grabbed a bar code off the internet.

Postcards

This is my "Fall" Clipping mask. I used flowers for my name because flowers are pretty and I'm pretty. I uses the clouds because it blends well with the letters.

This is my clipping mask post card. I themed it around Madoka Magica. I used each character for the letters. I used a background from the show for the back. I put the text as "Queen" because the magical girls are prefect and flawless.

This is my "Hawaii" post card. My theme was people I like (and a plane). The text says "More than one waif can ruin your laifu". People featured are Lemon, Cookie, Oliver, Onion, A Plane, Mio, Marina, Kyray, Mami, and my date friend Lee B)

Animation Story

This is my original character design. I used basic designs, because I wanted to go more in depth with them once I pulled them up to the computer. I endued up using the same shirt for everyone, because the other two were weird looking.

This is my photoshop character design. I had a lot of fun doing this. Honestly I spent the majority of my time on it. I pulled some designs from my sketch books for their shirts. One problem I ran into was when I tried to save the file at the end of an hour, and photoshop ran into an error of some kind. All I had to do was rename the file to fix it.  Following this photo is my guitar and drum designs. I hand drew the drums, but for the guitar I used a photo to draw it. The main problem with the guitar was formatting the strings & such to look realistic. I think I did pretty well.

This is my finished animation. The hardest part about this was making it look like they were practicing. If I go back through I will defiantly add sound, and fix up walk cycles. I had trouble with they cycles at first, because pins kept going places I didn't want.

Madoka and a mountan

This is our floating mountain project. It was pretty easy to follow the directions. I think the hardest part was adding the tip and getting rid of the water in front.  I really liked bringing the cloud up, so i did it a few times. To personalize it, I added Madoka Kaneme and Kyubey from Madoka Magica. pls make contract 2 become magical girl ty.

Spheres

      

 This is my Illustrator ball. I made a circle without a fill or stroke, then added a gradient while the ball was selected. For the gradient I used white, a light grey, a red, and a darker red. The shadow is a gradient of black, grey, white, and transparent. The sky is blue and transparent, and the grass is just a solid green.

This is my Photoshop sphere. I made it more pink than red. The ball has two layers, the main color and the shadow. I pretty much did the same thing I did with the Illustrator ball.

This is my PS tutorial ball. I did a Billiard ball. One part I had trouble with the shine just below the number. I solved it by, instead of feathering, making a gradient white circle and making it transparent. To make it my own, I made the ball green, with the classic 6 instead of the black 8 in the tutorial. Tutorial link.

This is my AI tutorial ball. It is a disco ball. I didn't really have any troubles with it. I used a few different colors of blues for the coloring, and a gradient white & black screen circle to make that shine, though it did not turn out well. Tutorial Link.

Multi-plane

This is my multi-plane animation. I learned how to move the layers apropriatly to different distances. I think that the back layers move somewhat fast, and that is something I will fix if I ever get time. I enjoyed this project a lot.

Font tutorial

This is my font tutorial. I had trouble tracing once I got all the brush styles combined. It did not curve well. I would like to learn how to make it curve better so it would look good.

Character Walk

This is the character I used for my character animation. A lot of editing was done to her in photo shop. She is an alien version of myself. I designed her to be a simple character, that doesn't stand out too much. 

Here is my animation time line. My main issue was keeping the legs from popping out of her body, i.e; staying under the skirt. Then I had to put that animation in the new one, and connect her legs and body. I positioned the body on the right of the screen and put in the key frame. then I moved the scrubber to the end, and moved my character to the left. It added a key frame.

This is my character animation. I learned about scanning and fixing drawings  from photo shop, working with timing, and copying key frames. My biggest issue was getting my characters legs to keep from poking out on the sides as they circled. If I could change anything, it would be the cycle of the legs. I think they go a little too high. I am pretty proud of my animation.

This is my updated walk cycle. I added a background, and made her less tilted. I enjoyed using different brushes to make a new world, never seen before.

Font Diagram

In this project we had to find a font that best suits us. I got Rogue Script. Next we had to diagram parts of the font. This project is actually really easy in my opinion because the style makes things more visable. 

Bounce animation

This is the first animation I did for Animation 1 class. We used photoshop to make a simple ball, and bounce it. First, I put simple key frames in on photoshop to make the ball bounce, then brought it into After Effects. There, I made it squash and stretch, which is when it squashes a tiny bit when landing and stretches a bit when going back into the air. I also made the movements more fluid. I learned and applied laws of physics to this project. I don’t think there is anything I would really change next time, as it was a starter project.