Avatar Animation

For my final project of the year a few people and I who were in group made a video using greenscreen and 3D effects. My group decide to do an Avatar themed video with all the elements. Below I am in front of a greenscreen "water bending". 

I made the water ball that I water bend in Maya. It wasn't too hard to make and it looked cool in the video. Here it is below. 

Below is the short clip of my 3D water ball and the greenscreen clip. I turned myself into a silhouette and added a water background. 

My group and I put our clips together, added audio, and music and our video was complete. Here is the result below.

Food-imals

Recently a friend and I decided to take a toy animal and a food and combine it to make a toy called Food-imals. It's package had to not only look cool and draw kids attention, but it had to have a hidden purpose behind carrying the toys. We came up with this idea when we realized how hungry we were and we had been trying to think of an idea for a cool toy. Our hunger and a need for a toy idea inspired Food-imals. All thanks to our stomachs.

The first part was the most challenging. We wanted to create a Mystery Fridge and we wanted to make a flat template that could be folded in such a way as to make a two-story fridge that could hold two little plush Food-imals with a working door. This was harder than it sounds. Thankfully my partner, Greta, figured everything out and made the template work.

Greta designed the middle sections to fold inwards to make the middle shelf, causing the rest of the box to squish back together into a rectangular prism. The end result of the folded box looked like this sort of fridge shape:

For our color palette we went for a childlike feel. We then played around with different foods to see what we could make this little cat orb into for our logo:

With Mr. Cherry Cat done we made the logo appear as a magnet for the completed fridge look.

Finished Product:

(Coming Soon)

Grow-A-Monster

I made my own product called Grow-A-Monster. It's an amazing pill that you put in water and a monster minion grows from the pill! I thought of this idea when I was thinking about creating your own monster and the product I had to make had to be a pill for something and this brilliant idea hit me. The logo was a pill and a monster put together that was thought up by Greta, my friend and coworker.  I then made the logo in Illustrator and added it to my box design.

Below is my box design for Grow-A-Monster. I made it in Illustrator along with my logo. I created the color palette and thought of all the text on the package. My favorite part of the who box is the little monster underwater on the front.

Here is my box printed out and folded up and it's bottle. This is its actual size and it will be on shelves soon! (not)

e-Magine

e-Magine is an event at my school, Olathe Northwest. It's known as the red carpet event in e-communications at my school. It happens every year around March or April and it is a very fun and cool event  where schools in the area that are in the technical arts can come and enter their work in competition.

Here I am with my friend Greta at the Photo Booth area. She is a fellow designer and animator and her animation got into the top five in her category. We were both disappointed when she didn't win anything but she'll enter again next year and will whoop everybody!