Floating Mountain Tutorial

In this moving mountain's in Photoshop project the scope was to take something (the mountain, dragon, humming bird, and Mufasa) out of an image and put it into another image (the sky). In my pre-production process the idea for putting Mufasa in came from my friend Greta and I thought it was genius.  The humming bird though was all my idea which I thought it was cute and funny. I thought the same for the dragon.

I learned along the way that not all images cooperate when you try to refine the edge of a selection. I had to erase parts of my selection instead of refining the edge. I'M LOOKING AT YOU HUMMING BIRD.

Something I would do differently next time would be to add more shading on images and add different things into the sky like instead of a mountain add a house or animal with photoshopped wings.  Something I would do the same would be that I'd keep the humming bird and Mufasa.

I learned how to copy a cloud, make it another layer, and move it in front of the mountain to make the mountain look like its actually in the clouds. I also learned how to make the mountain have more shadows the it originally had.

I really like how this project turned out. I think it looks really cool and crazy but thats my mind for you and a little bit of Greta's crazy mind too. I hope you all enjoy my finished project too.

Shadow Tutorial

In class we were to take an object from a image and give it a shadow and put in a new background. I used the quick selection tool to get the kitten then I used refine edge to get the extra fur around the body. The refine edge tool wasn't working on the head so I just used the eraser and erased the unneeded part of the image. I then duplicated the kitten layer turned it on its side, added a gradient on the shadow, and then made the shadow match up with the kitten. I put the grassy background in and edited the shadow to make it look better on the background.

Sphere Tutorials

Illustrator Tutorial: Glossy Sphere Tutorial

In the Illustrator tutorial I made a circle with a blue color fill then added an oval at the bottom with a lighter blue fill then I added a white oval on top to give it a shine. I learned how to add a second lighter color at the bottom to make the sphere look glossy. I want to learn how to make it more glossy/shiny in the future.

Photoshop Tutorial: Yin Yang Sphere Tutorial

In the photoshop tutorial I made a simple circle and then used the pen tool to make the shapes of Yin and Yang then colored them in and shaded them. I added the dots and shaded those too. I learned how to use the pen tool to make the Yin and Yan sections. I want to learn how to make the Yin and Yang sections more like the real Yin and Yang.

Sphere's

My Sketch of a Sphere:

Illustrator:

In my class we have been working with sphere's in Illustrator and Photoshop. In Illustrator the sphere was easy to make but the color shading was difficult to work with so it looks odd unlike Photoshop where the sphere is easy to make and the gradient is also easy. Both of their shadows were easy to do although i think the Illustrator shadow looks better. 

Photoshop:

Moving Background

In this moving background animation project three major things I learned were how to make different layers move to make a moving scene which is what I did in the whole animation, how to edit images and put them into my animation which I used on the moon, cloud, and trees, and how to connect different layers together to make the viewer think nothing has changed but i made two layers of grass and moved them at separate times. 

Here is my finished animation:

Typography

I did a origami typography of my initials.I learned to make letters out of simple rectangles. The A and B were easy but the K was more difficult because of the angle the legs are in. If I could do something differently I would've tried doing the K different and I want to do research about how to write out all the letters not just K, A, and B. 

Origami Typography Tutorial

Character Walk

My character is a fire sprite. I wanted to do something with a element and fire seemed like a good place to start. 

It was hard to get the legs to move smoothly because of how I drew the legs. I didn't have any issues with making the keyframes. I first made the walk cycle of my character for two steps and then i copied it and pasted it to make it a complete cycle. I moved my character for each step and tried to make it look normal. Each steps timing was the same and if I needed top slow it down I'd move the keyframes. 

I learned how to make my character walk across the screen, to make certain parts of my character move when I move another part, and I learned how to build a character in separate parts and make t move as a whole. I had a little trouble coming up with a character at first but I eventually thought of one. I would like to make the walk better if I get another chance. I really like how I did and I want to improve from here.