My wallpaper got in! Woo!
Yay!
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Project: Web Portfolio
And finally, the website.
Simple, yes, but I have to admit, I'm proud of it for someone who has never done a website in their entire life.
Simple, yes, but I have to admit, I'm proud of it for someone who has never done a website in their entire life.
Project: FlickR Narratives
I had two pre-made photo journal narratives that I felt would be great for this class--both were pretty all-inclusive and both involved somewhat creative endeavors. My first one involved creating a custom paint job for a plastic guitar used in the Guitar Hero video games. I was really proud of the project when I started it, so I wanted to keep a good photo journal of it in the first place.
Guitar Project
The second involved me installing a custom water-cooling setup within my desktop computer, as well as transferring the parts to a new case. Again, I was very proud of the project and wanted to keep a photo journal for myself.
Computer Project
Guitar Project
The second involved me installing a custom water-cooling setup within my desktop computer, as well as transferring the parts to a new case. Again, I was very proud of the project and wanted to keep a photo journal for myself.
Computer Project
Project: Stop Motion
I took inspiration from one of my friends--we all sat in a group and tried to come up with a decent concept for a video that would last an acceptable amount of time. We came up with the idea of a "sick sandwich", one that had sat on the counter for a bit too long.
Creating the sandwich was as easy as just creating a simple sandwich with meat "lips" and olive "eyes". Moving the sandwich was done via toothpicks and other materials to bulge the sandwich and move the "lips". The "mold" affect was created with a sponge and green food dye left over from the cake. The "vomiting" affect was done simply by doing the process in reverse and flipping the photos when creating the movie.
Creating the sandwich was as easy as just creating a simple sandwich with meat "lips" and olive "eyes". Moving the sandwich was done via toothpicks and other materials to bulge the sandwich and move the "lips". The "mold" affect was created with a sponge and green food dye left over from the cake. The "vomiting" affect was done simply by doing the process in reverse and flipping the photos when creating the movie.
Project: Online Collaboration
This was by far my favorite project. I joined an art forum when I was thirteen--ironically enough, the forum was a subsection of a video game forum. There I met a large group of artists in a tightly-knit community. When I read the prompt of this project, my thoughts immediately turned to that group. I contacted one of my closer friends from the forum, Hope, and told her that I wanted to do a collaboration with her.
I found out that the state animal for both of our states (Illinois and Pennsylvania) is the White-Tailed deer. I also found that the colors for both of our Universities are white and blue. I thought that doing a blue and white scene with deer would be an interesting concept. I first created my deer independantly from Hope using a program called OpenCanvas 1.1. I then emailed her my deer as a stylistic reference point.
Two days later, Hope returned to me a wonderful sight--her deer, standing in the shadows, amongst a beautiful winter landscape. I was blown away by how well it all turned out. I am tremendously happy with the final product.
I found out that the state animal for both of our states (Illinois and Pennsylvania) is the White-Tailed deer. I also found that the colors for both of our Universities are white and blue. I thought that doing a blue and white scene with deer would be an interesting concept. I first created my deer independantly from Hope using a program called OpenCanvas 1.1. I then emailed her my deer as a stylistic reference point.
Two days later, Hope returned to me a wonderful sight--her deer, standing in the shadows, amongst a beautiful winter landscape. I was blown away by how well it all turned out. I am tremendously happy with the final product.
Project: Pixel Girl Presents
This one was actually one of my favorites to do. I first browsed their site for quite some time in order to get a feel for the type of background they "liked". I noticed that majority of them seemed very minimalistic, with a small design in a corner and a vast expanse of color taking up the rest of the space. I've always wanted to make a wallpaper out of my Koi picture, so I did some minimal editing to extend the color behind the fish. I wasn't comfortable with just having a big ol' field of color behind it, however, so I decided to replicate the light pattern on the opposite corner of the fish.
Again, I was really pleased with the result. At the time of my posting, the form to submit an actual background was broken, so I was forced to email her manually in order to submit my design.
I'm excited to see if she accepts it.
Again, I was really pleased with the result. At the time of my posting, the form to submit an actual background was broken, so I was forced to email her manually in order to submit my design.
I'm excited to see if she accepts it.
Project: Etsy Posting
Well, I've definitely been behind on these postings, so I figure I'll make one describing my efforts for each project.
For the Etsy posting, I was immediately intrigued by the idea of making food and selling it online--it was so weird and "internet-ey" that I just had to try it. Me and my former housemate had previously created a cake based off of a picture on the internet--the cake appeared normal from the outside, but had several layers of perfectly divided color within. We discoverd that it was as simple as creating X number of increasingly smaller amounts of batter, mixing in whatever colors you wanted and pouring them carefully on top of each other in decending size, ensuring that you minimize the stirring.
I purchased the cake mix from Walmart. Creating the actual batter was fun--I only had the primary colors of food dye, so I got to mix myself some new colors in order to make a proper rainbow. I also decided that seven colors (ROYGBIV) was a bit ambitious for a single cake, so I reduced it to five colors. After prepping the batter and pouring, it was as simple as cooking the cake. The cake actually baked in a strange manner, bubbling up through the center and mixing slightly. However, this made an interesting swirl to the inner pattern of colors that actually ended up looking pretty cool.
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Overall, I was very pleased with the final result.
For the Etsy posting, I was immediately intrigued by the idea of making food and selling it online--it was so weird and "internet-ey" that I just had to try it. Me and my former housemate had previously created a cake based off of a picture on the internet--the cake appeared normal from the outside, but had several layers of perfectly divided color within. We discoverd that it was as simple as creating X number of increasingly smaller amounts of batter, mixing in whatever colors you wanted and pouring them carefully on top of each other in decending size, ensuring that you minimize the stirring.
I purchased the cake mix from Walmart. Creating the actual batter was fun--I only had the primary colors of food dye, so I got to mix myself some new colors in order to make a proper rainbow. I also decided that seven colors (ROYGBIV) was a bit ambitious for a single cake, so I reduced it to five colors. After prepping the batter and pouring, it was as simple as cooking the cake. The cake actually baked in a strange manner, bubbling up through the center and mixing slightly. However, this made an interesting swirl to the inner pattern of colors that actually ended up looking pretty cool.
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Overall, I was very pleased with the final result.
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