Jeremy Peng - Design P3

A portfolio of designs I made Graphics Design Fall 2018 - Spring 2019

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The name of this movie is called A Meeting In The Desert. It was an individual project. we had to create a 30s animation of a story. I tried to use movement to show the characters were alive. I used contrast in the desert to show differences in distance. I created al the assets used in this animation in illustrator. I made the animation in after effects. I am proud of my assets and animation of the characters. The difficult part of this project was coming up with a story and creating it from your vision. I would plan out the story better and have a better idea of what I want to do before I start.

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The name for this project is Every Shot Counts Movie poster. This was a group project. This project’s goal was to make movie posters for the film student’s film. I tried to use color to emphasize the people in this movie and not the tennis court. most of the assets are my creation like the background and main font. The two figures in the middle is a vectorized screenshot from the movie. I created the whole poster in illustrator by using its shape tool. I also used image trace to vectorized the photo in the middle. I am proud of the colors of my background. I contributed to it by making my own font. The most difficult part of the project was the vectorization of the image in the middle to our color palette. I would change the background vectorization color if i did it again.

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This project is the Tumblr heading project. This was an individual project. The project was about creating a personal heading for my Tumblr account. I was trying to create a piece that looked clean with pattern and harmony so the user can really tell what they are supposed to focus on. It also makes the viewer able to comprehend without noise what I am presenting. I used all original assets that are the pictures that I took. I used Illustrator for the vectored hexagonal background. I inserted the pictures and texts in Photoshop. I am very proud of the photos that are in the background. I struggled to make the hexagonal pattern in the background because I couldn’t find out how to make a pattern so i inserted each hexagon by hand. I would try and make a pattern instead of hand inserting.

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The name of the project is THE RETURN OF THE BOK CHOY. This project was meant to showcase the way of putting a texture to text as seen in the second picture. I was trying to show a pleasant image with complementary color background and text that did not look sharp or unpleasant. I also tried to make the post funny as the name of the project is pun on the famous Dark Star Wars movie Return of the Jedi as this one is the exact opposite with its uninteresting bowl of bok ahoy in the middle and light background in the back. The picture of the bowl of book ahoy I got from a cooking website and then I used object quick selection tool and a small eraser around the whole thing to make sure it had no rough edges and had a seamless transition to the background. I also use a little bit of the gradient tool to decrease the amount of light the bok ahoy was reflecting. The most problematic part of the project was removing the background of the original picture of the bok ahoy as the reflective plastic and leaves make it very hard for quick selection tool to get it just right so I had to had erase pixel by pixel around the whole thing to make it look perfect. If I did it again I would use a different colored bowl specifically non reflective as it was a pain to erase.

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The name of this project is called The muffin man POMO type poem. This was an Individual project which was about filling spaces with text and trying to make a picture out of text. I tried to make sure the colors of the image didn’t clash and had well separation of the space so it did not look cluttered and showed depth. I added white in-between texts to make sure you could tell a shape to another or the back ground from the foreground. I used a lot of layers to make sure none of the pictures had covered another and mainly used pen tool to draw the outline of the muffin shapes and borders and used text on line to make the text borders and text in shape tool to fill my. muffins with the muffin man poem. I found CC images from CC wikipedia then I dowloaded and traced them. The whole project was done in illustrator as there was noting I needed from the raster world. I am very proud of the distinct white outlines showing us where the muffins begin, end, and overlap. The most difficult part was tracing each and every muffin to make sure it did not overlap and when it did overlap I made sure you could see which one is more infant then one other. If I did it again I would make sure to spend more time on the borders to make it look even nicer and less cluttered. I would also eat to take my own photos as the quality is not that phenomenal.

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Rise & Grind PALY!, It was an individual project. I tried to make a black and white poster for Rise & Grind PALY! that shows what they are about and what they create. I had to make sure it saved ink because the client was very particular on ink usage. I tried to make sure the focus of the piece was on the texts and the images with not a lot of background color to show a more clean space and to save ink. I also tried to have a lot of contrast in the poster to make the text and picture pop out from the background. I used a coffee mug and coffee beans which I took myself and a poring coffee pot which I found on the internet. Mainly for the mug and the coffee pot I use the quick selection tool and eraser to separate the picture from the background. I used the spot healing tool to remove the logo on the mug so it seems as the mug has nothing on it. I am very proud of the natural feel of the objects as it blends in to the back ground without discolored edges and specks. I am also proud of the logo removing as it almost feels like it wasn’t there in the first place. What was difficult was tinkering with the settings of the spot healing tool so it looked just right and what took a lot of time was the process of post processing trying to erase the natural edge of the objects by hand. If I did it again I would have my own picture of a coffee pot as the proportions didn’t look just right as it looks too small in the picture and not to scale.