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How Owning a Pet Helps Build Good Habits

How Owning a Pet Helps Build Good Habits

I was about 19 when I first got my very own dog. He was a German Shepherd mixed with a Husky. I had no idea what was in store. He was a pain in the neck to take care of. He clawed, he bit, he ran and jumped, he would dig and leave a mess for me to clean up. Through all that trouble and what seemed to be endless days of filling up holes and picking up after him, it was all worth it. I learned a…

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Discipline and Video Games

Discipline and Video Games

I play video games avidly. I like to play any type of video game, but I usually play role playing games, massive online battle arenas and (my favorite) real time strategy. Video games are like an escape from real life and provide a world of imagination, but what about actual real life? I used to spend countless hours playing video games and it was starting to have a negative impact on my life. My…

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Movie Poster Series: Here is the final rendering of my poster. Fehran is a boy who has big dreams of becoming a space pioneer. He will one day expand the reaches of humanity.

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Movie Poster Series: I wanted my movie poster to have a space-age feel to it. I decided to name it Galactic Kid. I was able to achieve the glow effect because of the tutorial on Youtube. The stars behind the title is a brush  downloaded from a link provided by the same Youtube page.

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Movie Poster Series: The picture at the top is the original photo, the first step was to remove the background and my hair (he was sitting on my shoulders.) Once I removed my head I had to fill in the empty space with the lasso tool and the cloning tool.

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Movie Poster Series: One of our final projects was to design a movie poster. My first idea (on the left) was inspired by a couple of minimalist Star Wars posters. It was going to be based on current events revolving the terror group ISIS and how our military will defeat them. Unfortunately, the assignment had to be majority Photoshop, but I spent to much time on Illustrator. My second idea (on the right) was inspired by the Star Wars films posters. I wanted to compile several people in one but it was going to take to long for the time frame I had, I wouldn’t have made the deadline.

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This assignment was our introduction to Photoshop in class. The picture and logo were provided by Adobe. We learned how to crop and straighten the picture. We then used the lasso tool and the spot healing brush to get rid of cracks or anything that made the picture look less appealing, we even learned to move an entire island from its place (we moved a small one a bit to the right.) Next we played around with the hue and saturation of the colors of the lighthouse and made the image black and white. The selection tool was used to keep the lighthouse colored. Finally, we added a logo and type to the photo.

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We came up with a pattern then I was supposed to make another version with different colors so I could mask it when I transfer it to Photoshop. Once in Photoshop it was to be animated switching back and forth between the colors. 

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I posted the story board for my Google Doodle assignment but never posted the work space or finished product. The assignment was to animate a drawing on Illustrator and pretend we were going to send it to Google so they could use it as a theme in their homepage during a certain date. I got the idea to have an eagle dive out of the screen and pop up from below. My original idea was to make it based on Veterans Day, but it ended up looking like an Independence Day animation. I’m pretty proud of how this assignment came out. I wanted to name this assignment “Wings of Liberty” but the video game Starcraft 2 has a sub-title called Starcraft 2: WIngs of Liberty. (For technical reasons I can’t post my animation version. I will have it up when I’ve fixed the issue.)

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Here is the larger image of the Type Cheat Sheet without the Illustrator work space. The assignment was very simple, but it was very fun to do. Notice where it says Kryptonian, we created outlines around the type and were able to manipulate individual letters.

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We had another project in class earlier in the semester. The Type Cheat Sheet explains several things about typography. We learned several key words and how to manipulate type. Notice the bird shaped group of words in the middle of the sheet (Area Type).  Path type was one of my favorites check out the circle (Lord of the Rings). 

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Our latest project. Remember the snail collage at the beginning of my blog? Here it is again but animated using Illustrator. I was going to post it as a video, but I decided to post it as a GIF instead since it is only about 5 seconds long.

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The completed project. I used the Japanese rising sun to honor the Japanese military. Kabuto is the Japanese word for helmet. If you click on the picture you can read the description under Samurai Kabuto. We used Adobe Indesign to create this format.

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Here is a screenshot of the swatches and pallets I used. The black and white version is part of our final project when we mount and board the assignment.

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The preliminary stages of our Digital Arts assignment. I started by making a rough drawing of what I wanted the helmet to look like. We had to make a mask on illustrator that serves a purpose and a reason why somebody would wear it today. I chose to make a samurai mask because it had a powerful purpose in ancient Japanese culture and though the armor is insignificant now, it is still used in theatre, cosplay and war re-enactments. 

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