In today’s lesson, we made a fantasy matte painting I found an image from the internet and added a castle to the background and a hobbit house to the foreground. I used the clone stamp tool to remove unwanted things from the image or to try and blend newly placed images into the foreground. I added an image to the background and made an adjustment layer so I could remove the background around it with the brush tool. Here is my finished picture: The tools I used were the same as I used in previous photoshop projects. Like the orc/vampire […]
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Folk Art & Folklore
I tried to draw Zeph in a folk art style. I drew him as a sketch in his cartoon appearance. I gave him a helmet and some armour to make him more warrior like. In todays lesson we learnt about Folk art and Folklore. Folk Art We learnt that people from around the world have different cultures and sometimes display some of this in an art form. Some of the countries we looked at were, Mexico, Africa, Japan and India. Mexico have a celebration that they celebrate every year called ‘Dia de los Muertos’ (day of the dead) Mexicans celebrate […]
Parallax effect
In this lesson, we looked at the parallax effect which is also known as 2.5D. This is when an object is viewed from different positions and it appears to differ depending on which way you look at it eg. through a viewfinder in a camera will be different from what you get in a photograph. The parallax effect is a modern web design technique, the background of the image scrolls slower than the foreground content. This can add depth to the background image and make it feel interactive. A good example would be, look out the window when driving on […]
Tim Allen guest talk
In today’s lesson, we had a guest speaker. Tim Allen, a professional Stop Motion Animator, spoke to us about his career so far. Tim has been a professional animator for the past 21 years. He has worked on various films and series, for example; Isle of Dogs, Shaun the Sheep, Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, Bunny and the Bull, Fantastic Mr Fox, Frankenweenie, Peter and the Wolf and Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride. Tim talked about how he has always had a love for art, cartoons and comics and that he knew at a young age that he wanted to have an […]
fire and smoke effect
In today’s lesson, we learnt how to make smoke and fire effect. cc particle world for ember effects fractal noise for smoke effects the finished smoke effect: the finished fire effect: I combined the two effects by placing the two compositions in one composition: Smoke effect: I made a solid shape layer and applied fractal noise to it Then I added evolution animation to animate it I used offset turbulence to make it move sideways and upwards I went to colour correction – curves to make the effect brighter or darker I used the pen tool on the shape layer […]
Target Audience Demographics and Psychographics
In this lesson, we did editing our blog posts by categorising them. Then we looked at demographics and psychographics. DEMOGRAPHICS Demographics ~ Who they are The characteristics of the person, such as their age and income There are three types of Demographics: Professional / Managerial: Higher paying professional roles and lower-paying management roles. These can be Doctors, Lawyers, Teachers, Directors and managers. Intermediate: Office & service workers and lower-paying supervisor & technical roles also include Nurses, Health Care Workers, Heating Engineers, Plumbers and Shop Assistants Routine / Unemployed: Low paying routine jobs, part-time occupations, unemployed people, living with benefits. The jobs […]
30 minute fantasy poster
We were given approx. 30 minutes to create a fantasy poster. I made a poster for my fantasy brief Flames Of Oblivion The techniques I used: I put a fire background over the entire poster I placed some text saying “The War Must End” and “Flames Of Oblivion” on the poster and changed the colours and the font to best suit the theme of the poster. I found an image of a hand holding a sword and placed it into the poster and copy-pasted it and reflected it and arranged them to look like the swords were clashing. I tried […]
Orc/Goblin photoshop resub
Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor created in 1988. It is used widely by photographers, to retouch photos and also in graphic designs. It is also used in the film world on anything in a video that is still or in special effects. Anything that doesn’t move can be altered, for example in matte paintings, concept art, storyboarding, or colour manipulations. Photoshop is a very useful software to have. Here is an example of an image of a guys face that has been re-touched to be made into a scary clown with sharp teeth and a long tongue. different […]
Vampire photoshop resub
Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor created in 1988. It is used widely by photographers, to retouch photos and also in graphic designs. It is also used in the film world on anything in a video that is still or in special effects. Anything that doesn’t move can be altered, for example in matte paintings, concept art, storyboarding, or colour manipulations. Photoshop is a very useful software to have. Here is an example of an image of a girl’s face that has been retouched to remove her freckles and to give her a flawless complexion, enhancing her eyes and […]
Gender Representation Thursday online lesson resub
In this session, we looked at gender representation in media through film/tv shows or games. We also looked at the gender representation of our fantasy brief characters. WWW: I learnt more about what gender means and it isn’t just male and female, it has meaning. And is more about a person character rather than their sex. I learnt this by researching Metroid Prime 2 and the character of Samus. Gender representation in Fantasy films, these films and novels are very much male-driven and have a strong male representation, this is true especially in the earlier films. Lord of The Rings […]