This entire school year has been fun. This class went up and down like the stock market, but I held through when it went down and here I am, richer than ever in knowledge. All because I held through with everything we've done. This class isn't like math, science, or English. This class doesn't teach just a little something that'll only help in that class, this class instead teaches something that helps inside and out. This class provides a gateway to computer science and art you've never seen or tried before, it's something new and it hits you like a truck with that. This class isn't only a class, it's a life experience. I've taken away more knowledge about life than I have about art in this class. Everything takes time, from Photoshop to waiting for food in the microwave. From creating cels in an animation to cooking that omelet to perfection. My takeaways aren't only about subobjects on a 3d model, it's about the growth of a skill and the experiences that come with it. Each unit isn't a new subject for me anymore; it's another challenge I need to overcome. Every assignment I finish doesn't mean I get a break, I get a feeling of accomplishment and that's it, off to the next one. I normally wouldn't do that, I normally wouldn't just continue like that without rest and relaxation. Being that the most rewarding experience in this class is that rush of work, and the perseverance to continue on makes this class one of the best. This class kicked my butt, and in the end I'm actually grateful for that. I'm grateful that this class gave me the sense that I should do the best I can on a lamp, A LAMP of all things, it makes the most inept things feel like it's life or death. In the future I'll be more successful than ever just because of this class. Just because of this class I learned that life will beat me unless I have the perseverance, the courage, and the quest to be the best. And that's what I'll keep and follow outside this class, not art, but a once in a lifetime experience. To sum it up: This year has been tough, but what I learned from this class goes beyond just this class. It's a life experience and a half, I've taken away more experience than art actually from this class. The best experience isn't finishing an assignment, or getting through that tough glitch in 3DS Max, the most rewarded I've been this entire class has been a pat on the back. And that's all I'll ever want, because doing the work is the reward its self. Because it rewards you with experience that you'll never get in any other class.
So thanks. Thanks Mr.B, for teaching the best class in DSA.
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Adobe Illustrator is an art program. Unlike Photoshop, Illustrator uses mainly shapes and vector mapping. The best part of a vector map is that you can size any image up and down without it loosing resolution. When I started to use Illustrator we mainly focused on the shapes tool, the pen tool, and the shape builder tool. The shape builder tool allowed me to change shapes based off of other shapes, a good example of this is how the pepperonis are cut perfectly from the crust. The shapes tool is fairly simple, it took barely any time to learn, and was by far the most fun to mess around with. It had no limits to the shapes, you could make a star that has 100 vertices or a shape with 1000 edges. The pen tool on the other hand was a much more difficult task, but after playing around with the tool I found it to be easy to use and simple to use. The pen tool allows me to make shapes and lines other tools can't. It allows me to do anything with lines, I can curve them, fill them in and create shapes, the pen tool can do all of that. Illustrator offers an easy way to create 2D art work, it's fairly simple and can be used in a variety of ways. It can give a simple way to show/explain a product or a basic sketch of a video game. -A pizza I made in Adobe Illustrator.
Photoshop has a lot of useful tools for example we have the magic wand tool, it has the ability to select items based on its surrounding and its color. Photoshop also has the spot healing brush which can remove and replace a spot. This one, in my opinion, is the most useful and my favorite, as it removes the extra work it takes to take a part of the woman's skin and putting it on top of a blemish (clone stamping). For example say I have a picture of a woman's face that is full of acne: And I wanted to clear up some of the acne and remove the bagged eyes I would use the spot healing tool and come up with: As you can see just by using the spot healing brush (and a little touch up using others) we have come up with a clearer face with less acne.
The colors used in the video game Celeste are mainly bright and light colors. These colors are used well to contrast certain areas in the game, EX: how you can see an area that is full of danger (to the right) and how it's full of red and orange. Yet on the left you can tell that it's calm and there's nothing that can damage the character. A lot of areas in this game have this. You can tell that this area is full of danger based on the colors. Another thing that you may notice is that the areas without danger are lit with blue torches. The orange torches may not only be represented with danger but based off the theme of the game it sets the mood that it's an anxious part. Just based off this one area in the game it's able to represent it's mood using only two torches with two different colors.
When it comes to photo shopping people I have to agree with what the women said; "After seeing yourself look like this you realize how much your imperfections really mean." When you really look at you find some really fake people. You look at magazine covers and start to really see how fake these people can get. They have no wrinkles, no pimples, just clear skin and a fake smile that probably took them around 100 pictures to get right.
All it does is make people expect more than they can get. They're changing the public to not only think that looks are the only thing that matters but it's make people think that the "normal" is the perfect and the abnormal is the people with these imperfections. All it's doing is making people (mostly men) think that the best will be waiting for them right around the corner when that is of course not true. Things to remember:
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AuthorI'm Robert Hill, this blog was started in the 15th of September for a digital design and animation class. This blog will consist of my development in knowledge and skill throughout the class. Archives
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