Art with Amanda

This audio project got us students more familiarized with the software Garage Band. By incorporating our last project of our stop motion video we added sounds to make it a more cohesive video. I had a lot of fun playing around with the various sounds offered in the program and I thought it was extremely easy to use.

We were able to take 60-90 photos of any activity that we wanted to create a stop-and-go animation. The video had to be at least a 45 second minimum, using three photos per second to make the frame by frame transitions more smoothly. I decided to do an animation on making a pizza from scratch. I did way over the required number of photos but it was worth it because the finished animation looks really cool and it tasted good too! 

Using inspiration from Irina Wernin, we were told to create a short morphX animation of ourself in two period of our life. By using a childhood image and a recent image of myself now, I created my video from a child to adult through animation on Photoshop.

We were asked to find one of our favorite painted portrait or a famous photograph and coming the image with our own face. I decided one the great Marilyn Monroe for inspiration.

Through Photoshop we were asked to place ourselves in an environment that we had never been in before. I have always wanted to go to Paris, so that's where I went in my photo. I was able to make it look like I had actually been there through the cropping tool and creating a shadow below me. 

This project began our introduction to Photoshop. We were asking to select 8 photos and get a feel for how use the layer effects and Photoshop filters work.  I wanted to see how extreme I could get my photos to look and made them really abstract with various colors.

Through getting inspiration in class, we had to create an image that we found and turn that image into a poster by enhancing our automatic tracing tools in the program Adobe Illustrator.

For this project we had to choose a fruit or vegetable to recreate using Adobe Illustrator. I selected an orange to recreate using vector shapes and gradient mesh to make the fruit look very life-like.

I chose to make business cards for a dance studio and a bakery that specializes in cupcakes. I have always been passionate about dance so the business card logo I created could actually be a reality. When I was younger, I always wanted to open up my own bakery so it was really fun working on this assignment overall because I was able to get really creative.

We had to create logos for a business we would one day promote. I made a dance company logo and a cupcake bakery logo because these are two things I am passionate about. 

A calligram is when you replace the lines in a picture with words. I chose to use a line drawing of Hello Kitty and replace the lines with a dance poem. I used a dance poem because it was a drawing of Hello Kitty as a ballerina.

Through the program Dreamweaver we were able to create a picture with simple shapes. By using html code I was able to move, reshape, and add different colors to create the image I wanted. I decided to go with a beach theme and create a background with palm trees and sea animals.