Line Animation

This week our task was to create a line animation using photoshops animation tools.

Your line could be frenzied, sinuous, agitated, broken, soft, blurred, thick, congested,
etc. depending on the emotion you are depicting.
Format : 14 X 7 inches. Landscape. Full color. Series.
Technical Specifications:
Consolidate the skills learnt so far in the course.
Demonstrate creative use of the photoshop animation tools.

Because we are so under the pump towards the end of the semester i taught i was going to die from the workload so i taught it would be fun to do a pulse kind of something or other machine. Whatever all i need is a line animation done with photoshop.

Cool so i went on the internet and got myself a funky background for my line animation.

I have cut out the green grid using the marquee tool so i have two peaces to start with a foreground and a background layer and in the middle will be the animated line so that the audience can't recognize the starting and the ending point of my animation.Once i was done i have realized that my animation looks kind of repetitive after i have copied the the pulse machine and placed them next to each other. It looked like there was something missing so i decided to create a flashing red button.The button had to be hand drawn and also animated.

That simple button animation has really added to my animation.

Music cd cover front & back

finally i have managed to finish the back cover.
i have used the same images for the front and back cover.
Usually the backs of CD covers are nothing special it is mostly
just a simple image with the song list and label information.

Here is the final outcome:

Music cd cover front & back

For one of our assignments we had to create a music CD cover of our choice.
I chose to create a trance/house music cd cover and i realy don't know why
but one thing that i kept thinking about was the universe and
the amount of shiny stars that were up there.

That kind of imagery i taught was very suitable for the style of music that
i was creating the CD cover for. So far so good, now i needed some more
images to fill the rest of the space. Again i needed something robotic, android,
mechanic or out of space or something in that direction.

Because i am also skilled in 3ds max i taught i create quickly a couple of space
ships and asteroids and use them with the backgrounds but than i have realized
that that would take up too much time and i wouldn't be able to finish it on time.
But that gave me another idea. I taught that a kind of 3d model of a head would
be really cool to have in my artwork and i should make it kind of evolve out of the
stars background. Now i had a kind of idea of what i wanted my art to look like.

So i went on to the internet to search for useful imagery and after hours of searching
i found these images. The most pleased with i was to find the 3d head. The 3d head
had two things that i was looking for, wire-frame 3d and also the face looks a bit android
like kind of too smooth, too symmetric.

Now that i had all my images ready i started mashing together some kind of composition.
First i have laid out all the images that i had in photoshop and stacked them ruffly on top
of each other and than i started to manipulate the opacity of the layers to be able to get a
better idea of what it would look like. In general they looked workable with, so i was very
pleased.

The first step was to create a background layer so i took my two stars layers that i have
chosen to work with and blended them together. It took me a while to get them to blend
seamlessly but overall i think i did a good job. The stars image with the red kind of gas cloud
had to be tweaked in size and position to get that kind of cloud ring to go around the neck
area of our 3d head to hide the necklines and of coarse to make it look like our 3d head is
emerging out of the stars. The tools that i have used to create the background were: free
transform, clone, stamp, dodge, burn, eraser, marki and the layer opacity panel.

The next step was to put in the 3d head. I have delited all the acces gray around the head so i was left just with the head. Than i have placed the head in between the two layers so that the red gas was infront of the head and than i have tweeked all the layers into position again. Than i have turned down the opacity layer on the 3d head so it gives me a transparent effect. After that i have used the rubber tool and rubbed off gently all the acces of the head image to make it blend in a little bit better.

Now i had to give it some text, name, artist, etc. I thaught i do a mixed cd so i went to the internet and did a search on trance cd's. I have stumbeld accros a cd called "100 best trance anthems ever" and have used that title. This is what it looked like at this stage.

Well at this stage i was happy with the font so i needed to make up one because this one wasn't very clean and readable. I have just chosen one of the photoshop fonts that was the closest to it and used that. I have added a few effects to the font by double clicking on that layer from the layer panel. I have added a stroke, only a little bit of bevel and a outer glow to it, tweaked the outer glow radius and distance and the font looked really bright and spacey.

At this stage the CD cover still looked like it had a lot of empty space and needed some more work on it. I taught it would be interesting to add some kind of binary code to it and cover the empty space in the image. I have written up some random 1's and 0's across the screen, placed them in between the head and the star background and turned down the opacity on it. It started to look better but it wasn't matching the rest of the design. I have tried inner and outer glows but nothing worked do i have duplicated that same layer and thrown some filters on it down in the layer panel. With the divide filter on it some of the binary code faded and other lit up.

And here is the final result.

To be continued...

I still have to make the back cover.:)))

global design ACM 5001 - Define Rubbish & The Rubbish Font

My definition of rubbish

As we all know rubbish comes in a lot of different forms
that is why we have more specific word/s for it such as
hard rubbish, household waste, etc. which makes it hard to
differentiate which one is what.

As for me i only associate rubbish with organic waste everything
else is pretty much recyclable so it's probably hard rubbish.

For some reason whenever i think of rubbish the first thing
that comes to my mind is that smelly summer time rubbish
and the garbage trucks driving through the city streets
dripping hot rubbish juices that got squeezed by the trucks
compactor.

I know how graphic.

Very disgusting thing to think about but most of us would have
experienced that a couple of times in our lives. :)

I really wouldn't know who would be the target audience for the
font that i have created, probably young kids browsing for
disgusting fonts or something like that.

When i was looking for inspiration for rubbish fonts i did not find
many that's why i relied on my own experience and did a smelly
rubbish juice with flies font.

Define Fun

What is fun?

Activities that are enjoyable or amusing; fun is the expenditure of time in a manner designed for therapeutic refreshment of one's body or mind. While leisure is more likely a form of entertainment or sleep, recreation is active for the participant but in a refreshing and diverting manner. .

Fun is being able to enjoy yourself, in another words it being able to part take in an activity or one’s state of mind, I think having fun is doing anything that makes you happy and is entirely positive. It can be invigorating for your soul or it can be a mildly pleasant past-time.

My Game Idea

High Concept

After a long wait it is finally here a red carpet experience unlike any other. If you have ever wanted to attack the world most hated celebrities this is the ultimate game for you. You will be able to attack celebrities as well as politicians as required. You can also take pictures of your family members or friends and upload them to our game with the templates that is provided.

Celebrity smash down is a first person shooter designed for the I –phone. It is a modern technique and technology that is making this game a real eye candy for the casual gamer. The fast paced action game play together with hilarious cast of real life characters. This game will keep you entertained and laughing for hours.

Philosophy

Celebrity smash down is a first person shooter designed for the I –phone using Unity 3 game engine technologies. Unity also supports and creates Android apps. This game does not borrow any elements from any other games. Celebrity smash down is a completely unique game guaranteed to satisfy the itch for casual gaming.

Unity 3 is a game development tool that has been designed to let you focus on creating amazing games.

Unity is the development environment that gets out of your way, allowing you to focus on simply creating your game. It also lets you develop for web, mobile, or console. Unity is the right tool for the job.

Unity is an integrated authoring tool for creating 3D video games or other interactive content such as architectural visualizations or real-time 3D animations. Unity is similar to Blender game engine, Virtools or Torque Game Builder due to using an integrated graphical environment is the primary method of development.

The Unity editor runs on Windows and Mac OS X and can produce games for Windows, Mac, Wii, iPad, or iPhone platforms. It can also produce browser games that use the Unity web player plugin, supported on Mac and Windows. The web player is also used for deployment as Mac widgets. Support for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 have recently been added.

Unity was announced the winner of the Wall Street Journal 2010 Technology Innovation Award in the software category. In 2009, Unity Technologies was named one of Gamasutra's "Top 5 Game Companies of 2009" for Unity. Unity was a runner-up in the Best OS X Graphics category in the 2006 Apple Design Awards.

Common Questions

What is the game?

Celebrity smash down is a unity 3 I phone game. Players are able to hunt down their most hated celebrities as well as politicians.

Why create this game?

By undertaking my research I found that mobile phone gaming has a dramatically increased the gaming audience for America and Japan but also it is becoming very popular in Australia, due to gamers and the affordability in mobile phone games. Therefore the best selling gamers are the simplest in design as per Tetris, Poker and Pocket Farmer; it allows the gamer to have the flexibility to take the game easily in their pockets, therefore making the mobile phone game popular.

Where does the game take place?

Celerity smash down takes place on the red carpet as well as the parliament, as those two places are where you would find celebrities and politician.

What do I control?

The player controls the outraged paparazzi.

How many characters do I control?

The player will be able to control 1 character the outraged paparazzi throughout the whole game.

What is the main focus what’s different?

The Main focus with celebrity smash down is simply for the player to enjoy humiliating celebrities. This game is an all round entertaining. The celebrities are also updated weekly and the high scores are updated instantly after each play, as it will be kept in database where all the other players will be able to access it as well as being able to view the leader board.

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