GIF Reflection

1) My concept revolves around the idea of imaginative and creativity. It shows a person walking (which I do a lot) and a lightbulb popping over his head on the last frame to express that he has an idea. It shows that I am a creative genius. I arrived at this idea because on my thumbnail sketches, I described myself as an imaginative person. One of my sketches was a lightbulb and I thought it would be a good idea to have a person running or walking and have them get an idea. This is where I incorporated the lightbulb. This relates to me because I always have creative ideas while im waking down the street or wherever I am. 

3) My animated GIF has evolved from it's original idea because my it was simply a person walking and having a lightbulb pop up over his head. It was too simple so I put a tree in my GIF to make it look like my person is walking past a tree. It gives my GIF a little extra illustration to make it seem more appealing. Then I fixed my person walking so it my GIF wasn't choppy and it flowed a lot better. 

Photoshop Project

1) My project concept is college and basketball. I picked college because as I was touring Syracuse University and I really liked the campus as well as the basketball gym. I took multiple pictures of the gym and used it in my project. I also pick basketball as my other concept because it's my favorite sport and I want to play basketball in college. I included Stephen Curry because he is my favorite basketball player.
2) The title of my project is "College Ball."
3) I am not very happy with my result because I know I could've done better but I ran out of time and had to rush though some of the components. In the beginning, I just mixed up with some of my ideas and couldn't decide on a concept. I also wanted to include myself in my project but I never took the right photo and it didn't fit into my concept so I couldn't include it.

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Evan Anderson

10/19/15

Reflection

My process started out by brainstorming ideas of what included the letter “Z” in. I was the only one that was able to choose my own letter since my name is the first one on the list, but I have no idea why I chose Z. I wanted to so some sort of snake and my Z slither down to form a snake, but then I got the idea of doing some sort of superhero logo. The batman logo instantly jumped into my mind since he’s my favorite crime fighter (since he has no super powers, I don’t think of him as a superhero). I drew out the batman logo and tried to fit a Z in there but it didn’t work out. The I shifted my attention the the Superman logo since he has an S in the logo, I thought I would flip it around to make a Z. I drew a couple thumbnails and it worked out pretty well. I changed the colors around and measured out the diamond and finally created my final product. 

I thought I did a good job of looking at a lot of examples online of the Superman logo. Whenever I needed a reference image, I went straight online. I also tried to use the same colors as the superman logo but i decided to change it at the last minute. 

The most challenging part of this project was trying to find out how to include my letter in a logo. I didn’t have any ideas come to me because I have a pretty difficult letter, but once I figured out that I was doing the superman logo, it was pretty simple from there. 

I am satisfied with my project because I worked hard by drawing, by brainstorming, and I am satisfied with the overall product. I never think I am good at art, but this project made me look good. 

If I could change anything, i would change the color scheme because I could've included complimentary colors to make it a little better. 

HW #1

My name is Evan Anderson and I am a senior at Millennium High School. I am on my varsity soccer and basketball team. I have also traveled to ten different countries.

I played a lot of basketball at the gym near my house.  I stayed there for 8 hours each day. 

This summer I went to Rockaway beach with my friends. We went about three times this summer on very hot days. 

This summer I attended Marist College for a college writing course. I stayed at the campus for two whole weeks and learned a lot about the college experience.