Into Digital Arts

The magazine that I have been working on for the past month is finally complete. This is the final project for my graphic design 1 class and I have really enjoyed it. This issue in the magazine I called Nexus, is all about the development of computer graphics technology. Because of this, I wanted to target the technology feeling with the magazine. For this final project, I was to add two full page illustrations to the magazine. The first one, is a photo collage of an xbox one controller with the buttons and the joysticks replaced with photos of nature. In the gaming and animation industries, one of their primary goals in developing computer graphics technology is to achieve the most realistic images under their given constraints. For the animation industry, this is limited to the number of graphics processing units a studio can purchase. For the gaming industry this is the time that it takes to draw one frame, attempting to draw frames at a rate that allows for a consistent frame rate ...

There are many aspects that must be considered when designing a magazine. The content is very important, but one aspect of the design that no one really thinks about is the layout of the magazine. The grid is how images and text are placed around the page. It can determine the size of objects and how much white space is between each element on the page.  Most text in magazines appears to be set out into 3 columns. However, one of the most common layouts utilizes 12 columns in order to appear to have 3 columns. This gives much more layout control over what is shown and how it is shown. Its very surprising that a 12 column layout results in 3 columns of main text. However, the goal of this is so that it is modular. In computer science, one of the most important things that you consider when coding is to try and make your code modular. When you can use the same layout on every page, it means that it is dynamic and interesting since each page will feel like it follows the same rules. T...

This is a chroma key exercise. This is my first attempt at keying anything out of a video utilizing premiere pro. I probably should have chosen a different color for the background.

This next assignment was to build the internals for the magazine cover that I designed. I wanted to have the magazine article be about animation in some way. So I chose to make my article about the history of computers in animation while focusing on the development of computer graphics. I am very facinated with computer hardware so I wanted to do my best to summerize the great advancements since 1960 that still have an impact on the technology that is currently in use in the animation industry.  I kept the same color scheme from the cover. I chose the subtitle colors and the colors of the circuit designs from the theme that I designed for the cover. The overall font and extra symbols I used for the title and the headers, are based upon a unix console interface. These things are all to help with the overall techie feel that I am aiming for in this magazine. 

This video is the first in a series, the other I will be finishing towards the end of the semester. Throughout my career as a musician, I have struggled with self confidence. The confidence to play loud and proudly for others, especially when I am playing alone. This leads me to not play at my best when playing with small groups or by myself. Even when others tell me I am a talented musician, I find difficulty in believing that when I often struggle with the basics. This is what I wish to tell through this animated series. This series is about a trumpet that is not confident in its playing abilities. For this reason, it has difficulties fitting in with the rest of the outgoing group. It must find a way to become more confident in its abilities in order to fit in with the group.