(Animation) Sketchup House

Sketchup House Creation

Starting off the project, we had to proceed to find a house plan. I decided on a simplistic cabin house. The plans show nothing too extravagant. Once we were in Sketchup, I had to get the dimensions of the house and its sizes. Started off with a basic rectangular prism and went from there. The windows on the house took the longest, trying to get the glass on them and angling them correctly. The details on the steps I am quite proud of. The stairs and windows are probably my most favorite thing about the house.











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And here's the finished product...

My Personality Type (it's pretty cool)

(Animation) The Legend of the Bouncing Ball(s)

 The Start:

So we started off with the basic frame animation and making the ball bounce vertical. I added a little squish when it hits the ground. Using Photoshop to animate is weird, but I love it! Not much of a thought process with this one.

The Second: Electric Boogaloo 

Here we started to play with gravity a bit and how the balls bounce gets less and less with each hop. The only thought process with this one is the angle and arch of each bounce.

 Playing with Fire:

Here we were told to elaborate with the past two trials of animation and for some reason a more darker color schemed project came to mind. I love the colors and the fire burning the ground.

Playing with Fire (Again):

So basically I wasn't satisfied with the first time I did this and added a bunch of more action with the cloud and even labelled the animation, Life and Death. Even with simple Photoshop frame animation you can tell a story or have meaning.

(Graphic Design/Web) Creating a Website

The Creation of My Website:

First of all, knowing how to use Adobe Dreamweaver helps a TON! I'm glad I had some experience. We had a template already made for us, which saved a lot of time and effort. The color scheme I used was a blue/orange. I'm really a huge fan of these two colors. Showed off my two favorite projects on the second page. Nothing more I can really say about this, it's just a website. 

(Graphic Design) Logo Project!

The 1st Step:

For the logo project, we first had to think of our shapes and sketch out a few ideas. Most of my ideas involved a camera, because my love and passion for video and photography. My first couple that I want to try was an atom, but the nucleus was a camera, my name but with the 'a' of Blake being a camera, and then a sword and shield with my initials engraved into it.

 The 2nd Step:

Now that we had some sketches made, it was time to take to Illustrator and make some black and white rough drafts. I ended up trying all of my sketches with all of them being failures. All of my sketch ideas were either too much and looked wrong, or looked very cartoony. I wanted to make an artsy, slightly professional looking logo, but with my own personal touch and after days of getting nowhere I was very upset. On the last work day I decided to just mash some shapes together. I love the 3D shapes I make on Illustrator, so I started to make a 3D triangle shape and ended up with a three layer, almost gradient style triangle. I decided to go further with a circle border and of course I needed text. I then had a logo that looked like it was made for a bank, and I sort of loved it.

The 3rd Step:

After getting my B&W logo, I had to polish up some of the lackluster color and design. I am personally a fan of the blue and orange color scheme, so obliviously I'm going to try this design first. I also changed the full name into the initials because of the empty space left in the triangle. I ended another ring of color to give it the badge look as well. I ended up with these four designs. I used the triangle as kind of a point of focus, and the circle because I want the badge feel. I could easily see the final design on a hat or some sort of shirt.

I then ended up falling in love with this one...

(Graphic Design) CARP Redesign

Contrast:

I feel the main way I used contrast on the poster is with the text outline and color. The color scheme was variations of green and yellow, so I used the color hexadecimals to make colors close to those on the backgrounds. The title sticks out very nicely without being obnoxious. 

Alignment:

So the alignment on the poster feels natural, but I feel I could have done a bit better with the little extra bits of info, but the main idea of alignment that I tried is with the title. I tried to line up the serifs of the text in-between the gaps of the letters.

Repetition:

With the repetition on this poster, I feel the color scheme is the most oblivious. The yellow outline with green text also comes up a lot. It's a visually predictable piece and it feels right.

Proximity:

The proximity on this piece is quite nice I think. The text supports the image and what's grouped together is meant to be grouped. You can easily move from group to group without being thrown off or distracted. 

(Graphic Design) Typeface Anatomy

Overview:

The next Graphic Design project was to use typeface anatomy on our own names in a serif font. We had to use Adobe Illustrator once again and once again I love that program! It's a smooth running software and it gets the job done. Using serif fonts make finding the anatomy much easier.

What I've Learned:

So learning about the different kinds of fonts and typefaces really played the largest role with being able to identify the parts of the type. Using words of anatomy such as; Aperture and Finial, and knowing what that all means really hammers into your brain and honestly, it's all good. I know for a fact I had no clue the thin part of a font is called the, hairline.

The Results:

I think this piece turned out really well and looks pleasant. I used a color scheme that pairs nicely together and the font is correct for the setting. The arrows and description texts are not obnoxious and set a good feel for the simple piece. I am excited for what we do next, and with all this leading up to making our own logo makes me really excited!