digital media production

so I started a new class today. Digital Media Production. it's fun as beans! (beans are fun...they make you fart and that's hilarious) as you can see I quickly finished the first project which I used a shot from one of my older projects "The Rye and Al show" game review for idiots.

 it's not much but it's a start! I was able to make Rye just stand there and take it and obviously reversed my favorite controller slap. I was also able to rid the horrible date, time clock that for some reason, we could never get the camera to stop showing that since the first one. I just photoshopped the logo to fit over it and now I feel it looks pretty sharp. it would be worth going back and doing that for the other reviews that suffer that except for the fact they are dark, quiet and crapilly shot. it's ok though. it's all a learning experience and will be interesting to see what we can put together once I'm done with all my schooling! hopefully ill have more to post soon! thanks for following!

animatic al

so heres my first animatic. its sloppy as shizz but hopefully it's still funny. enjoy!

LAST MIN. ART ADDS!!!!!

4th quarter portfolio review snuck up on me as it do...so im adding some last minuet stuffs ive been meening to add at the last damn second! yay me! enjoy!

the chicken dance!

that's right, I animated the chicken dance for your pleasure.....and my grade. enjoy. ill put some music to this soon, or you can look some up and be amazed that it doesn't link up because this is a LEARNING EXPERIENCE!!! get off my back!

Animation AL!

so I finally got to learn how to animate things the modern way. I was taught in the ways of the classic flip style like the old cell animations of classic Disney, MGM, & Warner Bros. I took a day class when I was 15 or so taught by a guy who worked under Disney and later Don Bluth. For the life of me I cant remember his name, but  my mom might still have the certificate I earned from the class with his name on it so I can give credit due.

I've been using Photoshop's video maker with a time line rather then frames. it means I do it old school style and draw every frame. multiple teachers have told me that I need to see Toon Boom studios due to my style, but im not sure if I can get my hands on a copy till im a more advanced class...im looking into it.

so people can finally see what it looks in me brain for at least a couple of seconds. I'll learn how to do longer stuff soon so I can act out some craziness with my pre written characters. heres  a weird walk cycle of Anarchy AL, his butt looks like its twerking and maybe he should be on a bike but what eves. its a learning experience!

i'll have some more stuff real soon!

 

so i have a castlevania problem....

I think about it a lot for some reason....

and then I make it into art projects. what I did here was a photoshop project. everything on this picture is actually a real picture that I stole and strategically placed to recreate another incantation of Dracula's castle. it took a lot of a clipp'n an a mask'n but it was no sweat. the rest was just using adjustment layers to alter the tone of the towers, and alter the color so they don't look like the bright sunny pictures of the happy castles what I took them from....pictures like these...

does any part of this castle look familiar?

this castle here was my absolute favorite...you'll have to look closely to find it....think Dracula's room...

and the grass I got was a lot nicer before I went mad with adjustments...

the sky I kept almost the same....

the lightning though was from elsewhere.

add one ol' dead tree....

and pepper with tombstones!

and finish with a rainy walkway from last Septembers rain storms!

..and wallah! a photo shop master piece! This project was loads of fun and in the end is pretty much the heart of what photo shop is all about. with it you can take preexisting photos and make anything you want out of them. like a unlimited scrapbook that will never ruin another magazine or photo. no paper required, and enough tools to make anything seem real if you got the eye for the detail!

i missed halloween cause i was DEAD!

so who needs costumes when there's photo shop! had a good week last week in class and learned some new things....such as masking!!

 

Look at that handsome devil! He's a real looker! at least he was before that bullet took out his eye.

Using the masking layers I'm able to adjust the tone of my skin, I can adjust tones, over exposure of the light in the picture, adjust shades...and on and on. I can render it over the whole picture or just the area of my choosing. aside from that I also used the Blending mode and Overlay textures feature to add various textures to my skin and render them the same hue and fade them enough so it looks realistic. the area of my forehead is actually textured with raw hide, my mouth is loose gravel, and that's hamburger on me neck wound. the rest I added with pen cause so of its easier to draw that way IMO. there's so much to learn on photo shop, its almost overwhelming at times! The more I play with it though the more fun I have with it! hope you all had a happy Halloween! mine was awesome! here's a pic of me at my favorite haunt!