Foundations of Digital Design Projects
Final Project
Animate a character telling a joke:
1) storyboard
3) place and trim the voice in the timeline
4) animate the movements and then the mouth
1) storyboard
- some movement: frame by frame, walk, wheel cycle, etc.
- and how your joke will be told
3) place and trim the voice in the timeline
4) animate the movements and then the mouth
Project #5 Frame by frame Animation
Create a 100-frame animation in the old school, where EVERY frame is a keyframe which indicates a change in the growth / change of your object.
Choose a flower, a crawling animal, a flying bird or butterfly, and follow these instructions
a) Create a keyframe (control-click or right-click)
b) Draw on that keyframe
c) Create next keyframe
d) Add or alter that new keyframe, slowly altering from the keyframe before it
e) Repeat until you get to 100
We'll watch these on December 5
Choose a flower, a crawling animal, a flying bird or butterfly, and follow these instructions
a) Create a keyframe (control-click or right-click)
b) Draw on that keyframe
c) Create next keyframe
d) Add or alter that new keyframe, slowly altering from the keyframe before it
e) Repeat until you get to 100
We'll watch these on December 5
Project #4 Name Animation
Project #2.5 Showcase Magazine Cover
Hi Foundations folk:
You are going to take one of your magazine cover drafts and inject it with professional-level design elements. Your final Magazine Cover should be portfolio-worthy, if you follow these directives. You are striving for a packed, yet clean, look. (Too little content makes it look underproduced and amateurish, too little organization makes it look too chaotic)
1) As a prerequisite, you must come up with at least 5 feature article TITLES about you, and maybe even subtitles which tease the article. Look at other Magazine Covers online to get some ideas on how to write these.
2) Understand the design principle of ALIGNMENT, and how it strengthens unity in a piece of graphic design. Look at the chapter on Alignment in the Robin Williams design text we have in the classroom. Apply one or two invisible lines of alignment to your cover design.
3) Come up with a controlling color theme, using two complementary colors for your text, etc. Consider finding those colors in the photography of your covers. Thne samples below do a good job of sampling colors from the the photo art. Keep it to two colors for good REPETITION
4) Create a bold banner, with a bold font for your magazine title. Consider cutting out your head to impose it on top of the banner. The pros do this all the time.
5) Make sure to leave some NEGATIVE SPACE for the overall design to breathe. Also use the principle of PROXIMITY to pull elements together that belong together, which naturally creates good negative space.
6) Find two complementary fonts and stick with them.
7) Play with the principle of CONTRAST in font contrasts to emphasize key words.
Additional hints for design:
You are going to take one of your magazine cover drafts and inject it with professional-level design elements. Your final Magazine Cover should be portfolio-worthy, if you follow these directives. You are striving for a packed, yet clean, look. (Too little content makes it look underproduced and amateurish, too little organization makes it look too chaotic)
1) As a prerequisite, you must come up with at least 5 feature article TITLES about you, and maybe even subtitles which tease the article. Look at other Magazine Covers online to get some ideas on how to write these.
2) Understand the design principle of ALIGNMENT, and how it strengthens unity in a piece of graphic design. Look at the chapter on Alignment in the Robin Williams design text we have in the classroom. Apply one or two invisible lines of alignment to your cover design.
3) Come up with a controlling color theme, using two complementary colors for your text, etc. Consider finding those colors in the photography of your covers. Thne samples below do a good job of sampling colors from the the photo art. Keep it to two colors for good REPETITION
4) Create a bold banner, with a bold font for your magazine title. Consider cutting out your head to impose it on top of the banner. The pros do this all the time.
5) Make sure to leave some NEGATIVE SPACE for the overall design to breathe. Also use the principle of PROXIMITY to pull elements together that belong together, which naturally creates good negative space.
6) Find two complementary fonts and stick with them.
7) Play with the principle of CONTRAST in font contrasts to emphasize key words.
Additional hints for design:
- a slightly repeated graphic element, like a shape, can really help the unity of a design
- using a repeated color as a background banner, or trim, or as a text stroke, strengthens your design
- definitely have a sense of humor about the feature article titles; it will help you think of entertaining phrasings
- Photoshopping a fake UPC barcode (like on the right hand design below) is a fun way to lend a legit look
Project #3 A Selfie Movie
You are going to make a short video about yourself using Premier Pro. Your goal is to create a 30 second video that artistically introduces yourself.
Here are the parts:
HD 720 video from Photo Booth
Objects that you have cut out in PS that you animate
Animated words that assist in each scene
Music of your choice; sound effects if you'd like
Your imagination
Here are the parts:
HD 720 video from Photo Booth
Objects that you have cut out in PS that you animate
Animated words that assist in each scene
Music of your choice; sound effects if you'd like
Your imagination
Project #2 Magazine Covers
Goal: to understand the convention of magazine covers and design a magazine cover featuring you. Your covers (2) will adhere to the better sensibilities of design (CRAP), and will be a creative extension of who you are.
1) In your sketches design two cover drafts, complete with detail of text. Your cover title can be known or fictitious. The story references must be about you in some way. Please see examples hanging in classroom.
2) Your magazine cover designs [please produce three versions that show different vision approaches] should demonstrate...
a) an understanding of repetition, alignment, contrast and proximity
b) a clever or cohesive relationship between the main photography and text.
A few invaluable hints:
If you find a font you like, think about using different shapes of it on the cover
Include a UPC (universal product code) on your cover
Take your first magazine design and duplicate the file.
In the duplicate file, change the arrangement, the color scheme, the font choices so that you come create a whole different draft of your magazine cover design.
If you have finished your second draft, work on a third.
Our Goal is to have three different drafts of your magazine design, to compare and contrast
1) In your sketches design two cover drafts, complete with detail of text. Your cover title can be known or fictitious. The story references must be about you in some way. Please see examples hanging in classroom.
2) Your magazine cover designs [please produce three versions that show different vision approaches] should demonstrate...
a) an understanding of repetition, alignment, contrast and proximity
b) a clever or cohesive relationship between the main photography and text.
A few invaluable hints:
If you find a font you like, think about using different shapes of it on the cover
Include a UPC (universal product code) on your cover
Take your first magazine design and duplicate the file.
In the duplicate file, change the arrangement, the color scheme, the font choices so that you come create a whole different draft of your magazine cover design.
If you have finished your second draft, work on a third.
Our Goal is to have three different drafts of your magazine design, to compare and contrast
Project #1B A matrix of PS Selfies
Create a Photohop 4-panel collage, featuring you x4. Think of four characteristics or hobbies or goals, and photoshop your image along with props and appropriate adjustments to those traits or activities.
Project #1A: A CRAP-py Information Sheet
Create a personal information sheet about you using Photoshop. Use as many of the Principles of Design as you can.
Take a picture of yourself using Photo Booth and place it creatively.
Please include in your design...
Name
Email
cell
Favorite book, movie, place to visit and food
Pets
What new thing would you like to learn how to do?
Friends here at school
Sports you enjoy
What are your plans after high school
Take a picture of yourself using Photo Booth and place it creatively.
Please include in your design...
Name
cell
Favorite book, movie, place to visit and food
Pets
What new thing would you like to learn how to do?
Friends here at school
Sports you enjoy
What are your plans after high school