Interactive METAAAAAAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! slider

Not much to say about this really. I followed the web lesson exactly and got this out of it. I didn't run into any problems and accomplished the assignment's goal. This was an easy project to do, but it's a pretty cool feeling to be able to make an interactive flash video.

METAAAAAAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, the title is supposed to be read as a scream, because I have the song by Tenacious D stuck in my head. In fact, Metal inspired me to do the word (I was listening to Blind Guardian at the time - one might know them from Robot Unicorn Attack: the one that isn't all rainbows and dolphins) Otherwise I was at a loss for what I should do. Though, originally, I was going to make the words out of electric guitars and other commonly associated images, but I liked some of the textures I found of actual metal.
I used my skills in Photoshop to bring out each of the textures in the letters, using a kind of blobby brush for all but the "E," for which I used a plain old sharp brush in combination with a brush meant for hair if you can believe it.
I liked how it turned out overall, and I especially liked the E and the T. Not surprisingly, I spent more time on those because I really thought the textures had potential. Now that I'm looking back, I'm thinking I would have liked the outcome of the project better if I had used just those two textures, but I wanted more than one type of metal incorporated in the word.

Just a Gallery

My objectives here were similar to those of the other assignment; get the template and customize it from there. I changed the color of some things, using my aforementioned skills learned in the Webdesign class and the helpful video online. I'm okay with how it turned out, and I like the setup better than I did back when I had to use these photos in a slideshow in the photography class I took.

Website of Purple Swirly Awesome!

Yup. It's super awesome. I wanted to give this page a kind of fairy/pixie look, using pictures that I've made for previous assignments in the program. I used my knowledge gained in the web design class to change the colors of things and easily change the images. The swirls were just a brush I found on the interwebs and applied around the border instead of the jaggy edges so it was more personalized. I liked how it turned out in the end, and thought I accomplished my goal well enough.

Headache in a Box

I was trying to make something with radio waves. That's all. Just a common screen name I use and 2011. Nothing fancy. Of course, I fought with this program for three hours (not counting render time) to make something as simple as this was. The prepping of the words wasn't too difficult, and creating the solids was easy, but then, when I used the settings that were on the assignment description? Things broke. Words disappeared, radio waves refused to form, rendering failed miserably, and frustration ensued. I ended up starting over. Of course, when I started over things magically worked and I had no idea what I was doing differently. By that time, however, I was running out of time to render anything fancy. I threw this together, slapped some royalty free classical music on it in Premier Pro, and was finally done. I have decided that After Effects is annoying. Especially since I don't have it at home to play with and get familiar with.

RAAAAWR!!!

I wanted to do something all fantasy-like because that's just what I do. So I found this model in the lightwave content. They said this was an orc or a troll or something ridiculous like that. It reminded me more of a lizard man in an old rpg video game I used to play. Using the 3-d coat program, I painted it with a lizard-like skin and gave it a sort of warpaint and splattered a blood-looking brush on his teeth. I liked this assignment, and only wish I had a more awesome-looking and intricate model. Like a dragon. I haven't done a dragon yet in this class. There must be something wrong with me this quarter. I feel like I need to fix this now. I digress. The only thing I don't like too much about this model is the eye. It doesn't look realistic enough. While I know how to fix this in lightwave, I hadn't a clue how to do so in 3-D coat. So sucky it stayed.

Sticker!

When I started the projects, I admittedly had no clue what I was going to do. Eventually, I decided on turning my screen nic-name into a sticker and put... erm... Blood on it? With spider webs? I guess. It was all done in Illustrator with simple tools; the blob brush, shape, and text tools. I'm not all that good at thinking up of simple designs that would make easy to use stickers or logos... So I'm just okay with what I did, considering how little I knew what was going to happen in the beginning.