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Final Portfolio

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 For this assignment, I knew I wanted to use my 2nd canvas for my cover page since I never got to submit it, and I wanted the theme to follow it since it was my favorite piece that I created. As soon as I opened up InDesign, I immediately went for 1/2 inch grids across every page because it gives accurate squares so I can line everything up to make the entire document symmetrical and accurate. I chose the 1/2 inch specifically since it allows me to make squares, rectangles, and spheres all perfectly shaped since I can place them evenly across sections. Once this was done, I began by placing my canvas in the center and building around it. I wanted my cover initially to look like a letter with the corners folded, but I decided to have my text make the front page symmetrical. I wanted my theme to be cyan and white and have a strong focus on consistency and symmetry, and I believe that I achieved that. This project made me realize how much work I have put in throughout this entire cour...
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Rotoscopy Animation

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 For this project, I knew almost immediately what I wanted to do for it. I love music, so I wanted to incorporate that into the project. The more I thought about it, I realized that I could have the background change colors when I put on my headphones, and that it would allow for a transition into the credits. To make this, I recorded myself walking over to my couch, turning on my sound system, and putting on bluetooth headphones and listening to music while bumping my head. Once this was done, I added an all black background and used a 4pt white brush tool for it to contrast. 40 hours later of drawing, I used the bucket tool to add all of the colors for my skin, shirt, socks, shorts, hair, and headphones, and I also added the different color backgrounds once I hit the frame where I put my headphones on and used the 5 disco hex codes to make the colors. After this, since each color was changing for 4 frames, I added 4 frames of music notes in changing sizes, and made them visible o...
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Autoscopy Project

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 For this project, I immediately had this idea come to mind. My whole life, I've struggled with anxiety and depression. This does not mean that I am sad all the time, it just means that I have to put in more effort to be happy. Because of this, I try to view every situation positively no matter what, hence the angel side. My demons on the demon side that I struggle with are immense amounts of constant anxiety that never seems to go away and my fight to stay positive and keep seeing the light. I did not make this to have a depressing message, I've struggled with depression and anxiety throughout my life, but that doesn't stop me from being positive and having a happy outlook on life experiences. I focused on dealing with my emotions no matter how anxious I feel, and that is the light side of the image. In order to make the image, I propped my phone up on a glass, and aimed it at my white wall. After this, I stood as still as I possibly could and used my Apple watch to take a...
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Multiplicity Project

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 For this project, I knew I needed to find an area where a lot of shadows would be present in order to make it look as realistic as possible, so my girlfriends shiny dinner table with an overhead light fixture was perfect. Since I did not have a tripod, I propped my phone up onto a chair to get the proper height, and I had my girlfriend put her hand in front of the bottom of the phone and stay still while I moved around. I used my Apple watch to take the pictures with a 3 second delay so she would not have to press the phone and move it and mess up the images. I had to do this quick to not mess up the exterior lighting, so I moved chair to chair making it look like I am arguing with myself. When I ran out of space, I stood behind the chairs by the window in order to fit more of myself into the image. Once I cropped out all of the backgrounds and lined every image up, here is the final result: 
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Somewhere Project

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 For this project, I immediately asked my girlfriend for advice since she is more of a movie person than I am and my memory is horrid. We were discussing comedies since we joke around all the time, and she reminded me about the Hangover, and as soon as she said that I knew what I was going to do. I asked her to use make up to make me have a black eye and be covered in lipstick, and she helped me look trashy and washed up. After this, I had to find the perfect picture, have her take a picture of me outside to match the lighting, and combine the images and add filters and additional shadows to certain areas. Here is the final result after all of this:
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BW To Color Project

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     For this project, I used a photo of myself from a photo shoot that me and my girlfriend went to on a farm, and I chose it because of the pattern on my shirt and clarity of the image, so I figured it would be important to use this since it would be helpful in avoiding bleeding of colors. Attached below is the original image as well as the three palettes that I used. I used the specific colors in this way because they looked the most inhumane and were contrasting to my original image. 
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COVID-19 Vaccination Poster

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      For this project, I decided initially that I wanted to do an army theme involving hunter green, so I took a picture of myself doing a salute. However no matter how many different backgrounds I tried, I couldn't get my features to show, so I had to change the background to black and use my flash and adjust the exposure in my image in order to make this version work. Once I did this, I had to crop my image to 8.5x11, and I realized that it would be more relevant today to make it about COVID-19 since both WW2 and COVID-19 are global battles, we all have to come together to defeat the enemy (COVID). In order to achieve this effect, I googled WW2 propaganda posters in order to get an idea for the verbiage that was used back then, and the ways they used imagery to add empowerment and styling into the propaganda. Once I saw these, I used my color palette to add camouflage to my face in order to create a WW2 style appearance. I liked how it had gotten rid of my hair si...
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