Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Come on, Come through, New York, New York!

I'm in a class called "Computer Graphics II", which is a wonderful class. My teacher is the fantastic Mr. Gehl, as it was last year, and since I'm in the second of two one-semester classes, I'm one of only 14 people in the school taking it this semester. Which means our class is small, but pretty fun.

We finished our first project, and since these are all digital projects, I figured I'd keep you guys updated. It sure is easier than scanning...even though that's not that hard either. :P

The point of this project was to work with at least 20 layers in Photoshop (a layer is comprised of an image, text, a texture, etc) with 10 of them being varying opacities in incriments of 10 (so there's 10%, 20%, 30%...through 100%). Sort of a heavy call, but it was a lot of fun.

Mine's themed (hopefully, obviously) around New York City and was a lot of fun. I like working with Mr. Gehl and although I don't have any friends like I did in CGI (hahahhaha I never realized that written out it looks like CGI the animation style...heh), I still get to hear every once in a while what other kids like about it.
I'm a little tired of looking at it, as I always am, so the end of a project is always the best. When we flatten it, raise the contrast and darken the hues (or vice-versa, if you're going for a washed-out look) it seems to come to life and the original is always crazy ugly. No exception here. But I'm sure I'll like it more in a few weeks, now that I'm done resizing that lion or adjusting the filters on the background images or messing with the gradient on the lyrics.
Oh, and if you click on it (I'm not sure the image is even showing up...) you get a better res. Which artists always prefer. c:

2 comments:

  1. You have to click on it to see it! It rocks Alaina. You are a "Wizard" (to quote Mr. Gehl)!

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  2. Wow! Fabulous job!!! You are so talented.

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