Korrigan's Media

2D Animation - Learning Activity 4

2011-08-07T20:53:00.000-07:00

Hi Guys,

yet another flash animation! This one was a bit tricky, even though its not that crash hot, i think it's an OK effort for my first real animation

As you can see i built the launch platform, then add the rocket i did in flash, then a count down with rocket smoke building up, anyhow i realise i could make it heaps better if i wanted to spend MUCH more time on it

cheers

2D Animation - Learning Activity 3

2011-08-07T20:50:00.000-07:00

Hi guys

Here are the apples i did way back in semester 1

2D Animation - Learning activity 1

2011-07-30T18:37:00.000-07:00

Hi again guys!

I realised how different flash is compared to photoshop, in fact i found it extremely hard drawing this boat and it took me much longer than 4hours :-(

Any how upon submitting this activity i realised i set the stage at the wrong size and i found i didn't use layers as much as i could have and i felt somewhat intimidated after looking at Leeann Jones effort, man is that great.

Hero shots - Digital Imaging Assessment

2011-07-25T19:06:00.000-07:00

Hi guys,

yet another post, man there is some work involved in this course :-)

Anyhow i had some trouble identifying some of the font correctly, especially the heritage walk one where i matched it best as possible - this is what i find hardest at the moment identifying font families, anyone in that boat?

Digital Imaging - Assessment Activity

2011-07-21T20:22:00.000-07:00

Hi Guys,

I decided to do mine on a recent activity "wedding anniversary".

Activity 10

2011-07-12T21:04:00.000-07:00

Make a logo, make it a .png image with transparency, place it on a web page

Digital Imaging - Learning Activity 9

2011-07-10T17:26:00.000-07:00

1. Find 3 examples where a background image has been used on a website. Take a screen grab of each, save them as .jpgs 50 quality 800px wide. Publish your favourite to your blog with a caption of why you like it.

I liked this one the best because its not over powering and doesn't take away the main focus of the site to much

2. Take your "tell-a-story-with-a-flatbed-scan" image and change it to make it into a web page background using Method (where the image receds into the background colour). Save it as a jpg 50 quality 930px wide.

Just to let you guys know i would never ever use my flatbed scanned image on any website, it is absolutely horrible, its just portraying method 2, cheers :-)

3. Make a background for a web page using method 4 (1920px wide jpg, a few pixels tall, save as 100 quality). To test your image on a web page, download the Method4.zip folder, unzip the contents, locate and overwrite the bg.jpg file with your version then open the page in your browser.

Take a snapshot of your browser (PrtScrn on PC or on the Mac use the myriad of options) copy it into a new file in Photoshop, save as a jpg for your blog.

4. Make a seamless tile using method 5. Save as .jpg or .gif, whichever gives you the best quality for the lowest file size. To test your image on a web page, download this zip folder, unzip the contents, locate and overwrite the tilebg.jpg file with your version then open the page in your browser.

Take a snapshot of your browser (PrtScrn on PC or on the Mac use the myriad of options) copy it into a new file in Photoshop, save as a jpg for your blog.

Digital Imaging - Learning Activity 8

2011-06-28T18:09:00.000-07:00

Hi Guys,

Here's my Being Green work, I found that the best picture format choice here was the JPEG as my images have lots of gradients and tones "as most natural images do". Also i noticed that the jpeg was 2 times smaller in size than the gif and much better quality and over 4 times smaller the png.

I Find that being green in this day and age is a responsibility of us all. Below, some of my images are reserves or world heritage places, to me that is being green and preserving it for future generations. The two big pictures below are "My Compost, not a very good one" and the natural sewerage system that we have out here at Evandale is only one of two in Tasmania. The rest of the photos are things you'll find around most houses, but we try to think of the environment in all aspects of life including computer hardware and even web hosting my choice is HostGator as they only use Wind Energy to power all their servers to help offset server emissions.

AS you can see i have changed the image layout a bit, this time i decided to combine all the small images into the compost. Now there is a separation between recycling and preserving reserves some what i think.

Digital Imaging - Learning Activity 7

2011-06-23T19:10:00.000-07:00

Hopefully this is ok, i found a creative commons license picture for the main central image which is a famous game title that all true gamers would recognise. The big fella in the middle is called a "big daddy". I divided the layout into 9 grid layout with 2 for each side and 5 for the middle

Digital Media - Learning Activity 6

2011-06-22T06:30:00.000-07:00

I Decided to do mine on the dukes of hazzard, an old TV show i use to love as a kid. I really wanted to have the car red but it was always to grainy so i went for the whitish colour

Digital Media - Activity 5

2011-06-20T19:39:00.000-07:00

Because of the weather over the last few days its been hard to take pictures for this activity, so i decided to use some from my last trip around Australia.

Jesus Bird - Before Adjustments

Jesus Bird - After Adjustments
With this one i added a Hue/Saturation, Levels, Vibrance, Bright/Contrast and Finally a Black and White adjustment on which i changes the Opacity to give a tint of colour then i brought back the full colour of the bird by using the Black & White layer mask

Dig Tree - Before

Dig Tree - After
I like this one! with just adding Vibrance, Levels and Brightness/Contrast adjustments the clouds look nice with the tree being sharper

Digital Imaging - Learning Activity 4

2011-06-19T22:52:00.000-07:00

Hi guys, i decided to use some photos from the last weekend in holidays and some from a website i have been doing for a friend

Original Photo

Cropped photo - reason i really cropped this photo was to get the hand out of the photo and i left the guy in the centre as i believed it adds better effect to this photo

Original Photo

Cropped Photo - changed the angle of picture and gave a bit more attention to the waves up close and a bit more emphasis on Lewis (my crazy boy in the water on Saturday)

Original Photo

Cropped Photo - cropped it so the monkey is looking out to the right of photo and made him off centre and i believe it give a curiosity feel about the photo now

Original Photo

Swan Cropped - I did this crop again because really it was crap! anyhow this time when i cropped it i took out the rough water in the background, made the swan more central in the image and now it looks much safer for the black swan and also i think having the dry tree next to the swan and the dry tree in the bottom right hand corner offers a nice balance to the image

Digital Imaging - Learning Activity 3

2011-06-19T19:02:00.000-07:00

Hi Guys, im finally back into study again. I decided to do my story on Christian media that has had a big impact
on my life. I tried to arrange it from oldest (in the background) to the most recent media at the front.

Digital Imaging - Learning Activity 2

2011-05-09T19:17:00.000-07:00

Activity 12

2011-04-19T18:51:00.000-07:00

Good Type

The Type here fits well with the image, clear and bold

Good type for sport, and nice use of color on blue background and association between word and number

Clear type that fits well with business image, white font on red background really stands out too

White on red background stands out, also the type style goes really well with the architectural design of the building

Green and white complement each other on the black background, also the type fits well with the business logo

Bad Type

Horrible, i can't understand the need for the ugly crossbars on the A's and the arms (i think) on the E's

Plain and ugly, not very inviting for a pet shop. The type is consistent here but their main logo is a different type

Can't really understand this except the work "sick"

Terrible colour, faded and looks like a kid sprayed it

I don't think the font is that bad here, it's just the background that is over powering and makes it hard to read and takes away your attention from the writing, there's no real focus i think

Design Module Assessment: Promote Your Blog

2011-04-18T03:32:00.000-07:00

I thought it was fitting to try and have a picture of a korrigan for my theme, for
anyone that doesn't know what a korrigan is its a mythical creature (bad fairy)

Its great that google and yahoo now have added supported for Creative Commons copyright searches.
I did quit a bit of work in photoshop to get the image to look how i wanted it. I then created a
speech bubble coming from the birds mouth and filled it with a tag cloud full of words with what i came across
during the design module.

I put a gradient in the background to give a seperated feel about it and i chose the colour orange to give the
korrigan a friendly look and feel

With the font i wanted to choose a font type that was somewhat curved, rounded and smooth like the Korrigan's hair, boats etc.. to give it a more uniformed feel

I still feel the speech bubble lets it down a bit and probably should have been a natural object of some sort, anyhow its done now :-)

activity 13

2011-04-04T19:45:00.000-07:00

Hi Guys,

Once i decided on what quote i wanted to use i identified the words that really stood out to me that should be emphasized. I decided to make all the text that didn't need emphasizing a font that was easy read and looked good for poster design (DIM Medium). For the emphasize word "PAST" i used Bookman Old Style and added a pattern overlay to make it look older, and i also added the word "PAST" repeated behind it but fading way to add effect. With the emphasized word "FUTURE" i used a modern futuristic font called Aldo's Nova and made it big and bold.

Activity 9

2011-03-31T15:31:00.000-07:00

Hi all,

very interesting activity, i loved this one and learnt heaps, specially by reading the extra material

Website

Newsletter

Business card

Activity 10

2011-03-29T20:54:00.000-07:00

Hi guys!

What fun, activity 10

Activity 8 - Grid Layouts

2011-03-28T21:20:00.000-07:00

Find 2 magazine layouts

Find 2 magazine layouts that don't appear to follow a grid. Explain why you think they don't use a grid.

Find 2 examples from anywhere that adhere to a grid. Car signage, clothing, architecture. Your choice.

50 Apples

2011-03-24T22:17:00.000-07:00

Hi guys!

I am soooooooooo glad this assessment is finished, at least i hope it's finished.

I did all mine in Photoshop, so the first thing other than research was looking for a good tutorial on how to make an apple in photoshop, once i found that things were ok ;-)

Learning Activity 6: Whitespace

2011-03-15T22:54:00.000-07:00

Here's the 3 pieces of work for activity 6. If you want to see the caption you'll have to click on picture ;-)

Design Magazine

Street Advertising

My own choice

Learning Activity 5: Make 3 logos

2011-03-14T20:08:00.000-07:00

Hi All!

For this assessment we were asked to make 3 logos that featured negative space and this negative space needed to be the principal driver of the identity. I must admit i found this particular task really challenging and i hope everyone else does too ;-)

These are what i made:

Dragon Draught (beer label)
Mccoach Plumbing (i made a plumbing application for this guy last year, so i pretended to make a logo for his website)
SOS - Save Our Panda's (made up logo for animal activist website)

Learning Activity 4: Using shapes and space to convey meaning

2011-03-09T22:58:00.002-08:00

Here we go, hopefully they are all ok ;-)

Sorry i didn't add caption to the pictures, as i did them in Photoshop and forgot to add a heading, oops

Order

Increase

Bold

Congested

Tension

Playful

Learning Activity 3: Identifying Elements & Principles

2011-03-09T17:58:00.000-08:00

Hi all,

We were asked to choose the "busiest" layout from the 3 previous tasks (layout hierarchy ), i chose to do mine on a magazine i love - behold an old edition of the Atomic MPG mag!

Learning Activity 2

2011-03-08T17:05:00.000-08:00

Identifying focus & hierarchy

This is my favourite layout, what can i say i'm a fan of sonic the hedgehog (game belongs to my boy)

Korrigan's Media

2011-03-08T15:11:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone,

Well this is the start of semester 1 for polytechnic certificate III Media. Hope all goes well, hope it's not to hard and hopefully i learn some great techniques to use in the real world :-)

Cheers