Anna's Digital Media Blog

While thinking of places I'd never been, I started thinking about movie locations and ended up deciding on Ryme City of the Detective Pikachu movie. Sadly, I couldn't find an image of Ryme City so I just had to use a generic city background. As for the Pokemon, I edited that myself the same way I combined different animals for the Hybrid project. I decided to go with Archen, a Pokemon from my favorite region, Unova. I started thinking about smaller and simpler Pokemon designs as well, so that I wouldn't be overhwelmed. Archen's design takes after both lizards and birds, so I used parts from different birds and lizards. Specifically I used an osprey's wings, a hornbill's body and claws, and the tail and mouth come from the komodo dragon. I used the Liquify tool to edit the face as well to make it more accurate to the Pokemon. I then used the Brush tool to color it, using colors straight from the reference image. I also tried to edit the lightness to refl...

For this project I decided to go a pop art route. I'm not sure why, I just decided that would be cool. I also decided to take inspiration from the three wise monkeys legend. The first image is unedited other than the adjustment mask, and the rest have edits pertaining to the monkey's virtues. See no evil, speak no evil, and hear no evil respectively.

I found these three Photoshop tutorials really interesting. The first one is more useful and the other two are just really cool. Have fun watching!

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This project was about editing masks and manipulating layers. I find the idea of combining landscapes and creatures very interesting. I'll blame that on Zaboomafoo and Spore. Either way, this project was pretty fun for me! I have no idea why I decided to combine three of the most dangerous predators on the planet, and then make it able to survive pretty much anywhere. This is probably why genetic testing is frowned upon.

This project was about the Brush tool and creating your own custom brushes. I particularly liked the Hue and Saturation editors, which made things interesting color-wise. You can see that in the image below. Double Helix

This project was about the Mesh tool and the Gradient tool. In order to get the stem and shadow, I had to create more shapes and use the Mesh tool on them. That way I could make a more accurate result.

This project was about the Text tool and manipulating points with the Direct Selection Tool.

This project was about learning to use the text and pen tools in Illustrator. Learning how to use the Pen and Direct Selection tools are important skills for Illustrator because pretty much every object has those specific points, and learning how to edit and manipulate them can help in a lot of situations. I decided to follow through with the business theme and made the business cards based off that.

The final project for this unit was a portrait or landscape made in the p5 editor. I enjoyed this project because I was able to play around with shapes and how to use them to make one big image. I even used some codes that I never knew about before, such as arc(), which made the angled circle seen on the face to make the facial markings, and bezier(), which was used to make the mouth. I also was able to explore more about RGB color codes in order to find a good color scheme for the background. An image of the project is below, as well as a reference image I used of my cat. Fullscreen version:  https://editor.p5js.org/annabanana/full/y6Yozy94c Edit version:  https://editor.p5js.org/annabanana/sketches/y6Yozy94c

Today's assignment was to create a drawing program in p5. This project explored the use of different functions in JavaScript, the use of variables, and random(). I thought this assignment was really cool! I am amazed by the unique customization options that stem from simple variable changes. I wanted to use as many colors as I could, but I worried that it may be too bright. So I used an alpha filter to tone it down some. I was curious what a square shaped brush would look like, so I used one and really liked it so I stuck with that. Overall it was a very fun experience. Below are two examples of drawings I created using my program. Have fun playing around with it! https://editor.p5js.org/annabanana/full/mHveAa2yS                                                                 Glitch Mountains      ...

Today's class assignment was to practice making shapes and adding color to objects by using JavaScript. The p5 editor is actually really nice and I'm glad to have found out about it! The project is here:  https://editor.p5js.org/annabanana/present/TNUT6aaGP This also reminded me of a website my old computing teacher used to tell us about. This website has TONS of resources and tutorials for many different coding languages. We used it for HTML, but it also has a wide database for JavaScript. I figured I'd share it for the rest of you guys. Find it here:  https://www.w3schools.com/default.asp

Hey there! I'm Anna and this is my blog for the Digital Media class! I've had a blog before for Art and Technology, but my teacher gave us restrictions on the posts and customization. So I'm excited to see how I can make this one look cooler! Anyways, I'm excited to learn whatever there is to learn here. See you in class!