Blogging right along.....

Animation Lesson 7 Assessment

2011-11-12T20:28:00.000-08:00

Animation Lesson 6: Self Portrait

2011-11-11T13:22:00.000-08:00

After mega hours, here is an EXACT image of me - or not!

Animation Lesson 6 Rotoscoping

2011-11-06T00:49:00.000-07:00

Here is my 'laugh' exercise and let me tell you, it was no laughing matter!

7 Deadly Sins

2011-09-15T03:16:00.000-07:00

LA 9 Animate a Famous Quote

2011-08-29T21:01:00.000-07:00

LA 8 Bringing Text to Life

2011-08-29T21:00:00.000-07:00

LA 7 Nancy's Windmill Cottages

2011-08-29T20:55:00.000-07:00

LA 6 bouncing teddy

2011-08-29T20:51:00.000-07:00

Talk about flat out!

LA5 Tweening Examples

2011-08-29T20:35:00.000-07:00

Here are my five versions:

LA4 Animation

2011-08-29T19:40:00.000-07:00

This is my example of 'growing'.

Animation LA3

2011-08-04T03:24:00.000-07:00

Animation LA1

2011-07-22T01:33:00.000-07:00

Here is my first attempt at animation. Yes, I'd say about a year 2 level!!!

Digital Imaging LA11 shooting motion

2011-07-05T00:36:00.000-07:00

Here are a few more photos of motion. Mick the Springer Spaniel likes to throw his teddy and then chase after it and of course his tail is always wagging. One of our budgies called Sunny is a chatty little fellow and loves to have a fly around in the unit. The feet belong to me and I took advantage of the granddaughter's swing for this photo.

Digital Imaging LA11 shooting motion

2011-07-04T15:08:00.000-07:00

Well, what a challenge this has been. How many of us want to get the perfect photo with no blur or movement? Our Springer Spaniel Mick thought it was great fun to have me on the floor trying to get the perfect photo of him! What a shame that none of his photos met the criteria.

Populate a web page wire-frame

2011-06-30T22:22:00.000-07:00

I knew one day that all my sunset photos would come in handy for something.

Hero Shots

2011-06-30T21:22:00.000-07:00

3rd attempt!

Hero Shots

2011-06-30T00:43:00.000-07:00

2nd attempt:

Assessment - Hero Shots

2011-06-26T05:37:00.000-07:00

I really enjoyed doing this exercise. It was great to use some of my own photos and a real challenge finding suitable images on the internet. Here are my five examples:

LA 10 logo

2011-06-24T21:42:00.000-07:00

LA8 Green

2011-06-21T21:11:00.000-07:00

Version 3.....

LA9 Web Page Backgrounds

2011-06-21T17:53:00.000-07:00

And finally... Method 5

LA9 Web Page Backgrounds

2011-06-21T02:22:00.000-07:00

Using Method 4

LA9 Web Page Backgrounds

2011-06-20T20:59:00.000-07:00

Using Method 2

LA9 Web Page Backgrounds

2011-06-20T20:17:00.000-07:00

This first website of the WA Art Gallery had me intrigued as the information is right on the left hand edge of the website with a big grey strip down the right hand side. I've included a screen shot of the background image.

I think the Comet Windmills website is very good. The background and the foreground continue through each other. It has the feel of looking through a window. I especially love the landscape; makes me think of our travels through beautiful Australia.

Lemonthyme Lodge website has the ideal colour but its setup is dead boring. If you look at the website yourself, the background page is a simple gradient of dark green to light green - repeated twice.

My favourite website is definitely Comet Windmills. It's been thought out very well and it's very appealing to the viewer.

LA8 Green 2nd attempt

2011-06-10T02:08:00.000-07:00

My interpretation of this Lesson appears to be very different to other students. I decided on a poster style rather than an advertisement. I haven't changed anything in the second layout although I've added one more thing. I redid all the individual items. On analysing the three formats at close detail, the gif format, at 0.98 MB was very noisy so that was eliminated immediately. The png format was 3.6 MB and the jpg format was 1.13 MB. Both of these formats were very good quality so I compared three pieces of the photo to determine the better quality photo. The jpg, at one third of the size of the png format was my choice.

LA8 Green

2011-06-06T21:37:00.000-07:00

This is my first attempt at creating a 'green' composition.

LA7 another version

2011-05-19T18:45:00.000-07:00

Second attempt

LA5 resubmitted

2011-05-18T23:48:00.000-07:00

A couple more examples of tonal adjustments.

LA7

2011-05-17T23:17:00.000-07:00

This learning activity was a lot of fun. I chose a background photo of Lee's Hut. We visited this gorgeous setting in January 2010.

LA5 Adjustment Levels

2011-05-14T21:36:00.000-07:00

I've used 2 photos for this exercise, that I took on my travels in Canberra and Cobar. Cobar is a mining town and it's a beautiful, clean town. We parked in a free-camp area for a couple of days, beside a lake where the locals try a bit of water skiing. Floriade is the tulip festival held in Canberra every year.

Digital Imaging - LA4

2011-05-02T05:25:00.000-07:00

Here are my 4 examples of resizing images.

The first is a butterfly and a bee on a Buddleia bush in Harvey WA. At the time I wasn't worried about anything but catching the butterfly still sitting on the flower head. Cropping the image removes all the blurred background and focuses entirely on the mauve flower head.

The second example is of a rose in my front garden. The original photo shows the bruising caused by the rain, even though they eye is drawn to the centre of the rose. The cropped image focuses entirely on the centre of the rose.

The 3rd example is Danielle and Sunny. The background isn't very pleasing to the eye so when the image is cropped, it certainly improves the shot.

My last example is a beautiful garden on the outskirts of Ulverstone.While the garden looks lush and green, everywhere else is brown! To retain the feeling of a cool green garden, I cropped the image.

Design Module Assessment

2011-04-30T23:47:00.000-07:00

Blogging right along..............

I chose this title as it sounds like “moving right along” and that’s what we’ve done in our motor home for a couple of years. We still travel around from time to time and I do my study online quite successfully.

I’ve inserted photos of the equipment and the resources that I use. My ‘classroom’ is a different spot every day.

The background is a shot taken at the Cervantes Wind Farm in WA and of course, the motor home to give a clear indication of Blogging right along...............

Here is the revamped version:

Lesson 7 - LA12

2011-04-30T20:20:00.000-07:00

This was a very interesting exercise. I've often looked at signs and thought "have they really looked at that before displaying it?" Obviously not!!! Here are my examples of bad fonts:

This is a clothing shop sign and for the past 3 or so years I've been trying to figure out what it all means. I know what it says, but just exactly what does it mean?

I don't like this sign for two reasons - the printing looks 'home made' and I can't read it properly as I can't get past "now open"

This font has ALWAYS screamed Adams Family to me. Not only is this font unsuitable for advertising flowers, it's very inappropriate to have 'Funerals' and 'Hospitals' in the one place, let alone one on top of the other.

What an admirable group - the volunteer bushfire brigade. I hope they all know the code of this message.

It's all very pretty but the font is too big in some spots so it doesn't fit.

AND here are the good ones:

Yep. I can see them gun slingers ridin' in to town.

And yep, the icecream shop is just down the road!

And I'll have a white with one, 'cause that purple writing makes me feel all warm and fuzzy!

And later on pardners we'll wander down and look at the tulips, providing the weather is good of course.

Golden Valley Tree Park is in the little south west town of Balingup, WA. Look it up on the internet; it's theme is scarecrows and it has a yearly event of Small Farm Field Day. This sign is excellent - straight to the point.

LA 10 - Typeface poster

2011-04-27T02:30:00.000-07:00

Lucida is my favourite set of fonts

Lesson 6 Designing Layouts

2011-04-23T03:46:00.000-07:00

Learning activity 9.
My first layout is the entry page to a website.

My second layout is the newsletter.

The third layout is my business card.

Learning Activity 13 - Poster Design

2011-04-18T17:23:00.000-07:00

I chose the 'caged' quote as I could visualise the word 'cage' as the gold bars.

Learning Activity 8 - Grids

2011-04-18T11:10:00.000-07:00

2 Magazine articles that adhere to a grid:

The following 2 examples appear very structured but don't strictly adhere to a grid format.

The next 2 examples of grids are a postcard and a packet of hot cross buns. Apologies for the missing bun; I got hungry doing this exercise!

Learning Activity 7 - 50 apples

2011-04-17T23:58:00.000-07:00

50 apples - What? I've done 100 apples. Yes, I'm blonde!

Learning Activity 6 - White Space

2011-04-17T23:33:00.000-07:00

Although the whitespace is actually blackspace, the impact is great in this first shot. It has the effect of 'light at the end of the tunnel'.

This next example is from the video Patch Adams, one of my favourite stories. The doctor's feet stand out in the whitespace so you look at his feet rather than his face.

This third example blows the rule of thirds out of the water - so to speak! The sky and the water bring the viewers eyes to the middle of of the photo. The white space is the sky and the water.

Learning Activity 5 - 3 Logos

2011-04-17T22:42:00.000-07:00

This is my interpretation of positive/negative space.

Learning Activity 4 - Black Squares

2011-04-17T22:10:00.000-07:00

This is my interpretation of the black squares exercise.

Learning Activity 3 - Design

2011-04-17T19:22:00.000-07:00

This layout is very busy due to the detail in King Tut's gold and coloured design.

Learning Activity 2 - Design

2011-04-17T18:31:00.000-07:00

This is my favourite layout; it's very simple and to the point.

Bit of a late starter

2011-04-14T16:59:00.000-07:00

Hmmmmmmmm........
Here I am, ready to start a course that started about 5 weeks ago. Stressed? No. Just prepared to spend a LOT of time at the computer to catch up.

The sunshine looks so inviting. NO. Get back inside!!!!!!!!!!!!!