Natalie's Blog

In this video, the artist uses the paintbrush tool to draw out a walking character. I wasn't able to follow this video as much as I wanted to because his mouse was so small that I wasn't able o see it sometimes. However, this was a really cool video to watch about Frame by Frame animation. He makes a forever loop of a man walking. He makes this with only 4 frames but with multiple layers on each frame. I think my project will end up having more frames. this project seems easy but also daunting. Especially since you have to keep a very keen eye on your layers and the frames they are on.  This video was very quick but gets right to the point. I think a bit more info would have been better. However, it makes it less daunting for our project. It is from 4 years ago so I don't know if the software has changed a lot since but if it follows the same, this should be somewhat easy. I liked how he mentions copying the frames so that you can make more faster. That was something the ot...

  for this assignment we had to choose a scene from a movie or tv show that we want to put ourselves into. I decided to do the Twilight universe because its a comfort film of mine. I wanted to do a scene where me being there would have been funny but decided to go a bit more realistic with the family baseball scene. I took my friends jersey and a baseball cap I had to create the outfit. I also put my socks over my pants to match the long socks over the pants that baseball players have sometimes. When putting myself into the image, I had to cut out myself and make sure that my shape would look good against the backdrop. I also had to edit my tone and hue to match that of the Twilight world. That was harder than expected because when they are filming they have specific lighting and then made the filter over it. I had to only work with the filter. Overall, I think this project was really fun. I can see myself doing this type of photoshop again.  original images... final image.......

 I chose this image to be really difficult to edit myself in to because I would have to warp the green blanket to fit my face under them. It would be easy if I could just replace one of the faces with me in it though.  I chose this image as inspiration for my own Somewhere project because it has a bit of humor and its more in the background of the image. I plan on my project being funny, at least to me, and I feel like this was pretty funny and he is reacting to the image he put himself in.  This image made me laugh only because I know the person in the image. It also didn't help that the prompt on the first image has bad grammar. Its also a really like random image and the towel stands out quite a bit.  I have honestly thought about doing something like this so often. I find it so cool that a small object can look the same size as a big object if you warp the perception. 

  For this assignment we were to take an image of ourselves connecting to the world or people. I chose to show how we can be in the world and connected to our lives but feel disconnected from people. I chose to do a pose that was zoned in to what was in front of my, or my world, and how I am completely blocked off from those around me.  For the colors of the assignment I decided to do bright colors mostly because they draw a viewer into the picture and often make them focus on those objects. The First option, Analogous, leaves me in greyscale while everything else is in color. This can more represent an emotion rather than a disconnection. For the second option, Square, the bright things are the items in front of my rather than everything around me. This could represent how I am mostly focused on those items since they are "my world." The last image I made it so that I was colored and the world around me was plain. This image looks as if I am in a box. closed off from the wor...

  I feel really connected to this image because I feel like I make this same expression almost every day. The person in this image, to me, looks tired. She looks like the exhausted tired where you would have been going and going for so long that you finally get a moment to reflect. I feel like every day of my life makes me feel like this image. I rarely get a second these days to fully relax with school, work, and planning my future. Even days where I get a moment to recuperate, it's usually me planning and preparing for the upcoming days. She looks tired, sad, and just in need of a break. The way her hand is on her forehead is like she is comforting a headache. It's a position I know quite well.  I like how the face is the only part of the image that is highlighted. It brings a closer connection to her and more intimate than if the was a background or more of her features present. The black and white removes any detail related to color as well which make it more emotional. Th...