My Animation Anxiety

Title: Anxiety

Spring 2024

Software: Adobe After Effects

For my Animation I chose “Anxiety”. I used a square and a circle morphing into each other to show a anxious mindset constantly thinking about things. I used a red star to represent fear chasing the circle show casing how panic can quickly lead into fear.

Published
Categorized as Animation

Audio Portrait of a Place

Audio Portrait

Title: Desert Storm

Spring 2024

Software: Audacity

My audio portrait is about a soldier experiencing a concussion-induced dream during combat in the Gulf War. As explosions erupt all around him and chaos reigns on the battlefield, the main character is knocked unconscious by an explosion. In his disoriented state between waking and dreaming, he envisions a soothing glimpse of the peaceful life he knew before the horrors of combat.

Credits:

“WS opening door-closingdoor” by n_audioman

https://freesound.org/people/n_audioman/sounds/273481/

“foot walking” by 13G panska_Taborsky_radovan

https://freesound.org/people/13GPanska_Taborsky_Radovan/sounds/378129/

“Explosion VAR 2 (Close/Near) (Mixed)” by EFlexMusic/sounds/387230/

https://freesound.org/people/EFlexMusic/sounds/387230/

“lmg gunshots.mp3” by nathanchurchyard

https://freesound.org/people/nathanchurchyard/sounds/520747/

“Gunfire” by qubodup

https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/205588/

“M-16 automatic gun” by Julien Nicolas

https://freesound.org/people/Julien%20Nicolas/sounds/133799/

“monday night crazy.wav” by wjoojoo

https://freesound.org/people/wjoojoo/sounds/345498/

“Environment War 1” by mensageirocs

https://freesound.org/people/mensageirocs/sounds/232641/

“308 rifle 03 100 yds dwnrng02.wav” by gezortenplotz

https://freesound.org/people/gezortenplotz/sounds/43752/

“Ringing in ears #2 (++Harmonics).wav” by Timbre

https://freesound.org/people/Timbre/sounds/83328/

“Wind chimes 2 (loud)” by giddster

https://freesound.org/people/giddster/sounds/437336/

“Owl 2.Wav” by inchadney

https://freesound.org/people/inchadney/sounds/28287/

“F15 Eagle flyover.wav” by klangfabrik

https://freesound.org/people/klangfabrik/sounds/324370/

“military01 scottstocked.wav” by shawshank73

https://freesound.org/people/shawshank73/sounds/95520/

“Military Helicopter.wav” by benboncan

https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/74242/

“Short Barrel AK 47 Firing” by dwightsabeast

https://freesound.org/people/dwightsabeast/sounds/553848/

“Artillery Gunfire” by qubodup

https://freesound.org/people/qubodup/sounds/239137/

“small explosion in a city far away” by Garuda1982

https://freesound.org/people/Garuda1982/sounds/613560/

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Categorized as Audio

My Self Portrait

Time Traveling Couple

Spring 2024

Photoshop

For my self-portrait, I used a picture of me and my girlfriend an old picture of Austin, Texas in the 1930’s to give a unique background to my time traveling concept. As for the the picture of me and my girlfriend I chose us because I plan to eventually move to Texas with her, and we both have a love for vintage things and old music. Professor Owens gave me the great idea of adding a noise gradient on top of the photoshopped image of me and my girlfriend to make it fit in more with the image. I also decided to add the poster edges filter to it cause I felt it made the whole picture look like a vintage portrait.

Image credits

https://picryl.com/media/austin-texas-state-capitol

Austin, Texas. State capitol – safety film negatives, Library of Congress Date taken : 01/01/1943 photographer: Vachon, John, 1914-1975,

Drifter

Spring 2024

Illustrator

I used Illustrator to create my “Drifter” logo that I think represents me. The tools I used were the pen tool, gradient, shape builder, and the brush tool.

Self Portrait Progress

I took your advice professor and added the noise gradient to my photoshop portrait. As for my illustrator portrait I chose to make a motorcycle helmet because they’re cool and mysterious looking.