I chose to animate the emotion interest. I started with the letter “i” because I felt like it was really on brand and decided to make the circle of the “i” a dot shape. The background I created by using graphics on Canva and importing it into Ae. The hardest part was letting go a little bit of my story board. I needed to simplify the movement of the dot/circle because I wasn’t sure how to approach the dot changing shape and making it look more realistic.
Sources:
“Hand Drawn Open Blue Window with a Daytime View of Beach with Plants and Sea” by sketchify. CC License. Date Unknown. https://Canva.com.
“Watercolor red carpet”(opens in a new tab or window)” by Julia Baade. CC License. Date Uknown. https://canva.com.
By making this audio, I really wanted the listener to be able to close their eyes and create their own visual that goes along with this ‘Bad Dream’. I wanted to create an off-putting, disturbing but not sure why it feels disturbing type of feel. Not quite horror but just that something is wrong – the feeling of dread. And then the sound of relief at the end, which is someone waking from a bad dream.
Credits:
“Dripping, Fast, A.wav” by InspectorJ. CC License. Freesound.org. April 22nd, 2016. https://freesound.org/people/InspectorJ/sounds/343764/
“Birds of Tienfemeten-2.aiff” by ducksingel. CC License. Freesound.org. May 12th, 2012. https://freesound.org/people/ducksingel/sounds/155584/
“Scream male.wav” by SuperSouper. CC License. Freesound.org. April 25th, 2023. https://freesound.org/people/SuperSouper/sounds/684994/
“220403C.mp3” by Freed. CC License. Freesound.org. November 26th, 2005. https://freesound.org/people/Freed/sounds/11362/
“OOOOO” by Fupicat. CC License. Freesound.org. November 5th, 2021. https://freesound.org/people/Fupicat/sounds/607204/
“WAKE UP SCARED.mp3” by ThePig01. Freesound.org. October 1st, 2021. https://freesound.org/people/ThePig01/sounds/588666/
Software: Photoshop I chose a vase for the base of my self portrait because I wanted to fill it with all of the things that I feel like have represented me lately, and also I really enjoy ceramic vases. I recently broke my ankle and it has affected every part of my life, so an x-ray is there along with some art tools, nail art (which has become a new hobby of mine while being temporarily disabled). I also put a dog in the background because my dog is always around. Lastly I added a little slug mainly because I thought it was funny. I combined a total of 8 images.
PART II: VECTOR
Title: Self Portrait
Semester/Year: Spring 2024
Software: Adobe Illustrator
I chose bright and neon colors because that is how I feel on the inside: very colorful and different from each other but somehow they go together well. I feel like I have an eclectic set of interests. I was inspired by my literal face shape and hair style. The most challenging part of this project was the fact that I accidently deleted it when I was done because the software crashed and then I didn’t save the recovered file before closing out. I tried to remake it as best I could but I just don’t think I reached the level of creativity and texture that I had in the deleted version unfortunately.
