Uncategorized – MMP 100 Spring 2024

Final Project

Animal Blues Band

Spring 2024

HTML, CSS, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

Live Site: https://l4ypct.csb.app/

Dev Site: https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/final-project-image-template-forked-l4ypct?file=%2Findex.html%3A14%2C41

My final project was a comic book about a band of animals called the Animal Blues Band. My creation process involved using Photoshop and Illustrator to bring the animal characters to life. Each animal in the band is based on a real-life musician, and part of the fun is seeing if readers can guess which musician inspired each character. The Cat plays the role of the guitarist, the Dog is the bassist, and the Bear is the drummer. These funny animal musicians bring their unique personalities and musical talents to the story, creating a vibrant and engaging comic.

The project was not just about showcasing my technical skills that I’ve learned over this past semester but also about infusing humor and personality into each frame. The comic aims to evoke joy and laughter, as the whimsical scenarios and the quirky characteristics of the Animal Blues Band unfold. My hope is that readers will find the antics of these musical animals amusing and endearing, drawing parallels to their favorite musicians and enjoying the playful narrative.

Ultimately, the goal of the Animal Blues Band comic is to provide an entertaining escape, a lighthearted experience that resonates with music lovers and comic enthusiasts alike. By blending the worlds of music and storytelling through the lens of animated animals, the project aspires to leave readers with a smile on their face and a new appreciation for the creative possibilities of combining different artistic mediums, those being HTML, CSS, Photoshop, and Illustrator!

Credits:

“A light show”
Elijah Ekdahl. CC BY CC0 Flickr. December 16, 2019 https://unsplash.com/photos/empty-stage-with-lights-8XxF2kYHIgo

“Tilt Shift Photo of Acoustic Drum Set”
Elijah Ekdahl. CC BY CC0 Pexels. April 7th, 20181 https://www.pexels.com/photo/tilt-shift-photo-of-acoustic-drum-set-995301/

“Person Playing Guitar”
Jan Kopřiva. CC BY CC0 Pexels. March 4th, 2020 https://www.pexels.com/photo/tilt-shift-photo-of-acoustic-drum-set-995301/

“Person Using Black Fender Stratocaster”
Yabee Eusebio. CC BY CC0 Pexels. December 2nd, 2018 https://www.pexels.com/photo/person-using-black-fender-stratocaster-1656066/

“Bass guitar on tripod against musical score on stage”
Caleb Oquendo. CC BY CC0 Pexels. April 23rd, 2021 https://www.pexels.com/photo/bass-guitar-on-tripod-against-musical-score-on-stage-7626333/

“Music Rock Guitar Instrument”
Markus Spiske. CC BY CC0 Pexels. May 3rd, 2016 https://www.pexels.com/photo/music-rock-guitar-instrument-92069/

“A Drum Set in a Studio”
RDNE Stock project. CC BY CC0 Pexels. June 3rd, 2021 https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-drum-set-in-a-studio-8197227/

“Baby Bear on the Woods”
Janko Ferlic. CC BY CC0 Pexels. January 27th, 2020 https://www.pexels.com/photo/baby-bear-on-the-woods-3634930/

“Brown Bear on Brown Wood”
Janko Ferlic. CC BY CC0 Pexels. May 11th, 2018 https://www.pexels.com/photo/brown-bear-on-brown-wood-1083502/

“A Pregnant Woman Exercising with Her Dog”
Antoni Shkraba. CC BY CC0 Pexels. April 15th, 2021 https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-pregnant-woman-exercising-with-her-dog-7524680/

“Close-Up Shot of a Corgi Dog Sitting”
Antoni Shkraba. CC BY CC0 Pexels. April 15th, 2021 https://www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-shot-of-a-corgi-dog-sitting-7524671/

“Cute Gray Kitten standing on a Wooden Flooring”
Marko Blazevic. CC BY CC0 Pexels. January 3rd, 2018 https://www.pexels.com/photo/cute-gray-kitten-standing-on-a-wooden-flooring-774731/

“Gray Cat Sitting on Concrete Floor”
Enrique. CC BY CC0 Pexels. June 4th, 2022 https://www.pexels.com/photo/gray-cat-sitting-on-concrete-floor-12381417/

Programming Update

Here,s my programming project link:

https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/mad-libs-version-skvzmc?file=%2Fsrc%2Fstyles.css

Programing Project

MMP100

Title: Mad Libs Project

Semester/Year: Spring 2024

Coding/programming languages: I used HTML, CSS and JavaScript

For this project I did the mad libs using the code Sandbox. Some of the difficult things i faced is all the codes and symbols that i needed to use but something I really like is the result that we get from the project, the function of it. (For some reason it does not show the story, I need some help with that professor)

Here is the link: https://fsdwd3.csb.app/

Code project: https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/mad-libs-version-1-fsdwd3

My Animation: Happiness / Excitement

Title: Blooming excitement

Spring 2024

Since flowers and bright objects are correlated to happiness and excitement, I made a cute bouncy animation of one becoming bigger and happier. I wanted to add shape layers but my adobe crashes every time I used them. So I had to draw the frames myself. This was a fun process, but the hardest part of it was working with graphs, I wasn’t sure what I was doing at times.

My Animation: Anxiety

Title: Anxiety

Spring 2024

Software: Adobe After Effects

I chose to animate anxiety by showing a snowball fearing his inevitable death.

Audio Portrait of a Place

TITLE: What Goes On Out There?

BY: Mike Maier

SEMESTER/YEAR: Spring 2024

SOFTWARE: Audacity

For this project I used all original media and sounds. For the song that plays throughout the project I recorded myself playing drums, guitar, and bass in GarageBand and used the master recording as the music in Audacity. Some of the sounds I used were sounds I hear outside of my apartment everyday. The first sound is that of a ConEd tow truck towing a car that was in the way of a manhole cover that needed emergency work. The second sound is of the birds chirping outside my bathroom window with the faint sound of a helicopter in the distance. The third sound was my dog Sheena barking at me, and the last sound is the F train pulling into the Carroll Street station.

My main objective with the project was to automate the volume of the song in such a way to make it lower when each sound played so the sound was front and center while still being able to hear the music.

All songs and sounds were recorded by me.

Credit goes to me for the song, Sheena for the barks, ConEd for the tow truck sound, the birds and the helicopter, and the MTA for the sound of the F train.

My podcast audio

The Kate Amrani podcast

spring 2024

software: Audacity

Join with me for the energetic vibe, happiness, food- because who doesn’t love food especially when its party and food. Grab a pita bread and break a plate because this is what you do here.

for my audio podcast i used music from free music archive.

credits:

laugh.mp3 by smartxxd , Creative Commons 0, free sound.org August 11th, 2014 https://freesound.org/people/smartxxd/sounds/244526/

Plate Break 1.wav by jc.sg, Creative Commons 0. free sound.org March 31st, 2021 https://freesound.org/people/jc.sg/sounds/565642/

Fata Morgana (Mirage) 2.wav by zagi2, Attribution NonCommercial 4.0. , free sound.org , September 6th, 2015 https://freesound.org/people/zagi2/sounds/321434/

Apollo89 – taverns, street, chatter, people, ambience, athens, greece.wav by Apollo89, Creative Commons 0, free sound.org , August 26th, 2022 https://freesound.org/people/Apollo89/sounds/648208/