I animated the feeling of gratitude. I used a palette of pinks and greens, and ended with a blue. I wanted it to have a warm and soft visual quality. I hope it expresses a level of tenderness, and emotional resonance. I had the word gratitude, abstract forms, and flower like shapes float across different areas throughout the animation to represent moving through gratefulness. Conveying gratitude through elements expanding, unfolding, and shifting. I also used a piano track I recorded in GarageBand to add another layer to the emotion.
I’m animating the emotion gratitude. I think pink is a grateful color and I like how the green is complimentary to the shades of pink. I’m going to remove the quote but I was using it as a guiding factor in thinking about gratitude and it felt important to include in the draft. I’m doing flower shapes as I feel that flowers are a very classic way to express gratitude.
Heres my first work in Adobe Animate. I animated shapes shifting, and morphing over gradients. I wanted the shapes to stack and shift around eachother. I like how simple the gradients are but I’d like to do more dynamic ones later.
For this project what originally started as a portrait of my day turned into a portrait of a dream. Dreams can feel chaotic, layered, and confusing before they shift to something calm, slow, and peaceful. I tried to capture both ends of that spectrum. I used reverb, echo, layered the same audio at different volume levels, and reversed a track to create an uncanny feeling akin to a dream.
For filters I adjusted the clipping on the beginning song section and changed the pitch as well. I did a recording of the alarm that I hear every morning. I also got two sounds from freesound: coffee brewing and someone walking down stairs. There are a few things I want to record on my commute to work today as well as at work so I’ll have those in for next week. I’m trying to find a balance between using pre-existing samples and recording my own.
Here is my audio draft, I’m planning on the final project being a portrait of the sounds from my day. I want it to begin with a song so I’m starting in GarageBand. I put together a track using the Modern 808 drum kit. To start the sampling, I recorded my kitchen faucet running and the sound of my keys jangling, I placed those sounds in the track as well. It’s quite fast and the sounds overlay, I like that it’s discordant.
Here are my recordings of keys jangling and the faucet running.
For this project I thought it would be interesting to use my own photography and sculpture. I’m looking at the shadows and the light and how they interact. The background image is of the stairs and handrail outside of my neighbors house. On top of that I applied a photo of a wooden sculpture. I also layered in a photo of fabric. I chose Swirl random lines from Openclipart to make a pattern that I placed over the entire image because I liked the marks and how free they were, I thought they contrasted well with the heaviness of the sculpture and the handrail. I titled the work Loose Threads because of the thinness of lines in the pattern also the threads that are visible from the photo of fabric in the lower-left corner of the image.
For this composite I chose four digital versions/remakes of art historical paintings and placed them on a heavily textured wall. Then I overlaid a cat and a man each with a paint roller. I wanted to have humor and appropriation as well as a mix of styles.
I began with a light mustard color background and on top of that created a gradient with darker yellow and red. I adjusted the color balance, I then used the brush tool and painted two lines to add a sense of space. (those two lines are now mostly covered, but visible in the top right of the image as well as the bottom where they emerge from behind the white square) I made another gradient but only on the left side of the image, I chose a dark red to create contrast and divide the composition. I used the same brush that I used for the two lines to add texture on top of the dark red gradient and then I used the smudge tool to mix some of the colors. I also used a layer mask on the gradient layer and adjusted the density and feather. The frontmost shape is a rectangle with a water pattern fill. I wanted to have a contrast between sharp and rounded edges. I smudged the rectangle to blur the texture of the water pattern fill and to soften the edges which resulted in a more dynamic shape, I also tilted the rectangle so it is a bit askew on top of the rest of the layers. I used the subtract blend so that the color of the water pattern would change and show on top of the white square. As I’m going through and adding layers I’m also altering the brightness, contrast, exposure, and hue/saturation.
