Crappy to Snappy Part I

This is a snapshot of the homepage of "Francisco's Mexican Restaurant" as it is right now on its current website. We were assigned to design a new webpage, logo, flyer, or another form of advertisement for a company in which their ad was.. not so good (crappy). I decided to pick this webpage of a local restaurant that I occasionally go to. This website clearly needs some work. The logo, for one, is very cheesy and gives the viewer the idea that the restaurant isn't professional. Secondly, the format of their information is outdated and has no visual appeal, no graphics to entice the viewer, and the information is all over the place. I plan to recreate the logo, make it more sophisticated, and I also plan to lay the information out in a more formal and appealing way that people can easily find what they are looking for and see the pertinent information. 

Illustrated Map

 

 

This map of St. Augustine, FL was made from Photoshop Illustrator and I also used a follow along tutorial to create it. This project took me over two weeks to complete this project, it may look easy, but it is much more complex than one might think. I worked extremely hard on this project and am proud of myself for finishing it on time. We were told to pick a random place in the world and create an "Illustrated Map" of a certain area. We had to make a few buildings within the area and they had to have perspective, this was the most difficult task of them all. If I were to redo this project over, I would have worked harder on the buildings and given the land a bit more perspective.

This video is of me and my friend Mia Matsubara playing an epic form of rock, paper, scissors shoot. We first filmed this video in a green screen room, then went into After Effects and edited out the background and placed an image of a wall in our school. I learned many skills with this project, including; keylight, key color, masks, frames, and much more. If I were able to do this project over again I would try to find a way to not make us transparent, that was an accident due to trying to get rid of the green screen.

 

 

This is a JPEG image of one of my portfolio pages (pg.10). This is an example of how one of the pages are set up. The name of the project goes above the two colored squares. The grey square in the image is a different color on each page of the portfolio, made to make the image on that page. The white square on the photo is always the same though. The three buttons in the bottom right corner change the pages of the interactive PDF file. The up arrow changes to the previous page, the down arrow takes you to the next page, and the middle circle takes you back to the Table Of Contents.

Avatar/Cartoon

This is a vector creation I made in Illustrator of myself. We were told to choose a website with a tutorial that would teach us how to create our avatars. The websites were of four different styles and ways to create it. I chose the website that created a "pop art" image of yourself. This doesn't look pop art because the tutorial was trying to have me do something I wasn't able to do, so I left the avatar partly realistic. The main tool used to create the majority of the avatar was the pen tool, but I used a couple others including: the elliptical tool, the blend tool, and the direct selection tool. Overall, this project was easy, but very time consuming due to all the layers and drawing each individual parts.

Retouched Portraits

This is an image of me that my teacher, Mr. Cole, took for an Academy event that will be used in a slideshow. We were given the picture to retouch it and fix any flaws that we feel necessary. We were given steps and guidelines to follow to complete this. Some tools needed to retouch this image were the spot-healing, healing, clone stamp, dodge, and burn brushes and tools. Overall, this project was easy to do and I had no severe problems completing it. I learned new ways to manipulate images and I will be applying this technique to many more things of my own on my own time.  

Troll

 

This is a troll I created through Illustrator using a tutorial. I worked really hard on this and took my time. I love how it turned out. If I were able to do this over I would use Live Paint to fill in the colors instead of creating individual paths.