A good idea is to search google with keywords such as: "vintage family photos", "Old family photos" etc etc. 
Friday, May 22, 2015
Surreal Collage
Your project today is to take a look at these great surreal collages that were created in Photoshop by the digital artist Eugene Lolli and to create one of your own. Notice how Eugene combines old vintage photographs of people with technology and nature into a unique and interesting composition. I just want you to create a great composition that I might choose to hang on the wall for next year's students to gaze upon.
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Hey
Your assignment today is one that you will hold dear to your heart. You are now transforming from a high school student into a multi-million dollar owner of a graphics firm. You are being paid a huge lump of money by a client who wants your services provided enthusiastically. They want you to go to your creative place to create something that will blow their mind!!! The name of the client’s company is Large Marge’s Fish Head House. The company wants you to create a logo introduction for their commercial spots. The client wants you to use a number of special effects, at least 7. The client would like you to use CC scatterize, Light Wipe and at least one type of warp. The rest of the four special effects are up to you. The very strong and good looking Mr Midkiff will show you an example of an intro in class so you have an idea of what is expected. The only catch is the example that Mr Midkiff was given is a bad example. He wants you to create one that is way better. Part of this project is designing an appealing logo for the client. This is step one of the project. Step two is creating the intro animation. Try to also include interesting backgrounds and colors. Anything that you can think of and create to generate interest is what you are being graded on. CREATIVITY CREATIVITY CREATIVITY!!!!!
Friday, February 13, 2015
Flag Wave Tutorial
1. Find a flat image of a flag, make sure that it is not a very small image, and save this image.
2. Google will tell you the dimensions of the image because you will need these for the size of your after effects composition.
3. Create a new project (ctrl+N) in after effects and title it Logo, use the dimensions from your flat flag image and change the time to 10 seconds.
4. Import your flag to the project and drag it onto the canvas or the timeline. If the flag does not fit to the canvas you can press CTRL+ALT+F.
5. Create a new project (ctrl+N) and name it fractal.
6. Press CTRL+Y to adda new solid BLACK layer.
7. Now go to the EFFECT tab at the top of the scrren and go to NOISE&GRAIN> FRACTAL NOISE and click.
8. In the Effects Control Window to the left of your program, turn on the stop watch of EVOLUTION and then move your scrubber on the timeline to the end of timeline and change the evoltion number manually to -1.
9. Open up the transform option of the FRACTAL NOISE EFFECT and turn on the stopwatch of the OFFSET TURBULENCE. Change the second set of number in the OFFSET TURBULENCE from 1000 to 4000 (if you find in the future that your flag moves too slow or too fast then this is the number that you will need to mess around with) . Move the scrubber to the beginning of the timeline and change the first number of the OFFSET TURBULENCE to "0".
10.Under the rotation transformation sub-object level is a button labeled "Uniform Scaling" click on the box to uncheck it and then change the SCALE WIDTH to 300 and the SCALE HEIGHT to 600. Also change the complexity option to "2".
11.Press CTRL+N and create a new composition called FRACTAL LOGO.
12. Drag the FRACTAL and LOGO layers into the timeline from the project tab. Make sure that the fractal layer is aboce the logo layer. If you do not have a PROJECT tab then press CTRL+0.
13. At the bottom of the After Effects program is a button titled "Toggle Switches / Modes" press that button and you will notice that next to the layers in the timeline appear boxes with the word "NORMAL" in them, this is the type of blend mode. Change the FRACTAL layer blend mode from NORMAL to MULTIPLY and then press the "Toggle Switches / Modes" button to hide the mode option because we will no longer need this.
14. Create a new composition (CTRL+N) and title it MAIN.
15. Drag FRACTAL LOGO and FRACTAL down into the timeline in that order.
16.In the EFFECTS AND PRESETS (CTRL+5) window on the right of the screen type "CARD DANCE" and drag it to the FRACTAL LOGO layer.
17. In the EFFECTS CONTROL window (if you don't have this window or folder go to the WINDOW tab at the very top of the screen and find it, then click on it) change the ROWS to 150, COLUMNS to 200, GRADIENT LAYER 1 to 2. FRACTAL, change the transformation order to POSITION, ROTATE, SCALE, change the Z POSITION to INTENSITY 1, change the multiplier in the Z position to 0.8, change the X ROTATION to INTENSITY 1 and change the multiplier to 5.
18. If there are some bugs to work out try to go back on your own and figure them out. When you are finished label this project "FLAG DEMO YOUR LAST NAME" and turn it in.
2. Google will tell you the dimensions of the image because you will need these for the size of your after effects composition.
3. Create a new project (ctrl+N) in after effects and title it Logo, use the dimensions from your flat flag image and change the time to 10 seconds.
4. Import your flag to the project and drag it onto the canvas or the timeline. If the flag does not fit to the canvas you can press CTRL+ALT+F.
5. Create a new project (ctrl+N) and name it fractal.
6. Press CTRL+Y to adda new solid BLACK layer.
7. Now go to the EFFECT tab at the top of the scrren and go to NOISE&GRAIN> FRACTAL NOISE and click.
8. In the Effects Control Window to the left of your program, turn on the stop watch of EVOLUTION and then move your scrubber on the timeline to the end of timeline and change the evoltion number manually to -1.
9. Open up the transform option of the FRACTAL NOISE EFFECT and turn on the stopwatch of the OFFSET TURBULENCE. Change the second set of number in the OFFSET TURBULENCE from 1000 to 4000 (if you find in the future that your flag moves too slow or too fast then this is the number that you will need to mess around with) . Move the scrubber to the beginning of the timeline and change the first number of the OFFSET TURBULENCE to "0".
10.Under the rotation transformation sub-object level is a button labeled "Uniform Scaling" click on the box to uncheck it and then change the SCALE WIDTH to 300 and the SCALE HEIGHT to 600. Also change the complexity option to "2".
11.Press CTRL+N and create a new composition called FRACTAL LOGO.
12. Drag the FRACTAL and LOGO layers into the timeline from the project tab. Make sure that the fractal layer is aboce the logo layer. If you do not have a PROJECT tab then press CTRL+0.
13. At the bottom of the After Effects program is a button titled "Toggle Switches / Modes" press that button and you will notice that next to the layers in the timeline appear boxes with the word "NORMAL" in them, this is the type of blend mode. Change the FRACTAL layer blend mode from NORMAL to MULTIPLY and then press the "Toggle Switches / Modes" button to hide the mode option because we will no longer need this.
14. Create a new composition (CTRL+N) and title it MAIN.
15. Drag FRACTAL LOGO and FRACTAL down into the timeline in that order.
16.In the EFFECTS AND PRESETS (CTRL+5) window on the right of the screen type "CARD DANCE" and drag it to the FRACTAL LOGO layer.
17. In the EFFECTS CONTROL window (if you don't have this window or folder go to the WINDOW tab at the very top of the screen and find it, then click on it) change the ROWS to 150, COLUMNS to 200, GRADIENT LAYER 1 to 2. FRACTAL, change the transformation order to POSITION, ROTATE, SCALE, change the Z POSITION to INTENSITY 1, change the multiplier in the Z position to 0.8, change the X ROTATION to INTENSITY 1 and change the multiplier to 5.
18. If there are some bugs to work out try to go back on your own and figure them out. When you are finished label this project "FLAG DEMO YOUR LAST NAME" and turn it in.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
2015 Motion Graphics
Here are some of the images that we will be using for today's assignment tutorial.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Cave Painting
http://photosheezy.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2014-02-14T04:07:00-08:00&max-results=7&start=34&by-date=false
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