I'm a dumb and I don't bring my camera with me...

The woods behind my aunt's house in Frankfort. Beautiful, right? I love coming here just to see the trees and flowers and the occasional deer and chipmunks!

As the title of this post would suggest, I didn't bring my camera with me... this was taken on my phone. I'll be less stupid later.

That's A Wrap!

Thus ends my journey in ART210- Beginning Digital Arts. It was a lot of fun. I learned a lot of old things that I already knew but forgot because I haven't used Adobe editors in a very long time, as well as new things because I had just never used those programs before like Garageband.
I'm honestly pretty sad to be leaving this class because it was the most fun class that I took my entire first year here and I have no art classes lined up for the next semester. Hopefully I can still play around with some of the tools and editors that we used in this class though, on my free time.
I'm glad to have been able to share all of this work with you guys, those of you that have been paying attention to it all. Though I will no longer be posting projects from class, I plan on updating with anything else- photography, doodles, etc. - that I continue to make just because I think that it's pretty rad that I can share it with everyone, if anyone still cares. But even if no one does, I'm still going to post it all, so if you have this site bookmarked, it will not go to waste.

So thanks for following along with me- here's to a great summer and future!

Gumby Has Lots of Friends

#11 ANIMATION: Create a roughly 30 second/ 400x300px/ 10fps/ frame x frame animation using Photoshop. Export it as a video.

#12 AUDIO:  Create the soundtrack for your animation using loops and sounds in Garageband.

Stop motion animation has always been something that has fascinated me. Some of my favorite movies were done using stop motion like Fantastic Mr. Fox and the work that they put into it is simply amazing. My animation is nowhere close to the caliber of Wes Anderson's, but I tried and it still took me 3 hours to make, move, and shoot this 27 seconds, so I'm rather proud of it. I don't see a career in stop motion anywhere in my near future though...

Bonus! I had a legitimate excuse to go out and buy Play-Doh: "I, uhh... need it for a class project."

I Have Not Changed Much

#10 MORPHX: Create one short MorphX animation of yourselves in two separate periods of your life.

This project turned out to be so much cooler than I thought it would. Morphing myself from, probably around two years old to a picture I just had taken three weeks ago looks much cooler than I thought it would. The best part is that half way through the animation, it hardly even looks like I've changed. The only change that I can really see is that my nose is not as flat anymore and that my eyes got smaller. I also don't have awful bangs. 

Creating this project was really easy. I had honestly forgotten about it until I got to class and I freaked out a little bit because I didn't have a baby picture and another picture to really recreate, but I did with what I had and it still turned out awesome. All I had to do was drag the two photos into the MorphX program and then start outlining reference points. These ended up being my eyes, nose, mouth, jaw line, and other defining parts of my face. Then I had to line them up on the second photo and voila! Baby Alexis Caitlin into 19 year-old Alexis Caitlin. 

Then I did the same thing for the next one, but with a cat. I like cats. I am a cat.

I Did It!

#9 ART PROJECT: Choose your favorite work of art and combine your face with this painting.


Did you know that I was alive during WWII? And that I was the actual Rosie the Riveter? No? Neither did I until I did this project.
This project was basically the same as the last. Cut yourself out of a photo and put it into a different picture only this time it was only your face and in a famous work of art. This one was also significantly easier than the other. Cutting out my face, when it's only surrounded by more of my face and hair is much easier than cutting out from the grass and trees. This was also a much smaller area to cut.
After cutting it and placing it, I had to match the color by messing with the levels, smooth out the edges by blurring them, and then adding shadows and highlights just like the last one. I probably could have added some grain to my face to help it better match the poster as well, but again, didn't really think about it. I think it still looks good.
What was great was that even the angle that this photo was taken on basically matches up to the angle her face is on.
Easy-peasy, pudding and pie.
That's an old-timey saying, right?

Doctor who?

#8 SOMEWHERE: Place yourselves in an environment where you have never been.


Can you guess who's a Doctor Who fan? Definitely not me... must be that weird kid in the Doctor suit...
This project was pretty cool. The goal was to put ourselves in the foreground of a background that we had never been in before. My first thought was Hawaii, but I felt that it would be too normal and just like the beaches in Florida. Then I thought Antarctica and penguins. What a fun picture to be playing with penguins! Then this idea hit me. Why not, not only put myself I have never been before, but somewhere I can never actually be? I looked for TARDIS exteriors as well as interiors and settled on this one of the old, abandoned TARDIS in the woods.
I was going to use a different picture for the foreground, but when I remembered that this picture existed, I figured, why not? It works! I just wish "Violet" didn't look so happy to see a broken TARDIS, but maybe that's just because she and the Doctor hadn't seen one in a while...
The hardest part of this was probably cutting us out of the original picture. If we had been on a staged background, such as a blank wall, it would have been no problem, but we were in a park. After that, I had to match us to the background. That meant washing us out a bit, adding highlights on the right side and shadows to the left, adding a shadow on the ground behind us, and then matching the grain of both photos, which I didn't do because I didn't think about it... Because of that, it is probably easier to tell that this photo isn't real, but if anyone thought that this was real anyways, they need to get out of the house more.

S/O To Paul because he doesn't know I did this but will now!

Am I a Real Photographer Yet?

#7 AUTOSCOPY: Take five photos, one a self portrait, and add filters and effects, using layers.


If you are a real photographer, your answer is probably no, because mine is. Our project this time was just to play with filters... which, as you can see, I had a blast with. My favorites are the lizard, the hibiscus, and the minaret, all for very different reasons.
What I like about the lizard photo is that I kind of made it look like it's an old mosaic that would be in a museum. The colors and the subject of the photo just fit it.
The hibiscus I like because I used transparencies to put multiple filters on it, and I also colorized it and made it very vivid and very saturated to stand out from the rest of the background. Colors are usually very bright and pretty here in Tampa, but I wanted to exaggerate it.
The photo of the minaret was actually a happy accident. In the original photo that I took, the sky was a very pretty blue but there were no clouds so I wanted to add some. I clicked on a filter that looked like it would do that, and this was the result. It did kind of add clouds to the sky, but then also made it look like some alternate universe, which was just too cool to undo.