Freedom and Liberty Outcome

Campaign which turned out to be a massive disaster.

So, as you can see, this final piece is completely ruined. I have to redo this completely from scratch, as I have tried fixing it from where it was, but as I didn't time it correctly it is a 3 second long clip. It includes exactly what I wanted, but at a stupidly fast speed. When I redo it I will record dialogue to go with it and use those as both a timing device and to enhance the video.

Scanning and manipulating images

For the animation project, in November, I had to scan in the drawn images I had created in order to create my video. As they were being used in video format only, I scanned them in at 72dpi (if they were to be used in print it would have been 300dpi), however, I didn't think about scaling them correctly. This was a pain when it came to editing the video, as the images didn't quite fit in the frames and I had to scale them and crop them within the editing software. When scanning in the images, I also had to edit the contrast and threshold, to create blacker outlines, as the fineliner hadn't come up as expected. The final scanned in images are below.

Below is also how I cropped the extra bit of the image off, where you could see it was inside my sketchbook.

I then played with the threshold a bit more, but personally didn't like the outcomes, although they may aesthetically please someone else.

I also played around with the idea of using a different colour, or hue. Changing the overall colour tone not only is an aesthetic change, it can also affect the meaning of the image, through the use of colour which can affect the mood. 

Current Portfolio

My portfolio as it stands now, is not completely related to what I plan to go onto degree level and continue. It doesn't contain enough to do with graphics or editing, which is what I really should have within my portfolio should I wish to continue into professional practice, which I do. It is also limited in what it can show of my work, as it can only show screencaps of most of the work I do, so therefore it will be much better to continue with a digital portfolio as my first priority. To keep in line with current professional practice, I will upload my current work in a blog post to form a showreel.

Evidence for Digital Images - Manipulation and Output

Layering
Layering is used to create composite images and enable you to put multiple images together. You can use it to put images that were not originally together, and create a new image out of them. You can put bengal tigers in the snow if you are skilled.

Feathering
Feathering is when you soften the edges of an image, This is used to create good photo-manipulations as when you layer one image on top of another, you need to blend out the edges so that you can't see instantly that they were not originally supposed to how you are seeing them.

Healing
The healing tool is similar to the cloning tool, in which you sample from other areas of the image, however, it is more 'aware' of what is around it when you paint with it, allowing it to blend a lot easier straight off the bat. There is also the spot healing tool, which is even easier to use as it is very close to automatic, and this is highly used for blemishes on people, over the other tools.

Cloning
Cloning is when you use your current brush, to extract data from a certain part of a photo, and place it onto a different part. The part that needs the other pixels put on top of it, are parts of the photos that require repair, for example, if they have something that needs covering up that is in the image, you can take another part of the image, and get rid of that object/glitch.

An example of when I have used these methods is below.

However the ability to create these false images has an impact on photography being a 'truthful' medium, through everyone now asking themselves whether or not the image you are looking at has been photoshopped. Was that person really with that person or in that place? Is her stomach really that flat? Is her face really that flawless? In adverising, with almost every advertisement being photoshopped now, the whole campaign has been changed to having no photoshop will get you more sales, including 'real' people makes people want to use your product more. In general now, audiences are getting more and more judgemental by anyone who is using photoshop heavily in any images they create. Something with less of an impact on the general population that is created in images is changing the weather with colour and brightness for example, or green-screening people into other locations. 

Scott Pilgrim - Inventive Titles Final Piece

Animation Final Piece - November - Ghosts

Below is the animatic I created. Unfortunately, my computer refused to cooperate with rotating the images.