Animation - Stop Motion

Artist Statement:

For my project I decided to use stop motion images to create a video of myself and my puppy doing yoga! The most difficult part of this project was eliminating frames. I'm sure there may have been a quicker way to do this but in order to start my project, I had to import video frames to layers. From there I went through the frames and deleted every 3rd frame or frames that I didn't think were necessary. I ran into a big problem because I was only able to upload 500 frames at a time, so I had to do this 3 times with 3 separate parts of the original document. After going through the frames, I then exported and rendered the video. From there I was able to combine the three different media documents, add audio, clip the video, add fade in, fading out, titles, and cross-fades to my final animation. It's really amazing to see the final video! I know it's not perfect, but for my very first animation I am extremely proud of myself! 

Lyrical Collage

Original Images: 

Artist Statement: 

For this project I chose to use a photograph that I took in the Bahamas this summer. The other images were also taken with my Cannon EOS Rebel T3i camera. I chose these images because I wanted to stick with the beach theme used in the magazine cover project. The song for the collage is Love is in the Air by John Paul Young. I began this project by removing the background of the original images to ensure they look clean, crisp, and as realistic as possible. I then strategically placed tose images on the background image. I adjusted the brightness and saturation of the clouds to match the sky of my background, as well. I chose to write “Love is in the air” in red because red represents love, passion, and desire. I thought this lyric was a perfect fit as my boyfriend and I were flying in air above the ocean. 

Magazine Cover

Assets:

Magazine Cover - Complete:

Artist Statement:

Every morning I wake up, drink hot water with lemon, spend 30 or more minutes on my yoga mat and then I drink a green smoothie. I also have a canon t3i that I enjoy playing around with: in others words, I enjoy to taking random, fun and colorful photos. I wanted this magazine cover to have a calming, peaceful look to it which is why I chose the photos of me at the beach. I also chose to use calm, complimentary colors to help create a unique calming vibe for readers. Anyone interested in living a happy, healthy lifestyle will connect to several of the different featured pages I mentioned on the cover, as well. At least I think so, anyways! :)

I had a really great time creating this project. This has been my favorite project of the semester thus far!

Self Insertion

Assets:

Artist Statement: 

This self insertion image was created by finding a Google image that  was bright and calming. I first removed the background of the original image of myself. I then placed myself in the front and center of the beach in Bora Bora. I needed to match the bright lighting in the Bora Bora image and that was accomplished by adjusting the saturation and brightness of the image of myself.