The Rain

Another animation, taught by Josh. I really liked this one. It was suiting, as it's raining while I type this.

I love the rain. It reminds me of grace.

...Hush

This is the first "real" blog post that I remember making in a long while. This project had a lot of uniqueness to it. It wasn't your typical get in, get done kind of thing. It was broken up with level two students teaching the class a technique in photoshop. I wasn't spending every day for 45 minutes working on the same thing...I could listen and finish the needed assignment the level two student would give me, and I could pull out this project, as well. My mind could see a lot more "little" things because of it being broken up -- and I caught a lot of different small detail things that I'd like to change or implement.

However, this project was NOT anything fun at first. We were to make a horror movie poster. I hate horror movies. I hate being in that state of mind, of that fast paced, creeper mind. It makes everything inside me jump, and get defensive, even in reality. I don't like thinking someone behind me has a knife at my neck, or that someone's been following me like the grim reaper...or in this case, there's a poor little kid cursed and here to take revenge.

So thinking like this was difficult at first. But I got over it. I had to. I had a lot of encouragement from my teacher, and then things started flowing better. It felt great to get something done and not know where this project was going. It was ever changing, and I liked that. "Like a river," as someone would say.

Other than getting out of a rut, there were few complications, but the ones I faced were major. For example, I had to make some changes in the composition, when I already thought the poster was "completed. As well as that, there was some layering issues that needed to be fixed, and there was a scare that I lost the .PSD file and only had a .PNG file of the zombie. I believe I could have made this more "poster" like, but this is one of my weak spots. I expect the next project I will integrate and use more different, original styled fonts. 

This project really helped me answer a lot of "big picture" questions. Not exactly having to do with 'art' specifically, but creativity. You can start something, but you can't have a solid concrete answer or end. You have to be open to change. But most importantly, you have to ENJOY the change -- if it's not enjoyable, then it's not worth it. It's the change that excites, thrills, and inspires the creative people, the poets, musicians, etc. I never thought that a horror-movie poster would reveal all this. But I'm grateful. 

Oh, Dreams.

I've got this one friend in Italy. She's an amazing person, and we constantly talk about things, from culture differences, to our views on the world.  There's agreements and disagreements, but mostly we come to see each others perspectives and form a new way of thinking. I've chatted with her about many things, and she has given me great advice, as she'd older than me with how she would handle a situation. She's a great friend, or as I call her, la mia amica cara. (My dear friend). :) We've all gone through some icky times in life, and most recently, we've both gone through some rough situations...tough things. And one thing I noticed was this -- she would always say "Someday our dreams will be realized," or "We'll realize our dreams eventually if we never lose hope" which I always thought was funny how she would say realize, but I like it. It kinda adds more weight. I believe what is the equivalent translation would be dreams will come true. After that, we give glory to God and know that God has HIS best plan for us...and what we're given is what we get to work with and a blessing.
So I've been messing around with some things, and decided to share this, and I'm not sure if I'm done with it. A part of me still wants to play with this...some of me is ready for this to be done. Anyways, I hope you like what's here...it's just something basic.

Don't Mess with him.

HOLA~! :)

Hola a todos, como estan? Espero que ustedes les gusten este blog, porque estoy practicando el espanol! :)

Hey everyone! We're doing more animation today! I think the second-year students are animation crazy, hahaha. 

Wooded Texture Design

Another tutorial by an advanced student. Quite simple. :>

WARNING - May Produce Seizures

A fun little project we did today, written by Brian. This project used photoshop, as well as Adobe Image Ready. This was simple, and helped learn basic animation. 

La Vita è un viaggio

The Phrase has been stuck in my head all spring break. "La vita è un viaggio," It's a beautiful saying, and it's better hearing it. Italian for "Life's a Journey," I didn't take this photo, props to whoever did, I just edited it and what not and inserted text. :>

'Ode to Daniel