Blemish Girl

For Blemish girl I softened up her skin, removed her freckles and used the dodge tool to lighten her tone up a little. I think she looked fine before. :(

Walking Cycle

I decided to make a walking cycle of Bubble Buddy because I'm not all that great at drawing, so I chose a simple character to draw that I could then scan into the computer and animate. It took a while to figure out how to animate the image, but I think it turned out pretty well. I was also going to color it using Photoshop, but I ended up not having enough time.

Newimal

Gradient tutorial

Shoe shine (get it??????)

Color tutorial

This one is a long story. It starts last year in chemistry, where we did a lab experiment involving colored lights and refraction glasses. When we looked at the colored lights through the glasses, we could see the same light in different colors floating all around because the glasses split the light into all of the colors on the visible spectrum and set them apart from each other. So, during the lab, I put the lens of the glasses up to the lens of the camera on my phone, and took pictures of the lights. The same thing happened and I got some really cool pictures on my phone. Then one time during this class I took one of the pictures and databent it. Basically what that means is that you open up a picture in MS Paint, and save it as a .bmp. Then, if you have WordPad installed, you right-click on the picture and open it with WordPad, which will make a bunch of letters and symbols pop up. Then you just hit save and basically what that does is it corrupts the image and inserts a bunch of line breaks and things and makes it look way different. So, instead of using the color layer on this project to color, Erin gave me the idea of putting in a picture instead. So I used one of the databent images for this and I think it looks really cool

SplatFant

For this tutorial, I decided to put the cover of a very loved album of mine (Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion (http://bluecalx.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/merriweather-post-pavilion.jpg) on a purple tang fish. At first, I wasn't going to change anything about the album cover because I was hoping that once I darkened the layer, the background would disappear and the green parts would remain and I would be done. However, when I darkened the layer, almost the entire layer disappeared, so I had to try something else. I changed the hue of the layer so that the green parts of the design would become yellow to match the fins of the fish. Then, I used the magic wand and eraser tools to delete the blue background of the album, leaving only the yellow parts. Nexdt, I tried darkening it again and they still disappeared, so I tried doing other things to the layers. I experimented a little and settled on using the Overlay option for this layer. the yellow parts became translucent, so to compensate for that I turned the brightness down a little on the back fin. It didn't come out quite as I hoped it would, but I think I got it as close to my desired outcome as possible.