Gift cardz

1. The theme of my gift card is pizza :-)

2. My color palette was limited to only pizza colors, in addition to the black text. 

5. I used text sparingly in these gift cards, because gift cards are usually pretty simple and not to crowded. I put the logo in the corner and the text in the opposite corner. 

6. The font I used was a pretty standard serif font. It looks pretty nice, I think

1. My overall thoughts on this piece are that I liked the idea of the project, but bringing the idea to fruition was harder than I thought. I think it came out all right.
3. Incorporating the Highlights logo, my character, and the Lilo and Stitch concept art into the magazine worked, but thinking of article titles did not :'(
4. If I were to do this project over again I would make a different character because making a magazine out of this one didn't work out so well
5. The most difficult part of this piece was the article titles, for sure. I couldn't think of any

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Okay so this installation is definitely my favorite so far. The freedom we had with the project was endless. The point of the project was to project an image or video onto a surface, and what we ended up doing was taking an old television and two old computer monitors and projecting a different video onto each surface. Outside of the projection part of the project, we used physical materials to reflect what was in the videos we were projecting. Audio-wise, we had one of the videos playing at full volume while we played Animal Collective in the background. We all really liked the concept of what we were doing with this project and we got pretty experimental with it. We really just let our ideas flow freely on this one and I think it definitely payed off.  Once the whole thing was put together it created a really cool atmosphere and I'm definitely very happy with the final result. There is a longer video on Erin's blog at http://apex-2013-erin.blogspot.com/2012/10/weather-station-installation.html

Disney-mal

For this project we had to choose two Disney characters to merge together into one new Disney character. If you didn't know, Mickey Mouse had a long-lost brother who was more or less scrapped by Walt Disney somewhere along the road. This character's name was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and he is actually featured in a recent installation of Disney video games called Epic Mickey. So, I merged Oswald with Stitch from Lilo & Stitch, and made Oswald's face the same colors as Stitch's body.

Gumby

This is so bad but I worked hard on it ok

Retouch Day 2

I think this piece was a success. Using Photoshop I removed the woman's blemishes and craters and made her skin more clear. I also lightened up her tone a bit using the dodge tool and blurred her face to make it look better. I made her eyes brighter as well.