Filed under: Print | Tags: AK-47, Columbia, FARC, Full Sail, Guerrilla, Poster, Propaganda
Here is the aforementioned alternate design. This was my initial idea for the project before I started focusing on my Mars poster. Once that was done, I went back to work on this. The article is about the “terrorist” organization, FARC in Columbia. I wasn’t very satisfied with it during production but it really came together towards the end. I was trying to make it work as a pure photo manipulation with a plain Trajan typeface a la Newsweek or some other news rag; but I think it’s better as an illustration. I ended up mimicking the early & mid 19th century propaganda style (a common trend for my class) with a South American flair. I’m unusually happy about this.
Made in Photoshop and Illustrator CS3.
Filed under: Print | Tags: ADG, Computer Graphics, Full Sail, Mars, Phoenix, Sci-fi
This is the culmination of my Advanced Computer Graphics class. It’s a faux cover for a real magazine article about the NASA’s Mars Phoenix project. I was going for a very ethereal and otherworldly (pun very much intended) slant with this piece. I might shop it around to some cheesy sci-fi publisher. It’s a mixture of digital painting and photo manipulation, mostly the latter. All assets, save for the Martian texture, are hand-made. I have some other designs that I worked on for other articles, but this will probably end up being the one that’s graded.
Made in Photoshop CS3.
Filed under: Potpourri | Tags: Clean, Fifth Element, Full Sail, Futuristic, Video Player
Here’s a mockup of a video player skin we did in class. It isn’t graded as stringently, so I didn’t spend nearly as much time on it as on the others (though it was still a lot by other standards.) I was going for a very clean, futuristic feel, but I also wanted it to look like it could feasibly be used as a skin. Now that I think about it, it reminds a lot of Eve from the upcoming Wall-E. There’s also a mini-slideshow to show how it might animate. Much of detail is lost at low-res but I wanted it look like the white bookends are projecting a hologram.
Made in Photoshop and Illustrator CS3.
Filed under: Print | Tags: Flow, Flower, Full Sail, Hawaiian, Hibiscus, Nokia 6263, Vector
Here we have the end result of my Illustrator project. We created a magazine-style layout (except in landscape [which I think is stupid]). I started with a somewhat different concept including a photo of a friend, but then I rearranged it to focus on the vector work and phone model.
Made in Photoshop and Illustrator CS3.
Filed under: Illustration | Tags: Gradient, Illustrator, Mesh, Nokia 6263, Tedious
This is my first project for Advanced Computer Graphics and it was definitely the toughest up to this point. Our assignment was to photo-realistically recreate a mechanical object, in my case, my Nokia 6263 (it’s the nicest thing I own.) Only it had to be done entirely in Illustrator. Not only is this extremely difficult, but tedious as hell. This was exacerbated by the fact that we had only a week to learn the techniques and execute them. I was getting very frustrated since it wasn’t coming along as quick as I’d hoped (I need instant gratification); but I think it came together pretty well in the end.
I’m also including a sheet that shows my progress. As you can see, it’s just a matter of getting the right shapes and playing around with gradients.
Again, done in Illustrator CS3.
