Digital Illustration: Feel of the City

Our assignment this week was to create an illustration on photoshop in either the themes of feel of the city or grunge and beauty. I had a bunch of photos that I accumulated over the course of the semester that went more with "Feel of the City." My image is of city hall - I played with the colors and applied a posterize effect. The background came from the picasa album. I also added a silhouette of the city skyline and a silhouette of a bare tree. This was a really fun way to end our work on photoshop!

“My Own Little World”

This assignment was to create a “bad” music video using iMovie and GarageBand. I chose the stop-motion technique where hundreds of still images are used to create a short video (I used over 800 photographs!) My roommate Jill was the photographer and she followed me on my journey from my dorm room to the Student Center where I am very isolated and “in my own little world” despite being amongst hundreds of other students. This process of stop motion in addition to using the programs of iMovie and GarageBand was brand new to me and definitely a learning experience. I edited the song, “First Day of My Life” by Bright Eyes using GarageBand and incorporated that into my final piece. This project definitely opened my eyes on just how difficult creating and editing a video can be! I hope this isn’t too shabby for my first attempt!! Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oGJmpdvxfY