MEDIA ARTS: Moonlander Brainstorming

Ideas for redesigning the Moonlander game:

Spider on web getting through forest

Parachute guy trying to land but can’t land on anything but buildings

Bird trying to land on a nest

Santa dropping flying presents from his sleigh to chimneys

Bats trying to land on food


I actually really like the Santa one, cheesy as it sounds. I'll make the presents have ribbon wings of some sort to move in different directions and the scenery will be a village with chimneys. Also, when the present misses the mark it will rip in half and maybe even have a teddy bear or something fall out of it. ;)

MEDIA ARTS: Lyrical Photography

Edit number three.

Edit number one.

Edit number two. (Sorry they're not in order at all)

1.     For my pictures, I’m really happy with how different they all turned out. When I was making the first picture, I thought to myself, “How on earth can I make all of these different with the same pictures?” However, I proved myself wrong by using a vast variety of filters and changes to the photos, which made me all the more proud of my work. I think that my favourite aspect of the picture with the graffiti demons on the wall was the ‘chrome’ filter I applied to my friends, because to me it almost appears as if they are coated in armor against these demons. I also really liked the effect of the white hands in my other picture, almost as if they were drawn.

2.     I almost wish that I could make my friends do the “Forever” again, because I wasn’t as happy with how the second ‘e’ turned out and the ‘r’s could be improved upon. I also wish that I might have changed the filter on the bricks behind the picture with the demon sketches, but when I merged the layers to displace them on the brick wall I merged the bricks, too, and couldn’t apply a filter to it.

3.     I think that the second picture that I made, the one with the fire at the bottom and the demons on the wall was the most successful of the three pictures. I like it because it really shows a “united” feeling between my friends (who were the subjects of the photo). Also, as I mentioned above, to me I think that the chrome filter makes it seem like my friends are coated in armor because they are together and now they are invincible and the demons can’t touch them. It also made the best use of brushes and filters I think. I’m proud of how I made the shadows on the wall, because in the actual picture we were inside and the brick picture was taken separately.

MEDIA ARTS: Photography



I just coloured the hand in this picture, but in the next I did her hair as well because I wasn't sure which I liked better.

So this picture or the other one is one of my black and white + colour photos.

Black and white + colour 2 and also a blurry background photo.

Black and white + colour 3

A couple pictures are similar with a few differences, but I should have 15 ones that are individual and not different edits on the same picture.

Blurred background 1.

One of the non blurry or coloured photos.

So I'm having some problems updating. When I click the photo to upload it in, it immediately gets a red "Server rejected" sign on it. I'm going to try from another computer to see if this solve the problem but if not I guess I'll just upload them at school...

*Later edit* My pictures are now going up but taking a ridiculously long time to upload, so I'm going to post what I've got now and go to bed, then finish it up tomorrow.

Another just regular photo that has been dodged and blurred.

Blurred background 2. This one I had to do different levels of blurring so that Jill wouldn't just be floating off the blurry ground. I've got about three different stages of blurring in this picture.

Black and white + colour 4.

A dodged and burned photo.

Fill frame photo. This is a black white and colour photo as well, even though that makes the total 5, but I thought that giving her eyes the colour made them stand out more and I really liked the effect..

Extreme composition edit with blurred background.

This is a blurred background photo. I used different layers of blurring for this photo as well, but not in the same way as the other one. For this one I made the blurred layer behind the sharp layer and erased the sharpness away from the background. However, for the things that were a bit closer to the front, I made my eraser more transparent so that the objects (such as the leaves on the right) weren't quite as blurry as the background.

Blurred background photo.

Regular dodged and burned photograph.

Different angle dodged and burned.

*Later edit* I'm going to start putting them on again...

Also, I made two different versions of an edit I made above. I just cropped the picture so that it was very long in one of them, and in the other I edited the ground so that it looked more like Jill's foot was in the water versus her just standing with her foot on the ground (even though it really was in the water...)
Half of my pictures are of Jillian and half of Amanda because Jillian wasn't here on Friday.

You might see here that the reflection of the water doesn't really extend to where Jill is sticking her foot in, so in the last picture I tried to artificially edit some more reflection in.

This one's cropped a bit higher up than the last one, but I liked seeing less of the feet.

Here you can see that I gave a shot at making my own puddle/ripple effect.

Cluttered Day

So I was thinking that I was going to edit the rest of my photos tonight and post them, but that didn't work out because as much as I enjoyed helping out with Mr Legace's Herb Miller project, the fact still remains that it took up my entire day and evening. I don't think I'll have a lot of time tomorrow morning or afternoon but possibly tomorrow evening, we'll see how it goes.

--Flightless<3