GIF Project Reflection

1. My original idea was that my hat is a safety net which protects me when I'm out in the world and the cold weather. I had a lot of other ideas but I wanted to try to animate a person and I thought this would be an easy action to start practicing on. Originally I wasn't sure how I was gonna show this concept beyond just an animation of me putting on a hat, but once I started to animated it I got the idea to change the background colors at the end to represent my concept more.
3. I was also just planning on making the hat grey and the background black, but by playing around on photoshop I found a way to make the different layers different textures and decided to use that affect to give the gif some more realistic look.

Gif HW

Portrait Transformation Reflection

1. My concept was to show how human's industrialization effect the environment, especially the oceans.
2. My project's title is Human Ocean.
3. I'm really happy with the end results, I think the concept is pretty clear and I like the aesthetic of the piece, especially the color scheme.
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5) 1. Lay down background image of ocean water and change levels to give it green lint
     2. Create new layer and upload image of girl
     3. Select image of girl using selection tool, inverse selection, delete background.                                                   4. Lower opacity of image of girl
5. Creat layer make and use that to remove areas of girl's face which are not wanted in final
6. Creat new layer, upload image of beach signs, selected area around signs and delete it
7. Creat new layer, add photo of tunnel, select background and delete
8. Create new layer, add photo gear, select gear, inverse selection and delete back ground
9. Creat new layer, add image of metal tanks and pipes, select pipes, inverse selection, delete background
10. Create new layer, upload image of oil, select oil, inverse selection, delete background
11. Move  all layers to desired location and order layers in desired
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Letter Project Process

I started brainstorming by thinking about things I saw in everyday life that were shaped like the letter N but couldn't really think of anything I liked so I decided to try bigger picture ideas like roads and rivers. I ended up combining my idea to make a board game shaped like the letter N with my idea to make roads shaped like the latter N to create my final with a side walk and a New York City background. Neither of my drafts were exactly the same design as my final but I did take aspects of the board game one.

This is my final:

In order to show New York City I drew buildings, including the Empire State Building because it's so famous and also drew things that are a little less iconic, like a New York hot dog, pretzel, ketchup, and mustard.

The hardest part of this project for me was making sure all the details looked nice and neat. Because there are a lot of little things in the background it was hard for me to make sure each one was well drawn and colored, but I think they all turned out pretty well.

Over all, I like my final project because I think the letter is clear and it represents my concept, although I wish I had spent some more time making sure all the buildings and their windows looked perfect.

If I went back to it now I would add more details to the back ground like street signs and a subway map, and I would also try to fix little things like making lines straighter.

My Summer

Hey, I'm Maia. I'm 17, I live in Manhattan, and I really like the outdoors, especially camping with friends.

I went to the beach a lot this summer with my friends or family. I went to this beach at the end of August when my family took a trip to Massachusetts.

I went roller skating with my friend Sasha in Prospect Park. I fell a bunch of times but it was worth it because it was really fun once we got the hang of it. 

My friends and I ate super healthily all summer long at basically every diner in the East Village.