Evaluation of Blog

What have I learned?

I have learned that blogs are an important tool for any designer to use. It allows them to present their work and ideas on the internet for fellow designers, students, and potential clients to look at. It allows allows them to discuss interests that are relevant to their blog's primary topic.

What have I enjoyed?

I found placing my work on the blog for display a new experience, as well as being able to place my own opinions on my blog.

What have I found difficult?

What I did find difficult was locating fonts, tutorials, and web pages that I found interesting and put them on my blog. Capturing every image took time and was tedious, and as usual Font Squirrel was being difficult.

Final Project Concepts

For my final project, we were allowed to produce whatever we wanted. I chose to produce three character concepts based on a Video Game Design Project I did: two sub concepts of different art styles and a final one combining the two.
These are the three concepts I produced.

Sarah - Dock - Cartoon

 Alessa - Forest - Realistic

Alessa - Street - Cartoon

Despicable World Cup

As you all know, the 2014 World Cup is taking place. My mother's workplace has decided to set up an activity for this occasion: each section is given a football team to represent, and to decorate their workplace in the team's colors. When each team is kicked out of the World Cup, the section representing them has to take down their decorations. My mother's section was given Algeria to represent.

And so my mother asked me to produce a poster to decorate her section with, specifically in the Despicable Me Minions theme. I took up the task, and through digital painting on Photoshop this is what I produced. Shading and block colors were painted with a tablet, and the trickier details were created through manipulating textures.

Godzilla Review

Review (Spoilers)

I admit, I was unsure that I would enjoy this movie when I went to see it. This was my first Godzilla film, aside from the widely disliked 1998 American Remake, and what I knew of the very first Godzilla  seemed a little too dark for my taste (there was a scene where a little kid was severely irradiated, for crying out loud!)

But then again, I am a big fan of films involving special effects and/or animation. I ended up loving the film, even if my family didn't. I thought the monsters were incredible, and the cinematography really helped. Two scenes in particular really gave me chills, but if you don't want any spoilers I'd recommend that you do not read any further.

In the airport scene, one of the antagonistic monsters, called MUTOs, causes a chain reaction of exploding planes. The camera shoots a wide shot of the crowd inside the building witnessing the chaos through a window that takes up the entire wall. Everyone is screaming, the camera pans to the follow the planes as they explode one after another… and then Gozilla's leg steps into view and everyone falls silent. What I loved about this scene was the way the scene was shot. I honestly did not expect to see Godzilla make his first full appearance in such a manner, and the iconic roar that followed after was terrifying to say the least.

However, the most thrilling part of the movie had to be the HALO jump scene. I read somewhere that the scene was intended to resemble angels descending into hell, and I think the film makers were bang on the mark. The scene was shot mostly from the main character's perspective, and when the monsters came into view, duking it out while men plummeted from the sky all around them, you can imagine the terror the guy must be feeling to see such a thing with his own eyes.

All in all, GREAT movie, and I have half a mind to go see it again.