Other than making some minor adjustments and edits, I finished everything I could do with the voting PSA animations this week. I’m now waiting to hear any edits or adjustments that may be needed before the official release of the PSA’s. In the meantime, I spent a lot of my time working on my trainings on Knowledge Base.
I first started with making pixel art in Illustrator since it was something new for me to try and seemed the most fun. I decided to make some artworks on my family’s pets since the tutorial used a dog as an example. I made 4 variations of each pet, each time experimenting with Illustrators generative color palettes. I had fun playing around with it and creating some unique color combinations.
Next I learned how to make an 8-bit animation in Photoshop. It’s a simple and quick way to make a small animated piece. I wanted to make something a bit unusual, so I cropped a mouth and animated it to look as if it were laughing.
The next training (and probably my favorite) was designing and animating a logo for myself. I wanted to go with my online username that I use for my art accounts, Kodicthyo. I also wanted to portray one of my characters that I created and have had for several years, Nyx. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. I was struggling with the animation portion, however I’m glad I continued to push through the frustrations because I learned a lot of new things that I never would have learned had I not pushed myself.
I’m out of time here, so I will have to show the rest of my projects next time I come in. Thank you for reading, as always.