Week 2

Painting, Pixel Art, and Logo Animation

This week I worked on three different trainings. One was brush painting in Photoshop another was creating pixel art in Illustrator and the last was animating a logo in After Effects. I learned a lot of new things in all trainings and am looking forward to using these skills in the future!

Photoshop Painting

My task was to replicate a teapot design, then use a photo of my choice to create a new painting. I then animated it within the program to add a cuteness factor 🙂

Pixel Art

For this, I followed the pixel art tutorial on the KB. I chose a picture of my cat because I thought it would be challenging, but rewarding – and it was 😀

Logo Animation

For this task, it involved more planning and iterating. I started with a story board which I ended up altering after hearing from Lila. Then, I had to separate my layers in Illustrator from my original logo. After watching a ton of videos of techniques and styles, I began working in After Effects.

Attempt 1 – I was struggling finding transitions other than opacity changes

Final – After watching more tutorials, I was able to ad more effects and create the growing motif I was aiming for in the beginning

Reflection

Overall, I had a fun productive week learning new skills in PS, AI, and AE. Hopefully there will be opportunities for me to uses these skills in other areas of my work.