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First Project
Originally, I wanted to have a black room with a monster leering over in the corner of your eye. However, due to space filling and detail, I had to add more detail to the background. Now the image is a monster leering over the corner of the screen in a hallway leading into the rest of the house. As it stands now, it is unfinished. I wanted this piece to instill a sense of eeriness to the viewer; the kind that can be seen in a lot of Trevor Henderson’s works.
I tried my best to make everything as realistic as possible, which is most likely what led to me not finishing the work. I worked on the surroundings before I worked on the monster, which was probably not the best idea in my case. For the monster, I wanted to go for dry and leathery skin; almost like a death angel from the film, A Quiet Place. Everything else is self-explanatory. Drywall for the walls, hardwood floors. I was going to worry about the shad and coloration later. If it was finished, it’d have a dark flashlight-like vignette over it with a somewhat misty blur over the background. This would’ve helped the idea that you just woke up to a noise in your house and are going to check it out.
While I am proud of the linework I managed to get done on the unfinished monster, the rest of the surroundings are either not to the level of detail I want or too detailed for the insignificance they hold to the overall piece. My biggest challenge has always been deadlines, which is why I wanted to originally make it a black room, but I had to go for a more detailed background in order to get full credit for the assignment. If I could go back and change what I did, it would’ve definitely been just doing a black room. I spent way too much time working on the background.
I learned how to animate and tween efficiently with Photoshop which helped me make all of the moving parts of this project effectively. As simple as it is, I’m really proud of how the grungy grainy effect looks as it cycles on the screen. Another thing would have to be the way that the animations sort of fade in and out in a way that keeps the motion that was intended, but also adds to the unpolished feel I went for.
Nostalgia: Grunge
(my two favorite bands: Nirvana and Alice In Chains)
I am really proud of how these turned out. The entire project emulates the exact vibe I was going for when creating it. I also wasn’t insanely behind on an assignment for once, so there’s that as well.
I chose nostalgia as my theme for this project. While I wasn’t alive during the peak of the grunge rock scene that I used for this, I chose it as sort of a way that displays my envy for people who got to experience that era first hand. The main focal point of the piece is lead singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, and lead singer of Alice In Chains, Layne Staley, along with albums and other things that allude to their careers as artists. To get that nostalgic feel of the early-to-mid nineties feel, I went for a grungy, scratchy, and unpolished look that is often correlated to that time period.
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