Finally, ADG!

So I finally caught up to this month’s class ADG – Advanced Computer Graphics. I have been doing more work and tutorials in both Illustrator and Photoshop this month, as well as beginning to incorporate more of my own designs into the work unlike the main focus of last months Graphics class, which was to help us get started on the programs. The first project we did was to render a mechanical object of our choice in 3D. We first made a sketch and took pictures of our object to help us understand the perspective and lighting. Then we drew it in Illustrator.

Trying to get the main shadows and highlights. Not too worried about perspective at this point…

Close up of the lens area.

The Wire Frame of my Camera. I’ve got many layers there, and a mesh or two… The text was pen tooled in because Canon’s font is copyrighted and I can’t grab it =)

And my final project! I think I did a pretty job, considering I’m still new to Illustrator. The color of the camera is a more gold brown. This is because when I took the picture of my camera (in which I constantly used for reference) The light reflected off my brown table, making my camera look brown. I like it that way though =)

We used our objects to make an ad. As you can see, I pen tooled the Canon writing (again). I also changed the color of my camera to make the ad tie in together as a whole.

DCG Final Project

Our final project for DCG was to design either an album cover, or a DVD cover for a band or movie of our choice (or of our own imagination). I had done a CD cover the month before in DAT, so I took that band and idea and ran with it. I came up with two totally opposite concepts.

From the DAT class, I decided to take my old band at home, and warp it into something more usable. I came up with Gabriel, a Christian Punk Rock Alternative band with an Album title of “Aurora” based on the hit song “Aurora”. (I actually wrote several songs, you can check them out in the DAT post down below.) However when I was trying to come up with an image for the CD Cover, all I could think of was angels – so I took that and ran with it… and tried it out. But, I didn’t like where it was going at all so I made another one.

I did some sketching, got some ideas and put them into Illustrator. I also looked at other images of wings and tried to mush it all together. Made an illustrator girl and then later attached the wings to her.

And here is the final product. The songs on the back of the album are actually real songs, written by myself. Some are finished… Some are in the process of being finished… and if you haven’t noticed yet, Music is a huge part of my life ;)

And here’s Frankie – I’m just adding him in here for fun. He’s a little something we played around with in class. I really like it though so here he is!

DCG Illustrator Work

So in DCG We started learning Illustrator and Photoshop. The first two weeks were spent on Illustrator. It was my first time using Illustrator and pen tool, so it was hard, but a lot of fun. We traced objects, got used to the pen tool, and got comfortable using Illustrator. The final project was to redesign a logo. We had the choice of The Orlando Airport, Detroit Zoo or London Olympics 2012. I did some designs for the Detroit Zoo, but decided on the latter.

(Sorry about the typo in Detroit)

My Final Design

Some Icon Designs

My Final Icon set