Hayden's Blog

WATCH ON YOUTUBE Out of all of the projects that we have had I put the most amount of work and time into the animation. It took about one hour to complete 20 frames, so ending with around 450 frames, I spent approximately 22 hours total on this project. I'm really proud of the amount of detail I put each scene. I find that animating is a really rewarding process. 

(Images very from 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% in quality)  For this project I looked for an image of myself that was already taken as I got a bit of a late start on it. I chose a photo that my friend Jay took of me earlier this semester. Since my friends always like to joke that I am the "instagram model" of the group when it comes to my selfies, I decided to place myself on a fashion runway as if I were a real model. I cut the original model out of the background image and filled in the space that was left using paint brush and stamp tool. Then I cut out the image of myself and color corrected it to match the rest of the photo. Lastly I added a shadow behind myself. I had a lot of fun with this project!

For this project I was excited to be able to display my digital painting skills. For the original recolor, I wanted to make sure that none of the original image show through the recolored one. I would have to say that I spent between 5 and 6 hours on this piece alone.  Color Scheme One: Complementary Colors (orange and blue) Color Scheme Two: Monochromatic Red Color Scheme Three: Triad of green, blue, and orange Color Scheme Four: Primary Colors  I love the way that primary painting colors look together. It created a very vivid and artsy image. 

I found this project to be the most challenging of all of the assignments that we were given this semester. I am still quite unhappy with the end result of this portrait and wish that I had put more time into it. However, my mesh tool in my own version of Illustrator on my computer stopped working the night that I was finishing this project, forcing me to create the eyes using the brush tool. 

PORTRAIT OF ALICE GLASS FROM CRYSTAL CASTLES (5HRS) PORTRAIT OF MY SISTER FOR HER BIRTHDAY (3HRS)

Image at 0% Image at 50% Image at 75% Image at 100%  The concept behind this piece was rather simple. For years I have been plagued with intense anxiety and have struggled to overcome this in my life. The most difficult part of anxiety is that it distorts your world view. It makes things appear bleak and hopeless. For this piece I tried to illustrate that feeling.