Book Cover

This is my interpretation of what a book cover on a book about rugby would look like. Not necessarily a book on how to "play the game" of rugby, but more about the memories of players who have played and love the game.

Bottles

This is a play of a game within a game

This is our first short film, we tried using different camera angles. a 2011 production filmed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kX2irjItBo

Rob, Scott, and Michelle's video project

Technicolor Yawn

This video was our version of a dream. Our character drinks some expired milk right before bedtime, which leads to a very interesting dream. Colors and images become mixed with the side effects resulting from a bad glass of milk.

Get a clue

This is a play on a game within a game. This is our first short film, we tried using different camera angles. A 2011 production filmed at Molly's house, with Molly's sister as Ms. Scarlet, with Molly's Dad as Col Mustard, Molly's older brother as Player 1, Molly's little brother as Professor Plum, Molly as player 2, Jasmine as player 3, and Jeff and all his fancy camera stuff as camera man.

Gangster Life

A nerd goes gangster. Running into mischief such as tagging and drinking booze, the gangster runs into the wrong gangsters and discovers that the gangster life is not all that its out to be. Created by Ariana Alexander, Frank Haro, and Roberto Sauceda.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LI6IvGUMBs

The Other Side - Brian B., Dakota, Sarah C.

A humorous look at why the chicken REALLY crosses the road - starring one of Dakota's friends, JP, as the chicken. Difficulties encountered in the making of this film include a VERY low-quality camera, and interruptions in the narrative by random pedestrians enthusiastic to see a man in a chicken suit.

For this project we decided to pick a song and create a video for it. Taylor Swift's "Love Story" was a song that our group decided was appropriate for the narrative theme. Not only did we have a story in the song, but we also had a story in the video. To create it, we filmed over a period of a few hours and used Final Cut Pro to edit the portions of video.

Morgan's, Colin's and Sierra's video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG7EVGmmn8g

This ended up being a long video for us. We basically kept the camera rolling one afternoon at Michelle's (the star of the video) house. After we had all the footage, some random and some not, we put it together to make a music video.

Michelle Meyer-Stop Motion

For this stop motion I used two different techniques. The first section was done with a pen and paper, and the second section I used pixelation. I took probably close to 600 pictures, but I had a fun time with this project. This wasn't my original idea, but I think that it turned out decently, so enjoy!

Colin O'Brien

This was my first video ever, let alone my first stop motion video. I tried using the method that the photographer used from the stop motion music video we watched except my rig for the camera was a little more ghetto. A couple of times throughout the project my "tripod" fell apart in the middle of shooting. That was probably my biggest issue along with finding out that I am a worthless clay user. All in all, I enjoyed this project and I hope you like the Video.

light painting long exposure

I used long exposure photography to help paint light. The length of my exposures allowed me to move about and paint light to light up locations at the darkest times of the day. Each picture is around 5 seconds or longer allowing light to pass into the camera to create an illuminated night sky effect.

Brian B: Break Time

For my stop-motion project, I made a claymation within a claymation. It was a frustrating project because my models kept falling apart during the animation process. I eventually used wire which helped a little. I used Final Cut, After Effects, and Imovie to edit and finalize my project.

Frank Haro, Magical Desk

For my stop motion animation, all the elements create a story about a student's desk coming to life. As they dance, the student wakes up and shouts Quiet. I used the methods object movement, pixelation, and claymation. Editing was done in photoshop and final cut pro.

Roberto's Stop Motion

For this project i knew that I wanted to use some clay. So I decided to have a clay man form from clay balls. Then I couldn't figure out what to do with him because he wasn't very flexible, so I had him pick up the rubix cube, and due to the weight he fell over off the board. Then I solved the cube to make it look like it solved itself.

i chose to make a stop motion piece on the ectoplasm found in early spirit photographs. it follows the journey from the body to the natural world

Michele's Stop Motion

For this project I wanted to create something that was fun but still fit the impossible reality theme. To start off, I had a difficult time creating a story but in the end I love how my project turned out. I used Final Cut Pro and a little bit of Photoshop.

Stop Motion

This video is a simple, fun attempt at playing with the evolution of color. It was designed to go along with a song that inspired my idea, but won't be added until later.

For my Stop-Motion Animation Film, I decided to create a film based on images alone. With a lot of shooting, I was able to have inanimate objects come alive with motion. My story line is basically based on the replacement of one pair of shoes by a newer pair...the older pair becomes distraught as the new pair conquers a mountain! The story line isn't meant to be very in depth, just a way to do some stop-motion animation!!

What the Random Cupid?

Originally this was going to be a lot more intricate in their facial expressions where I would draw out each figure over and over with a slight change, but time was an issue. Instead I drew and cut out a couple main figures, then I cut and taped moving parts gradually in the motion I wanted to portray them. I used photoshop to put in the colors because I wanted those colors to blatantly stand out from the rest of the hand drawn picture. The finished product took a different spin than the story board I initially drew for it, but the story board process really helped. I designed both characters to give them kind of a 50's feel. The cupid was a last minute thing to tie it all together, because when taking some of the facial expressions out my story it didn't make sense. Hence the title, because Cupid was randomly put in.

McdonaldSM

For my stop motion project, I will show you the art of playing chess. In some situations the game is played very quickly, and other times up to 5 minutes per move. In this frame by frame video, you will be able to see each move of the men.

The sequence was shot from one angle at different focal lengths. I created the effect of movement by moving each piece in a direction a half an inch at a time. I used only a digital camera, chess men, and a board as well as Final Cut Pro to place the frames into a movie sequence. 1024 frames were shot to complete this assignment.

Benjamin Sampayan III - Stop Motion

When given the option to give life to an otherwise inanimate object I thought, "What's more inanimate than a rock?!" But while giving a rock motion might bring it life, it would be rather boring on its own - hence the entrance of Mr. Hammer. With this addition, I wanted the hammer to be out to crush the little rock in a way that is playful, yet ridiculous. In order to achieve this idea without extensive photoshop reliance or tacky hands in the frame, I created makeshift marionettes out of spare wood and fishing line. After shooting I added a vignette overlay, desaturated the images a bit, and removed lines that I thought were 'too visible.'

For my stop motion animation I chose to work with real and made materials to make a growing tree that goes though a life cycle before falling apart. This has been my first real attempt at stop motion so hopefully you like it.

Sierra Smith

I call this video "Learning to Fall." I worked with Adobe Illustrator to create over 350 JPGs, which I inserted into Final Cut Pro. I originally had a more emotional story line, but I changed my story board when I decided to use Illustrator instead of using a white board and marker (which was a bit more restrictive). If I had the opportunity to make the clip longer, I would create it to be a music video for the song Falling From the Sun by The Album Leaf.

My idea for this was to create an impossible reality by making whiteboard markers move and draw by themselves, but also to have the characters they drew come to life. To make the markers appear to move I put them each on the end of a stick and then positioned it so that it wasn't visible to the camera. After that it was pretty simple if time consuming to change the characters slightly between frames. I realize in the beginning that my reflection in the whiteboard is apparent and later in the movie I finally figured out a way to eliminate it entirely. I thought of using Photoshop to fix it but I thought that would take more time than was available so I will have to be happy with saving it for a different time and showing what I have on here.

Stop Motion Project - Sarah Chilton

Link to Youtube (file too big for a blogspot upload):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5hZ2Z2F0SA

For my stop motion project, I chose to use construction paper sets and figures to illustrate three common circle-based optical illusions. By stitching photos of these sets and figures (the circles) together, I create the second illusion of movement.

Time Perception

I believe that the book cover well represents the title and storyline of the novel (Slaughterhouse-5) that i picked. The main character is stuck waking up in random times from his life. He fights in WWII, gets abducted by aliens, and relives the strangest events. Life becomes chaotic when you walk up in a different decade every time you fall asleep.

This book cover was designed for a book about a person who gets into heavy drugs and ends up struggling with addiction. In the title, "illest" is referring to the slang term for how fun something can be, but it is also used as a way to describe the sick state of mind which drugs can lead to.

Sierrra Smith

I had trouble choosing a single design for my book A Handful of Dust, so I designed four covers. Two of them translate the title of the book literally, while the other two are designed to reflect the content of the book. Although the novel is decades old, I chose to keep the designs modern and with the exception of one, pretty simple.

Survivor was written by Chuck Palahniuk, and is the story about the last remaining survivor of a cult. This book basically tells his story about the cult and him becoming a religious icon and somewhat prophet. The story is a narrative of him telling his life story into the black box on a plane headed to crash into the Australian outback.

Time Quake...Book Cover

For this project, I decided to do a book cover on Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut. My goal for this assignment was to create a cover that demonstrated an alteration of time. I used photoshop to create the background image and Illustrator to manipulate the text and the perspectives.

Morgan Neuharth- book cover

Me Talk Pretty One Day is a collection of short memoirs by David Sedaris. I wanted to use the cover design as a way of alluding to the soft, beautiful yet harsh and satirical essence of this novel.

molly vector

This is a story about a ghost who visits his descendent in hopes of not being lost in history. The main girl is the only one who can see him and learns more about herself in learning where she came from. I designed this to look like a family tree diagram with pictures of the family, but I left one empty where the ancestor should be.

For this project, I decided to do a bookcover on The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud. My intention was to make something whimsical and experimental while still maintaining the shape of an eye.

Michele's Book Cover

For this project I wanted to create something fun. One of my favorite books as a child was of course, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle. To create this book cover, I used different techniques including blending options, fonts, colors, shapes, and sizes.

Benjamin Sampayan III - Point Blank

Point Blank by Anthony Horowitz is the first book in an action/thriller series that follows a young spy faced with the task of outwitting death and evil-doers again and again. As the name implies, the protagonist, Alex, is faced with a problem "Point Blank" and must find a way to overcome it. For the cover I wanted to highlight the idea of being held at point blank. The stylized revolver, with its barrel aimed straight at the viewer is contrasted by the red blood-like spatter to create a sense of fear, panic, and exhilaration.

This was my first time using Illustrator. I was pretty frustrating to do, but my book cover here is the result of many hours of tinkering with the software. It's based on an actual book, some of you may have read it before. The strange winged creature there is depicted on many of the different covers for the book so I wanted to remake him in my own way that would better fit the description of him given in the book.

Follow Ken Kesey and his merry pranksters on a trip to a new level of consciousness

Book Cover Project: Everything on a Waffle

Everything on a waffle was my favorite book while I was growing up. It was my first time really using illustrator so I had fun using the different tolls to make the cover come together.

Colin O'Brien Book Cover Project

Leviathan is a book from the 1600's that basically suggested democracy as the best form of government. The word "Leviathan" dates back to the Bible where it is used to refer to a sea "monster" of some type. I decided to play off both ideas. For this book cover I have a sea monster representing a sovereign and the monster's body is composed of tiny people. Since the book is from so long ago, I decided to keep the cover in black and white.

FRANK HARO, Book cover

For my project, I chose the book "Fire Starter" by Steven King. The title is colored and warped to show the fiery side of the main character, Charlie. More design of fire is created with the drawing tool and live paint bucket tool. I made the authors name black and creepy looking. This is intended to show that the author is a horror novelist.

Book Cover Project - Sarah Chilton

For my book cover project, I chose to illustrate a scene from China Mieville's award-winning fantasy novel, Perdido Street Station, where one of the main characters, a bird-man ("garuda") called Yagharek, removes his cloak to reveal to another character, Isaac, that he is wingless. For this project I drew a lot of inspiration from old minimalist book covers (specifically, those produced by Penguin books) and old posters. I wanted to go for a clean, minimalist look.

Here's the wikipedia page for the book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdido_Street_Station I really recommend it, China Mieville is a brilliant writer!

"Open"

This was my first time using illustrator. So, for my assignment I kept everything very simple...

Raster Re-Submit

These are the different views sitting in one spot at Gammage Auditorium. I took a picture every 15 to 20 minutes, and each time the sky and lighting shifted to give the picture a different feel.

Clueless

Not too happy with this. I drew a blank on what to do in class and over the weekend so... I tried to finish what I started. I mainly messed with altering the shape of the text and used the grid tool to give in the somewhat of a wrapping around a corner effect.

Never ending - Benjamin Sampayan III