Animation Outtakes

Hey, it's Talia again and our current project for GT is to create an animation story about one of our teammates; our story is about Raiden. My other teammates are Linden Johns and Quinn Consylman. One interesting fact about Quinn Consylman is that he never goes outside unless he has to go to school. Another interesting fact about Quinn is that he hasn't cut his hair since last year. One interesting fact about Raiden Kurisu is that he is 100% Japanese, but can speak good English. Another thing about Raiden is that he is extremely good at making origami figures. One interesting dfact about Linden is that he learned to read and do math from a cook book. Another interesting fact is that when he was in first grade the first day was so easy that the next day he was moved up to 2nd grade. One interesting fact about me is that I have been playing soccer for about 8 years straight. Another interesting fact is that I believe I am related to George Washington.

In this project we are required to use animation techniques so, I'm here to explain just a couple of those animation techniques. One animation technique is called stop-motion. Stop- motion is basically just trying to make a object or person appear that it's moving in its own. Another animation technique is GIF. Gif is short for Graphics Interchange Format, which is just multiple frames playing over and over again. There are a couple more animation techniques that are pretty cool and really interesting that we could also use in our story like Styks, Photo Shop animation, claymation, etc.

We are telling Raiden's story. His story is about how he discovered his talent which is creating Origami figures and how he struggled at having a special talent. He always wanted  a special talent, until the day he thought of making a crane and apparently made it with no help at all. He started practicing and practicing on his origami figures and struggled a lot, but he found this cool website, YouTube. YouTube really helped him get better at his passion and here we are making an animation story that talks about Raiden and how he found Origami. You should care because we are talking about how hard it was for Raiden to find his talent when all the other kids in his school had already found it and how Raiden felt lonely because he was the only one that didn't have this special, amazing, and incredible talent. We exp-lain the struggle and dedication he had to find his talent. If I were you I would totally care about this story because it has meaning. That meaning is about Raidne and his discovery of his special talent, Origami.

That's the end of this blog guys haha:)) Hope you guys stay  tuned to my next blog post and i'm opretty sure that it will have the final animation story See you guys later:)) Peace Out Talianators

Typography Images

Hey guys!! so our current project in GT is Typography Portraits you guys are probably wondering what in the world is typography and what is a portrait. Well that's why I'm here; to tell you guys. Typography is a type of art where you go step by step moving around words or type in a printed matter. Portraiture is the art of creating a portrait, a portrait is a picture of a person or group of people faces; other parts of the body may be included, but the face is the main object. When you put typography and Portraiture you get Typography Portraits. Typography Portraits are taking type or words and placing them in the positive space of a portrait picture. Typography portraits can be used to make a lasting impact by having a picture of the main person and having inspiring words and that's all I know about that.

My biggest challenge in this Typography Portrait Project was that in the beginning of the project my text wasn't showing up, so I had to fix this problem with out Mr. Sanderl. The first ting I did was go to the text editor thing on the right side of Photo Shop. I just started messing around with the editor and found out that my text were really close together so it looked like little dots. I also realized that the text was really small and the height was bunched up, so I increased the size of the text and made the height a taller so the text would be visible and clear. You guys are probably going to think I get really excited about really small things after I say this, but that's okay. After I accomplished fixing the text I kind of sort of started cheering my brain off saying, "TALIA YOU DID IT!!, TALIA YOU DID IT!!, TALIA YOU DID IT!!", but I mean I couldn't help it I was so proud of myself for doing all of that without Mr. Sanderl's help. That's how I had a problem and then solved it.

I have 3 examples to share with you and they're down below at the end of this blog post just scroll down and they're there. The first example of my 3 is the Innovator portrait. The Innovator portrait was a portrait picture of a well known innovator I chose Shai Agassi. With the innovator portrait we did it a little different than the two other of my examples. With the Innovator portrait I first I loaded it in to Photo Shop. Then, I filled a new layer with black and started pasting the text I copied from Wikipedia into a text box. Next, Masked the text layer and copied the original image and pasted it into the mask. After that I was done!! My next example is the teacher Portrait. With the Teacher portrait we basically did the same thing, but instead of a black background I used a white background. My teacher was my AMAZING mom, Mrs. Washington; the Library Clerk. My final example is the Portrait of my favorite thing ME!! The process of this example is a little different from the other examples; instead the portait of me we used turned the cut out Black and White. These are the steps.

Hope you guys enjoyed this blog post and make sure to scroll down for my earlier post

Double Exposed Portraits

Hey guys! so our current project in GT is to create a Double Exposed Portrait. Portrait photography is photography of one person or multiple people showing emotion, personality, and mood of the subject. When taking portraiture the face is the main focus of the photograph, but other parts of the body may be added if necessary. The portrait photography is related to Silhouette because the profile image strongly depends on the main parts of the face (chin, nose, and forehead) these features make the image clear and understandable. When taking a portrait photograph you include the chin, forehead, and nose because those parts are part of the face which is how portraiture and profile view are related. It's related to profile view because both have a side view, outline, or represent some type of object.



This is an explanation on how double exposed portraits are created. First, take 3 amazing photos; 1 being the profile and 2 photos of anything you like or symbolizes you. For example you could capture shots of trees because you really like trees or you could take a picture of flowers, your favorite sport, beach, etc. Then, after taking those incredible photos you need to import them and open them in photoshop by first clicking on File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack. After all of your layers are there, there's a dodge tool icon on the left pallet the tool looks like a balloon with a straight stick coming out of it. When you click on that tool the brush icon should now be your mouse and you need to adjust it where it's either hard or soft big or small, but you really want to get around the edges so I would suggest using a small brush. After your done dodging your image you need to size and then crop your image. Once you've done that turn all of your layers to screen mode and after you've done that all images should be opaque.

The two symbols I used are soccer and a sunset. i used these symbols because I thought that these really symbolized what I do with my free time and what I love to do. I took a picture of me with a soccer ball and my cleats because soccer is only like my number one favorite sport ever!! i love soccer and when Mr. Sanderl said that we had to rake pictures of what we love to do Soccer is the first thing that came to head. I used a sunset that I took from my church because I thought that the way the trees blocked some of the sky kind of told how i'm shy when I first meet you and then when you get the inner me, you really know me, and you got your way through my barrier it's very bright and vibrant because i have a very enthusiastic personality and i'm just very colorful, but you can only find out if you get through to me. I just really liked these topics that i took pictures of.

I hope you enjoyed reading and looking at this weeks post I hope you read and view all of my other post and have an Amazing day!! See ya Later:))

HDR Photography

Our current project for GT is to take seven pictures of a landscape of our choice. HDR aka High Dynamic Range is a process that creates a clear scene to the eye by taking multiple contrast images. High Dynamic Range is used when your in the worst situation possible, you have the perfect shot and your at the golden hour of the day, but your camera sucks, and the balance of your colors are really uneven and the image looks extremely weird. I really like that instead of seeing really blurry and unbalanced photos the photos you've processed with HDR come out to be crystal clear and when you use HDR your photos turn out really detailed and amazing.

To create a final HDR image you need to follow these steps.
-Take 7 amazing photos from dark to light
-Import them to your device(make sure you have Photoshop)
-Go to Photoshop and click File>Automate>Merge to HDR Pro
-A pop up will come and you need to go to your folder and pick out the 7 photos
-Click ok, and Photoshop will do the rest
This is totally different from automatic HDR; when using auto HDR the device does all of the processing by itself you don't really have to do anything because the device is doing it for you. When you create an HDR image manually it feels like your actually learning something because you're going through the process of making the image, and not the device that uses auto HDR.

For my first photo, the HDR landscape, I knew I had a beautiful scene behind me, the sleeping giant, so I decided that since I have such a wonderful scene why not use this scenery to make an outstanding image. I really wanted a line that leads to somewhere (leading Lines) so, I thought of using my road as a line and I could get on the ground so that it would look like it was leading to my neighbors house. I also realized that by getting on the ground I would create sort of and unusual angle. I took my shots and thought they were really good so I kept them. For my other HDR image the HDR Experiment, I thought of getting my mom. I thought put my mom on the side of a vase with beautiful bright flowers to brighten up the portrait. I placed her in the rule of thirds, but I made the mistake of not giving her enough look room. I only realized that during Mr. Sanderls' class when he was critiquing my HDR Experiment.

Movie Trailer Critique

Hey guys! So, our recent project for GT was to create a movie trailer critique. In this movie trailer you and your team had to put your minds together and think of a creative and appropriate trailer for 1st graders. After you had your idea you needed to check out a camera and start FILMING! My team Kasiah, Maddie, and Arianna decided to make our trailer a mystery movie Kasiah played Rebecca the victim, Maddie was the narrator, Arianna was Amethyst the robber/assistance, and I was Thalia the Detective. We checked out a camera and started shooting parts to our trailer; the first thing we did was take some pictures for the movie poster. Then, we shot the first scene which was about how Amethyst the robber stole Rebecca's ring. Finally we continued shooting as much scenes as we could in the amount of time we had before our parents came to pick us up.

All of the GT students had to then accomplish the requirements for this project. The requirements for this project were; it had to be 1 minute and 30 seconds to at most 2 minutes and 30 seconds, it had to have 5 scenes, include a Voice Actor, Dialogue, Foley, Text Layovers, and a Movie Poster. My team and I met all of the requirements; we had 1 minute and 30 seconds of footage, we had about 6-7 scenes, Maddie was our Voice Actor, We got Kasiah to stomp her feet for the foley and we also hit a stuffed animal against a wall for a thump sound.Our text layovers consisted of the basic "Coming Soon" and "In theaters near you. Finally my team and I all had to make a creative poster to go with our movie trailer, so we all created one, but we went with Kasiah's poster because as a team we thought her poster had a little more flare than the rest of ours.

Finally, after the entire class shared their movie trailer with us we had to critique them. The class critique I thought was pretty reasonable. The class resulted the project as the second best movie trailer with a total of 7 votes for the overall best of the movie trailers. I thought that the results were really good, Snoopy George was a great movie trailer, and ours could've been better, but I am actually really proud of my team, and our movie trailer. I totally agree with the results they gave us we accomplished all of our requirements, but we could've gone above and beyond! I learned that if you work otgether with your team you can accomplish A LOT of things

Movie Poster Promo

Hey guys! Here's another blog for you to read. In GT were currently working on creating a movie trailer. The team I am currently working with is Kasiah, Maddie, and Arianna. We have to make our own creative movie poster that goes with the movie trailer; the poster needs to have the main character, the plot, the setting, the opening date, etc. You need all this and more to make sure you are ready and have a couple ideas to create and choose the best one. This project is going to be a little struggle and my team is going to need to sing out the camera a lot, but I think we can do this.

Our movie trailer has a lot of characters, but there's is 3 main ones, Detective Thalia, Robber Amethyst, and Rebecca the victim. These three characters are extremely important to the movie trailer because The whole movie is based on them. The robber steals Rebecca's ring which is also has the code to her bank account engraved on it and if the culprit finds it her great fortune is destroyed. To find the culprit the detective and Rebecca need to work together to get her favorite Amethyst ring. The setting in this movie trailer is in Rebecca's mansion AKA Kasiah's house; the crime happens when Kasiah is dancing around painting her nails. Unfortunately Rebecca didn't know that would be the last time she could afford nail polish.

My movie poster isn't completely done I'm still adding the filter which looks really awesome right now. When I'm finished with my poster I bet it'll be AMAZING! I'll need these things to complete my poster and make sure it's better than perfect. Text-Title, Actors, Reviews, and the Production Company. Text Effects: Drop Shadow, Stroke, Bevel & Emboss. Image: Main Characters. Setting, and Plot Hints. Text Effects: Quick Selection, Filters, and the Color Balance need to be included.

A major tool we needed to use is the kerning. Kerning is the process of adjusting the lettering to create spacing between the text and just make the font the way you want it for a pleasing result. The kerning tool is a very important part of this project because we want our movie poster to be perfect and just the way we want it. Kerning is important because to have an amazing poster everything has to be on point; which includes the text. Mr. Sanderl showed us this really cool website where it gives you the chance to actually try and Kern for yourself WEBSITE. This Website really helped me with practicing the kerning tool; now I know how to adjust the text to the way I prefer it to be.

Proactive or Procrastination

Hey guys! so the students of GT have to write 3 paragraphs of if there a procrastinator or a proactive person.You have to be completely honest and explain why you think what you think. I don't listen sometimes,which is like twice a day, but I think that I am more on the side of being Proactive. I will be totally honest with you I think that I'm a proactive person. I always follow the rules, I know what I have to do. I usually only talk to collaborate with my team, teacher, or to help my piers in that class and if they're having trouble with something. Overall I think that I am a very proactive person.

My level of productivity is great. Most of the time I am usually working on something that could be improved because I finished my current project or something like that. I really try to get my work done by the due date that was assigned to that project. It bothers me if I turn something late because I know that once I am late on turning my work in I'm behind on that class. I'm almost never distracted most of the time. When I get an assignment I make sure to get things done and that it's my best work so that I am solid for when grades come up.

To make sure I'm always on task I try to prevent myself from getting distracted. It means a lot that I can finish my work on time and get some free time to do something fun or just take a break from working. Also, I must be sure to try and finish the assignment the day I was given it. I always try to go above and beyond, going above what is expected. I try to make as much time as I can fr my school work, but sometimes I can;t and that really hardens