Connect

Flash Animation

Over the passed two weeks, I have been trying to come up with better animations and less scary looking cartoons to animate.  All of my attempts have been the most frustrating, difficult and almost impossible for me put from mind to computer.  I have spent hours and hours trying to understand flash and how to incorporate drawings created in illustrator or photoshop.  So many times I have given up trying to bring one to another and to try again in flash but frustration would get the better of me.  The lock fill on the bucket tool would never allow me to color my drawings properly--or if by chance they did, the drawings would then fall behind the background and no matter how many times I'd try to bring it forward or send the background back, It just would not work!  I have to say this project was by far the most challenging 1) Because I'm a terrible digital drawer (if only I had a tablet to free draw) and 2) The rules of this program just don't make sense to me.  One minute I've got the clips where I want it and the next a layer has disappeared or shows up lagged for a few seconds after the clip was supposed to end.  I have been trying and trying so please bare with how crude this animation looks.  The idea was to show how to "connect."

In the beginning of my animation I have a couple of people walking down a busy street in a city, walking together yet talking on their cell phones.  The next part is another couple of people walking down a sidewalk, again now connecting with each other but on their cell phones.  The final part shows a couple of people out in the woods around a campfire, connecting with each other finally.  The idea was to show the importance of taking technology out of the equation in the modern world we live in today.  Although, the problems I had came from random overlaps in layers--that I SWEAR I did not touch, yet somehow things are different when I alter a completely different layer.

Design Competition 2

I didn't realize that the competition had to be from the Graphic Competitions so I chose one that would be similar to the Adirondack Competition--The Hamdan International Photography Award.  I used Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom to edit these initial photos.  They follow both general and black and white guidelines.


The Hamdan International Photography Award’s journey continues as we now enter the third session. Four categories have been chosen which will inspire some of the world’s finest and most committed photographers. The Award encourages photographers to share their craft and demonstrate excellence in what is now one of the most coveted Awards in the world.

This session’s four categories are timeless and perfectly reflect the world we live in. They encourage photographers from all over the world to explore the art-form of photography and demonstrate skills and creativity at a level which will set benchmarks globally.

The four categories are:

• Creating the Future
• General
• Black and White
• Street Life


In addition, the magic of Black and White continues to be a popular category as it conveys intense beauty through its uniqueness and timeless elegance.

You can submit a maximum of 4 photos for all categories, 1 photo for each category. Photographs submitted must be of high quality and be suitable for publication. They must also be in JPEG format and no less than 2 MB in size. You cannot participate with a photo that has already won in a competition, or already used for commercial purposes.