Creative Media - Emotions Task 2.3.2010 *happy

Happy Image 1.

The happiness of this image is strongly portrayed through her mouth and eyes. The smile is obviously the focal point of her happiness. The distraction of the eyes upwards suggests happiness in a slight form. The position of her arms are also suggestive of her eagerness towards something. This position is greatly associated with happiness.
(Source: http://www.tvfanatic.com/images/gallery/joanna-garcia-as-megan-smith.jpg 2.3.2010)

Happy Image 2.

This man's dimples are strongly suggestive of his happiness also his mouth, eyes and partial peace sign.The round dimply, cheeks, large smile and peace sign are all greatly associated with happiness. His limbs or hands have been used to show his emotion of happiness through the greatly associated peace sign of happiness.
(Source: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3237/2323880842_d6ef06cedf.jpg 2.3.2010)

Happy Image 3.

Again this child's  large dimples, cheeks and mouth are strong persuasive techniques when suggesting the emotion of happiness. The closed eyes are pushed together from the 'smiling' cheeks. The limbs don't really suggest any happiness.
(Source: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeW9FS91aGhopL5fDPahauPiUZWWRuYg6hxsR2Pr6rCiqdDDF-Xn5tRGpIbhouLjcOYAdRvQFQ5N31GL74CSSwAlUkSf-_DCEIQSPz0htlhx4xNKjDFfwfOyBa2JkrxqhzJmYSt7cDReLg/s400/happy-person.jpg 2.3.2010)

Creative Media - Emotions Task 2.3.2010 *sad

Sad Image 1.

The strong representation of sadness is portrayed through this babies mouth, eyes and cheeks. The turning down or pouting of the child's lips highly persuades the viewer to its emotion, this is due to the common belief of upside down smiles (smiles associated with happiness) and the opposite of a smile is sadness. The wrinkles shown next to and beneath its mouth create an even greater representation of sadness. The closed eyes represent the emotion of solemness, deep thought and of course sadness. Again strong emotions associated with sadness. Now the cheeks, the wrinkles coming from the eyes of the baby cause the cheeks to appear as if turning down, down again associated with sadness.
(Source: http://www.insidesocal.com/tv/lucas-sad-face.jpg 2.3.2010)

Sad Image 2.

The open and down turned mouth associated with the emotion sadness is an indication that this child is upset. The large lines coming from the bottom of the nose to the top of the mouth shows that the cheeks are even dragging down to the open mouth. The dimples in the chin could also be associated with the child's upset. The large frown on the child's forehead and the down turning of the eye brows show a very strong indication of sadness. Finally the almost closed shape of the eyes could be indicating that the child is crying.
(Source: http://www.usask.ca/communications/ocn/06-july-07/images/sad_face.jpg 2.3.2010)


Sad Image 3.

The closeness of the eyes indicates tears of sadness and sorrow. The recoiling of the tongue in the open mouth represents a loud bellowing noise coming from the child's mouth. The chin's' shows that the head is being pushed back towards the neck. When you are upset you tend to put your head back or down in an attempt to hide your face. Although this child is openly upset and is pushing their head back and obviously crying to another person. Again the large dimply lines from the nose to the mouth are a large representation of sadness.
(Source: http://geokteng.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/sad-face04.jpg 2.3.2010)

Creative Media - ASSIGNMENT final submition of avatar 1

From my last post I have finally completed my first avatar out of two. Below is the final product.

Evaluation

The basic emotion I chose at the beginning of the assignment after looking through and evaluation various options I chose contempt. The emotion of contempt is portrayed through the limbs, the arm on the shoulder, the eyes, looking away and staring into space and the slightly relaxed shape of the body. When I started off my process I found changing the colour of the skin exceptionally easy from the emu and the frog task it literally took me 20 seconds to do. After I masked the skin layer *duplicate layer from the background, I erased the excess hue/saturation around the body, the shirt and the hair. I found the hair easier at the top of the head, and than when I progressed to the seperate strands of hair I found that quite difficult. I found it extremley time consuming and it stressed me out. I had to zoom in quite closely and than critiquely use the paint tool on the mask to bring out the small strands of hair. I actually completed all of my avatar and than restarted due to some of the shirt as I didn't mask and erased some I didn't want erased, it was minute but I still restarted.

Mr Powell I found when you had the one-on-one help it was much better and the class demonstrations at the beginning of the term were extemley helpful. Perhaps improve the list on the board process though. I do believe I used my time well.

When I was away I did alot of blogging and worked on my avatar. I don't get distracted during class which is a plus. I tended to blog after school sometimes instead of during class, I did do a few during class but it was just easier to remember than waste time without Mr. Powell if I needed help with the actual photoshop task. I am actually really pleased with this avatar. If I had to do anything over I wouldn't, not with this avatar. I found the process really exciting, as I love photoshop and I think I will find it very useful when I want to ever use photoshop again. I never really knew about photoshop but now I feel like I know so much more.

Creative Media - ASSIGNMENT 12.3.2010

My second avatar is my dog. I have chosen him because I want to have an animal in my clan. Below is the image of him.

 I used all of the techniques from my previous avatar and my practice one as well. The only thing I don't need to do is the ears because he already has them. Below is the image of my final product.

Creative Media - ASSIGNMENT 22.3.2010

Since last lesson I have made a lot of improvements such as the ears and a slight adjustment of the teeth. Below is the image of the previous weeks work without its improvements.

Below is the improved image of my assignment minus the dots which I will soon add in.

Creative Media - ASSIGNMENT 10.3.2010

It is now time to begin my actual assignment and copy the techniques I used for my man. Below is the image I have found and I am planning to use.

(Source: flickr.com)
The emotion I have chosen for the image above i believe is contempt. So far I have done every single proccess excluding the ears. Below is the image.

I still have to add the ears and I also am contemplating whether or not the hair looks alright because I had to erase some of the hair.
The techniques used were:
- layer
- mask
- hue/saturation
- paintbrush
- eraser
- lasso
- eyedropper

Creative Media - ASSIGNMENT 1.3.2010

I have finally finished my man that I am going to use for an example in my finall assignment. I'm going to use two other images and use the techniques that I have used for my man. Below is my man finally finished.

I also decided to add ears to my man. I thought it added to the animalistic feel of my avatar. Below is the image I used to get the ears from.

(Source: flickr.com)
 I lassoed the ears and changed the hue to match the skin, then layered them and erased some of the outside, the bits I didn't want.
The techniques I used were:
- lasso
- hue/saturation
- layer
- mask