10 Words Animation

An animation of 10 words that describe me, with a Rubik's Cube in the background. With this animation, I learned how to make a video frame animation instead of the gif in PhotoShop. For the text, I used colors that were in the image, like red, yellow, green, and black. I also put a stroke on each of the words to make them stand out more. The background image has different saturation, hue, and shadow levels to make the cube stand out more than the original image. The video frame animation is different than the frame by frame animation because the computer does the animation for you. You input where you want something to start and end at, and then the computer figures out what it need to do for each frame of the animation, while in frame by frame animation you have to put each frame in yourself.

Arch Animation

This is my second animation. I learned about how arches work in animation. The object has to bounce after first hitting the ground, but can only bounce so high because of gravity. The curve of the arch can be different depending on how powerful the initial leap was, but it will eventually stop bouncing because of gravity. This animation shows a bouncing face that is happy while in the air, but is sad while it is squashed and on the ground (my name). My name also squashes because of the impact of the face.

Bounce Animation

This was my first animation. I learned how to animate in PhotoShop, and also the Squash and Stretch animation technique. As you can see, the ball stretches while speeding up in the air, and the ball squashes as it hits the ground. I probably used too many frames for the animation, because it looks really slow.

My Website

       I created a website for the final project of this quarter. I created it using DreamWeaver, and it is an offline website. It features my favorite projects from each quarter, and it also has my elevator pitch and bio. It has a working link between the home page and the project page. It was a pretty cool thing to make. I've had a lot of fun with graphic design this quarter, and hope to have lots of fun in animation next quarter. I'll see you after winter break!!!!!

Elevator Speech

Here is my elevator speech/pitch. It is about 160 words and takes about 40 seconds to read.
Elevator Speech

Hello, I am Randon. I am currently an e-Comm student at Olathe Northwest High School. In this program, I am learning to do graphic design, video production, animation, and web design. You can normally find me working on my laptop or solving Rubik’s cubes. I work with computers all the time, and especially with the Adobe Suite. I learn fast, so any program I am given to work with I can figure out pretty fast. I am hoping to expand my knowledge in all things tech. I want to take new trends and styles to make fresh products. I would like to add to my experience. If you have an opportunity for me to learn, you can find me at **************@. I really hope to get in contact with you!

How To Tutorial

In this project, I learned how to make the Volkswagen logo, using a lot of different gradient tools and vector mapping. It took a really long time, but I think it turned out pretty good. It may not look exactly like the Volkswagen logo, but I think it's pretty close:

Photoshop Blog Post

In the first project, I figured out how to crop images, resize images, change the color of certain sections of an image, and make images transparent. I also learned how to change text, and make it have different spacing between the letters. I learned how to jump layers and change the arrangement of layers. Here, you can see the big, transparent ONW and Olathe Northwest compass centered in the image of the front of the school.

In this second project, I learned how to change different sections of an image and change their color. The butterfly was just orange and black at first, and I changed the colors to be all different. You can also see the wings look like they are flapping, which is made using a tool that basically copies and pastes the end of an image and I just changed the transparency each time to get lighter and lighter.