Digital Media Narrative Visual Perspective

Photoshop Art Section

I used this unit to to help me practice with painting with Photoshop, I’m already fairly used to painting with photoshop. I valued being able to play with lighting and that I was able to have fun with this assignment. I painted a digital pastel painting, a watercolor painting, a movie study. For the other works I did in photoshop I made a collage like Surreal Composition and a 360 VR Gallery piece. I’m also including screenshots of my photoshop interface to show my layers.

Quick Photo Study
Watercolor Sketch Experiment

 For this assignment I chose to practice my painting skills and painted a scene from a movie I recently watched, “Jennifer’s Body”. I was looking to try painting new and interesting lighting while also studying the composition.

Film Study of “Jennifer’s Body”. Focused on studying lighting and colors.

Surreal Composition

I made my Surreal Composition about the Hong Kong protests that were happening, I masked out many images from the protests and tinted them red to make contrast.

Photoshop interface showing the layers in my Surreal Composition

360 Art Work

My 360 Artwork is of a cloudy sky, I made it in photoshop with the 360 spherical image drawing feature.

Multi Layer Art Project/Light Box Production

The Multi-Layered Art Project is a project where I made a light-box and a 3D production with layered art. I started with a sketch of the drawing that I wanted to make. My piece is a depiction of a girl in the wind on a hill, it has been an idea in my head for a while and I’ve been wanting to make it into a real piece of art. I think it reminds me of hiking, which I do a lot less of due to quarantine. I then traced the sketch with the pen tool in illustrator, and then edited a version with color in it for my 3D Digital Production. My initial trace line art from the sketch was laser cut on paper so I could construct a light box with it. All my steps for this process are shown consecutively below.

The initial sketch with my idea for this project.
The line art that was traced off the sketch.
The colored version that was made for the 3D Digital Production
The After Effects interface and my 3D Digital Art Production with my animations, I’m showing the different layers I had and the camera key-framing.

3D Digital Art Production

This is my 3D Digital Art Production, I not only showed the different layers with After Effects 3D, I also animated it so it moved as I showed camera movement and lighting.

Multi-Layered Art Lightbox Timelapse Production

This is my timelapse video that shows the process of me putting together the physical lightbox for my project. in the beginning you can see my dad trying to fix this connector that I broke on accident while trying to connect my wires. My lightbox still functioned without the second LED light.

Lightbox – Multi Layered Photos

These are my pictures of my finished and assembled LED lightbox.

Front of Lightbox with purple LED lights.
Front of Lightbox with blue LED lights.
Back of lightbox to show the electronics.