Monday, August 18, 2025

Week 1 2025 Welcome

August 18 - 22, 2025

Welcome to Digital Graphics Art Intro. This semester you will be learning how to use Illustrator, Photoshop, Animate, html, Audio, Film editing and many other software programs. Digital Graphics takes patience and practice but can be very rewarding. Each week you will be given an assignment do the best you can do. All of your assignments will be placed in an electronic portfolio.

Starter
Every day on the board answer the starter question in the first 5 minutes of class.

1st Day
-Take a picture of yourself
-Write a bio about yourself.
-Write 2 goals for this class.

Assignments
-Disclosure
-Pretest

Illustrator is a Vector based tool used to create logos, clip art, t-shirt designs, and many other graphics. Learned how to use the Selection Tool, Moving objects, creating rectangles, ellipses, changing color of the fill and stroke, Duplicating, rotating. Went over the Zoom tool, Align, and Pathfinder.





Assignments:
-Disclosure
-Boxes & Shapes 




Assignment: (boxes.ai)


Description: Only using boxes and color create a graphic or image.



Assignment 2: (Shapes.ai)

-Draw an image using the shapes tool.

Description: Add a background and other details to your shapes image.





Week 1 2025 About Me

August 18 - 22, 2025
freeman_graphics_header.png

Objective: Create a Google Doc
Assignment: About Me
Details: Open a new document. take a picture of yourself. Write two sentences about yourself. List two goals you have for this class. List clubs, sports your are in.
Example

 


Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Week 37 2025: Video Copilot

May 19 - 23, 2025

Assignment: Create a Production Company Intro using Photoshop & After Effects. Choose a video tutorial on Video Copilot to learn something new and incorporate it in you into.
Link: Check out Video Copilot for some cool Tutorials in After Effects.  http://www.videocopilot.net/
 






Assignment: Script, Storyboard, Shot list
Link: Group Film Projects
All Filming will start after you get your Script, Storyboard, Shot list turned in.

Week 37b 2025 Green Screen

May 19 - 23, 2025

Objective: Remove Background
Assignment:
Green Screen (Extra Credit)
Details: Insert a clip and take out the Green Screen
2021 Down Clip 050621 period 7
2021 Down Clip 051021 period 4

Green screen & Mask: Tutorial.
 




Remove Green Screen


Best Green Screen

Firefox: Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express

http://www.clipconverter.cc/



Monday, May 12, 2025

Week 36 2025 Portfolio & State Test

May 12-16, 2025


Submit Portfolio (100pts)
https://goo.gl/forms/ler1PEhnRR6D9Qgn2

State Test Code (150pts)
Period 7: PLWTMN9WP
Period 87UEVN3A6A

 https://signin.youscience.com/

Practice Test:
Digital Media Practice Test

Assignment: Study for test.

2019 Digital Media 1B State Standards

STANDARD 8
2D Animation -- Students will produce and utilize 2D animation.

:-) (-:

Keyframe
Frame by Frame Animation:
Tween
FPS: Frames Per Second
24 FPS for Animation.

STANDARD 9
Digital Video: Students will plan, create, edit, and publish digital video.

Camera Angles

Helpful websites for study:
  3 Point Lighting Diagram
http://www.mediacollege.com/lighting/three-point/ Lighting
http://www.mediacollege.com/lighting/ambient/ Ambient Lighting

Point Light:
http://escience.anu.edu.au/lecture/cg/IlluminationJ3D/pointLights.en.html






Aspect Ratio: 
http://apex.infogridpacific.com/dcp/flo-aspect-ratio.html





Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Week 35 2025 Special Effects

May 5 -9, 2025

Objective: Create animation effects.
Assignment: Special Effects
Description: Download 5 images. Organize them into a folder. Open After Effects and apply effects to your images.
Recommended Sizes: 1980 x1080 72dpi

Download 5 Images: https://www.pexels.com/

Examples: 






Sunday, April 27, 2025

Week 34 2025 Production Intro

April 28 - May 2, 2025

Objective: Edit multiple layers of video
Assignment: Create a Production Company Intro using Photoshop & After Effects
Details: Layout a background, Name, and Graphic in Photoshop. Import Photoshop file into After Effects to animate for 5 to 10 seconds. Export to movie.
Link: https://freemangraphics.weebly.com/film--video.html



















Video Tutorials












Photoshop Assignments