Monday, September 16, 2013

Week 5a 2013

 September 16-20, 2013

You have just been hired to design a video game. Come up with a name, logo, then create your character.

-Game Name 25pts.
-Game Logo 25pts.
-Game 1st character 50pts.



Name of and title or logo.


First Level


Live Paint Bucket & Selection Tools





Layers & Grouping

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Week 4b 2013

September 9-13, 2013

Assignments: Business Card, Web Header, Video Title, & Magazine Ad.
Description: Use your logo place in each of the design layouts.

Download Media Template





Week 4a 2013

September 9-13, 2013



Assignments: Download 5 Fonts
Description: Download 5 different fonts and Instal.

1. Find 5 fonts.
- DaFont: http://www.dafont.com/
- ReFont: http://www.refont.com/

2. Download Font
3. Unzip Font (.zip)
4. Install font. (.ttf or .otf)

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Week 3b 2013

Sept 3-6, 2013

Assignment: Logos (50pts)
Details: Create your own business and design five different variations of your logo.

Your logo must be a vector art graphics, no images on your logo. You can trace with the pen tool or download fonts to get clip art if you want.



-5 logos 100pts

Illustrator Gradient Tool





Illustrator Type Tool
 





Week 3a 2013

Sept 3-6, 2013

Assignment: Pen Test
Details: Download the Pen Tool test and practice manipulating curves.

Download: Pen Test
















Assignment: Trace a professional Logo
Details: download a few logos, open them up in Illustrator and use the pen tool to trace and redraw a couple of logos.

Friday, August 23, 2013

Week 2 2013


August 26-30, 2013

Assignment (nameplate.ai)
-Name Plate

Description
-using the pen tool create a Name Plate




Assignment (house.ai)
-House (Floor Plans)

Description: Draw one floor in your house. use layer for walls, doors, windows, furniture and text.





Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Week 1 2013

August 19-23, 2013

Welcome to Digital Media. This semester you will be learning how to use Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash, html, Film editing and many other software programs. Digital Media 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 quest 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 50pts
-Pretest 50pts

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 50 pts.
-Basics 25 pts.





Assignment: (boxes.ai)


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

Assignment: (summer.ai)

-Draw what you did this Summer

Description: pick one thing you did this summer and draw a picture of it using shapes and colors.

Photoshop Assignments