Thursday, September 14, 2023

Week 5 2023 My Logo

September 18 - 22, 2023

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

Save As: 07_MyLogo_XX.ai

Export As: 07_MyLogo_XX.png
 
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.



Download: Download 5 Fonts
Description: Download 5 different fonts and Install.

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

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






-5 logos 100pts

Illustrator Gradient Tool





Illustrator Type Tool
 





Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Week 4 2023 Pen Test

September 11-15, 2023

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

Download: Pen Test













Assignment: Trace a professional Logo (25pts)
Details: download a few logos, open them up in Illustrator and use the pen tool to trace and redraw a couple of logos.




Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Week 3 2023 Floor Plan

September 5-8, 2023


Objective: Using Layers
Assignment (Floorplan.ai)
-House (Floor Plans)

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








Thursday, August 24, 2023

Week 1b 2023 Nameplate

August 21 -  25, 2023

Objective: Learn how to create and move shapes
Assignment: Nameplate.ai
Description: Using the pen tool create a Name Plate.
Save As:  00_Nameplate_XX.ai
Export As:  00_Nameplate_XX.png


Video Tutorial: 









Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Week 1 2023 Welcome

August 21 - 25, 2023

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.





Monday, May 15, 2023

Week 37 2023 Portfolio & State Test

May 15-19, 2023


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

State Test Code (150pts)
Period 1: N7YAZNEB
Period 3: SBE4VADE
Period 6S8MUPKEU

 https://www.precisionexams.com/usoe/welcome/

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





Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Week 35 2023 Special Effects

May 1 -5, 2023

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: 






Photoshop Assignments