1.) Why did you pick the product you did? > I chose to use the current emblem design for my parents' motorcycle parts company. While the initial design is the only current image, I plan on making additions to the emblem. 2.) How did you design your piece? Tell me your process. > The design of the emblem was actually done by a family friend. However, I believe it would be safe to say that when designing the emblem, our friend utilized Vectors. The idea behind the emblem was to have an emblem that was simple and versatile in nature. In due time, I will make additions to the company logo and possibly run it through Pixlr again, as I have done above. 3.) What is most successful about your design? The most successful part about the design was its simplicity and versatility. As a growing company, my parents have already started printing the labels and using them on the packaging of our products. 4.) If you could change anything about the piece, what would you do and why? If there was one thing I could change about the project, it would most definitely be to expand my knowledge of how the emblem was constructed so that I may be able to add a few of my own personal touches and possibly create a whole new emblem all together with this incorporated into it. 1.) Who lives in the house you created? Is there a particular reason you picked the parts you did? > Instead of a house, I did a restaurant. With this in mind, the people that would come and go would be customers of the restaurant in a burger. When researching parts to use in this project, I kept the shape of the burger in mind. There weren't many rounded architectural elements that were appropriate to the project, so I did the next best thing and decided to use a corner restaurant. The bacon road was kind of an impulse that wouldn't leave me alone. The parking meters found their way into the picture due to it being a restaurant! It's the city, so their has to be parking meters somewhere right? As far as the chicken nugget stars go, I thought it would be a nice touch and create an illusion of a rather small distance between the ground and the sky. The cutting board in the background provided a very nice addition as well, and I thought that it added to the aesthetic. 2.) What alterations did you have to make to make it look realistic? > In order to make the piece look somewhat realistic, I had to use an excessive amount of layer masks, blurs, smudges, sharpens, and layer groups. It was quite an interesting experience, might I add. The smudges and blurs allowed the different sections to better connect and flow. Some of the effects were a complete accident and surprisingly, they turned a lot better than I would have thought! It's like the well-known comical reference of, "Hit all the buttons!" I guess that in-theory, that approach worked! 3.) If you could change anything about the piece, what would you do? > As with any PhotoShop art piece that I have done, I wish that I could have gotten the project off the ground quicker. Choosing pictures to work with and the amount of layering it takes as well, is very challenging. However, this project was really fun... Even if it made me extremely hungry!!! 1.) What problems did you overcome during this project and how? >The main issue that I had with the project involved finding pictures of animals to use. Every time I pulled up Photoshop to start the project, my mind would just shut down. To counter this, I watched the tutorials as much as I could and I did my best to keep an open mind. 2.) If you could change anything about the piece what would you do? > The one thing I would definitely change would be the amount of time it took me to get this project off the ground. Other than that, the only concern I have with the project is the quality of the end product. However, I do realize that with practice, I will be able to accomplish such an assignment in a more orderly fashion in the future. 3.) Explain your animal? What is their name/species? How did you come up with this idea? > The animal I made was fish with a lizard head. The name of the species ジョーカーの魚 Jōkā no sakana or in English: The Joker Fish. The idea for this particular project came as a last minute crunch. I found a bunch of pictures for sharks being hybridized with other animals, but I didn't see many combinations involving just your standard everyday fish. With no other stable ideas, I decided to take a lizard head and plop it onto a Large-Mouth Bass body. It took a while to get a feel for the fusion of the two animals, but I eventually got it. In the end, it turned out pretty well, and it surprisingly took a very interesting combination of realistic and cartoonish art. The name of the fish comes from a story that I'm in the middle of trying to write. It can be found in one of the many pocket dimensions that the characters stumble across. As a result of the fish not being in no known documents, the characters name it after their team, Joker Company. The fish's head also has a very strong resemblance to a dragon, and is also recognized as a Dragon Fish or ドラゴンの魚 Doragon no sakana. 1.) What problems did you overcome during this project and how? > When working on this project, I had many issues due to the weather. As a result, I struggled in finding a location in which my partner and I could take pictures. After a while of looking around, we found a spot that had a lot of shade. From there, we took pictures with my partner's phone and used a tripod we borrowed to provide a steady platform. 2.) If you could change anything about the piece what would you do? > There isn't much I would change about the project. I found that a very important aspect of the project was maintaining the stillness of the camera. There were a few times where some of the pictures did not completely match up. As a result, some of the "clones" did not seem to fit. One of the things I noticed, and almost right away at that, was that the quality of each photograph was spotty. When viewed on my phone or even in Photoshop, the photographs seemed slightly blurry. That is definitely something I will fix in future projects. |
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