My Final Product: Seroius Avatar

My Final Product: Happy Avatar

How I created my Avatars Personality

My two avatars personalities were Serious and Happy. The tools that I used to exagurate this emotion was to:
- Make the firm mouth alot bigger
- I changed the eyes to real Navi eyes aswell as then changing the colour to a very deep orange
- I added star shapped freckles to make it look like they were tribal markings and normal freckles.
- I changed the colour of the hair to a very exotic green to make my avatar look less human like
- I also changed the colour of its skin to an unnatural purple which made it look great.

Final Analysis

Image: http://images.google.com.au/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi

Through out this term we have been working with photoshop to create avatars. I found this unit very fun. I loved working with photoshop even though my name was constantly on the help list :). I think that I did quite well with the basics, such as masking, colouring, layering and inserting external pictures. As I said earlier though I was always on the help list because I would make really silly mistakes and I would need alot of help with things that I had not done very much before. Some times I would just ask if I was on the right track and just get Mr Powell to check if it looked okay.

When it came to layering I think I did resonably well. I had different layers for all the different features and I learned how to put the different layers in the correct spot on the list so they would all show in the right order.

Over all I really liked this assignment. I really liked that there weren't to many restrictions as to what we could do. It was great having the freedom like that to use our imaginations and experiment with what we liked. I would get really frustrated when I accidently deleted a layer or did some thing really silly like forgetting to save when logged off and then had to do all my lessons work again.

This assignment was really good for me because I am a very visual learner. This assignment allowed me to experiment with all different things and then if I didnt like it I could just delete it and try something different. And as much as I hated it at the time I personally think that the emu and the frog really helped me because it really got all of the basic techniques into my head and it was alot easier for me to learn it by using all the techniques rather than just listening and watching.

When I am working I like to sit with a group because I am able to work indepenantly but when I get stuck often my friends who are sitting with me can usually help. When we are learning something I like it to be demonstrated on the smart board and talked about but I like to be able to do it by myself at the same time so I can do it step by step. I aslo hate learning everything in like one lesson ehich is why I really liked the way we did this unit because we learnt all of the techniques we needed over a series of lessons which made it easier to cope with.

I think that over the time period I spread my work load out resonably evenly and generally kept my blog up to date over tiem. I had a but of a problem with the saving of this project because I lost my USB about half way through the term which was not a problem at the start becasue I had every thing saved onto my school drive so I could work on it from there but near the end when I needed to have it on a USB so I could have it with me to upload on to my blog.

I am very pleased with my final result because I never thought in a million years that I would be able to do anything like I have over this past term.

If I had this time over I would probably do a lot more work at the start and really complete alot more at the start of the term so I could do my blog even better.

Stuck

I have reached a point were i have done the same things to each avatar and they look great but theres something missing and i cant figure out what it is!!!! im afraid that if i do anything more it will ruin the whole thing but if i dont add anything more it will be too bare!!!!!!


AHHhhhhh

Happy Avatar

My Progress: I have now changed the colour of thhe skin, added freckles and srtarted working on the lips...

1st Happy Avatar Lesson

Today was the first lesson that i worked on my happy avatar. Today I cahnged the skin colour to try and match it to my serious avatar:

Original Photos

I was supposed to upload these earlier but i forgot so here they are. These are my original photos for my avatars. My two emotions are serious and happy.











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Work in Progress: Serious Avatar

Work in Progess: Serious Avatar

Since my last post I have added freckles, changed the colour of the eyes and changed the size of the lips.

I am very happy with my wok so far.

1st Lesson Working on my Serious Avatar

Today I firstly coloured in all of her skin to make it a really cool dark purple colour. I really like this especially with the light in the photo. I also found these really cool avatar eyes that i wanted on my avatar... heres what ive got so far and the avatar eyes.









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