Jquery Photo Gallery

For this assignment I wanted to showcase some of the projects that I have been creating during my time at Pierce College. Using Jquery in combination with basic html coding, I was able to generate an incredible gallery with a very nice look to it. The technical aspects of the project were review of things that I had done in Web Design and CSS class. I really enjoy the process of creating artwork and the gallery is a great way to show off that art! I feel like this gallery will do its job and show my artwork off to the world.

See the gallery here:
http://www.ddsgn220.volume11.com/David/david.html

3D popup photo gallery.

For this 3D popup assignment, I really wanted to use a bunch of pictures that have my daughter in them. I used is as a platform to create something wonderful that shows the growth of my little girl. I really enjoy how the video turned out and plan on doing similar projects with different subject matters in the future. I took each photograph and placed it into three-dimensional space using Adobe After Effects. Once all of the pictures were positioned, I used a 3-d camera rig to animate through all of the pictures. The final project turned out almost as good as I hoped. There is always room for some improvement.Click the image to be redirected to the video. (Youtube link)

Font sheet part 2: Lower Case and special characters

Here is the other half of my font set, this sheet shows the lowercase and special characters. I created the whole font at one time but due to the assignment requirements, I had to make a font sheet for the lowercase characters separately from the capitol letters. Overall the process was the same as the capitol letters only the special characters took a little tweaking to make look decent. I am happy with the font as a whole and would like to make another one at some point in the future. I really liked learning how to make my own font as it can be useful to be able to create a custom font for a client if they request it or its necessary to the work I'm doing for them.

Capitol Letters Font Sheet

For this assignment, I was really trying to create a font set that I could use for a few projects that are on the shelf right now. I didnt want my font to be normal everyday characters but instead be an original looking font. The font I developed looks like a cross between electricity and the papyrus font. I like the end result quite a bit and cant wait to use it for a project. The process of creating this font set was to draw each glyph in Adobe Illustrator, combine all parts to form one solid letter and then copy the letter to the font sheet (seen above) and to paste each character into Font Creator 4. After each glyph is placed in FC4, I had to adjust each character to be very close to the same size and adjust the leading and kearning marks so that when being used, the font doesn't overlap letters.

With this project I was trying to use a picture of my dragon painting from a previous painting class. I really wanted to make the dragon have some level of activity and therefore gave him some flames and smoke. The water adds a nice touch to this video and the still image as well. In creating this project I had to take a picture of the dragon painting and use photoshop to remove all backgrounds. I took the painting and added multiple layers to create space for the water, fire and smoke. After those elements were painted onto their own layers in Photoshop, I saved and opened the .PSD document into Adobe Flash. I converted the Photoshop layers into Flash layers and then created an additional layer for each of the painted elements. I used masking in flash to create the animated look of each element. I also used a motion tween for the smokes movement instead of masking. I then exported the project from Flash and imported it into Premiere Pro to add the music and intro. Overall I am very happy about how this project turned out and I really enjoy the still image featured in my previous post.

Dragon art thumbnail. Taken from DDSGN220 video.

Hello, my name is David Lovell and I have a background in digital design and graphic design. My strengths include the use of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro. I also have training with Newtek Lightwave for 3D modeling, texturing and animation.  I am nearing the completion of my Digital Design degree from Pierce College with a 4.0 grade point average and have expanded my artistic prowess extensively while attending Peirce College.  I am highly motivated to involve myself in graphic design or video based projects and offer a unique artistic viewpoint to further push the boundaries of any projects that I contribute to. I strive to showcase my skills in the best way possible for all parties involved and give a unique feel and vision to artistic works whether personal or professional.

I just made this

I started my blog. Done and done.