Culminating

This is my website that is used as a portfolio for my works done throughout the years at cyber arts.

http://mehrabdaemiwebsite.my-free.website

Movie Trailer Mash-up

Alright for this assignment we are supposed to choose a movie trailer and drastically change the mood and theme of the movie. I chose to change lethal weapon 4 into a gay romance between the two main characters Martin and Roger. In the beginning of the trailer I chose to show their strong manly side then I would change the mood slowly into a romance between the two. I chose the clips from the movie and trailer of the two looking at the two and chose the music accordingly, using love music for those scenes.

U.S. Band-with Infographic

Hey guys its been a while since i posted here so this is a small Infographic i made about internet band-with usage in the United States. The pie chart in the middle is representing different companies/networks and their band-with usage in the United States in 2014. The top of the graph is showing the amount, out of ten of internet users that are men/women and their age groups. the centre of the graph is in the United States which is where the data was taken from.

Basquiat

So I chose to focus on tension. I chose to take tension as racial tension because the events in ferguson missouri how Michael Brown was shot 6 times while unarmed and on the ground so he was shot excecution style. I wanted to show how police officers are just killing black people like they dont mean anything because there has been alot of news lately about police officers just killing innocent or unarmed black people and it seems like its fun to them. how some are being treated like they are worthless or simply being shot when they pose no harm to the officer. so what i did was get my friends to pose like one is about to shoot another and i tried to photoshop them onto a calm sidewalk to show how its all calm then the police come and ruin the calm by starting riots with their actions.I think that I didnt do very well when editing them it doesnt look very realistic which I wanted but I think it shows my message pretty well.

Daily create #6

hey so for this daily create we had to take a creative photo without using the view finder. i took a photo of a paintbrush leading to a funny t-shirt with Kim Kardashian on it. 

Daily create #5

So for this daily create we had to take a photo of a fabric with an interesting design on it and I chose my mattress design. It's a very well designed fabric.

Daily create 2

So for this weeks blog post we needed to take a photo of something that angers us, this is my friend that I play video games with so i took a picture of his icon in game.

Daily create 1

Ok so for this daily create we had to take a picture of something with a unique texture and make people guess what it was so here you go guess away.

logo analysis

So today in class we were on the hunt for interesting logos and the original PlayStation logo really caught my eye. When making a logo there are five simple rules to follow to keep it simple, memorable, timeless, versatile and appropriate. in this logo it is very simple no crazy images morphed into the PS just a letter P and S that stand for PlayStation. Next is how it is memorable, I think it is memorable because its only two letters and the simplicity adds to the memorability of it. Throughout the time of PlayStation being a company it hasn't really changed its main logo the PS only the color has changes from the original four color logo to the white logo that it is today. Also this logo is very versatile because it was made in vector format which makes it re sizable which helps with marketing. And finally the logo is very appropriate because it is creative how they made the letters P and S create something entirely different which is very interesting. In this logo the use of color is very strong in how they made the logo visually appealing. So in this logo there was a great use of color because it is really visually appealing by the four colors and not one plain color. also how there is a great play with shape how they used the two letters P and S to create something looking completely different from what they originally were.



next is the code fish logo which really caught my eye because it was really creative its pretty obvious that they created a fish out of things they use in code which is really cool and creative. What makes this logo really cool is the simplicity because its just a fish nothing special a fish made from code. Next is how simply memorable it is, because again the simplicity is adding to memorability and makes it a better logo overall. Also this is a great logo because it will always show that they are a coding company with this witty logo. This logo was also very versatile because of the use of vector format to help with resizing. and finally this is a great logo because of the appropriateness of the fish made by coding tools. Also this is a great logo because of the use of color, the background isant too flashy its a calm color greeting people to the logo.

video portrait culminating write-up.

For my video self portrait I chose to show the video games side of me. I used a Nikon D3100 to record he clips of me, a ps4 to record the screen when I was playing video games, imovie to cut and edit, cut and choose clips that I wanted in the video and finally I used garage band to cut the music clip. I am an avid fan of video games I like all types of games so i wanted to show the viewers of my video just that. So I chose to mainly do the video with a camera and the on-board video capture card on the ps4 to show my love for video games. Mainly I used still shots not moving shots to clearly express what I wanted to express, also the clips of me playing the games I think I used wide shots so you could fully see the TV screen and me playing the games. I didn't use any words in the video because I did not want any distractions from the main video. Next is that I used a dubstep song because I am personally a huge fan of dubstep and I wanted to show that in my video, I tried my best to time the bass drop with the time that I shot and kill the enemy in the Call of Duty clip which i think i did pretty well and that particular clip was really good. Next is that at the end of the video I finish with a clip of me on Photoshop editing a picture of a Bugatti Veyron which is my favorite car and a clip of me Photoshopping the picture let me best show my love for the car and of tech class. so in the end I showed my love for dubstep by using a dubstep song, showed my love for video games by mainly basing my self portrait off of me playing different games and finally showing my love for the Bugatti by showing me editing a photo of one.

Hey so these are some edited photos that I took a few weekends ago around my friends house and my neighborhood it took a bit of time to edit them so i hope you enjoy them.

post OCAD trip

so these are some photos that i took during the OCAD trip and they were from industrial design and drawing and painting. All of these areas were just fascinating and spectacular when i went to see them because of the amazing art and designs that i found from the amazing artists that created them. First off at the industrial design area i found amazing designs, I personally found this specific area really intriguing because in my future i want to pursue engineering so this helped me with an understanding of what to do and what to expect so it was cool to see what i might be doing in my future. Lastly i went so drawing and painting, this area was also just spectacular because of the sheer imagination in the paintings (as seen to the right) these paintings just blew my mind. what specifically blew my mind was the sheer detail and thought that was put into the paintings and as you can see they were just amazing paintings.



So lastly these programs look like awesome places to study but i want to pursue engineering in my future so i would like to study that rather than art or industrial design, but if i werent going towards engineering i would love to study these fields.

OCADU field trip

so on friday my class and I will be going to OCAD and we were told to find specific exhibits that we wanted to explore, so i chose Illustration ,Environmental Design and Industrial Design. I chose these exhibits because in the future i plan on going into the field of engineering and i believe that these exhibits will help expand my views on engineering and design.

kenitic tyopgraphy assignment

BTW i am sorry about the terrible video quality I don't know why it did that.

So this is a kinetic typography video called Demons. The song is provided by imagine dragons called Demons. This video was made using adobe flash CS6. So mainly my work consists of the lyrics of the song appearing and disappearing by changing alpha settings throughout the work.

So in my opinion I think I did a good job on this assignment, personally I liked how the words and letters faded in and out throughout the video also I loved how the words and music were so perfectly timed which make the video a little better. Now what i didn't like so much was the lack of other kinds of animations (e.g how letters would enter the scene). also i think i could have added more fonts to make the video much better.

Next off I used the font Bell Gothic STD. I didn't go through the whole array of fonts that were provided which I think hurt my mark a bit because I only used one font throughout the whole video. I think could have used other fonts with the video which would have made my video much more interesting and appealing to the eye.i thought that this font fit the song and and motion of the song.

So some challenges that I came across was that sometimes different parts of the piece didn't work e.g. some words didn't fade in which set me back because I had to go back and figure out how to fix it so that was a bother.

Next what really helped with the success of my video was that I always went back throughout the video to find little mistakes and screw-ups and things that i can add to the video, so that really helped me out with the final product.

so this is the video that i chose to talk about with this assignment it is a kinetic typography video of Abbot and Costello's sketch of "who's on first"

1. at 0:07 there is exaggeration on yes when the video maker enlarged and extended the amount of s's 

2. at 0:03 to 0:06 there is arcs because the camera moves on a curved path with the words that are being shown on the screen.

3. in the beginning there is appeal because it doesn't start with normal boring typography it is not normal typing it appeals to the watcher with the abnormal typography.

4.at 0:32-0:34 there is staging with the continuous saying of who because the person who made this video made "who" larger with every time that abbot or Costello says that because they are becoming increasingly aggravated with one of them constantly asking who is on first.

5. there is secondary action at 0:02 when Costello says look abbot the animator puts eyes in the middle of the O's of look to emphasize that abbot should listen to what he has to say.

6. at 0:51-1:04 there is overlapping action because the animator is overlapping what both abbot and Costello are saying back to each other.

my finished vector drawing of an apple.

the original picture of the apple.

When I was choosing the file format for my drawing we were given a article to read that gives us some information that we should consider before choosing a file format. This is a link to the article. I chose the .GIF as a file because I learned that the GIF handles colors better, the article tells me that the GIF file format creates a table of 256 colors from a pool of 16 million colors and that if the picture has less than 256 colors then the photo will be rendered exactly which really helps a lot.

Next was the procedure what I did was that I put the photo on the lower layer and worked around the photo. I made a new layer for every new thing that I added for example a new layer for the stem, leaf, etc. when I was making the drawing I used the gradient tool to put some shade onto the apple to give it a more realistic look.

While creating this vector drawing i encountered some challenges. One challenge i encountered was that the leaf curved at the end of it so it was a struggle so make it look real. what i did to fix this problem was that i separated the front of the leaf from the back to make it look like it curves at the end. another problem was that the apple looked to flat when i covered the body of the apple. What i did to fix this was that i used the gradient tool on it to add a shade that gave the apple a curved look which helped alot with the final outcome.

in the end i feel happy with the final outcome of the apple because i feel like i put alot of work into this assignment and i created a work that i am proud of. This is because the apple looks very realistic and has a very good shape to it and i believe i payed alot of attention to detail so my apple looks very realistic and looks like the real photo. And that is why i am happy with my final outcome.

Pixel Portrait

this is my pixel portrait at a .GIF file format.

this is my pixel portrait at a .PNG file format.

When i look at both photos at the same time when they are next to each other when i zoom in on each file i notice that the png is a slight bit darker when i look at the cheeks on the face. When i really start to close up on the face i notice that both format's have a very close line quality, for me it is hard to differentiate between the two because of the very close quality's. in my opinion i think that both have about the same quality because both have high quality and for me it is hard to determine the difference.

When doing this project i was trying to accentuate my eyes because my eyes were ,i thought, going to be the most vesible part of this pixel portrait so i wanted to make them "pop".


The way that i made this portrait was that i put the photo into one layer then i lowered its opacity so i can work well then i added another layer over the original picture layer then i worked over it. i found this helpful because i could see my face's features so it helped with my faces's composition.

Today I will be talking about a painting of a artist that I recently did a presentation on. his name is Christopher Pratt ,the painting is called "the bridge" 

The first element that I see is geometric shape because geometric shape is mainly made from an constructed environment (e.g oval,square triangle) and that is what I am see in g in this painting. also I see lots of negative space because in the sky there is nothing but color and no stars or moon but maybe that was intentional but I don't know if it was. A principal of design that I see is emphasis because the bridge is in the middle and it is standing out from the rest of the surrounding of the photo.What I like about this photo is how detailed the water is because the water is reflecting the image of the bridge.

369 assignment

Today I will be talking about this video that I made and the link is below. So first one weakness that I found is that my friends foot is shaking which isn't the best also that my friends foot stepped on the ear of one of the figures. what I think is a good part of the video is how the figures faces looked scared and the feeling that we wanted the video to be about was the feeling of fear. The music really affected the emotional experience because the figures faces look like their scared and the music was really suspenseful so there is alot of anticipation in the end like are they going to be squished or not.












here's the video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86pOaugQaN8)

stop motion

I will be talking about this stop motion video that I found on youtube and it is an effective film because they made it look really real when you watch it and in the end of the video they shoe a behind the scenes clip of them making the video and it was like a full movie set that was going into it. Also lighting affects the photo because the lighting was in the middle so you can easily see each individual post-it note which is really cool. Also the camera angle was in a really good spot because at the angle the camera was pointed at you can see all of the landscape when it looked like he was driving. also if you look closely look at the computer screen you can see that he is watching himself.