The final steps of my project consisted mostly of me searching through the sound clips Garage Band carries in its library. That took me several days. After deciding exactly on the effects I wanted, I decided I wanted some of the sound effects to fade in and out, so I youtubed some how-to-videos, and I surely found an answer. Overall I am pleased with this project, not bad for my first time messing with audio I think. It was a fun project!
March 2, 2012
Audio Project: Draft 2
For my second draft I got my buddy Gary to record my paragraph at the wisperbooth, and I recorded his in exchange. It took about 4 recordings to finally get one that i liked. I liked the way it sounded, even though i had anticipated to have Kate record since the person speaking in the paragraph is a female. I then took a day to think about what kind of sound i wanted to add to the background.
After several hours of searching I finally found a song to go along with my audio reading. I took some time to learn how to use the garage band software installed on my laptop. While doing so I learned that the program came with many audio clips itself, good ones too! All that time searching through the web seemed like a waste, because there I found nothing that I liked.
So far what I have is a actually mellow toned music with a short cricket sound clip at the beginning and a dropping sound somewhere in the middle. I had only anticipated to use the dropping sound, the cricket and the music just worked out.
I am excited too see have the end result being that it is my first time ever working with audio. 🙂
February 16, 2012
Final Firefox
February 14, 2012
Today I am about half ways through the recreation of the entire Firefox logo. I’ve got the entire fox’s head and body done, and am in the middle of its fire-looking-tail.
Unfortunately for me, the first and last time I worked on this logo I saved it as a png file and forgot to save it as the original illustrator file, so when i opened it this time it didn’t open in illustrator but in preview mode instead. Once I tried opening that png file in illustrator my layers and traced paths were gone. 😦 I had to move forward with what I had so I just kept tracing the remaining objects.
February 7, 2012
Intro Visual Project: 2
After hanging out in class and discussing amongst my class mates, I learned that my frustration and assumption about the projects difficulty was really a breeze. Brian, my group buddy, taught me how easy it was to use the Pen tool, and told me to constantly be adding new layers, something I knew nothing about. I still don’t fully understand the purpose for using layers, but very briefly see why I have to use it.
Process:
– First, I opened the original Firefox logo on illustrator and created a layer over it. My first layer consisted of tracings of the left ear and its surroundings, all done with the Pen Tool. My second layer consist of the right ear and its surroundings.
-Next, I created a new layer for the hair seen on the fox’s back, and traced as many hairs as possibly with the Pen Tool. After each full tracing I used the eyedropper tool to get the closest matching color of whatever object I was tracing and filled in the Pen Tools tracing with color.
– I kept using this same strategy for the rest of the fox; the mouth, the lower back, the tail, etc.
I am not done yet, but this is turning out to be much easier and funner than I thought the last time I worked on this project.
This is what I got so far…
February 2, 2012
Intro Visual Project
After hours of searching for an Illustrator tutorials on the Firefox logo, I found nearly nothing. That surprises me for the reason that nowadays their seems to be a tutorial for EVERYTHING online.
I eventually ran into this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC1Fzn0kSt, but it unfortunately didn’t help much being that I am new to Illustrator and all its tools.
I ended up just free handing it.
- I first used the Ellipse tool to create a large dark blue circle. I tried messing around with the gradient tool to see if I could give it different shades of the blue color, but failed at doing so.
- Next I used the Pencil to sketch out what is suppose to be a continent. I then selected all the layers of the entire image, and used the Live Paint Bucket tool to fill in the continent with a lighter color blue.
- Finally I tried using the Pen tool to sketch out the fox, this was much more harder than I thought. Made me feel like I have to take a whole class on the Pen tool itself.
I feel very disappointed with my unsuccessful ending result, some practice in class would of been nice.
 
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