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Digital Media I

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  • abobe.com
  • Codecademy.com

Digital Media
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Practice for the State Test Please

State Practice Test

publicity_photos.zip
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more.zip
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Adobe Edge Game

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To get to know Adobe Edge, go through this tutorial to make a simple space invaders game (thanks Caleb for finding it)

http://bmanderscheid.com/tutorials/2013/4/14/space-invaders-rpg-building-a-game-in-adobe-edge-animate

Walking man Animation

Draw a walking man one frame at a time using keyframes in flash,
click here to learn to Walk
or watch this video to learn to walk

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Personal Logo Assignment

Logo - a unique identifying symbol, also called a brandmark, mark, identifier, logotype, or trademark.

Assignment: Create a logotype, a lettermark, a symbol mark, and a combination mark for a fictitious company named after you. (you must use your name and initials in the logos)
 
Logotype: the name of the company spelled out in unique typography or lettering

Lettermark: the logo is created using the initials of the brand name

Symbol mark: an abstract or nonrepresentational visual or a pictorial visual

Combination mark: a combination of words and symbols

Put your finished logos in your portfolio, and describe your company; what it does, who does it cater to, and what does your logo communicate about the company?


Read this file for more information about what makes a good logo.
logo_design.pdf
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Typography Tutorial

After you learn a little bit about typography and the different kinds of typography and the terms for each element, try to complete 2 of the following tutorials to add a little fun to a type face

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/vector-text-tutorials/
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Valentine Graphic Design using Typography

Practice choosing and using typography
Using the terms from Valentines candy hearts make a collage of text using lots of different fonts for the terms. Challenge to fit them all into a heart shape. Examples:
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Typography and Illustrator

Read these articles to begin your study of Typography:
  1. A Crash Course in Typography: The Basics of Type
  2. A Crash Course in Typography: Paragraphs and Special Characters
  3. A Crash Course in Typography: Principles for Combining Typefaces
  4. A Crash Course in Typography: Pulling It All Together
  5. Understanding The Difference Between Type And Lettering

Turn in all your  little monsters 1 at a time

Please make an individual jpg image of each of your monsters.
RULE: the height of each image must be 500px
Click Here to upload your images
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Create a Family of Monsters

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Your next challenge is to create a family of Monsters. Use Illustrator and the pen tool to create 5 or more crazy monsters. Make sure the monsters are original works to you. Here are some tutorials that might be useful to give you some good ideas and techniques to follow when making your own characters:
  • Basic Cartoon Eyes
  • Easy monster
  • another easy monster
  • Cute monster tutorial
  • purple furry monster
  • Bunny monster
  • gradient alien
  • furry monster
  • Shiny cartoon eyes
basic_shading_and_lighting.zip
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Recreate the Pine View Logo:

  • Once you finish with the Bart tutorial make sure to put Bart on your portfolio
  • After you finish Bart, use the pen tool to trace the Pine View High School logo (below). You should start with the panther head, then the Words.
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Drawing Cartoons using illustrator

Complete the three tasks
  1. Draw Bart Simpson (tutorial)
  2. Draw Homer (image)
  3. Make up your own creature

Illustrator and Vecotor Graphics
THE PEN TOOL!

Complete 3 of the tutorials that you find on these sites:
The Pen Tool by Ian Yates (download the exercise on #9)
5 Essential Pen Tool tutorials if you want to be good at illustrator
The Most Comprehensive Pen Tool Tutorial Ever Made!

Complete the Basic Blender Tutorials on cgcookie.com

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Interface and navigation: http://cgcookie.com/blender/lessons/interface-and-navigation/
Modeling: http://cgcookie.com/blender/lessons/3-modeling/


Instructions For Tutorial
1. Open Blender
2. Watch the Tutorial
3. Pause the tutorial often to try the things the tutorial is describing
4. Save the files that you create in blender.



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