For our final project, we decided to tackle a really socially-poignant, responsible topic tackling the issues of our time, which is how we arrived at birds of the pacific northwest. We wanted to do something highlighting the beauty of the state and focus on the wildlife.
We each picked a different bird and then went our separate ways to work on our projects. I picked an Osprey, I love their cry and the look of them. I think as far as raptors go they always just looked really unique and the research I did on the birds actually backed that up. Fun fact, they’re so specialized at hunting fish they have their own genus and family comprised solely of them. I know, that’s pretty sick.
I began with just thinking about how I was going to present my topic. Similar to the whale tutorial and the concert venue example shown in class, I went for a 7th grade science project presentation vibe. I began gathering cool images, gifs and information. Once I had the research, I styled it in Illustrator at the recommended panel sizes and exported all those out as PNGs. I grabbed some audio of them online to have loop in the background. Honestly the hardest thing was compressing this gif of an Osprey diving into the water. I had to have fumbled with that for an hour before messaging you and it was solved instantly.
Ultimately it took me probably around 2 hours, 3 panels, 2 pictures, a gif and an audio track. This was a great project to do, and you were right after using Aero this was a lot easier and even though Aero really made sense to me by the end of it, EyeJack Panels was even easier in comparison and it’s a really cool program. I used it for one of the other blog posts a few weeks ago because I liked it so much and I’ll probably keep using it. Thanks for a great first module Stephanie. Attached are some pictures of my assets.
