Month: March 2024

Third Place Books, Ravenna

Dymtro and I decided on local bookstores; my personal pick was Third Place Books, located in the Ravenna neighborhood in North Seattle.

I used Adobe Illustrator for my portion of the project. I created a very vague style sheet for the two of us:

The color palette is created from an image from the bookstore website; I really loved how vibrant and warm it was. I thought it was perfect for the nice weather coming up this weekend.

I decided that I wanted to have my panels be books. I built the books in illustrator and sourced the images online. I image traced them, expanded them, and put the slightest outline in portions of the image with the same color green used on the cover of the books.

The video can be seen as a YouTube Short (better version, it has Clay Pigeons playing in the background):

https://youtube.com/shorts/LwnsVlMQRpE?feature=shared

Alternatively, this one.

Description:

A girl in a hooded cloak, looking around wearily as a wolf stares at her from behind a tree. The scenery is dark and eerie, like it’s in a dangerous forest.

1. a girl in a hooded cloak, a wolf staring at her from behind a tree

2. a girl in a hooded cloak looking around wearily, a wolf staring at her menacingly from behind a tree

3. a girl in a hooded cloak looking around wearily hiding behind a tree, a wolf staring at her menacingly from behind a tree, dark scenery

I decided to start with a simple prompt in order to gauge how close it can get to my vision. Adding a little more detail with each additional run seemed to be very effective!

The wolf did not turn out as scary as I wanted it to; I guess “menacing” was not a descriptive enough term. I thought about adding “snarling” and “drooling”, but I ran out of runs I can do. : (

I used Microsoft Bing. This is a great free AI image generating tool; I would say its biggest con is that the images are very obvious that it was AI generated. I do like that I can specify the artstyle of image that it generates, although I did not play with that for this assignment.

ConnectShoe: a networking shoe.

Product Description:

Stay connected on the move with our innovative ConnectShoe, designed to blend style with practicality. Crafted with premium materials for both comfort and durability, this shoe features a unique twist – a discreet slot to attach your business card.

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My process of how I made my anti-war poster for Brit’s color theory class.

not much to say about this. I am so tired from finals you guys why are you assigning us more stuff : ( please give us a break!! much love

I chose to review the AR Stack- I used to play the original Stack game a lot and so I took interest in this one. 🙂

Overall, I think this is a decent AR app. The biggest perk is that you can play the original game within the AR app- you can freely toggle back and forth between its AR and non AR form. It took me a few tries to figure out how exactly to do this (which is a flaw), but the fact that it exists is great.

There are a couple of flaws:

• It takes one too many screens (in my opinion) to get back to the button that allows you to turn on/off AR after completing a round.
• there’s an unclear icon that displays a message about restoring a purchase… I never made a purchase. What does this mean??

I decided to create a hot air balloon scene and use it as an invite to a hot air balloon tour. I got this idea as I was browsing through the assets in the software; I was originally wanting to do a camping invite scene but there wasn’t a camper van asset. So, I went with the balloon instead.

I created an asset in Figma:

And imported into Adobe Aero.

My scene was intended to go like this:

1. the clouds and trees appear.
2. upon tap, the invitation note card appears.
3. with proximity, the balloon appears.

I could not figure out step 3 for the life of me. I adjusted distance and tweaked everything I could think of in past commands, but the balloon simply would not appear… I’m truly at loss. I’m sure it has to do with my lack of experience in the program, but it’s frustrating nonetheless.

This project was hard for me to enjoy solely because the AR aspect was refusing to cooperate with me on my phone. I cannot count how many times I had to reset where the assets are set up in the camera.

AR is very cool, though. 🙂