Utopian/Dystopian Future

So my Utopian Future is in the form of a comic, or more specifically, manga. For some odd reason or another, I almost instantly thought of the anime club and of my ex-boyfriend/really close guy friend at home, Alex. In both cases, whenever I am with either company, most of the time is spent on the Internet watching anime episodes, so for me, technology is something that unifies people. I mean, who doesn't like watching a movie or a television show with their friends? For my friends and I, that bonding time is spend on anime. That is why I chose a mange like style for my cartoon. However, I decided not to draw it on the computer because a lot of professional manga artists draw their stories by hand on paper and send it to editors and such, but the text is generally done on the computer. So in this particular project, the only part Photoshop plays here is text, which is important, since comics do tend to run with dialogue. It was difficult to do, since even though I read a lot of manga, it was the first time I actually tried to make panels and such. Anyways, the reason the final work is not printed is because here, while a lot of manga series can be purchased in prints, many fans tend to read them online, something similar to how people will check the news online rather than purchasing a newspaper. Plus, I think that fact that it remains in the computer adds to the technology factor. To me, no matter how it evolves, the role technology plays will never truly change. Uniting us. .....wow, that sounded so cheesy....

Photoshop Painting Exercise

Here's the Photoshop painting exercise I did. The line drawing (or sketch) is of a part of  Penn Station that I draw once during Intro for Illustration out of boredom (since I got all the sketches I needed). The time of day was definitely not different, I did not originally draw this at night. Anyways, I had a lot of fun with this. It's the first Photoshop painting I did in forever! It was fun trying to recall and remake certain details I missed when I first sketched this! .....I can't help but feel I may have gotten too carried away.....it's just been so long since I did something on Photoshop......

Nana Mizuki and T.M.Revolution's child

Here is my merged picture of Nana Mizuki and T.M.Revolution (dunno his real name). I picked these two, 'cause they recently did a duo called "Preserved Roses" (which is awesome, by the way, and can be found in iTunes, and there were false rumors of them being engaged). I found identical posters of both on Google (naturally, since they both worked on the song). I know there are a few marks on the image that suggest I did alter it, but I wanted to add a bit of Nana Mizuki's hair into this image and T.M.Revolution had his hair styled in a way which I had to make those marks to get my desired results. Anyway, here's what their child would look like.

Kim and Nancy look cooler (You really do!)

Here is the altered picture of Kim and Nancy in a anime convention (dunno which one). I wanted to something simple and you guys look like you're having fun there! Can I join? ;)

My favorite out of 20

Scanning Exercise

Here is my wacky Scanning exercise! The first one is the instant-scanned one, while the second one is the Photoshop-tweeked one. It's honestly been forever since I used Photoshop! So nostalgic....

So Long, Lonesome: Action Trailer

I suppose it would have been more efficient to take some more shots, since this video was originally…well…not geared towards action. However, I wanted to challenge myself and see if I could create something from just the original video. I did some research on the action genre. I knew what it was in general, but wondered if there were some more technical details I should’ve been aware of. Naturally, there were many different types of action sub-genres, but the one characteristic that all action genre film shares, whether it be a martial arts or spy film, is motion. For the most part, action films will have continuous movement, usually something intense like chases and fights, in its scenes. With that in mind, I made sure to not use too many clips where there is no movement or action, which wasn’t too hard, since most of the video had some kind of motion occurring. Furthermore, considering how the scenes where shot, I decided to try to take a more subtle approach; I tried to create an action thriller that is in its earliest stages. Basically, with this trailer, the movie is just being created, so the audience gets a few clips and a few notes letting them know that the film is on its way, but there isn’t enough footage to really give details into the plot. The mystery and uncertainty come from the little information given, as well as the fact that the actors’ faces aren’t shown, but the intense foreboding sensation lingers within the music. Basically, something’s going to happen but no one knows what. 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU2oGq9mo7s 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h0V0wx_kKE 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD5vr4lwmOw 

Trailer created by Sarah Pak

Original video created by MJ DiDonna, Anny Jialu Li, Cameron Hanley, and Bailey Watro

Music:

"Prelude Pusher (Choir)" by Paul Jebanasam