family guy

family guy is an american cel shaded tv program that was created by seth MacFarlane for the fox television network. the show revolves around a dysfunctional family the griffins consistiong of parents peter and lois with the kids chris, meg and stewie and their dog brian, the show also plays host to other characters outside of the family including quagmire, cleveland and joe. in this particular episode that i am looking at road to the multiverse both stewie and brian go between the different planes of existance that shock them they come across different universes such as the disney universe, and robot chicken. family guy was produced using cel animation which is a non-photorealistic rendering created with computer graphics to make it look like it has been hand drawn. family guy has been on the air now for 10 years and is still going strong with a large fan base around the world.

i got some of this information from wikipedia but most of it was information that i knew about the show.

wallace and gromit curse of the were rabbit

wallace and gromit curse of the were rabbit is about an inventor wallace and his trusty dog gromit, in this film they are called out to a small village to help them with a mutant rabbit that is eating all the towns vegetables and they must stop it before the annual vegetable competition. this film was directed by nick park and steve box and was produced by dreamworks animation and aardman animation. this film was created by using clay models and using stop motion to create the illusion that the figures are moving.

charlie and unicorn production

charlie and the unicorn is an internet animation that is created by jason steele and executive producer stephanie steele. i could not find the production company that made this video but it is made for filmcow.com. this video is made from cardboard cutouts it will have had a long story board to it as there are alot of things happening in it. the producer will have then made sure that the shots that they take are in sync with each other and that it goes with the storyboard. the story follows 3 unicorns as they are hunting down the banana king to return the amulet to him, on the way they encounter different task that they must complete to go onwards. when they find the temple of the banana king they find out that charlie the unicorn is the banana king. i got this information from mainly watching the video several times and reading the credits.

photoshop pattern stamp

this is a picture that i created in photoshop using different pattern tools, i got pictures from the internet of different meats and created a pettern type with them i then used the different patterns on the picture to create a sort of zombie effect.

animation assignment

today i have started my first assignemt looking at 3 different types of animation. the three animations that i will be looking at is, cardboard cut-out, time lapse animation, and model based animation.

here i made a pattern out of an image that i found on the internet and used it to pattern the lettering on photoshop.

here i have added effects to the different letters to make it stand out from the page on the S i used drop shadow, T i used satin, E i used bevel and emboss, P i also used bevel and emboss, H i used inner shadow, E i used drop shadow and N i used both satin and stroke.

this is my name that i wrote on photoshop i used different fonts on each letter and rotated some of them. i then moved each letter to connect to each other.

NCFE Level 1 Certificate in Interactive Media

Multimedia Terminology:

what the following mean in terms of multimedia:

Corporate ID: corporate id is the persona of a buisiness to it is used as a way for branding and trademarking the buisiness.

Design Brief: a design brief is a written document for a design project by a person representing the buisiness need for design and the designer.

Typography:is the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs.

Font: the font is used to change the design of the writing.

colour: this is used to change the presentation of various things by changing the colour of it.

layout: the layout is is the style and position of the different things that are on a page.

Copyright: this is a legal form to show that certain things are the property of a certain buisiness and cannot be used by anyone else unless the proper privelleges are given by the owner.

job costing: this is to work out what the value is of things it is to work out the overheads and what is being paid for them and how much you will be getting back

Fee Setting: this is used to work out what the price is for certain commodities or jobs.

garageband 2

here is another edit that i did in garage band using the same song but this time i used the detailed drums effect.

reel big fish- garage band

i have been using garage band on the apple computers to alter the song reel big fish - sell out i have added some effects to the song to alter it such as jazz sparkle and vocal reflection. i am happy with the outcome as it sounds like a live recorded track.

boro of the dead

this is a poster that i made putting the text in using photoshop elements.

this is an updated image of photoshop with an explosion in the background

photoshop

this is a unfinished photo that i have altered in photoshop, the original is of middlehaven in middlesbrough. i have added a zombie and smoke cloud by pasting them on and using the rubber with a low percentage of opacity to blend it in with the original photo.

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here are some links to some work that i did involving a game home screen. i made this using powerpoint with hyperlinks that take you round the different sections of the game screen. also is a navigation chart that shows what hyperlinks take you to which page. also in the navigation chart is a breakdown of how i did the different pages and what there is on them pages. there are a few animations within the presentation that make it look more like a game game screen.

charlie and the unicorn 2

this is a flash animation called charlie and the unicorn it is quite funny but also quite weird to watch.

this morning i went onto youtube to find a music video, when i found one i used a internet website to rip and convert the audio into a mp3 file which i will later edit a bit.

the masterpeice

this is a short video that i made using imotion on the apple mac, using variouse cardboard cutouts and props. this video stars ste, anth and luke.

middlehaven photo's

these are various photo's that i took around middlehaven in middlesbrough, these are the original photos that i will take into photoshop to alter next week.

the head

this is a short animation that i made using cutouts from different magazines, using imotion software i put different pictures together to create this video.

new photoshop face

i created this photo using photoshop, i took different parts of peoples faces and pasted them onto the original photo of me. i used various effects to got the diffrent parts to match up with the original photo such as feather and scale.

techno worm

this is an edit of a stop animation that i made, all i did was repeat a few steps and put some parts in reverse.

these pictures i took are at middlesbrough college using a samsung 10 megapixel digital camera. each photo is taken at a diffrent part of the college and am pleased with the results.

photoshop

this photo was simple to do all that i used was the tool liquify to change the appearance of the people in the shot, and the same tool to distort all of the background this process took only about 15 minutes to do.

photoshop

with this photo i used photoshop cs3, i used the filter tab and chenged the photo to have neon edges and find edges to great a neon glow of the major lines in the photograph. the whole process only took around 10 minutes and was fairly simple to do.

silent hill

silent hill is a survival horror game developed and published by konami. released in 1999 silent hill became the banchmark for a further 3 games and a box office movie. the game follows harry mason who arrives in silent hill with his adopted daughter who ends up missing, the aim of the game is to find her going throught the streets and buildings of silent hill solving puzzle's to get to the next part and eventually be reunited with his daughter.

skate

skate which was created by ea (electronic arts) gives players the ability to fully control the custom created skater in the fictional town of san vanelona. in skate the tricks that are carried out by the skater are all controlled by the two analog sticks by flicking the sticks in diffrent sequences to pull of diffrent moves. this control style gives the user complete control of the moves that are pulled of. overall skate is set to become the greatest skating games of all time with the release of skate 2 and the announcment of skate 3.

guitar hero 5

GUITAR HERO 5 is the fith main entry into the guitar hero series. like guitar hero world tour it is compatible with the guitar, drum set, microphone. guitar hero 5 is similar to previous games were the player has to match scrolling notes that appear on the screen along with a track from a pick of 85 songs by 83 artist's. again guitar hero 5 also gives players the choice to either rock out alone or in a group of four either locally or through the playstation network. the guitar hero recording studio has also came back with updated mechanics for players to create their own songs and share them with the world. overall guitar hero is said to be the best one so far after the pull out of harmonix.

dead rising 2

DEAD RISING 2 is an upcoming sequal to the very popular dead rising, this time round dead rising 2 will be available on xbox 360, ps3 and pc. the game takes place a few years after the original dead rising in the fictional fortune city, which has been based on las vegas and follows a former motocross champion by the name of chuck greene. the gameplay is roughly the same as dead rising with new weapons and a dramatic overhaul of the zombie hordes, in the original the game could have up to 800 zombies on screen at one time but has now been dramatically increased to nearly 6,000. dead rising 2 will most probably be using the mt framework that has been seen in all of capcoms next gen games.

resident evil 5

resident evil 5 is the latest game in the very sucsessfull resident evil series. resident evil 5 follows the story of chris redfield who's first appearance was in resident evil 1, and also sheva alomar, as they investigate a terrorist threat in the fictional town of kijuju. resident evil 5 uses MT framework which is a seventh generation game engine that was built to be used in all of capcom's next generation games.

about me

hi my name is ste, i am 21 years old and live in middlesbrough. in my spare time i like to play computer games and play football. my favourite type of music is rock and alternative but i will listen to anything and i love to go clubbing in town.