Digital Toolbox – Image Manipulation & Architecture

DIGITAL TOOLBOX UWL LEVEL 4

introduction to PHOTOSHOP

Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS. It was originally created in 1987 by Thomas and John Knoll. Since then, the software has become the most used tool for professional digital art, especially in raster graphics editing. Owing to its fame, the program’s name has become genericised as a verb (e.g. “to photoshop an image”, “photoshopping”, and “photoshop contest”) although Adobe disapproves of such use.

photoshop – GREENSCREEN AND TECHNIQUES

INVESTIGATION:

Introduction to Photoshop
levels and curves to manage colour.
methods of accurately masking complex imagery using the green screen technique.

refences and inspiration

Photoshop design – stone henge final design

Photoshop design – Lady in the clouds

investigation:

Introduction to Photoshop
levels and curves to manage colour.
methods of accurately masking complex imagery using the green screen technique.

refences and inspiration

Photoshop design – lady in the clouds final design

Using Photoshop I replaced the background of the woman standing in front of a green screen with with a cloud background, using the special brush types i was able to remove the green area and masked it, revealing the image of the sky I had placed behind the green screen image. However, there was still a green tint around her body and hair which i could of masked further using saturation layer.

Photoshop – Apocalyptic building

investigation:

Introduction to Photoshop
levels and curves to manage colour.
methods of accurately masking complex imagery using the green screen technique.

refences and inspiration

Photoshop design – Apocalyptic building final

This task was to design an apocalyptic building out of the images as shown, using the images provided I layered the sky and using brush techniques on photoshop I removed certain details on the building to replace it with the rust photo and merged it in with the building photo creating a rust like building.

Using the same Techniques, I used for the woman I layered a new sky to give it more run-down look. Then using blending modes to achieve a more real rusty look. Then to add more run-down look I added vines going down the hospital which were created with a new brush. I also used A burn tool on some areas to make it darker finish

Photoshop design – Hybrid animal

investigation:

Introduction to Photoshop
levels and curves to manage colour.
methods of accurately masking complex imagery using the green screen technique.

refences and inspiration

Photoshop design – Hybrid animal final

PHOTOSHOP TECHNIQUES – FAKE NEWS

Investigation:

methods to create fake news.
PHOTOSHOP TECHNIQUES
fake news generation
further technique’s in photoshop

refences and inspiration

Fake news often has the aim of damaging the reputation of a person or entity, or making money through advertising revenue. Although false news has always been spread throughout history, the term “fake news” was first used in the 1890s when sensational reports in newspapers were common. Nevertheless, the term does not have a fixed definition and has been applied broadly to any type of false information.

PHOTOSHOP DESIGN THE NEW BBC1 PRECENTORS (IDEA)

PHOTOSHOP DESIGN – THE NEW BBC1 PRECENTORS final

Photoshop design – UWL criminal damage graffiti ‘idea’

refences and inspiration

Photoshop design – UWL criminal damage graffiti ‘idea’

Photoshop design – UWL criminal damage graffiti ‘final’

fake news final piece (Assignment 1 Fake news article)

INTRODUCTION TO MAYA MODELLING

Autodesk Maya, commonly shortened to just Maya is a 3D computer graphics application that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, originally developed by Alias and currently owned and developed by Autodesk. It is used to create assets for interactive 3D applications (including video games), animated films, TV series, and visual effects.

MAYA MODELLING – space ship

Investigation:

Maya Interface and Maya’s introductory concepts e.g. components (vertices, faces, edges), deleting faces and edges, quads and tris.
Understanding extruding
Building a spaceship using extrusions moving vertices
Introduction to HDRI Images and rendering
Rendering the spaceship.

Maya software space ship

software: Maya – 3 renders

MAYA MODELLING – COFFEE CUP

Investigation:

advanced Maya modelling technique’s
combining and merging separate objects, ensuring vertices match up (polygon resolution).
Building a wine glass- Introduction to Maya nurbs curves, revolving polygon geometry from a nurbs curve.

refences and inspiration

maya modelling ideas (coffee cup)

maya modelling

software: Maya – 3 renders

Maya modelling – Wine glass

Investigation:

advanced Maya modelling technique’s
combining and merging separate objects, ensuring vertices match up (polygon resolution).
Building a wine glass- Introduction to Maya nurbs curves, revolving polygon geometry from a nurbs curve.

refences and inspiration

maya modelling

software: Maya – 2 renders

MAYA MODELLING – BOND GADGET (Assignment 1 PT2)

Investigation:

- Understanding Maya’s Hypershade.
- Introduction to bump and displacement maps.
- Introduction to Maya’s Layered Shader.
- Additional Rendering settings.

plasma hair dryer gun

refences and inspiration

Maya software designs

9mm gun watch/bracelet

refences and inspiration

Maya software designs

Aftershave chemical bomb (Assignment 1 – final bond gadget)

refences and inspiration

Maya software designs

software: maya – 4 renders

Photoshop example

Photoshop aftershave bomb final

MAYA MODELLING – UV MAPPING

INTRODUCTIOn:

Model and UV a mushroom
Apply one of Maya’s default 2D textures
Recap of the Hypershade and Displacement maps.
UVing and texturing a mushroom in Maya

MAYA MODELLIN – Time leap (Assignment 2)

introduction:

event like the building of the Eiffel tower with the modelling of 18 ^th Paris; it could be the battle of the Somme with the modelling of the trenches of World War 1, the storming of the Bastille during the French Revolution or the bombing of Guernica
The focus is on telling a narrative within a modelled environment. The scene should be carefully enhanced with a combination of procedural and image based texturing. This unit should not have characters. It should focus on environments and realism, the detritus and the detail of these environments.
This should starte off building a narrative within a 2d scene but ended up telling a narrative within a 3d scene.