From the Darkness

Some more fractals

Creating a Smoke Fading Effect

Made with the tutorial http://10steps.sg/photoshop/creating-a-smoke-fading-effect/

Starbucks Frappuccino Blended Remix Contest

This is my entry for a cup design for the contest. I titled it, Summer's Treasure.

Rift Contest Entry - Water Colossus

DeviantArt is having a character design contest for the game Rift. This is my first digital painting and my fisrt contest. I used PhotoShop CS5.

http://browse.deviantart.com/contests/2011/rift/

Facebook Revenge

Kinda got it working on youtube. Not the best picture quality, so I will work on that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udIuCohy94I


I was inspired by Animator vs. Animation by Alan Becker to make my own type of vs. animation. I used Adobe Flash Professional CS5. Lynda.com tutorials help me understand the program and I built my character along with a tutorial. Some of my animations have frame by frame movement but the majority is classic tweened. Tweening is short for in between, which means you have a start point and end point with an object and it calculates all the frames in the middle. This was very useful in speeding up the process which has taken six weeks to finish this animation. I took tons of screen shots to build the background and friends and family helped out with the Facebook posts. A screen shot of my own Facebook profile page was used then I erased everything except for the structure. Photoshop helped me combine all the elements to create a realistic fake profile page. I used photos and sounds clips from various free websites. Music was appropriated from youtube and my own library. Adobe Soundbooth CS5 helped editing the sounds.
http://www.alanbecker.net/
http://www.lynda.com%3c/div>

Sources:
Photos
Facebook
Scooby hollywoodjesus.com
Porsche vintagecarsandsuch.com
Dell pink-laptop-computer.com
http://www.sxc.hu/
Sounds
Mario elevator http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbIaYZEUF1M
http://www.soungle.com/
http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/
http://music-for-video.com/
http://www.freesound.org/
Voice provided by Josephine Wisler

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Flash is EXHAUSTING! Three weeks and I only have 30 seconds of animation!

Rroject 3 – Embracing the Digital Aesthetic - Steampunk Fractals

Gears

Steampunk Underwater

Royalty

Caged

Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s. Specifically, steampunk involves an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century and often Victorian era Britain—that incorporates prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy. Works of steampunk often feature anachronistic technology or futuristic innovations as Victorians may have envisioned them; in other words, based on a Victorian perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, art, etc. This technology may include such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne or real technologies like the computer but developed earlier in an alternate history. (Wikipedia)

Wild Wild West

I chose Fractals for project 3 – Embracing the Digital Aesthetic and my theme is Steampunk. I really like this style of mixing mechanical with feminine Victorian touches. Steampunk style has made its way into popular culture with movies such as The Golden Compass, Wild Wild West and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I used fractal software called Apophysis and used the same color gradient to unify the compositions. I think that the Fractals that I created in shape and form unified by color represent the Steampunk culture.

Golden Compass

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Process: Basic Julian Fractal

Clear Flame

Add Variables

Change Gradient






Render

 





Final Fractal

Sources:

Apophysis software http://apophysis.org/

Julian Tutorial http://clairejones.deviantart.com/art/Julia-Uncovered-v-2-2-49167519

SteampunkLogo http://www.thedarkpower.com/php/steampunk.php
WWW http://www.fashiondoyenne.com/
GC http://www.newline.com/
LEG http://www.listal.com