Final thought for tonight

This has been a wonderful class.  I have learned alot about Concept art and preproduction.  One of the things I have learned is that I am not up to being a concept artist.  Wonderful things happen to create movies and cartoons and other things like them.  I can learn what I like to do by taking classes like this one.  This class has confirmed that while I can do wonders with some forms of Art, this is not one of them and Photography definately is one where I can excel.

Final Project: Part 2, background ideas

here are a few background ideas I have worked on during the last several weeks.

Final Project: Part 1, story boards

here are two Photo storyboards

storey board #3

This one was the hardest to get done. First was selecting a movie, second was selecting a scene from the movie, and then doing the drawings. I was finally successful, even with technical difficulties with my Laptop. So Enjoy.

storey board #2

These two boards actually go together as a whole story.  I reviewed about 40 pictures and then chose these 24 to use for the story,  I think it is pretty obvious that the pug is playing games with his owners.  Sometimes he listens and others he does his own thing instead.  The pug's name is WaDou and he makes very good subject matter for any camera.  As I own him, I frequently use him while doing artistic stuff.

storey board #1

This one was fun and easy.  Yes I can and should return to it and make several changes to it, including perspective and changing the background a little.  This was unable to be done due to technical issues with my laptop.

information on prior picture posts

the pictures in the previous posts have been created using photos I took myself. several are using the same base photo and were then tweaked in various ways until I was happy with them of the last one (the one on top) was the combining of several pictures.  

I take lots of photos and use them for ideas and inspiration. Also I combine photos for a complete new picture. My most frequent subjects are landscapes and various animals. while I have taken pictures of people, I do not feel that they are my best work. Of the people pictures I have taken, the ones of children I feel are the best.

this photo is the base of several of my posted pictures. the mountain in it was also the basis for two others.

these assignments have given me good reasons to figure out more about the workings of Photoshop. I have learned how to change brush presets, tool presets and the use of "Puppet Warp" as well as the other transform tools in the process of doing these assignments. each ane causes me to learn more about the tools I am using.