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Image projects from my Digital Image Design college program.
My final photo project for my Image Elements 1 course, where the objective was to create "a single great picture". I decided to do one of my roommate standing in front of an art exhibit he had made focused on the colour orange, to create the image of and artist in their element. I then used various digital editing techniques to bring the photo to the best state I could, including improvements in lighting, colour and cropping.
My first project for my Narratives 1 course, where the objective was to create a double exposure image, or one image superimposed within another. As the title suggests I decided to create an image that illustrated my enjoyment of being outside in winter and winter activities. I further emphasized it by wearing an imposing winter hat in the picture I took of myself.
My final project for my Image Design 2 course, where our assignment was to create a piece in the genre done by creative professionals we had studied. I chose the option of doing a graphic novel cover. In relation to the creative writing I had done I had also done some character drawings for the same science-fiction storyline (the one my videography project A Worthy Task is also set in). As such I often wondered what my characters would look like in a graphic novel and so felt interested in the project option I chose. The cover is intended to show a character I created for my storyline (who I named Nathan Chorus) doing training for the peacekeeping organization he works for while wearing his field mission armour. Included beneath the cover design is my project's character design sheet.
My final photo project for my Narratives 2 course, where we were to create a visual narrative in the style of a comic or graphic novel depicting our trip to Toronto earlier in the week. We visited several places relating to our course's study of narrative design, including three comic stores, the Toronto Reference Library and the Art Gallery of Ontario. We also spoke with several creative professionals from the industry. The place we visited I found the most inspiring however was the digital design studio Portfolio Entertainment, which
created children's cartoons. This was because I felt it showed me a real example of a professional career I could potentially have in digital and graphic design. As such I thought the story of me experiencing this inspiration would make a good narrative for my project. The panels in the project largely contain images created from photos I took during the Toronto trip (many containing images of me that I took in class later and added in for the purpose of narrative) that have been edited to have the appearance of being sketched by hand. There are also two panels with images I sketched myself with pencil since I didn't have appropriate photos for them.
My final project for my third Studio Week, where our instructor told us to simply take what we had learned about digital design and "play" in creating a series of visual images. I played around with various ideas in the notes I wrote out and these eventually lead to the idea of creating characters with animals' heads and human bodies. I then started thinking of such characters existing in a storyline like that of a kids' cartoon show. I then started picturing the characters as a group of friends around middle school or early high school age and decided to give them the heads of some of my favourite
Canadian animals. I also decided to make the lead character of the group the one with the head of my most favourite Canadian animal out the ones chosen- Ryan the raven. I went on to call Ryan and his group of friends "The Wild Four". I created the characters by combining the chosen animal images with kids' fashion photos. I also made the backgrounds relate to the four settings the characters are in for the narrative: first a starry night at the lake, then Ryan's house in the trees, their school yard and finally them leaning against the outside of their school wall.
My final project for my Image Elements 2 course where we were assigned to create a moving image narrative
animated by still images. As such, although this project is technically a moving image one and not a still image like the rest on this page, I thought it best to display it here since it was still a project from my Digital Image Design program. I thought it would be interesting to do a narrative of a typical morning for me at the college, starting
from the moment I set foot on the campus early in the morning. I
undertook this idea, continuing to photograph at intervals as I walked into the college and went about my morning, thinking I would highlight pictures I took of people I knew along the way. I photographed up until I had lunch and returned to class for the second half of the day. I also thought that I would end the narrative with me since for the rest of it I was unseen.