Tuesday 8/27

Today students will explore more into Adobe's Photoshop.  As a class, students will learn how to create a radio station logo.  Within this lesson, we will learn how to turn normal font into 3D font by adding shadows and beveled edges as well as learning how to add shapes to a background or make shapes transparent so you can see through them to what is hiding in the background!  Once the class tutorial is done, students will be challenged to creating their own radio station to market to the public.  Students will think about font, design, and creating a logo that will be desirable to their audience.

Students will continue to work on these logos for part of the next class.  The class will then vote on the most appealing design and that student will win a prize! 

We also began our daily ARTiFacts!  The first one is listed below!

Wednesday & Friday 8/21 & 8/23

On Wednesday we began with taking notes on the Elements of Art and Principles of Design PowerPoint.  If you need to see this PowerPoint again, it is located on Cole under "Files/Links".  Student then created their own PowerPoint using the Elements and Principles notes.  One slide for each Element and each Principle with the addition of two title slides "Elements of Art" and "Principles of Design"  Each slide (besides the title slides) must have a title, definition and a picture to show me they understand what each element and principle means.  Students will finish this project on Friday 8/23 and upload their PowerPoint into DropBox on Cole.  The DropBox is located under assignments and is titled "Elements and Principles DropBox"  Click on "Elements and Principles DropBox" and click "submit assignment" on the right side.  Click on the File tab and attach your assignment and then click "submit."  Once your project is submitted, you are done.  We will be moving on to logo designs next class!

Welcome to 2D Design & Animation!

Welcome to 2D Design and Animation. This blog is to help you stay on track in class. Each day I will post what are doing in class along with that days ARTiFact. In this class you will learn how use Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and Live Movie Maker. We will be doing a wide variety of fun structured projects building on similar techniques and strategies. I hope you enjoy and I am happy to have you in class! Welcome!