Alex Freese

These two images are assets that I made for my recent animation I have completed. Since this was my first real animation I wanted to put something meaningful in it. So I made it about a pet rabbit I had named Ruby. When she died it was a big event for me and making it the worst moment in my life. I spent a while making this and in my animation I spent a long time doing rotoscoping. If you know what rotoscoping is then you know how easy and yet difficult it can be. Also it took me much longer to complete my animation because I ended up getting a bad headache that lasted for over a week. Still haven't fixed it fully but I was able to get my project done. I also chose to do mostly do a black and white animation because I didn't want to deal with all the colors. Easier with less colors than a bunch. Also everything is in first person because I didn't want to draw a person. Also the head on the side of the truck is a drawing my bestfriend made. So I asked if I can use it and got

For this post I originally wanted to have and elephant and donkey to be on each side of of my head. I was imagining something like political cartoons. The reason of why I wanted to do the two main American political parties is because from my perspective both sides just throw poop(imagine a different word) at each other to discredit the other side. I also had an AI make a planet in the background because why not. I made this thing the day before it was due so I didn't want to spend a bunch of time drawing something. I also changed my eye color for some reason. Just felt like it.  

 Editing this photo was a nightmare because when taking the photos you have to make sure that the camera is still between shots. But the shots moved between shots. I am just very lucky that no one can see the edits i really had to make because I had photos of myself covering up those mistakes from shooting. I did so well not even my media teacher mentioned that it was moved. The lighting was different for different versions of me so that was difficult too. I also had to take another photo like 2 hours after i started working because I had a version of myself that covered 2 maybe 3 of myself. So I replaced it with me getting into the bag.

  Although I have been trying to upload the images of my vertical and horizontal business cards. You can see them in my portfolio. For the process of these cards I first had to make a logo. I had an AI just make small images of history and traveling. But I ended up going with something from the history side of images. I made a shield type design in the middle of a bell. With a circle going around the whole thing. Since I also lived in Germany I thought I would add a gothic script as my font. It got shut down very quickly.

 I spent a little while making this. I had some what trouble trying to get rid of an outline that was around me for some reason. I also had to take my photo twice because I chose a different Parks and Rec photo but it didn't look very good.

This was my first every assignment turned in for my Media class. It was also the first time I used Adobe Illustrator. Not the worst photo but also not the best as seen in the background. But I had fun making it.