Journey to the far realm of being 'Good @ Digital Art'

  Baby Steps in Harmony Aug.25      Yesterday, on August 24th, I had the pleasure of attending my first virtual animation class of the semester. While most of the class we spent getting to know one another but we received a brief introduction to the software. Initially it's a lot to take in but, once you get past the initial shock, it doesn't stray to far from programs I am more familiar with like Adobe Aftereffects.      I wanted to try getting comfortable with some of the new key-binds, so I did a couple practice runs of a looping gif.       My first pass I created a drawing layer and used the brush tool to just write the word hello. On a second drawing layer, I then used the pen tool and wrote each letter on a separate frame using Shift+Alt+D.     I then went ahead and created a new layer and attempted to segment each letter within two frames. I was unhappy with how the starting letter H  appears so I tried ag...

Blog Response to Riot Games Visual Design Dev Insights Aug. 23 Emily Hughes Complementary Visual Design in Spirit Blossom   Jul 21, 2020 Riot Games        League of Legends  is a popular online game that I hold very near and dear to my heart. Working for Riot Games in art and design is my top dream job which I gush about in literally all my scholarship, self-reflect, and career papers. Recently, I have discovered artists and writers at the company have their own section of blog/dev ask posts that pertain to the artistic development of their game and world. As of July 2020, the game released a monumental player event that meant to put viewers in a world building event about spirit worlds and folklore.      This article had a lot of insight of the many different art careers that perhaps I had never considered that ultimately attribute to such a successful event. I also thought it was amazing that so many bodies could have such a cohesive...

  My Introduction This is kind of weird because I can’t think of an opening sentence that doesn’t start with ‘hello’. Anyways, I am a Senior in the USF Fine Arts Bachelor degree and specializing in animation/digital arts or basically whatever USF admins wanna call it this year. I’ve been absolutely dying to get into these more specialized courses after many hours of traditional basics classes. I guess the most important things to learn for me would be a how to start process. I think perhaps if we could touch on motivation, and completion of projects I would appreciate that as I often struggle to continue when my own projects don’t match my taste level. I will admit, I’m a bit rusty of any art practice as for the last several months since May 2020, I have been just working Full-Time and crashing at my desk to play video games. I tend to get frustrated with myself when things don’t come out how I envisioned but I promise I will always try. Hopefully, with college being back in s...