Business Card Project
The Applicable of Business Cards In A World With The Internet
In a world where you can simply enter your contact information into a person's phone, many people wonder what the point of business cards are in the modern era. You can find a person by googling their name, and find their contact information that way. Business cards aren't a necessity anymore. However, this can be used to your advantage. Because business cards are becoming less and less common, the simple fact of having one at all automatically makes you stand out. And as high school students, this makes us look much more professional than our peers. It makes you stand out to whoever you meet, and when a potential client visits the school, they're going to remember the kids with business cards as people who are serious about their work. It's also a simple way to express your creativity and give them a token of who you are as a person. Your card says a lot about you, beyond being professional for simply having one. Everything, including fonts, graphics, colors, wording, gives them insight to you as a person, however unintentional or unassuming your card may be. In this modern technological age, the main function of a business card is to make yourself memorable, unique, and stand out in a person's mind. It's a useful networking tool that gives you a better chance of finding work and giving people insight to you as a person. |
Digital Artist Inspiration Project
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Project Description:
This project was about finding inspiration from an artist that you admire, and then creating your own piece of art using elements of what inspired you. For my piece, I wanted to work on animation, and so I searched for animators that I already knew of to study. I attempted to do my project on The Rudo Company, the animators of "The Wolf" by Siames's music video. However, this was the only large project that they had done and thus there was virtually no information on the internet about them, making studying them difficult. I thought about studying Hiyao Miyazaki, founder of Studio Ghibli, but wanted something on a smaller scale. So I settled on Nick Cross, the art director for the Cartoon Network shorts program, and art director for one of my favorite cartoons, Over the Garden Wall. To the right of the animation above is my presentation about Nick Cross, though the effect is mostly lost with only the slides and not the narration. The above is my attempt to recreate the art style and animation of the show, using the same methods they use for anatomy and style, though I ran out of time to add in the iconic way faces are drawn in the show. I used the same program that they used for the show, Toon Boom Animate, getting a free trial of the program for 21 days. That being said, I used 17 days to create this, about 5 hours per week, adding up to about 10-12 hours. It's only three seconds long.
This project was about finding inspiration from an artist that you admire, and then creating your own piece of art using elements of what inspired you. For my piece, I wanted to work on animation, and so I searched for animators that I already knew of to study. I attempted to do my project on The Rudo Company, the animators of "The Wolf" by Siames's music video. However, this was the only large project that they had done and thus there was virtually no information on the internet about them, making studying them difficult. I thought about studying Hiyao Miyazaki, founder of Studio Ghibli, but wanted something on a smaller scale. So I settled on Nick Cross, the art director for the Cartoon Network shorts program, and art director for one of my favorite cartoons, Over the Garden Wall. To the right of the animation above is my presentation about Nick Cross, though the effect is mostly lost with only the slides and not the narration. The above is my attempt to recreate the art style and animation of the show, using the same methods they use for anatomy and style, though I ran out of time to add in the iconic way faces are drawn in the show. I used the same program that they used for the show, Toon Boom Animate, getting a free trial of the program for 21 days. That being said, I used 17 days to create this, about 5 hours per week, adding up to about 10-12 hours. It's only three seconds long.