Video Project

Hello Everyone!

I wanted to take the opportunity to post my video project for people to see! My class wanted to engage each other with short one to two minute videos about ourselves, sharing accomplishments, hobbies, goals, and the like. For my own, I used Adobe Premiere Pro to tackle my passions, my goals, my experiences, and more with photos and videos thrown in for good measure!

There were issues with rendering roughly halfway through the video that could not be fixed at the present time, but this is a work in progress. The work can still be seen, however.

I Hope You Enjoy!
Allen

Holiday Card

 Hello Everyone!

     Our Digital Media class recently decided to create cards to sell, the proceeds of which would go to a local charity of our choosing and our college's Art Department. For my own, I wanted to do something for Christmas that would be funny, but not too inappropriate. It should be something designed to sell and make people smile.
     For my design, I went with a classic Santa design inspired by many I saw online. I decided to go with a New Year's resolution joke and food joke in one since Santa loves cookies, you know. I used the paint brush at a size of 125 for the beard with flecks of brown for the cookie crumbs. I then created his nose with an ellipse tool and the band of his hat with a rounded rectangle. I drew the decoration on his hat and his eyes easily before finally finishing with the ellipse tool for the cookie. I wanted the text to be "Christmas-y" so used green text in a Blackadder ITC style.

I Hope You Enjoy It!

Happy Holidays!
Allen

Elmore the Cool Blues Cat

Hello All!

     My Digital Media class very recently engaged in creating logos for our college's own Cadillac Daddy Cafe. When one of these designs was picked, we were also told to create a "blues cat" mascot for the cafe. For my own, I looked both to iconic cat character designs such as Felix the Cat, Sylvester from Looney Tunes, and Garfield as well as blues cat designs I saw across the internet.
     For this particular design, I call him Elmore the Cool Blues Cat, I followed Aaron's basic design idea of using a colored outline. For a bluesy feel, I made his outline blue, gave him a cool hat in the same vain as the Blues Brothers, and have him lining up against the car in his design. Due to a strange issue with his image, I was unable to add my own design to his. His design shows up splotchy on my computer and in the downloaded image file. My main goal with Elmore was to create a design that both followed Aaron's original vision as well as to create a character that looks timeless.

I hope you like him!
Allen

Hello Everyone!

     The Digital Media class I'm enrolled in recently engaged in using the MIT App Inventor program. Our goal was to learn this easy-to-use program within our class's length. MIT definitely out-did themselves with this program. It was fast and relatively easy to use. Not only this, but it was also fun.
     In terms of apps, our class did not go very in-depth, opting to create an app where we could tap the screen to create messages and also allow a small ball to bounce across the screen. Tapping the ball would make it bounce in another direction. It was simple, but a great start to bigger things. I was easily able to download the companion app on my smartphone to see the fruits of my progress in real time, something that I was very impressed with. Overall, while not an official creation method most app-makers may use, this was a fantastic beginning in the art of app-creation and I highly suggest anyone that is interested to check it out.

Thank You!
Allen

Hello Everyone!

I wanted to share my design for my college's small cafe, Cadillac Daddy Cafe! I wanted to go with a mixed 1950s-inspired style as well as take on a small jazz influence.

For this, I wanted a cool black background to accentuate the blue and give it a jazzy feel. I created lines for a banner, reminiscent of several 1950s logos with two white circles to give off the appearance of car head lights. The Cadillac part of the sign was done in AR Christy while the other texts were done in AR Berkeley. I accentuated the Cadillac part of the design in half of an ellipse to add to the sign design. For a more authentic feel, I added the establishment year.

Let me know what you feel. Thank You!

Allen McGraw

Hello Everyone!

     Recently, my class decided to create flyers for whatever business they chose. For my purposes, I chose a local restaurant situated in Hinton, West Virginia known as "The Market". I have enjoyed eating there for many years and they immediately popped into mind.
     For this project, I used Photoshop, gathered up the necessary images both from the website of the business and the wooden background from Creative Commons. I put all of these images into Adobe Bridge, loaded them up as layers, and assembled them over the background. I added the text for the address, phone number, email address, and their slogan of "Eat! Shop! Enjoy!" to the bottom. These are placed over black rectangle and an orange rectangle for visual flair, the same with the oval-esque shape behind the title. Then I arranged the food in a tantalizing collage format to show off their variety.

If you have any suggestions on how to improve, please let me know!

Thank You!
Allen

Hello Everyone!

     Recently, my class endeavored to make three-dimensional models using an excellent website called TinkerCad. For the class, we were to make models that we could print using a 3D printer. Very fun! I decided to make a Pokeball from the hit video game series Pokemon. Besides this, however, the process of making this model was both fun and educational.
       I used two half-spheres, making one red and a white one, which would be slightly smaller than the other. Taking a black tube, which was smaller than both half-spheres, I placed it in between both spheres. I made another tube to use as a black tube at the front of the ball inside the sphere for the black inside the indentations on the ball. Inside this were two white tubes to fit inside, one to hold the release button and the smaller as a release button for the trainer to release their Pokemon! I'm very pleased with the end result! Please take a look and let me know how I can improve!

Here is my TinkerCade account:
 https://www.tinkercad.com/users/fSpyMm98pmt-mcgraws
Or you can search for "mcgraws"

Thank You!
Allen