Plain Jane

The artistic feeling behind each business card “theme” if you will, was inspired by different things in my life that I feel like can somehow represent me and the design can help me to stand out as an individual.   The first, blue and pink with curves, helps represent myself in a large part of my life. My personal logo is a ballerina due to spending most of my adolescence as a ballerina. The fluidity and softness of the curves throughout were to show a flow through the card as dance is something smooth and graceful, not jumpy and blocky. The colors were chosen because while pink is typically associated with ballet and dance and little girls, my favorite color is blue.     The second with the pink stripes, was inspired by the mid 2000’s Victoria’s Secret bag. One of my passions, hobbies, and favorite pastime activities is shopping and the pink stripes best represent a trip to the mall in my mind. I’ve also spent the last few months working on a public relations campaign for...

 Animation seems to be an incredibly daunting task. At the beginning of the semester learning I would have to complete an animation project made me want to immediately give up. Throughout the semester I continued to feel afraid of the assignment and eventually when beginning the project learned that it would be more tedious than scary.  When thinking of a scene to create I chose my cat, who has also been the inspiration of other artistic creations this semester. He was recently diagnosed with an illness he couldn't recover from and the day after I began the project he passed away. The animation assignment was really important to me because it depicts my sweet little angel in his natural habitat. After drawing several different cats, the dinosaur, masking several layers of different features in the animation I was finally able to assemble them all. The way I created was that I grouped each layer in order of movement for the frames and individually selected them and the movement...