Final Product

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_t4pdJ4UYg&feature=youtu.be

Enjoy

Okay I lied

Okay, I lied. This post contains the story board. Its not much because not a lot happens in the film.

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The script.

Okay, as promised, here is the script for the 4 great spheres.

I wrote this after shot the video. I had the an idea of what I wanted to do. However, I wasn't entirely sure what. Then the idea came to me! Let's make an origin myth video!

Here's the script that I wrote shortly thereafter.

In the beginning, all was but black space. Existence could not begin without creation, and so the need for the four great creators was born.  In the form of four great spheres, the creators descended from the next world to breathe life in to the chaotic abyss that came before.

Strandella, the mightiest of the creators, poured her raw strength into creating the energy that would birth the sun.  And with her power of might, crafted the rock and the worlds that would orbit the sun. Shaping the worlds in their image.

Rudain, with his love of order, created the basic laws that our universe would operate under. Gravity, physics, matter, all come from the mind and law of Rudain whose power upholds these laws to this day.

Laurendai, with her gift of control, created the sky and seas of these worlds. Making all of our planets safe and habitable for all forms of life that the final creator would bring.

Kyoton, with his bright spirit, let lose his flesh and soul onto the worlds. As his flesh rained down upon the worlds, their forms became their own, and all creatures began to populate the worlds. His spirit however, nestled within the grounds and surfaces and plants of all kinds burst forth from the earths.

As all have been born of the spheres, so shall all return to them when the time of their return comes. I’spherus drustus.

For the record, that last line is the people's equivalent to "Amen."  When I get creative I go all out. Next post will have the video link.

Updates

So I now it's been a while since my last post. BUT that's because i've been hard at work with stuff for my time media project...

Which turns out is gonna be a short origin myth film about four colossal balls that made everything.

... yeah. It makes sense and I think it's slightly better than it sounds.

... I think... I hope... I pray....

In any case, my next post will contain the script, because I accidentally deleted it off my flash drive. And while I DO have the storyboard with me, its kind of hard to show what it looks like because its on paper.

That said, the film is pretty much done. I just need to get some feedback and upload it to the tube. Stay tuned or whatever attention gripping phrase you want.

Later.

This post is for my Midterm. It is my abstract and my self evaluation.

The picture of the tree is a picture of a tree. The idea behind it was to create a picture of a semi ideal world. Hence the very soft look behind it. I was new at Photoshop when I made this but it fit the theme of the portfolio, which was each picture had to have a sun and a moon in it.

The next picture, dark moon, was a conceptual idea of what things would look like if the moon emitted dark light. It was a very constructional idea. I used the grass brush tool, admittedly, but it worked well for what I wanted. I used some effects in it but overall, the idea came together rather well.

Purple Moon was what I wanted to create from working with lines. The pattern initially was all that was going to include. However, given that a focus was needed, I decided to throw a purple moon into the picture because I felt the color worked better than a white one. Another idea that I incorporated was to reverse the colors on a duplicate layer and make some panels disappear. It worked well I feel.

Doom’s night was an idea of what I imagined of what would happen if the sun giver of life, decided that he didn’t want to give us his light anymore. The eye on the sun was done to show the malice in the sun. And the bow around the sun was done to show the colors of the sky, fading into the sun. It was another conceptual picture, which is another theme in my portfolio.

Warring gods is the battle that we’ve all been waiting for! What if the sun and the moon went to war with eachother? That was the idea and so I did it. I didn’t really want a background for this one so instead I showed the rays of various different colors hitting eachother to give the look of the sun and the moon firing rays of light at eachother. The colors I used were the colors of heat and the white of the moons light.

The picture of the sun and the moon with the small unidentifiable body was yet another conception that I wanted to convey. If the sun and moon had a child what would you get? The colors were extremely bright in this one and I consider this image my best. It’s warm. The funny thing is, originally, the idea was just to have the stars visible during the day. But I decided that the image again lacked focus so I added a moon. But I found that image too boring so then the final conception was born as I smeared colors and added effects.


Self Eval
Personally, as far as all the pictures go, I am extremely pleased and satisfied with how they came out. Especially for someone who has had no previous Photoshop experience, like myself. The only picture I am slightly dissatisfied with is the picture of a tree because I did that one with no knowledge of layers or special effects. However, it was invaluable as a learning experience and I am still very proud of it. The picture I am most pleased with is the picture of the conceptual child of the sun and the moon. The colors are bright and the effects are stellar. The total time spent for the entire project was probably close to 5 ½ hours. The picture of a tree was a thirty minute timed picture and the others were each around 1 hour.

Skyborn

Feel the wrath of my conceptions. Okay, so in my last post I drew the sun and the moon doing battle with each other. Well in this one I was all like, "Hey! What would it look like if you could see stars during the day." Thus with the help of the smear brush tool thingy and an alteration of the standard brush (and my girlfriend helping me figure the brush alterations out so I could actually do any of this), the background was born. I then made two spheres, first a sun and then a moon. Again, my girlfriend helped me out here because she told me how to spherical and apply the kick-ass textures you see on the Moon and the Mun. But then I thought about it and decided that the picture was missing something. So I drew up another sphere and made it its own layer and colored it and textured it and then BEHOLD!

Mun - The conceptual child of the sun and the moon. Copyright Anthony Restivo.

Warring Gods

Don't ask. Just don't ask. I can tell you what I did, but as far as what this is I have no idea. I made the background, decided I wanted the picture to resemble the sun and the moon fighting each other, and then made each circle its own layer. I added the textures, decided I wanted the suns texture soft and the moon's texture hard. I then took the color smear brush tool thingy and then mixed all the colors of the sky into the background, as well as some lunar light. The End. I brosent to you all, Warring Gods.

Doomsnight

Behold! The sky has fallen and dooms-night is upon us. This is a picture of a concept that came to me on day in editing class. The sun is the father of all life. It makes everything we have possible right and it gives us everything we have without asking anything in return. So... what would happen if he wanted it all back. I started in my usual constructionist method by making the ground and then a circle. I then added various layers and textures using different brushes. The grass by the way is actually the leaf brush made really small. The bow around the sun are the three colors of the sky at various points in the day. Dodge and burn was used to created the lighting effects on the ground. I'm extremely pleased with it.

Proposal for Portfolio

Anthony Restivo

Philip Sanders

Intro to IMM

2/23/2012

Proposal for Portfolio

                The idea for my portfolio is based on the relationship of how the sun and the moon make certain natural and unnatural settings appear. In each of my pictures, a reoccurring element will be a heavenly body such as a sun or moon. Some pictures will be abstract and others will not. There will be no photo based pictures, only paintings as I feel that working from a blank canvas gives an artist more liberty. Several pictures I have already drawn will be featured in the portfolio as well as some new ones.

Color correction...?

Okay, time for honesty, I'm not an impressive color correctionist. The original photos don't look too different from the ones I corrected. The changes are slight at best but it adds a certain richness to them. I don't really remember what I did because I didn't exactly do much. That said, please enjoy the photos.

YES! YES!

Finally some winning!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QS0q3mGPGg <--- Listen to it while viewing.

Okay so I did some fiddling around with lines and painting. (10x easier than photomanipulation and more creative IMHO) I needed some help with layers and effects from my girlfriend again but she helped. (Thank God or these wouldn't look even half as nice.) Anyway, without further adieu (Which actually means goodbye, funnily enough) I present to you these pictures.

The first one I actually finished second. I used a grass tool and I got this really cool lunar light effect on the grass for some reason. I rolled with it, as I wasn't in the mood to argue with photoshoppe. I made the moon black, because I was tired of white, and used a really dark purple to color the sky giving it an eerie one. I was also tired of white stars, so I made those black too cause I thought it looked cooler. Ya know, jazzin it up some. And the cloud? Well, the cloud is just cloud. I used the lines to help me place it though. The second one was the original idea. I wanted to create pattern using the lines and then making an part of the pattern the inverse of the original color. So I did, but under the loving advice of Dr. Sanders I was instructed to create a focus of the picture.That focus is the moon which I added filters and lighting effect too. I don't know. I have an unhealthy obsession with the moon and have had one after beating Majora's Mask. Call me crazy. I dunno. But it worked.

Photo... Manipulation?

Okay That ^^^... That's my abstract picture. You can see that I learned a few more tricks from my girlfriend as she showed me how to add these things in and edit opacity. She basically gave me a quick review of everything we learned.  Mostly because I learn better by doing than watching. Still had some issues though.

This one ^^^ is my realistic photo. Given what I had to work with all I really could do was add a border to the picture due to the lack of macro photos. I regret nothing. I create as few men dare to dream! Besides, given the fact that the board is actually hanging from the wall I'd say I did a pretty good job making it look like its lying flat. The one below this is my picture of whatever. I used ummm crops I guess of stuff from my other two and made a paradoxical picture frame. That's it for this week. Stay tuned for more heaping humps of WIPs and weeps as I learn more tricks.

Four Badstract Photoes

Yeah. You heard me. They are pretty bad. I know I promised to fill this blog with awesome but that's proving to be harder than I thought it would be. Anyway, here they are. I'm posting four because I might want some input on which ones of the ones I took to use.

I'm not proud of this: Part Deux

Okay, so give me fifteen minutes by myself and let me draw something. Several clicks and about fifteen minutes later I present to you an outline of myself wearing a pirate hat. BEHOLD!

Okay, so I'm honestly beginning to wonder. Is it really bad that the first thing you created is leagues better than the second or third? I should also probably mention that this post and the last post were completed days ago. I just never got around to updating the blog. I chose this one as my fifteen minutes because I really didn't like the idea of committing an hour or so to draw something that would look like crap anyway. (And we all know how fabulous my 1 Hour picture came out, so great idea there!)

Anyway, enough ranting, There are photos de abstract to take. Later!

I'm not proud of this: Part Une

Okay, so I spent an hour fiddling around in Photoshop trying to learn stuff and draw something at the same time. Things did not go so well. The idea here was to recreate something I drew a long time ago in high school. Something I, while waiting for the bus, decided to just... well... draw. I have no idea what it is or what it means but I can tell you that the sketch looks a crap-load better than this hunk o poop. I apologize in advance if your eyes start bleeding.

On the bright side, I figured layers out. Or at least started to. So I guess something good came out of it.

Half hour picture COMPLETED!

So yeah I had a sit down with my girlfriend who is pretty Photoshop savvy and she showed me a few tricks while I worked on this. It's not much, but it's a helluva lot better than than it woulda been without her help.

Behold! Feast your eyes on THIS...

                                                                                                                                                        ...TREE!

About Xal

The enigmatic Anthony L Restivo is a senior Comm. major who is on the RTF track. He has some editing experience but none with photoshop whatsoever. He enjoys playing video-games and voice acting. Hoping to learn some invaluable skills and lend the ones he has to his classmates, his posts will be filled with as much awesome as possible.