Cole Thompson's Themed Photoshop Projects

Today Is the last day for posting. I was just working on the logo and finishing it up, and then i'll be doing my concluding slideshow to show all my work

I think I've finished my design for the shirt, I've kind of run out of ideas and again the grayscale is kinda throwing me off. It's not too bad but I think I could've done something better. I think with colour it could work a bit better but it's still a decent logo design. I was struggling with balancing detail and simplicity and I think I did a decent job of it.

Today I didn't get a lot done for a few reasons. One of them being the grayscale, because I can't really have any colour in the shirt, its a bit more difficult to make a design. The second reason being that I'm not that good with Illustrator as I am Photoshop, because the tools all work just the slightest bit different, it's throwing me off.  This is all I have so far, nothing really special, hopefully I can do more tomorrow 

There's been some change in plans of what i'll be doing for the rest of the class, I'm now designing a shirt for the Humanitarian trip. The shirt needs to consist of the Totems logo, as well as the Canadian and Panama flags somewhere on it. I have a few ideas that I'll experiment with tomorrow  

I have officially finished Project 8, Kevin and Usain botl race as a Rotoscope. I quickly edited a comparison video between the original and the animation  The quality of the video is somewhat low, even though i set it to export at a high quality but it's the best I can do. Now because there's not that much time in the semester left, I can't do a big project, so what I'll be doing is following a few tutorials in Photoshop just to keep me busy. They're fairly easy in comparison to what I've been doing recently, then on the last few days I'll be working on my final presentation that'll collection of all my work

I have finished the animation, finally coloured every frame. I looked at past posts on the blog about this project and I found that this took from day 36, when i first loaded up the video, to now, day 71. That's just about half my time spent on this one project alone, it's kind of crazy. Here is the video, I still want to bring it into PremierPro and put the original next to the rotoscoped animation, but I'll have to do it Monday

Today, and yesterday actually, I made a lot of progress. What I normally do when I'm colouring is that I do each frame, as in fully colour both Usain and Kevin before moving to the next frame. Yesterday I decided to do it by colour, what I mean by that is picking for example the purple that I made Kevin, and doing all the purple of every frame. Now I didn't realize how much faster this would make the process, I actually finished colouring Kevin completely and I just started doing Usain.  I think this works so well because I don't have to switch colours every few seconds or zoom in and out of the spots I need, I can just switch frames and keep going. I'm thinking I'll be finished the colouring by tomorrow. (I made the background a slightly darker white because I used such a bright blue for Usain that It was a little bit difficult to see in some frames

Today I decided to cut the looping part of the video because, just looking at it now, I can tell that I won't be able to complete it at all. What I'll be doing instead is just showing the original next to both the line and colour versions of the animation to see how they compare to each other. I'd most likely just export three videos from Photoshop, one of each, then maybe load it up in PremierPro and insert them next to each other. I made this decision because I know every time I start something new, like a new technique, or just something I've never done before, it takes me a while to figure it out and get it down properly, and I only have about two weeks left, which definitely isn't enough time I'm okay with this, though. I always had this idea as a finishing touch that I would add only if I had the time to do it, So it shouldn't take away anything from the final result 

Today was just some more colouring as stated yesterday, but today I attempted to try and fix a small issue I've been dealing with since the beginning of this project; Changing frames. I'm not sure why but Photoshop doesn't have any shortcuts for switching frames and so I'v had to click the skip button just above all the layers every time. Now it's not a big deal, but why I want it is because it'll save just that little bit of time, each time, by just having a shortcut available.  I looked up any possible pages on google to see if I could get some help and I found a really useful page that told me how to bind keys;  Edit -> Keyboard Shortcuts  Then change your "Shortcuts for" menu to "Panel menus" Then scroll down the list to; Timeline Frames-> Go to -> Next frame/Previous frame I was pretty happy to know how to bind keys now but the only problem with it was that Photoshop doesn't allow binding with the arrow keys. I di...

Today was the first day back from winter break and as such, was somewhat disorienting, It took a little bit of getting used to. I decided to work on the main part of the animation, before the plan was to work on the looping part then return to the middle, uncoloured frames. The reason why is because of the amount of time I have left. If I run out of time, then I can at least post something complete rather than having the looping part complete with frames that aren't coloured Here's a video of it just as a reminder. The video is going to have the entire second half as blank space because that was an extension of the base background layer, reserved for the looping part.