Paris' Designs

 Here is my attempt to turn Emma Watson into a Na'vi Avatar character. While I am somewhat happy with how it turned out, I originally messed up so i had to go back and redo the process. I definitely wish I could have managed to put the ears, and maybe would have even picked a different photo, because this one was much brighter than the photo used as the teaching example so i had a hard time figuring out what visual adjustments to lighting could be made to make the alteration look a little better. Definitely had fun attempting to convert this photo from the original which I placed below this one. If anyone has suggestion id love to hear them since i think the attempt could have been a little better but after spending a few days trying to alter it, I felt I should just finish up and just show the work I did with the image I choose.

Here is the original photo that I will be attempting to turn into an avatar. I figured because this photo of Emma Watson has good lighting and is a very clear image, this will allow for a good transition into transforming her into a fantasy avatar. Im thinking that because the Na'vi Avatar photoshop project requires a bit layer masking and adjustments to lighting and coloring of the image, this should serve as a good base for the various photoshop adjustments shown in the video because of the clarity it displays. Hopefully I can accurately add Emma Watson to the avatar world!

     While I am somewhat happy with how my book cover came out, unfortunately I wasn't able to accomplish exactly the similarity of the doorway and the ring, I inserted my attempt of utilizing the gestalt principle by inserting the ring as the window, but unfortunately it doesn't look as cool as I had hoped. I spent far too long already trying to achieve that appearance of the ring as the doorway to Bilbo's home, but did not wanted to submit my work too late, so I figured I'd hurry up and just show you all what I had accomplished so far. I was however able to utilize a filter to help make the image in front to look more like a painting, similar to the image in back, and then converted both of them to black and white, yet kept color for the ring because of its significance to the story. 

      I have chosen to do a redesign cover for The Hobbit, since I recently begun rereading The Lord of the Rings collection and thought this could be a fun book to do a book cover for. My aim is to include a hobbit hole on the front cover that has the doorway looking like the ring, which Bilbo finds during his journey and begins the adventure that would end up establishing a very large following for the franchise. While I have figured out the Gestalt principle I would like to utilize for my project, that would utilize the similarity of objects to create a unified image of Bilbos home, that features a round doorway and the ring, two things he ends up valuing greatly after his journey, I'm still trying to decide which creative effect to use. I do think however it could be fun to try and make the image black and white, but utilize color solely for the ring which is gold to signify the importance of the ring throughout the story.   Front & back cover ...

   Today we are lucky to see that a future in renewable energy is a becoming a greater reality. Cities today are creating incentives for building environmentally friendly and green design building that are visually appeal as well as responsibly designed. We now have the ability to utilize resources that are renewable and can begin to create a future that coincided with the natural world and put less stress on it. Fossil fuels and the pollutants we use to heavily rely on no longer have to be a necessity when it comes to powering our homes, businesses, or cars. My hope for a poster like this is showing that renewable energy is a simple concept but an important step in the right direction if we hope to live in a more environmentally friendly and sustainable world.

     As we have seen in recent memory, our natural world is experiencing drastic changes due to the technological dependence we have ingrained in society. The use of older energy sources like coal, gas and oil has proven to be more harmful to nature than some may have previously believed, but new energy sources like wind, solar, hydropower, and biomass are becoming a reality and serve as proof that renewable energy should be a integral part of our future. This poster design is meant to show that, similar to how we recycle on a daily, if not, a weekly basis, renewable energy should be the norm for the industrial world we live in. Nature is just as much a part of our livelihood, as heating our homes, or driving our cars, and with that being said it should be a priority for us to protect it. I chose to include the text, "The future is renewable" because I believe that we are by no means, doomed as a society, because we have the technology to make major differences if we...