I always am very afraid to ask for exceptions. I'm trying to be better about advocating for that type of thing, but it just terrifies me. It feels unfair to other people, I think. But I was lucky enough to have someone ask for me, so here I am getting to do something I prefer much more than real world filming. Not to say I don't have any bright ideas on that- Plenty of projects in the woodworks. But, as happy as I am that I get to flex my passion in graphic design, I'm a bit saddened at the same time I wasn't brave enough to ask earlier. But it's alright, because nobody's born perfect. SEGUE!
Working on this project was a lot of cutting work for me. Almost none of the graphical elements I used (besides the text) came as presets for Adobe Spark, which means that pretty much all these assets are custom made. Some of them were quite testy to make as well, I wanted to make the central photo I used of myself a very wavy color, and it took a loooooot of effort to do. I initially tried using a basic color palette swap with Paint 3D, my favorite image editor, but it didn't give me any satisfaction from replacing big blocks of colors.It was very flat. The solution was to "write" lines in my hair to represent wavy streaks, and then plug the newly edited flat colors with hair marks into an image filter, which made the color swap "pop" as well as keeping the hair as an image with a lot of depth in it. As with the theme of the written elements being people having multiple sides, I wanted a big contrast in the colors of the elements I used between very monotone graphics and a huge blast of color in the middle. All of the grim illustrations come from one of my favorite books, Mordheim. I can talk about it for hours, but the artist John Blanche is prolific and one of my all-time idols. Getting these on here was a process. I scanned in the original images from the long page cut outs in Mordheim, (the original book! pressed onto a scanner!) used Paint 3D to cut out all of the text and background to make them transparent files, then uploaded them onto Adobe spark to arrange them about the image. Overall, i'm super excited to get to work on more graphical projects in the future while still making videos. I hope that I can keep going strong, and really hit my stride with creative work that I can use my technical expertise to make good work out of. Here's to the future. (I also cooled off with some graphics work for Maxwell. Was nice.)
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