I created this animation to the beat and lyrics of a song called "Good Night" by the Beatles. I chose this song based on the lullaby genre I was given by my teacher for this project. I wanted to use a song that was a more modern version of a lullaby and not something you would typically think of when you think of that particular genre of music.

Lullabies are songs that mothers generally tend to sing to their children to either help calm them down or help put them to sleep. The idea is that if someone familiar to the child sings the song in a soothing voice, they will relax and fall to sleep. Their rhythms are typically slow and have a lot of repeated note sequences. They are mostly done in flat keys and without any high-pitched notes or surprise jumps in the song so as to not startle the child. Lullabies have been around for a long time and are not really attributed to any particular culture seeing as mothers have traditionally sung to their children throughout the world for generations.

My research influenced parts of my animation such as the use of color and instruments. Since lullabies often times are created with a lot of string instruments, I used a violin and a harp as part of my imagery. I also gathered that the use of voice and lyrics is pretty important so I emphasized certain parts of the lyrics in my project. I also used an illustrative type approach thinking that these are geared towards children. I also chose to use golds, blues, and purples because I feel like they are soothing colors and blue as obviously correlated with the evening and night parts of day.

Here is the link to my animation: click here

For this project, we were given eight words that we had to illustrate. We were allowed to choose either a video, an animation, photographs, or illustrations. I chose to do an animation because it fits into my major. In this animation, I chose to go with a black and white color scheme and used patterned paper to spice it up a bit. The words I show in sequence are: geometric, symmetrical, asymmetrical, animate, natural, dynamic, rhythm, and inanimate.

Here is the youtube link to my animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlhtTZ5plp8

Design for Media 2

For this series, we were given a single word to depict. We then had to photograph objects that reminded us of the word or related to the word including textures and patterns.

The word I was given was chemistry. The first panel, we were only allowed to use one dominant shape and one accent shape which were to be consistent throughout the whole piece. I chose to use a squiggly shape sculpture for my dominant shape because it reminds me of molecules and liquid forms. For my accent shape, I used a helium tank that I thought looked like a test tube. The color scheme I chose to use was analogous using blues, blue greens, and greens. I created a background that looks like liquid that are mixing together to further express the notion of chemistry.

The second panel added a decorative element to the piece. I used a decorative candle lantern and gave it the essence of bubbles. The same color scheme is used but the sizing and orientation of the shapes as well as the background changed.

In the third panel, we added a decorative element and a pattern element. I used the ball shapes again to look like bubbles. I added a grate like pattern because it reminds me of drains and sinks like one would find in a chemistry lab. I also changed

up the composition.

In the fourth panel, we added a decorative element and an

element of texture. I used the same ball shapes for decorative elements and added a bubbly, cracked texture to the squiggly sculpture.


In the fifth panel, we took all of the elements and combined it into one final image. I used the same analogous color scheme. I used decorative elements, textural elements, elements of pattern and the dominant and accent shapes.

Design For Media

The idea for this project was to create a compound shape with organic and mechanical components based off of an adjective. We were given several words to choose from and the word I chose to illustrate was anxiety.
For the first panel, we had to create a parent shape based off of our word and use either a white on black or black on white color scheme. I designed my first shape based off of the word anxiety. I feel the shape represents the word well because it has sharp angles and it gives you a feeling of being overwhelmed and something trying to escape. It has a sort of looming quality about it too.



For the second panel, we were asked to make a composition using our parent shape and three sibling shapes. The design was meant to make people think, "is it white on black or black on white." Here, I played around with the size and perspective of the shapes to further emphasize the word anxiety and create the idea of black on white.









For my third panel, we were asked to turn our shapes into some sort of object and use a monochromatic color scheme. I chose to turn my shapes into monster-like fish. I went with this option because it both fits the idea of anxiety and lends itself towards my original shape. I added scales and fins to make the objects fish-like and gave them sharp teeth to appear more intimidating and creepy. I went with the yellow orange color scheme because it can be associated with danger and anxiety.

In the final step, we were asked to place our objects into an appropriate environment and use either a triad color scheme or a complimentary color scheme. I chose to go with a complimentary color scheme because I felt that yellow orange and blue tend to stand out when placed together and the blue lent itself towards my oceanic environment. I placed the monster-like fish in an ocean environment and used neutral colors to push the objects back into space.