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* Photoshop: | * Photoshop: | ||
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| − | ** | + | ** Short introduction to adding bleed areas to your illustrations |
| + | * Adobe Fresco introduction and overview | ||
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
| − | === | + | === Actions and the Actions panel in Photoshop === |
| − | + | * https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/actions-actions-panel.html | |
| − | + | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3vucjnKzhw YouTube: Photoshop Actions Tutorial For Beginners] | |
| − | * https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/ | + | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vsnsS92gKc Photoshop Actions Just Got a BRAIN... And It’s Scary Good!] |
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== Video Notes == | == Video Notes == | ||
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| + | *[http://assets.choppingblock.com.s3.amazonaws.com/video/screencast/20251006_MFAI_01_FallAssignmentReviewAndTipsPart01.mp4 Fall Assignment Review and Tips – Part 01] | ||
| + | *[http://assets.choppingblock.com.s3.amazonaws.com/video/screencast/20251006_MFAI_02_ResizingDocumentsProperlyAndWorkingWithBleedTipsInPhotoshop.mp4 Resizing Documents Properly and Working with Bleed Tips in Photoshop] | ||
| + | *[http://assets.choppingblock.com.s3.amazonaws.com/video/screencast/20251006_MFAI_03_FallAssignmentReviewAndTipsPart02.mp4 Fall Assignment Review and Tips – Part 02] | ||
| + | *[http://assets.choppingblock.com.s3.amazonaws.com/video/screencast/20251006_MFAI_04_IntroToAdobeFrescoFromTheFrescoTeam.mp4 Introduction to Adobe Fresco – From the Fresco Team] | ||
== Assignment == | == Assignment == | ||
| − | Your prompt is 'Tiny Town' | + | === Your prompt is 'Tiny Town'=== |
| − | + | This will be a multi-week project to reinforce compositing workflows and the advantages of working in non dstrictive & motion/animation forward ways. | |
| − | * | + | * We will begin with a 6" by 6" illustration at a pixel resolution/size of AT LEAST 1800 x 1800 pixels per inch (PPI). |
| − | * | + | * Adding bleed to your digital illustration is up to you, I shared a few ways that you can accomplish this in class this week 😉. |
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| + | Your assigment is illustrate a bustling city or town, it can be a real or fictional location. With lots of people or buildings or traffic or trains or bubbles or turtles or kittens or flying machines (hopefully you get the point here). | ||
| + | * The catch is that I dont want you to draw a lot of buildings or kittens, I only want you to make one or two of each! | ||
| + | * We will color, duplicate and compose these items leveraging some core concepts of digital workflows. | ||
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| + | And since our class discussion time last week was shorter, I want you to focus on making the basic parts and general direction for class next Monday. | ||
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| + | <br> | ||
| + | <div style="border: 2px solid blue; padding: 10px; border-radius: 10px;"> | ||
| + | Here is an example: Let's imagine that your illustration is a fantastical future NYC: | ||
| − | + | * Illustration one might be the background/scene: sunset sky, silhouetted building skyline. | |
| + | * Illustration two might be some taxi cabs, you illustratie one or two taxi cabs, later we will duplicate those and create as many as we need. | ||
| + | * Illustration three might be a few buildings, not all the buildings, just a few (one or two) that we can color, and or scale or recompose to make a whole street of buildings. | ||
| + | * Illustration four might be a subway car or two. | ||
| + | * Illustration five might be some people. | ||
| + | * And so on... | ||
| + | </div> | ||
| − | + | === Deliverables for class next week === | |
| + | # A rough sketch of your illustration/composition. Scanned or digitally drawn. | ||
| + | # Draw at least 4 or 5 different types of items (buildings, kittens, etc) for your cityscape and 1 background/scene. | ||
| + | #* I expect at least half of your items to be drawn on paper and scanned, the rest can be digital (Procreate, Photoshop and or Fresco) if you wish to do so. | ||
| + | # Create a Psd file containing all of your elements, prep the scans for coloring. | ||
| + | #* You can start coloring thisgs if you want but it's not required, yet. | ||
| + | #* 6" by 6" illustration at a pixel resolution/size of AT LEAST 1800 x 1800, with bleed if you want it. | ||
| − | + | We will spend time in class next week talking and exploring different ways of buildingf this composition. | |
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| − | === Bring upload for class next week === | + | === Bring and/or upload for class next week === |
| − | * One LAYERED Photoshop file and | + | * One LAYERED prepped Photoshop file and |
| − | * | + | * Any related working files, scans, etc... mentioned above |
| − | + | * The Google Drive directory for this weeks project is: [https://drive.google.com/open?id=1envAuAyZiFDCKciZKsZc-07XLj4SXpOS&usp=drive_fs svaMFAI_20251013-assignment-tiny-town-sketch-and-parts-prep] | |
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Latest revision as of 09:55, 10 October 2025
Contents
Last Week
- Review your 1st Ps coloring assignment.
- Photoshop overview/details/depth as needed
This Week
- Project Review
- Photoshop:
- Intro to action
- Short introduction to adding bleed areas to your illustrations
- Adobe Fresco introduction and overview
- New Assignment "tiny town"
Open Questions
Notes
Actions and the Actions panel in Photoshop
- https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/actions-actions-panel.html
- YouTube: Photoshop Actions Tutorial For Beginners
- Photoshop Actions Just Got a BRAIN... And It’s Scary Good!
Video Notes
- Fall Assignment Review and Tips – Part 01
- Resizing Documents Properly and Working with Bleed Tips in Photoshop
- Fall Assignment Review and Tips – Part 02
- Introduction to Adobe Fresco – From the Fresco Team
Assignment
Your prompt is 'Tiny Town'
This will be a multi-week project to reinforce compositing workflows and the advantages of working in non dstrictive & motion/animation forward ways.
- We will begin with a 6" by 6" illustration at a pixel resolution/size of AT LEAST 1800 x 1800 pixels per inch (PPI).
- Adding bleed to your digital illustration is up to you, I shared a few ways that you can accomplish this in class this week 😉.
Your assigment is illustrate a bustling city or town, it can be a real or fictional location. With lots of people or buildings or traffic or trains or bubbles or turtles or kittens or flying machines (hopefully you get the point here).
- The catch is that I dont want you to draw a lot of buildings or kittens, I only want you to make one or two of each!
- We will color, duplicate and compose these items leveraging some core concepts of digital workflows.
And since our class discussion time last week was shorter, I want you to focus on making the basic parts and general direction for class next Monday.
Here is an example: Let's imagine that your illustration is a fantastical future NYC:
- Illustration one might be the background/scene: sunset sky, silhouetted building skyline.
- Illustration two might be some taxi cabs, you illustratie one or two taxi cabs, later we will duplicate those and create as many as we need.
- Illustration three might be a few buildings, not all the buildings, just a few (one or two) that we can color, and or scale or recompose to make a whole street of buildings.
- Illustration four might be a subway car or two.
- Illustration five might be some people.
- And so on...
Deliverables for class next week
- A rough sketch of your illustration/composition. Scanned or digitally drawn.
- Draw at least 4 or 5 different types of items (buildings, kittens, etc) for your cityscape and 1 background/scene.
- I expect at least half of your items to be drawn on paper and scanned, the rest can be digital (Procreate, Photoshop and or Fresco) if you wish to do so.
- Create a Psd file containing all of your elements, prep the scans for coloring.
- You can start coloring thisgs if you want but it's not required, yet.
- 6" by 6" illustration at a pixel resolution/size of AT LEAST 1800 x 1800, with bleed if you want it.
We will spend time in class next week talking and exploring different ways of buildingf this composition.
Bring and/or upload for class next week
- One LAYERED prepped Photoshop file and
- Any related working files, scans, etc... mentioned above
- The Google Drive directory for this weeks project is: svaMFAI_20251013-assignment-tiny-town-sketch-and-parts-prep
