Film Critique- Coraline

CORALINE

In genreal terms, the film has a dark, creepy overtone to it. It is created by Tim Burton. The subject it covers is appreciation for the family and friends you have, and accepting them for who they are. The film is animated, and is set in the real world, but with twists of fantasy, like the wormhole to the alternate universe where Coraline finds her "other family" who is "perfect,"  but not really what she expected after all.
The main theme of the theme is kinda creepy, with all the button eyes and stuff... after all, it IS Tim Burton. Not really everyone wanted to watch it because everyone said it's just really weird and creepy, and I agree. It's a good film, but still could give a little kid nightmares for sure.
I think it's a good quality film. The animation's not very realistic looking, but it's very well done and impressive. I know when it came out, a lot of people wanted to see it. So obviously it did spark a lot of interest once people started talking. I have never seen it myself until now though.  And obviously, since it was an animation, there wasn't much acting haha, but I think the voices fit the characters well. Also the music added to the creepy theme of the film. Though sometimes the music was a little less mysterious.
There was definitely character development in Coraline for sure. In the beginning, she didn't really appreciate her family and friends as much, because of the situation they were in. She obviously wished things were going better, making her very vulnerable to being tricked by the alternate universe and its perceived perfect nature.
Like I said before, a lot of people were interested about the movie when it came out. I think this mayyy be because since they hadn't seen it, they didn't know how creepy it can be for little kids. My friend told me that her little sister had nightmares for a while after seeing it. I mean, there's nothing necessarily scary, but I can keep an endless list of creepy things throughout the movie, like the black button eyes for example.
I think a strength was the plot. It was interesting to follow it along and wonder what will happen next. (although sometimes that was spoiled for me because certain people may have just so happened to have seen it before and feel the need to tell me everything that's going to happen *cough cough aaron*)
I would say some weaknesses were that they could have made the animation a little bit more realistic. For example, Coraline's face looked way too unrealistic and doll-like.  Also, I think they could have made the alternate universe turn bad just a little bit quicker, because I was kind of losing interest as nothing was really happening.

There Goes the Neighborhood Exam

      My inspiration was a mixture of my gramma's house and my imagination.


      The house had belonged to the Blair family for generations. It held secrets and mysteries of which you could never begin to imagine. The darkness of each gloomy night seemed to coat the house even throughout the daytime. And at midnight, this house became even more mysterious than before. Every night at 12 o'clock sharp, a clock would tick and tock, back and forth. It would gradually get faster and faster until it couldn't tick any longer. When the clock is finally silenced, a wolf begins to howl. It lives beyond the boardwalk to the swamp, and cries to the moon with sorrow every night. But no one knows that this wolf used to be the last living relative of the Blair family. The other Blair relatives' ghosts were angry that he outlived all of them so they turned him into a ghost wolf. He is invisible to everyone, and the only thing he can do is howl at the moon to let people know he still exists.    Hunters go out looking and searching for him, but as you can see from this picture, he is nowhere to be found. (obviously, he is invisible.)

Custom Vehicle 2

Here is the Senior Director project. I added it's name, the Cotton Candy Mobile :)

Custom Vehicle

Here is my custom vehicle! It is called the Cotton-Candy Mobile, and these are all the parts that I used in it.

Sometimes I had problems with contrast. So I referred to the article to see what to do and what contrast is, to see how I could fix it to make it look good. THIS IS ALSO CREATIVE DIRECTOR because I have the gradient background :)

MEOW Magazine Sketch

Here's my sketch for the magazine cover.

Magazine

   From the article, the tips on planning ahead helped me. The only thing that was basically different from the sketch was the actual kittens. I didn't plan to make the exact design I had made, but I think it turned out okay.  I also made my Masthead really big to stand out.

Logo sketch

My sketch for Logo

Adam's Alphas Logo

                                         

These are the logos I created for ADAM's Alphas. I did Senior and Creative Director too. A concept I used from the article was the unique letters/font. I decided to make all the letters out of triangles. It might be a little hard to read, but I wanted mine to be unique. 

You can use other people's work if you change it enough that it's not recognizable as theirs. You have to change it to make it your own.    And you cannot reuse the copy-righted designs like Coca-Cola or Pepsi. 

Comic Strip

It is very important to save your selections, because if you don't, you would have to recreate it every time. When you save it, you can access it any time and use it again. 

We used the brush tool differently this time because we used it to color. We had to choose black-and-white line drawings from the internet and color them ourselves using the brush tool.

The most important tip I learned from the comic website was to have pauses in the dialogue. I tried to do that in my comic.

Eddie the Donkey

This is the Eddie the Donkey project. I went all the way to Creative Director, giving him a spaceship!  So, some techniques I used in this project that I could have used in the Thor project are more masking, blending, and finding the right image size and quality. Some of the pictures in Thor were blurry, but now I know how to find the right images.

Thor Movie Poster

I wanted to have the person viewing the poster to notice Thor first because, obviously, the movie is about him. That's also why I made the title stand out quite a bit. I want people to say "Oh look at that cool poster! Looks like it's for the new Thor movie, I want to watch it! now"  My sketching influenced my poster because it gave me a rough idea of what I sort of wanted it to be at the time. I knew from the start that I wanted the title at the top, and Thor at the bottom, to stand out the most. The rest of the characters just went along into the background based on their importance.

The Collage

 Hey there!
For my collage, I picked the color orange for many reasons. It is both the happiness of yellow, and the energy of red. I think this fits me because I try to be as optimistic as possible, and I can be very energetic. Orange also has to do with the tropics (I live in Florida), enthusiasm, creativity, determination, and success. Orange is also the color of strength and endurance in heraldry.  I think all of these apply to me, so I picked orange.  I hope you like it!

"Animals, Initials, Masking, & Textures"

Hey there!

I have to say, coming up with this animal was pretty difficult, working with the initials H C S. I found that I could shape them into a jellyfish! The elongated H is the bottom part of the body of the jellyfish, the sideways C is the top of the body, and the skinny S is the tentacles.  I am pretty happy with the end result, and now I also know more about Photoshop! I learned how to use the move tool, masking tool, type tool, transform tool, brush tool, and the layers panel.