Portfolio Project 1: To Boldly Go!
This First Project is a fairly simple one to start out with as it is an image of the USS Enterprise, in which the Enterprise has been pen tooled out of its environment, and an image of Jool, an imaginary planet in a "NASA Simulator". I created a clipping mask of Jool and the Enterprise and added in part of the opening sequence of Star Trek; to boldly go when n man has gone before as to make a reference to the planet. The text was manipulated with the Transform-Skew options to make it fit along with the velocity vector of the USS Enterprise.
Portfolio Project 2: The Missions To The Moon!
This Project was a type of terracotta warrior-esque creation in which I chose the theme of the 17 Apollo Missions to the Moon. I first got an image of the Saturn V launch vehicle and of the Moon. I then, using the pen tool, isolated the rocket from its base image and created a clipping mask of it with the moon. I then made it into a custom brush and painted it 12 separate rockets onto a black background. I then followed a similar process with the Moon by its self and used the brush 17 times. The text was added in an the image was complete.
Portfolio Project 3: A Bad Spot To Land!
This Project used three base images (One of the lander, one of the
surface and another of an asteroid) in order to be created. First I used the pen tool to
outline the lander and make a selection. I then positioned a copy of the
lander and filled in in with black to create the shadow. I also used
the dodge tool to create the lighting effects from the lander. Next I
added exhaust effects from the engine by adding, on a different layer,
two brush strokes of white. I then used the smudge tool and then the
color balancing option to make it appear as a flame. In the background,
there is a asteroid crashing into the surface. I created a custom brush
for the explosion and then used a similar method to create the flames
for the exhaust to create the effects around the asteroid.
Portfolio Project 4: Into The Black Hole!
This project was comprised of six pictures (An image of a black hole, an image of Jupiter, an image of Betelgeuse, an image of the cosmic background radiation, an image of the Moon, and an image of the Milky way galaxy). I proceeded to create a clipping mask for every letter used in Space and assembled it onto the black hole background. I then, using the smudge tool, began swirling the rasterized letters to match the warping effect of the black hole.
Portfolio Project 5: Getting Kind Of Toasty!
This Project only used two base images (An image of the Alamo and an image of an asteroid). After importing the asteroid into the Alamo PSD file, I adjusted its position, size, and rotation to fit my needs. I then created two more layers in which I painted, with the brush tool, two white blobs which were then smudged into the red and yellow potions of the reentry heating seen. I then used the layer options to have only and to turn off the red component of the RGB, creating the red and yellow portions respectively, and the image was complete.
Portfolio Project 6: Hmmm... Crunchy!
This Project continues with the space theme as I download three images, a map of the moon, an astronaut, and an image depicting the curvature of the Earth. First, I opened up the Moon map in Photoshop, made a 3-D doughnut, and rendered it after finding the proper angle based off of the direction of light from the curvature image.
Portfolio Project 7: You Shall Not Pass!
This Project deviates slightly from the space theme, but maintains its basis in space. For this, I downloaded several images of Mount K2, from the "NASA Simulator", a starry background, the Balrog of Morgoth, Mithrandir (Gandalf the Grey), and the Wallace and Gromit rocket from "A Grand Day Out". First, I isolated all of the points of interest in each image and assembled them in position. For the planet, I cropped the image, turned it upside down, used polar coordinates, and mirrored the two sides (for symmetry). I then proceeded, using the timeline feature, to animate the objects, along with a simple text box.
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Portfolio Project 8/9: ISS Around The Earth!
Note: The Earth wasn't animated in the rendering for some odd reason...
This Project is an animation of the ISS orbiting around the Earth which used an image of the ISS, a map of the Earth, and a starry background. I first pen tooled out the ISS and made it into a 3-D Postcard, after which I imported the map of the Earth that had been made into a sphere mesh wrapped around a sphere (I placed the starry background outside of the 3-D aspect of the file). I positioned the camera and proceeded to animate the ISS and the Earth (Which wasn't rendered in the animation, but that rotated in the Photoshop preview). When it came to the ISS, I also changed the scale of the object to give the allusion of its receding while the postcard was only moving along one line.
This Project is an animation of the ISS orbiting around the Earth which used an image of the ISS, a map of the Earth, and a starry background. I first pen tooled out the ISS and made it into a 3-D Postcard, after which I imported the map of the Earth that had been made into a sphere mesh wrapped around a sphere (I placed the starry background outside of the 3-D aspect of the file). I positioned the camera and proceeded to animate the ISS and the Earth (Which wasn't rendered in the animation, but that rotated in the Photoshop preview). When it came to the ISS, I also changed the scale of the object to give the allusion of its receding while the postcard was only moving along one line.
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Portfolio Project 10: Explosions And Collisions!
This Project was a movie of an asteroid hitting Mars which used a map of Mars, of an explosion, and a starry background. Firstly, I created a sphere with the Mars map wrapped around it and placed it in space, in which the starry background was outside of the 3-D element. Then, I used the same map of mars, removed the poles, blurred the image (Using Gaussian Blur and 5 pixels), and created it into a spherical depth map. I then animated the objects in which the Asteroid spun towards a rotating Mars, causing a strangely animated explosion to go off, in which a still image expanded.
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