J. Murphy Blog

I never thought I'd say I enjoyed an 8 am class, until I took Digital Media with Professor Santiago. I created fun projects that I can use for my portfolio in the future. I lost a lot of sleep over making most of my projects, but I love the way they turned out and believe it was worth it. I learned a lot in Santi's class, including different softwares which I am so appreciative about. I would definitely recommend taking Santi's class to anyone interested in Digital Media. Even if it is an 8 am.

Our last project, we used GarageBand to create the audio for our animation. I thought this was the easiest project that we have created all semester and it was ironically our last one. I think I found this one not as difficult since I am a film major and enjoy editing audio. Attached is what my timeline looked like in Garage Band. I had 11 different layers with different sound effects.

On this project, we had to create a 60 second long animation with 600 frames. I spent up to 50 hours on this project. I hand painted almost each frame which was very time consuming. It was worth it in the end and I'm very happy with what I have created. I ended up submitting this to the Black Box Film festival and I won an award for Best Animation

First time using photoshop in Digital Media and I definitly struggled with it in the begging. The first one I did was the yellow tone which took me 2 hours just for this one. As I made more, the process went faster. It took me a total of 7 hours.