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.

I made two photoshopped pictures, one was for fun and the other one was more detailed. I plan on studying abroad in France on semester and hope one day I can make it to the Oscars (and meet Leonardo DiCaprio of course). When I was exiting out of Photoshop I thought I saved all of my projects and I did not. I only exported my Paris photo as a JPG. This was a slap in the face since I worked on the details like being behind objects and making a shadow.

I used photoshop for the first time since Freshmen year of High School. I struggled a bit figuring out the tools so this project took me some time. Back home, I always joke around with how I am the golden child out of all my siblings. I have my three siblings in the right corner and I am highlighted in gold. I organized each layer so I wasn't confused. I played around with the original background so it doesn't look like the original. I did this with the halo and cloud as well. I also smudged my teeshirt so it didn't say "deegee" on it. I like the way this project turned out.