Week 12 Exercise

I found this picture on the internet doing a google search under motion graphics. It really caught my eye out of all the rest because it really gives a great sense of motion. We can see a person standing still with his hands open, pretending to either throw our catch the pieces of paper. They seem to be floating above his hands and cannot tell if they are falling into his hands or away. It really gives a great perspective of motion in a still image way. When we look at the picture our brain immediately thinks that the pieces of paper are moving in some direction, but no matter how long we look at it, they never move, creating an amazing visual affect. 

This picture is relevant both to San Francisco and to our major, hence why I chose it. This I found under motion photography which mainly uses the blur affect to show an exaggerated motion affect increasing speed when in reality, it is all going the same speed. This picture shows the famous cable car zooming down the tracks downtown, but I know from experience that these cars do not zoom at all. Actually quite the opposite. They are very slow and stop at every other block and could take a while to get to where you need to go. I think the juxtaposition between the slow moving vehicle and the fast moving background really shows the effects of motion. 

Week 11 Exercise

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This is an image of a 3D graphic design. I thought this picture portrayed a very good example of depth and perception, with the lines shooting out from each side growing in size to make it seem like the word color is farther back than it actually is. Also, behind the word color, we see small words, showing perspective and playing a huge role in overall size. We can’t have large without small. By scaling the images behind the word, it has a pop out feel and makes it look like it is bigger in size. The juxtaposition of the big words against the small words makes for a very interesting photo. We can also see some circles which help to show scale since there a some bigger ones and smaller ones. It creates a nice scale all in one photo to really show perspective. Even though this is a 2D image, it has been created to look 3D using elements such as scale, dimension, and size, all the key elements in creating perspective and depth. 

Tone and Color

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Here is a poster of the Rip Curl Pro Search which is going on right now here in San Francisco at Ocean Beach, which I have been to the past two days and am having the best time of my life. I love this poster and can’t get enough of it. The colors are so perfect for the Sunset district, but I’ll start with tone. Tone is a way in which to convey dimension, as Dondis says. It helps us perceive depth and movement. This is clearly evident in the poster above as we can see a wave just beginning to break and the white water flowing behind it, spraying the ocean. It’s a perfect perfect peak breaking left and right, which usually never happens in SF. We also have a good horizon line as the ocean continues on and the street comes closer to us, as if were are standing on sunset street. Tone, Dondis says, is basically light, “through it, and only through it, we see,” and as you can see, in the distance it is lighter and closer to us, it is darker, maybe signifying that the sun is shining onto the ocean. 

My favorite part is the color. There are many different shades of red, mixed with yellow, orange, and some white for letters and the wave. Yellow usually signifies warmth, and I believe that is exactly what it is signifying here, the nice warm feeling of the sunset. Red is supposed to be emotional, which is perfect because the emotion at the beach today was amazing and everyone was so happy to see the worlds greatest surfers in our back yards. The color fades from red, to dark yellow, to brighter yellow as it fades away, getting warmer and warmer. This poster makes me feel so warm and in love with San Francisco that I don’t think they could have picked a better color choice. Nothing is to bright here, mainly all the same. Nothing is really saturated to much, just different hues of red and yellow. Red and yellow compliment each other very nicely here and I think who ever designed this poster did a fabulous job.