Taylor Ridinger Digital Media

For my animation, I decided to animate my collage. The hardest part was trying to make it look realistic, it was hard because I couldn't make the paddle move back and forth, and wasn't sure how to make the water move. Overall, it was fun to learn but I do not think that animation is in my future!

For my collage I chose the song lyric Somewhere on a Beach by Dierks Bentley. I took a picture of a beautiful beach and added some of my favorite things to do while at the beach. Making sure the lighting matched and adding shadows in appropriate places was the challenge of this assignment. Making sure the selections were precise and that the images meshed together seamlessly was my ultimate goal. Orignial Images:

For my magazine cover, I decided to take a Florida beach approach. I used a picture of the beach as the background, cut out a picture of me with sand dollars as the main image, an acai bowl, and weights as secondary smaller images. My magazine would feature things like best beach snacks, and workouts to get in shape for summer! Making this cover was a lot of fun. I used stroke and glow around the images on top of the background to get them to pop. Original Images: