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I just googled, "graphic design baseball," and this schedule came up.  The shadowing and the banner were probably created in photoshop.

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I stumbled upon this when I was looking up what photoshop could do, and I thought these were funny. I'm guessing that they used paintbrush to add the eyebrows and to mess up his teeth.

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The comics of Calvin and Hobbes were always my favorite when I was little.  These comics, along with many more, inspired me to do my final project as a comic.

Final Project: SFX

To make the sound effects I just used the pen tool in illustrator, chose an appropriate, line weight, and then exported it as a .jpeg.  I then opened them in photoshop and pasted them into the scene and adjusted the size and orientation.

Final Project: Lot's of Bunnies

I took the first Bunny and copied him into a new tab, and continued to edit him to fit each of the 5 remaining scenes.  I kept each Bunny from each scene separate in case I wanted to take a feature from a previous one and add it to the new one.  I would then, export it as a .jpeg and open them in photoshop to paste into the scene and adjust the size and orientation.

Final Project: First Bunny!

This is "Bunny" from the first scene.

Final Project Proposal

My proposed final project is a comic, or digital storyboard, about a mischievous cartoon rabbit I sketched that gets into a series of humorous situations.  I will be using the many creative tools of  Illustrator to make the characters and backgrounds, while using Photoshop to clean them up and add the necessary effects to make it  presentable.  I plan on sketching the characters and backgrounds on paper, scanning them onto the computer to be traced, if needed, and then adding hte text boxes.  I haven't decided how long the story will be, but it will be long enough to display my understandings of the two programs, as well as tell an effective story.

Brisk Iced Tea

 
When I first saw the label of a Brisk Iced Tea can I just looked at it as a cool piece of art, but since starting this class, I now see it as different fills, strokes, gradients, layers and every other tool we use in class.

Photoshop Madlibs Scene

Photoshop Madlibs

In the alley, a miniature baby mailman, punished the action figure and his robot. 

Photoshop Exercises

I Pity Da Foo!

Alzheimer's Association Logo #1

Logo Sketches

Logo Version 4: Photoshop Effects

Logo Version 3: Masked Graphic

Logo Version 2: 2 Color Flat Tone

Logo Version 1: Contour Line

Initials Logo: Refined Draft

Grayscale Layers

Guitar Tuner

My Inspiration

The following link is to a website that contains lots of Adobe Flash animations that mean a lot to me.  Yes, they are very basic and somewhat immature, but I used to be addicted to this website as a little kid.   It inspired me to purchase a copy of Macromedia Flash 5 and start to create videos like this of my own. I stopped using these programs around the age of 13, but took a class my senior year of highschool that allowed me to be creative and make silly videos like the one below.  I'm trying to find some of my old videos to share on this blog, but for the moment, I cannot, so here is an example. Sorry for the crudeness...

http://www.stickpage.com/pongnotjustagame.shtml

La Liga Latina Beto Avila Summer League Champs!!!

intro

Hello all, my name is Robbie Hagedorn, this is first blog post and I am just going to introduce myself. I am a sophomore at Cardinal Stritch University. I am a graphic design major and am a pitcher on the baseball team. I enjoy long walks on the beach with my pet Australian iguana, Judy. I spend my weekends playing baseball and hanging out with my fellow members of the Foreign Iguana Owners of America®. I enjoy taking Judy to exotic places like McDonald's and Panera Bread. I plan on using my graphic design major to make advertisements for various products.