Illustrator
Designing the “Freaked” Special Edition Booklet: A Behind-the-Scenes Look
I recently had the exciting opportunity to collaborate with Umbrella Entertainment on the design and layout of the companion booklet for their "Freaked" hardback Blu-Ray special edition. This cult classic from 1993 deserved a visual treatment as wonderfully bizarre as...
Converting a photo to Vector
Open photo in Photoshop: Crop down to the subject size such as 5 in @ 300DPI In the quick menu click Select Subject Use the lasso to clean up as needed (add or remove parts)...
Graphic Work on Bewitched Special
I was thrilled to be given the opportunity to work on a graphic design project for the classic TV show Bewitched. The first part of the project involved recreating the iconic Bewitched logo in Illustrator. To do this, I carefully removed all background elements from a...
Recreate hand drawn font instructions
Sometimes there's the need for a client to create a font based on some poster, document where the words were hand drawn and they would like to use again for a retro look. These are mostly working notes the top will have the high-level steps then below will have how I...
Video: Din-Din with Augy
Starting to learn how to do video editing, and to help focus the learning I needed to create some kind of project. I decided that Augy, a betta fish, would be my star, because of his star quality and he’s right here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHNwRkvYngs Keeping...
Save Illustrator for SVG to use in HTML page
When working with the AWS contact form, I had created a graphic in Illustrator. You can see the post here. With this test form I wanted to have everything in one HTML file this way it’s just one file to upload and update when needed without making sure the other files...
Classic Toy Logo
How I made the ‘Classic Toys & Collectibles’ logo for the web form test. In Illustrator I created a document bigger than would be used. I think added the main title ‘Classic’ to the file. I picked a font that would look a bit kiddish and fun. Made the text a solid...
Photo illustration project
Found this old photo of my grandfather when scanning in family photos and thought it would be fun to work on it as some project. I first removed everything else from the photo in Photoshop. Then cleaned up the image, added parts that got lost with years of fading....
Illustrator Certification
Received certification in Adobe Illustrator from Eduonix. While I've been using Illustrator for years, it's always good to go back and go through classes. By going through new classes you can pickup what new features that have been added that you've missed or find...
Notes: Animating an SVG File
Figuring out a simple animation using a SVG file. The purpose with flash not being useable on several devices and various security concerns with flash files that people will have this feature turned off on their browsers this is a simple, small way to replace simple...
Farmer City Christmas Parade 2019
For the Christmas Parade this year I decided to make it more exciting by adding a title screen and some visual effects to the beginning of the video. Title was created in Adobe Illustrator where I created a swatch to make the candy cane lines. Exported as an AI to...