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  • The Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry

    This man created one of my all time favorite franchises: Thomas the Tank Engine. I view him as a hero because he knew who his audience was & didn’t want to talk down to kids because he knew they were smarter than anyone realized, not to mention he knew that the adults would be…

  • One of my Favorite Art-styles

    I LOVE the art-style & patterns of the 1950s & 1960s! The colors, wacky rectangles, the triangles & rhombuses, the arrowheads, the boomerangs, the atomic stars, like the ones seen at those old-fashioned diners or the many cartoons of the 50s & 60s at theaters & on television, they just look so fun! It…

  • The Golden Ratio

    This is a calculation to make a sequence of squares into a spiral to make the Greek number Phi(φ) to design art & architecture. Here are some of many that use this: It even applies to real natural things in everyday life: I’ll talk about how one guy used this perfectly when designing an…

  • The Rule of Thirds

    The rule of thirds is where a you use an artboard or a screen & make a 3×3 grid on it so when you’re designing something & or filming something & you take a key part of it & line it up to one of the lines or intersecting points, you get a favorable…

  • My Adobe Photoshop Animation

    This GIF image of Blue giggling was made using Adobe Photoshop for a website that I made(even though the individual frames were already from another gif image). The process started with finding images(for this case, screen-capping the individual frames) & then putting the frames in a video timeline to create the animation.

  • Symmetry-BEWARE of it When Designing!

    One of the 20 rules of design, Rule #8 to be exact, states that sometimes when it comes to symmetry, the design of the image you make might become dull & flat. It also removes the flexibility of the elements that can’t work on a symmetrical design. Let’s take these Walt Disney movie/TV Show…

  • The 3 Elements of the Exposure Triangle

    There are 3 things to consider when taking photos on a DSLR camera: 1.) Aperture- This controls both the depth of field by changing what would be in focus(depends on how far the subject is from what’s behind it) & lighting. If you want more aperture, you have to decrease the shutter speed. 2.)…

  • My Photoshop Animation

    This GIF image of Blue giggling was made using Adobe Photoshop for a website that I made(even though the individual frames were already from another gif image). The process started with finding images(for this case, screen-capping the individual frames) & then putting the frames in a video timeline to create the animation.