Semester 2:
Reflection 9

I have learned and gone through the instructions to create a "lineart" from the manga page that I posted a few weeks prior to this. I am currently converting the manga page that I have saved on my computer. I'm going to use this to have make into an outline like picture where I will use several layers to color in the manga photo. After that I will be done with the picture because it will become completely color in and will be of my own photoshop created color image.

Semester 2:
Reflection 8

This week has actually been really beneficial to me because I found a really good site that has exactly what I need in order to convert a manga page into a traceable and coloring outline called "Linearts". This forum post actually gives me step by step instructions that allow me to see just how it is that I can convert what I want to an outline with pictures showing exactly what to do in Photoshop and explanations of how to do it.
It's actually a really accomplishing feeling finding exactly what you are looking for from the thousands of searches you get on google, and now I've found one of the stepping stones to finishing my first colored image.

Semester 2:
Reflection 7

During the first week back it's been pretty hectic and not much as gotten done, I have continued looking for ways in order to make a manga page an actual tracing outline for me to add color too, and have looked back at any responses that I have gotten from the deviant-art community with no avail. Though I'm not going to give up on trying to get in contact with people and I'm sure that they are probably busy with their own lives and will get back to me when they can. I really hope I can get to work or maybe even finish one of my scans in the next few weeks.

Semester 2:
Reflection 6

This week during spring break I didn't have as much time as I thought I would. There was a lot to do in terms of visiting colleges, meeting with my family for the holidays, and just spending time with people. Though I did get somethings done. I was able to contact a few different people from the deviant-art community that I have seen do really good jobs in terms of coloring manga pages, and have requested their help from them in any questions I have or in terms of tips that they can give me in order for me to progress as they did and get to the level they are.

Semester 2:
Reflection 5


There isn't really much to report because there have been a lot of things due lately with the ending of this marking period and with the spring break coming up.
I plan to do a lot of work over the break and continue to learn and see how different things can color my images in different programs as well as Photoshop. I plan to complete my first picture within the next few weeks and maybe get started on a new image or try doing one of my own soon

Semester 2:
Reflection 4


During this week I continued to learn the facts about Photoshop and how different things work, and how different things change how certain things work. These things such as layers and different tools like brush and paint options and how the different color wheels work. This has actually been a lot harder than I thought and Photoshop has a lot more options and tools that can do a lot of different things.
There are however a lot of different sites and tutorials that teach people how to specifically do things with black and white manga pages and a lot of community groups dedicated to teaching people how to color in manga pages.

Semester 2:
Reflection 3


I have continued watching videos and looking through on line tutorials on how Photoshop works and how different tools and steps can lead to certain types of pictures and overall different results for the thing that you are doing. I will continue trying to learn how Photoshop works and work out a plan for how I am going to start and finish my first project of coloring in a manga page that I have picked.

Reflection 2:
Semester 2


Lately for the beginning of my 20% time project I have been trying to learn how to use Photoshop by watching videos of people that have colored in manga pages and their technique on how they use the Photoshop to create the colored drawing that they made. There are a lot of people on deviantart.com that do this specific type of art work and probably a community of people as well that I can email or message using deviant-art to ask them specific questions of how they created their colored images and how they intended on starting with. Maybe even how/where they got the programs that they use for this process due to the fact that like photoshop there are a lot of different programs that are able to use to color things, one of the least expensive and least effective ones are Microsoft Paint, which I am going to try avoid using for the time being and until I have no other options.

Twenty Percent Proposal - 2.0

Though things didn't go well for my last 20% time project, I will not let it dampen my hopes and goals for this 20% time project for second semester.

For this 20% project I will be learning to use Photoshop for a variety of different things like my friend Alexis did for his project last semester. Though I won't be doing the same exact projects as him, I will be learning to do different things than he did. Though if things pick up and I get ahead of schedule I may try and do some of the things he did like putting an animal in a glass and other stuff that he might have not gotten a chance to do.
Some things that I intend to do include:

1. Coloring black and white photos:
This can include actual black and white photos or pictures that just don't have color like manga pages.
   A. I might try and color a few of my own drawing or try and draw some stuff in the application itself.

2. Taking a normal picture and make it into something completely different:
This can include taking a picture of the outside and changing it's season or taking a picture of someone and change the background in a way that makes it look as if they were actually there.

3. Creating my own picture:
I want to maybe take something completely from scratch and then make a photo out of it in some way that makes it look like an actual photograph.

For all of these projects I want the things I make to look real and not as of they were "photoshopped". I want to make these different things and maybe other projects appear real.

For the third week there was a problem downloading the program that I intended to use for my project. I will be attempting to keep downloading the program and looking into the problems that could be causing it not to download. I have also send an email to the help/support center of the people who sell the program in order to try and get to the bottom of it. I have also been going to the different help and error FAQ's in order to see if anyone else can help me with the problem.

For the second week I spent my time trying to figure out what programs will help me animate in the form of animation that I was trying to do. There is one Youtube channel name Slamcow or Slamcow creations that releases videos to how he creates the videos he makes. In these video's he explains what programs he uses and what kind of things he had difficulty with. He explains what kind of problems he faced in making the things he wanted to happen work, and how he solved the problem using the program in the video. I will be referencing his youtube videos for help in my attemps to use this program as well as in editing my own videos to come. Hopefully the programs that he uses will also work for my own computer at home and will be able to handle all the processing that it takes to make these videos.

My 20% project will be video animation in a specific media. There are many medias in which you can create videos such as digital media, stop motion animation, and others. Some are time consuming such as stop motion animation because you need every piece of the set to be exactly the same frame by frame. Though some are more of a skill set where you need to learn how to use and utilize different programs in order to create animations from computer generated sets opposed to the real life sets of stop motion. For my project I will be trying both Stop Motion and Computer Generated and create a video out of it.
My audience will be the class and I will show my final product however bad or good it may be. Since this will be my first attempt at making videos at all and don't really know how to use the programs and/or make stop motion, it will be a learning experience and will probably not be as good at professionally done pieces, though I will do my best. I will be researching and asking the many people of the video making world on Youtube due to the fact they are willing to help aspiring video makers and put out many videos and such for people looking to start making them. I will work mostly at home it would seem, though if I can find a way to work on it at school I will do it there as well.