“Fire On The Mountain”

The Grateful Dead’s 50th Anniversary is this year and being a huge Deadhead, I could not pass the opportunity to create many graphic designs based off of my old favorites! This poster design is based off of the Grateful Dead song “Fire On The Mountain” from one of my favorite Grateful Dead albums “Shakedown Street” from 1978. I highly recommend the entire “Shakedown Street” album for everyone, the whole album is loaded with classics, but for right now I have just embedded “Fire On The Mountain” since that is relevant to the design. More Dead-related designs are on the way soon!

“The Eye-Roller”

This surreal design is one of my personal favorite creations that I’ve made thus far! In Advanced Digital Media, we were told that we had to create an animated gif in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop, using Illustrator for designing the art for the GIF and then using Photoshop to create it. I’ve animated in Photoshop before at an animation camp a few summers ago at the Contemporary Art Museum in Downtown Raleigh, so I already knew this was going to be very time consuming. Since we had a week to work on it, I decided to go with something short and sweet, yet still very creative. This “something” that I created is the animation above where rolling eyes on a face drop their pupils onto the face’s mouth so that the pupils roll off the mouth and the cycle starts all over again. Sounds pretty gruesome when you describe it on paper, but nevertheless a nice experiment in surreal art. After drawing everything in Illustrator with the shape tools and the pen tool, I spent the rest of the time I had to work on the project animating all 34 frames of the face and figuring out the frame rate until I got the animation that we have here today!