Today when i went in i worked with the other intern Alonzo and brainstormed the a video project for the schools new comers.  Afterward my supervisor gave me my first non video / animation assignment.  I had to edit two separate photos.  Each photo had about 3 people in them and i my task was to mask out the background, add the people in each photo together and retouch the completed photo.  It was an easy task as there figures were not complicated.  I used the pen tool and outlined each figure.  Later I used quick mask for the background, feathered and smoothed the models.  The other picture had a problem.  The lady in the other picture had her arm cut off on the edge of the photo so i had to use her left arm, copy it, and use it to make a believable right arm, which was missing.  I copied the arm and warped it to make it the correct angle and added some levels and curves to make it related to the lighting.  I placed all the figures into one picture and cleaned up the pixels by lightly blurring the shadows and black spaces in the photo.  After this assignment he gave me another task with photo retouching.  The time i had left was short so we decided that i would work on it next time, on Thursday.

This week we met at the office and I was told that we would be working on 2 different logos. One company was wait lost program called Lose extra Fat, and the other one was called Dating Exclusively. I was also told that since I did so good with the last logo that I might be able to make some money if I made a logo that the client likes. So the first step of the process was to write a list of things that come to mind. When we think about the names of the company. We then gather a bunch of images and spend about 3 hours researching and sketching ideas out. After that it was time to go home and for the next 3 days, I was revising and making my sketches look golden. So I could have them ready to present at our next meeting. The next meeting is finally here and I presented my work for both Dating Exclusively and Lose Extra Fat. Then they told me that they liked four of my logos and that they wanted to see them in vector form. So for the next few hours, at home, I was wired to my computer designing these logos. I had finished them by 1 A.M. that night and had emailed them to them. They then emailed me back saying how impressed they were, with the how fast and efficient. So now all I could do is wait and see if the clients picked my logos. After 2 days I got an email and I was told that they picked someone one of the other logos, event thought I was a little mad about them not picking mine I was happy for the experience of it all.

This week wasn’t as busy as the others the only client that the company had were people that needed icons for their sites and some other companies that needed logos. The first company that needed something does was a fashion blogger that needed, custom social media icons for her site. Something very simple; that they thought I could handle with no problem. So they explained to me what was needed, and handed me over the job. At that point I thought to myself that wow they are getting pretty comfortable with me. Or they just didn’t want to do it, but hey I didn’t mind it. I was just happy to do work, and show them the good work that I could do. I then started off making a list of things that would relate and would go with her site. There was a ton of things that could be used for the icon, but after visiting her site. I noticed that she had a lot of handbags on it. So I thought to myself. Maybe I could just illustrate a vector image of a generic handbag and put the social media icons in the middle of them. So goggled pictures of handbags, and I to a realistic picture, traced it and made it into a vector. After I was done with that. I sent it to the creative director for revision and then he forward it to the client. He then emailed me congratulating me and thanking me for my good work.

This week I have to design two cover for their brochure as well as retouch and update flyers. I have to update thirty- eight pages of flyers since the company produces English and Chinese versions of it.  The designs for the covers that I need to come up with are brochure for the West Coast and Yellowstone National Park. Since I have two projects at hand I might have to multitask. My supervisor Stanley told me to send him the design as a PDF file through email, and he will give feedback on it. Currently I am still in the midst of retouching and updating the flyers since there is a handful of them. Once I’ve completed that I’ll start on the design of the cover for the brochures by sketching and laying it out.

My experience so far of my time working at the company is that there is always work to be done, and sometimes might have to overwork at home for it to be completed. I am happy there because the supervisor is very cleared on deadlines. If there is work that he didn’t specify a deadline then my supervisor is quite lenient on his team. The designers at the department work great together because we can ask each other questions and ask for help when we need to. I hope for this week’s internship I would be able to finish the two covers, so that I can get some feedback from my supervisor Stanley and other designers as well.

So after showing my work to every one over a week I got an email about a new job. Which was to create a main icon, and a user interface screens. For a company that was making an educational game app called Kids Math Healthy. That basically helped kids learn math and to eat healthy. So we then met at the office and hit the drawing board. We started sketching ideas for the icons. While doing this I realized how good working in groups is in the business world. Even though I had worked in groups in school I never really got to work in a good group. I always had one or two partners who would just coast along projects. Not with these guys, we were feeding off each other and coming up with ideas quick. After a two to three hours, we had completed a couple of great sketches. We then moved on to the user interface screens and I went the same way. We had come up with about 4 layouts. Which were very quickly sketched. I was then told to take the Sketches home with me to refine them and to email them back after I was done. So I did as I was told so, and then they gave me the green light. So I illustrated 2 of the user interface screens, and App Icon on computer. I completed the illustrations within two days, and they were very pleased with the work that I did.