Category: Leon Eckert

  When I read McCloud’s Understanding Comic, it really expanded my understanding of comics. In chapter one, I was really fascinated with the definition of comics. Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, conveying information to produce the visual or sound response in the viewer. Maybe that’s why we love comic so much. Using simple words to stimulate the senses of the readers. After reading this, I thought of a great comic book I read before. It is Father and Son. This book using simple words or even no word to convey its information. Just by the small changes of the character’s facial expression, we got the what emotion or attitude the writer what to convey. Maybe that’s why we love comic so much, simple but impressive.

  Another word attracted me is the word icon. Before I read this book, I thought that icon is used only to describe people. But after I read this I found that icon can be used to represent many other things. Also, I was surprised to find that our lives are full of icons, it has already become a part of our lives. I even imagine in our future we can see the 3D icon in our daily life, walking on the street and be part of our community.

  In chapter three what impresses me most is the word the concept of closure, the “phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole”. This makes me rethink the space between the comic. I found that the space is really important. It can let readers further think what the writer wants to convey in the former picture and have got a clearer understanding of the next picture. This chapter also made me think that also the comic is really simple, every detail does count a lot. Small changes in one picture may result in a completely different feeling of the readers.

  I was also deeply fascinated by chapter four. By reading this I understand why word balloons are used in comic. Although our eyes view the panel as a snapshot of a single moment in time, the conversation depicted in the word balloons makes it clear that the events occur over several moments. So although the cartoon is flat, it can still give people a sense of space and time. Also together with the sound effect added to the duration of a panel which strengthens the reader’s feelings. 

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For this week’s photoshop assignment I chose 3 pictures: one of me, one of GoodBai and one background. 

 

I use the auto-select tool to cut out the two figures first. I adjusted the size of the brush to get a more precise definition. Then I changed the size and rotate the layers. At last, I adjust the color, the contrast, and the brightness to make the whole picture look more natural and real.

The making of this college is a very fun experience and I think I am going to keep using photoshop. Images are so manipulative and by using Photoshop we could create a lot of amazing things.

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~yz4970/week2/index.html

This is the final website I coded. I would still want to do some improvements to the alignment thing. (Clearly, I didn’t even use this property)

I got this idea because I found that nowadays I have changed a lot, so I used my own photo. I used the lasso tool to cut my image from the whole photo, then I adjust the brightness and modulus of my image. Because this image means the past so I want it to fade. Then I used the Lasso tool to add another guy(present me) waving to me before. It’s a sign that I have found myself and saying goodbye to my old self. That’s the idea of my work.