Digital Photographic Design Portfolio Cadan Hinds

Digital Photographic Design Portfolio

Cadan cadan hinds Digital Photographic Design

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I’m Cadan Hinds

I’m a junior undergraduate student, currently pursuing my degree in Art and Design at Nova Southeastern University.

I have an invested interest in the digital arts and graphic design, with extensive experience creating attractive illustrations and photo editing.

Technical digital art skills include Adobe Sketch, Adobe Photoshop, and Procreate.

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FALL 2023 Animated photo collage For this assignment, we were tasked to create an animated digital collage using images we’ve compiled on our devices. First was to draw up a concept, then arrange the scene on Photoshop to blend the elements and furthermore animate them.

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FALL 2023 Cover Art We were assigned to create covers for 3 forms of media entertainment, those include podcast, music album, and playlist, using our own photos. I decided to create a star wars inspired podcast, setting the scene in the Jedi council room where they would discuss galactic affairs surrounding the senate and Jedi enforcement. For the album portion, I decided to reinvent Metro Boomin’s Spider-Verse Album, including myself and spiders with a backdrop of sunset on New York City. For the playlist, I decided to stay close to the school and make a playlist for the students to feel pride in being a shark at NSU. Layer masks were used throughout for this assignment to remove unnecessary parts of pictures that way the scene is properly set.

Podcast Cover

Album Cover

Playlist Cover

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FALL 2023 Motor Vehicle Advertising We were meant to design a magazine advertisement for two different size with the same content: full page and half a page iteration. Once completed, we were to submit a photoshop file, jpeg, and screenshot of the layers that display the detail went into making our works. The vehicle I chose for this assignment was a Dodge Challenger, I took photos with my friend’s DSLR camera the previous semester and his car was the subject for one of them. The taglines present on the advertisements are ones I’ve read before in old car advertisements. They fit the message of my pieces because I intended to allude to how excellent of a vehicle this Dodge Challenger is for drivers of any mature age to appreciate the sports car. Interestingly, it’s one of the few sports cars being manufactured that offers 4-wheel drive. The target audience is the aforementioned mature drivers that can appreciate a fine, fast, and adaptive vehicle. The photos were raw images from the camera, so I tweaked them on Camera Raw to fit the vibe. I added shadows and glow effects to certain parts.

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Restaurant Branding

For this assignment, we were tasked to sell an experience through a branding presentation slide show for a Hotel or Restaurant. I had fun with this assignment as I chose to create a restaurant within the universe of my favorite animated series titled, My Hero Academia. The restaurant is entitled Plus Ultra Eatery, a themed restaurant surrounding the heroes of that world. It was fun putting together the pictures to sell this experience. Plenty of layer masks were made and blending options were tweaked to marry the elements to the environment.

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FALL 2023 Custom Calendar For this assignment, I chose to follow a theme of college life with my calendar design. I gathered photos relevant to my chosen theme and made them even more thematic for the seasons within the school year. Layer masks were created and mockups were played around with to deliver the final products.

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Book & Magazine

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For this assignment, I chose to create a book and magazine cover based on a favorite animated show I watched when I was younger. “Avatar: The Last Airbender” is an animated television series centered around the journey of a twelve-year-old Aang, the current Avatar and last survivor of his people, and his friends he makes along the way to mastering the four elements and bringing peace to the world.

I used a night sky picture I took from outside my dorm, a separate moon picture to give a stronger effect to the night sky, a plush from the show, and used the papyrus typeface for the logo. Interestingly, a similar titled project uses that font as well. I really liked how they turned out for me.

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Fashion Advertising Campaign For this assignment, I created my fashion promotion for the Kenneth Cole brand, placing my photos together in attempted harmony through photoshop simulating a cohesive environment. Kenneth Cole Reaction is a popular American fashion brand known for its contemporary and affordable clothing, footwear, and accessories. Founded in 1996, it gears toward the younger consumers in casual outwear, being youthful and trend-conscious. Layer masks were used to cut out the subjects from their backgrounds, and I painted shadows and highlights to further marry them to the backdrop.

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Initial Composition

Moodboard of inspiration, including works of mine

Concept Art Project The final project is a complex digital collage using several layers of photography. It is a two week long assignment. Given the choice of creating either fine art or concept art, I decide I would create a work of concept art, illustrating a fantasy fusion of the real world and otherworldly animals, just slightly exaggerating the vibe of south Florida. This is intended to be seen in an airport through the use of a billboard. Concept art is a form of visual art used to convey an idea for use in films, video games, animation, comic books, television shows, or other media before it is put into the final product. Concept art usually refers to world-building artwork used to inspire the development of media products, and is not the same as visual development art, though they are often confused.

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Using various photos of sea creatures found in the ocean of south Florida, as well as a window view of a plane, I applied clipping masks and used the brush tool for highlights on the subject matter to try and marry them to the environment.

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Thank You

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