My NEW Portfolio is up!

I'll just let this post be a shameless plug. As I mentioned in the previous post, I was working on my new graphic design portfolio. Now I'm happy to say that it's FINALLY done!

Check it out here: www.carissatrianty.com.

It features some NDA-free collaborative projects at my full-time work and some pitch projects as freelance gigs. Also, find out some exciting personal work and a brand new re-done school project! (I redid my Type 5 project, how savage is that).

The 3D Diary

Hey guys, I just wanted to give you some heads up about some new technique and stuff that I got to learn from 3D Motion Graphics class. I got my hands on some features that allows me to create organic forms. It was pretty challenging but it was fun at the same time.

The assignment using these features would be to make a fictitious vehicle. I couldn't help but to make a futuristic spaceship (after getting through arguments with myself whether or not I should create a cool steampunk spaceship, but that would be too much work). I didn't sketch the vehicle. It just came out from my head, also with some time of experimenting and trying out if some forms would work to be put on the vehicle. I really had no special concept on the vehicle, though I managed to make some transparent dorms that allows its fictitious passengers to look through it.

La maison de mon reve

Because it actually is.

No, not really. I want a bigger one. This semester, I'm taking a 3D motion class. I know right. It's crazy for someone that used to hate motion so much because the program lagged a day before the midterm was due, wanted to take the next level of the class. 3D motion class is different though. Instead of using After Effects, I learned this cool new program that integrates the use of 3D, which is Cinema 4D. I thought learning that program would help me since I would be going on Transmedia track. I learned this before in Google Sketchup, but since I taught myself that program, I was never really good at that.

The Toughest Day of the Week

Hey guys, I just wanted to share a quick story of how an ideal day should end. So the Packaging midterm was supposed to be due on Friday afternoon, complete with tight presentation and display boards to go along with the gazentas (that's what my professor refers to the items included in the packaging project). It's an individual project and everyone in the class had the freedom to choose what packaging or kit they wanted to make.
I decided I'd do something simple and relatable to Art Center community: making a finals week survival kit, mostly because I'm concerned by the fact that most Art Center students are often overwhelmed with their projects approaching the finals week that they neglect their hygiene and starve ourselves.

...which ironically barely happened on my campus, or at least in my class, since everyone became stressed out due to the hard critic almost all of us got in type class.

Dots, lines, and tricks

I still don't have a chance to continue my North Sumatra story. Things have been quite hectic, particularly for one class. Yep, Design 2 has been energy and idea drenching for the past four weeks, where we all had to come up with 30 4"x4" abstract compositions. The requirements for each compositions vary, and so are the concepts.

Compositions: Symmetry, Asymmetry, Figure on Ground, Figure and Ground, Depth Gestallt, Pattern based on a decade (I chose 1920s), Unity by Diversity 

Color/Temperatures: Emphasis by Hue, Emphasis by Tint/Shades/Tones,
Emphasis by Saturation 

Concepts: Anomaly, Technology, Dynamic, Luxury (I screwed this one)

home and jetlagged

Posting this at 1:26 am

Hey guys, sorry for being missing for quite some time.

Since the spring quarter ended, I've been busy packing and moving to Socal, not to mention apartment hunting with my future roommate (who's really one awesome person).

Anyway, I'm back here in Indonesia!

After a year being away in the States.

I didn't take a lot of pictures during my moving process, but I did take quite some pre-leaving Bay Area, farewell, as well as my short visit to Pasadena pictures.

Tribute to Ms. Theron

Hi guys, say hi to another post of the weekend! Woot woot!
I'm not going to talk much about my personal life - instead, I'd just like to show you some of the stuffs I've been working on.

Recently, I saw Snow White and the Huntsman. Appearance-wise, the prince was worth the look (although the guy who played in the prince in Mirror Mirror was much yummier). Acting-wise, Ms. Charlize Theron successfully blew my mind, which automatically makes her officially one of my most favorite actresses. As for Chris Hemsworth, it's no surprise that his axe-swinging moves resemble that of his Thor's signature hammer-swinging move.

Kristen Stewart? All I see is Bella Swan in a medieval costume -_-

v.1 Charlize Theron
Making this photo manip was such a pain, considering that I'm running out of battery for my mouse
Designing without a mouse = painting without a brush.

Quotation poster
One of my design weaknesses is always coming up with a crowded composition
This time, I tried to go a bit against my normal standards, hope I pulled it off.

I know, I should be more productive when it comes to designing, seeing that I'm counting down the days to enter an energy-sucking art school. I'm currently still on my steps to develop particularly my Illustrator skills - speaking of avoiding Photoshop for a while.

Next up, I'll be posting up the continuation of Orlando story and probably some good pictures from my New York trip on winter, with slight captions.

Have a great night guys!

Some Digital Artworks

It's been a while since I haven't posted my recent designs on my blog. I'm considering to put these in my uni application portfolio. As you might have recalled, I once specialized in signature, banner, and avatar designs before I finally got to explore broader aspects in designing. So here are the results as of now. FYI, I taught myself Photoshop techniques and effects through video tutorials and I'll keep doing that to improve my skills!

Feedbacks are strongly encouraged!

Title: Sans Titre: A Wine Company
Type: Logo
Description:
I made this in response of my friend's request. She was making a fictional winery business for her business class project.

Title: Little Obama Screening Invitation
Type: Invitation
Description:
Indonesian Student Organization held a movie screening event to promote Indonesia to American society as well as International Student.

Title: Turning 25-Cho Kyuhyun
Type: Signature
Description:
I was kind of bored on February 4, a day after my Super Junior bias' birthday (it's no other than Cho Kyuhyun, the evil magnae). So I came up with the idea to make a tribute to him. I gotta say I love the lines in the background of the text!

Title: Happy Dragon is Happy (Happy Lunar New Year)
Type: Illustration
Description:
I haven't done coloring on Photoshop for two years. Last time, I took a coloring class in Machiko Manga School and how surprising that I still remembered how to apply the techniques they taught me.

Title: A Tribute to Alicia Keys
Type: Typography
Description:
Finally, a typography work! I have always wanted to make a typography but I never quite found out how. After seeing a video tutorial about a typography technique, I went on to make a piece, and this Alicia Keys was the result! Why Alicia Keys? Well, I just got back from New York when I made the piece, and New York somehow reminds me of her ;)

Title: A Tribute to Paul Klee
Type: Typography
Description:
Paul Klee was renowned for his painting and the colors just inspired me to make a typography piece dedicated to him (Well, typography isn't his kind of artwork but still...)

Title: When Life Gives you Melon...
Type: Typography Poster
Description:
It's a veryyyy simple typography work I did shortly after I finished the "Small Inspiration" one. I actually had fun experimenting on different types of typography and this "Lemon" piece is the result. Anyway, I didn't make the vector on my own. I found it on sweetclipart.com.

Title: A Small Inspiration can light up the Whole World
Type: Poster
Description:
It might look simple, but I'm trying to emphasize the lightbulb. Through this poster, I'd like to emphasize the message of the quote and relate it to the whole design.

Title: ISV Cover#1
Type: Slide Cover
Description:
My past covers were less creative because they normally took form of collages and blended images. So I was thinking to come up with something more creative. Later on, I decided to mess up around creating shapes with pen tool until they formed what now looked like little humans. The hands were purposely gestured to resemble the letter V for "Volunteer"

Title: ISV Cover#2
Type: Slide Cover
Description: My past covers were less creative because they normally took form of collages and blended images. So I was thinking to come up with something more creative. Later on, I decided to mess up around creating shapes with pen tool until they formed what now looked like little humans. The hands were purposely gestured to resemble the letter V for "Volunteer"

Title: Closing the Quarter
Type: Signature
Description: In celebrating the end of Winter Quarter, ISV took a trip to Global Winter Wonderland at Great America. The signature was to be displayed on the FB event page.

Title: Ice Breaker
Type: Illustration Slide
Description:
Okay, this one might not be that great or anything, but I just found it funny somehow. I created it within fifteen minutes (a short period of time to make a design). This utterly simple piece was to be placed as a slide in ISV meeting presentations. So when the slide in the presentation turns to this "Ice breaker" one, then everyone knows that it's time for games.

Title: ISV Flyer
Type: Flyer
Description:
This is a flyer I created to promote ISV in the club day. I didn't know what I had in mind when I made this. Probably I was possessed with the "Circle Syndrome" by the time I made it. There are just too many of them there!

BONUS!

Title: Dreams and Fantasies
Type: Self-Portrait
Description:
My second self-portrait! I made this in response of UCLA's portfolio requirement. I actually had a great time making it, although self-portrait is not really my specialization. Anyway, the stuff floating over me represents my favorites which are: music, dance, books, fun (depicted through carousel), art, books, and obviously Disneyland on the very top.

(My scanner kinda sucks. No matter how many times I tried to scan it to the computerthe entire frame, it kept getting slightly cropped on the edge).

Corner for Designers

Hi all, how's your week?

I know I made an entry not so long ago. I just wanted to share what I've been up to lately. Remember I mentioned something about getting a part-time job the other day? Yep, I'm going to reveal it this time. My cousin is currently working on an online company that provides crowdsource design. It's the first in Indonesia! So it really is a hit cos my cousin gets to introduce it to Indonesian community!

Click on Sibby - Le Mascotte - above to have her take you to Sribu.com
I didn't know she was a girl till today
Sibby is designed by Renata


Flyer designed by Renata

Sribu.com (Sribu literally means "a thousand") is targeted towards companies/individuals and independent graphic designers. It works where a company or an individual acts like a client places a graphic design request in the website. Then bunch of graphic designers would submit a design according to the request in a competition format. Eventually the client gets to choose which design pleases him or her the most. The chosen design is selected as the winner of the contest and the graphic designer gets rewarded with an amount of money! Sribu pretty much acts as a mediator that connects in-needs-of-design clients and freelance designers.

Just today, I started to get active in the office. We launched the site's blog that basically provides extensive info you need in everything graphic design and decided an official name for Sribu.com fans and followers: Sribuddy. I'm honored to work as the blog's daily contributor and I'm also responsible for the blog's customization and layout.

Make sure you guys check out both Sribu.com to see what service we're offering you and Sribu's Corner to stay updated with our latest posts!

Pink Attacks!

Thermal camera effect = EPIC

Notice anything new?
The whole thing turns back to pink, doesn't it? What a blast!

1. I decided to change everything back to my all time favorite color, pink. I used to have a pink layout combined with dark color scheme, but then I decided to change everything to light layout, for the sake of readers' sight.
   
   
2. Also, notice the change on the banner on top of the page? Yeah, I finally got to make a new one, and hopefully, it looks fit enough with the entire pink colored layout. That's the result of downloading Photoshop CS5 Extended version trial edition! Yeah, it's trial and it's limited only for 30 days of usage, but I guess that's enough for me to save more money for Master Collection and at least release my longing to Photoshopping in my personal computer.
   
   
3. The Cbox has been bombarded by visitors who misuses it for spamming. So I decided to delete the old one and make a new one. I was thinking to just remove the spams, but there're like bunch of them so it takes a hella time to do that. The new Cbox that I made came up with fresher look and hopefully, the color scheme that matches the layout.
   
   
4. Sometimes it makes me wonder where my readers or drop-by-ers come from. Then it came to my mind that installing Live Feedjit would be a good idea. If you don't know what I'm talking about, see the widget on the right side bar, and see if your current city is listed there.
   

Yeah, so basically that's it. I'm still fond of the basic layout including the "center-text" and "side-bar" thingy.

Anyway, short yet quick news regarding college life.
This is the classes I'm definitely going to take for winter quarter.



Wondering why I scratched the 'definitely' word?

Because there's a chance for me to drop it in case I change my mind.
Hopefully, they're all fixed though. I don't want to deal with the whole tuition fee refund stuff. It takes time. Such a pain in the butt.

There are lots of class to take. Credits to obtain, even the credits taken for next quarter is more than credits I'm taking right now.
Next quarter is going to be busier than ever.

がんばってください！^^

Taking a Break

Hey hey!
I've been trapped in a super busy week lately. Guess I haven't told you about this but...
I'm currently working part-timely at an English course.
That's one big, new thing, isn't it? I'm such an inexperienced yet helpless high school graduate who happened to stumble herself in the world of jobs. Haha.

Anyway, work's been quite good after a week since I started. This is what I call with "working with no rush" because basically, in the afternoon (before after school time), the place's dead quiet, but after about three o'clock...it becomes completely crowded with kids running around followed by their nannies who carried their bags, and some parents who come and sit at the front desk because the waiting room's seats are full.

The staff itself consists around five people and all of them focus on working at the front desk.
As for me, nothing much different from other staff's duties. Mine consist of:
1. Inputting data
2. Smiling at the guests
3. Muttering thanks not yet, apparently
4. Receiving calls not yet done, apparently
5. Calling strangers pending students and their moms
6. Promoting via phones
7. Delivering stuff
8. Finding stuff
9. Listing down students who have paid
10. Checking placement tests
11. Taking a new student for a placement test

And...that's about it! Some of them may not be necessary to be listed, but anyway, you wouldn't want to miss the small talk. LOL.

Um....I have no new pictures to share today. These icons below are actually quite old ones, featuring Kyuhyun from Super Junior (oh look who's being biased here ^^). Before leaving to Taiwan, I spent some time making sets of icons just to kill time. But then they turned out to be quite great, so I decided to post them to some SJ forums, and eventually...here :)

gods and graphics

(Forgive me for being lame in entitling a post ^^)

As I said in the previous post, I've currently been accepting requests to make signatures, banners, or avatars for forums or websites. The most requests I've got are surprisingly from my friends who love Greek myth as much as I do! Apparently they're members of a roleplay whose theme is about Greek mythology, so in order to be involved in the game, members are recommended to put up an avatar and signature in their profiles, representing who they play.

Why, I certainly am pleased to wing their requests. Besides, their celebrity selections aren't so bad at all. Well, yes, the gods and goddesses do look much younger than what I've thought.

So if you kind of disagree on how the gods look here like: "Orlando is NO Apollo!" Something like that, well, all I can tell is, the celebrities seen portraying each gods here were selected by their requesters. I only make the graphics they request. I'm in no way against their choices on celebrities. :) Though I must say, yes, the gods are portrayed to be much much younger in these signatures, intentionally requested by the requesters. Like Zeus is supposed to be looking like an older man, but a friend of mine wants his version of Zeus to look much younger, so he requested that I use the pictures of Jude Law instead of Liam Neeson who actually plays Zeus in Clash of the Titans. :)

In short, everyone has their own versions of Greek gods. Tehee

Note: Some of them are premades, meaning I make them by my own will, without any requests.

OLYMPIANS

APOLLO
God of prophecy, music, healing, and the sun
Portrayed by: Orlando Bloom from Troy


ARTEMIS
Goddess of hunt, moon, and wilderness
Portrayed by: Miranda Cosgrove


ATHENA
Goddess of wisdom, war, and art
Portrayed by: Liv Tyler from The Lord of the Rings


HADES
God of death, Ruler of the Underworld
Portrayed by: Vin Diesel


HEPHAESTUS
God of forges and fire
Portrayed by: Andy Whitfield


HERA
Goddess of marriage and childbirth, Queen of Olympus
Portrayed by: Kate Beckinsale


HERMES
God of thefts and inventors, Messenger of the Gods
Portrayed by: James Roday


HESTIA
Goddess of home and hearth
Portrayed by: Kristin Chenoweth


POSEIDON
God of the sea
Portrayed by: Sorry, kind of forget the name of the celeb :)


ZEUS
God of sky and thunder, King of the Gods
Portrayed by: Jude Law (!!!)

TITANS

HYPERION
Titan god of the light
Portrayed by: Eric Bana (!!!!!) from Troy


LETO
Titaness Goddess of motherhood
Portrayed by: Cate Blanchett


PHOEBE
Titaness Goddess of Intelligence
Portrayed by: Reese Witherspoon


RHEA
Titaness Goddess of motherhood, female fertility, and generations
Portrayed by: Evan Rachel Wood


SELENE
Titaness Goddess of the moon
Portrayed by: Scarlett Johansson

PRIMORDIAL GODS

CHAOS
The Creator of Everything
Portrayed by: Jensen Ackles


EREBUS
Primordial God of shadows and darkness
Portrayed by: Again, need to recall the actor's name :)


GAIA (Premade)
Mother Earth
Portrayed by: Alexis Bledel


HEMERA
Primordial Goddess of Daylight
Portrayed by: Hayden Panettiere


NYX
Primordial Goddess of the night
Portrayed by: Emmy Rossum

MINOR GODS

ALPHEUS
River God of Elis and Arkadia
Portrayed by: Chace Crawford (Nate!!)


AMPHITRITE
Goddess of the sea, Wife of Poseidon
Portrayed by: Alyssa Milano


ATE
Goddess of mischief and discord
Portrayed by: Err....forget, again :)


BIA
Personification of violence and power
Portrayed by: Mariah Carey ^^


CIRCE
Minor Goddess of magic
Portrayed by: Ashley "Aren't you supposed to be a vampire instead" Greene


EOS
Goddess of dawn
Portrayed by: Lindsay Lohan


ERIS (Premade)
Goddess of discord and chaos
Portrayed by: Michelle Pfeiffer from Stardust


HEBE
Goddess of youth
Portrayed by: Charlotte Church


HECATE
Goddess of magic
Portrayed by: Angelina Jolie


HEDONE
Goddess of pleasure
Portrayed by: Holly Valance


HELIOS (Premade)
God of the sun
Portrayed by: LEONARDO DICAPRIO!!!!!


MORPHEUS
God of dreams
Portrayed by: Clive Owen


PERSEPHONE
Goddess of spring, Queen of the underworld
Portrayed by: Mandy Moore


THANATOS
Minor God of Death
Portrayed by: Declan Galbraith


THEMIS (Premade)
Goddess of justice
Portrayed by: (Princess) Anne Hathaway

MUSES

CLIO
Muse of History
Portrayed by: Rachel McAdams


MELPOMENE
Muse of Tragedy
Portrayed by: Clemency "Fleur Delacour" Poesy


THALIA
Muse of Comedy
Portrayed by: Amanda Seyfried

GORGON

MEDUSA
Gorgon
Portrayed by: Amanda Seyfriend (AGAIN??!!)

NYMPHS

AEGLE
Nymph of sunlight
Portrayed by: Forget the name again, ugh!


DAPHNE (Premade)
Nymph seduced by Apollo
Portrayed by: Kate Bosworth

DEMIGODS

ACHILLES (Premade)
Greek Hero
Portrayed by: Brad Pitt from Troy
(who plays exactly the same character)


HELEN
Spartan Queen, the face tha launches thousand ships
Portrayed by: Hayden "Claire Bennett" Panettiere (again?)


HERACLES
Another Greek Hero
Portrayed by: Cam Gigandet

MORTALS


ANDROMEDA (Premade)
Ethiopian Princess
Portrayed by: Diane Kruger


ARIADNE
Daughter of King Minos and later, a goddess?
Portrayed by: Kat Dennings

SET/PAIRS

MORPHEUS && SELENE
Based on the plot created by Noelle in Olympian Tales RPG


NIGHT SHIFT OWL
MORPHEUS && HESTIA && SELENE


ANDROMEDA && APOLLO
Based on the plot created by Andi in Olympian Tales RPG

Do not take these graphics out without my permission
Copyright of Carissa