New Banner - Process

Before I began working on a new banner, I had to decide on an image that would reflect my work and the personality of my work and thought process.

Towards the end of August I had done a small animation to learn After Effects. The result was an animation of a bird astronaut climbing into the mouth of a human astronaut and flying the astronaut head towards a distant planet. My favorite shot that I had worked on was a close up of the bird in his helmet flying towards the surface of the planet, with the surface being reflected on his vizor as he got closer.

Knowing this was my image I brought it into Photoshop added text and began to play.




My first banner was the basic set up. Bringing in my elements to understand how they would play together.



Having converted the image to black and white, I began laying the text over the image. This resulted in the look of cutting the letters out of the bird image.



I then used the text as a cut out, removing it from the image and laying the image textured text to the right of the bird. I achieved the look I had hoped for but didn't care for the repetition of my name.



I reversed the cut out to make a mirrored image of my name, creating a more interesting interplay between the image and the text.