For this assignment we were supposed to find a picture that matches an emoji. I used the angry face emoji and I went looking through my pictures and found one of me during a baseball game that looks sort of similar. This assignment was also another fun one to do and was pretty simple.
Mashups assignments 12 Stars
Logo Switch Up 2 Stars
For this Mashup, I combined two of my kids favorite places to eat. We now have McDonald’s selling pizza. I used Canva to combine the McDonald logo with a pizza from Pizza hut. I tried to put the pizza behind the golden arches but I ended up making a mess. So we have a floating McDonald’s logo with a floating pizza.
Holiday Mashup required me to combine 3 holidays into one picture. I used Firey Dragon that I created for this class. She is wearing a Santa hat for Christmas, holding an Easter basket with Easter eggs and she is holding the American flag that represents the 4th of July. I used Canva for this project and searched for pictures that had no background or where considered transparent. It did take time to resize all the elements in order to fit Fireys size. It was trial and error until I got the look I wanted.
This is my favorite Emoji, I have a pair of sun glass almost like the Emoji. I couldn’t find anyone to pose wearing my glasses or any other pair of dark sun glasses. So, I searched on the internet for photos of people wearing sunglasses, I was determined to do this assignment. I used Canva to put the two pictures side by side for this assignment.
For this assignment I used a phone app to put the head of Talky Tina on Albert Einsteins body. I used Faceover Lite phone app, its free through the App store. I was really surprised how well the hair of both characters blended together in this photo. It did take a little trial and error to get the Talky Tina face cropped and blended into the Einstein photo. I am happy with the results.
For this assignment, we were to mash a photo of an emoji together with a photo of a friend imitating the emoji. I figured it would be fun to have multiple friends to try to help me. After finding a few friends who were willing to be my model imitators, I allowed them to each select an emoji that they wanted to imitate. After choosing their emoji, they each tried to copy the emoji to the best of their ability. When they were ready, I took a picture of them posing. For a few them, we ended up taking a few pictures to try to math it up to what the emoji was doing. Once I had my pictures of my friends, I went back and got pictures of the emojis. To do this, I took a black photo on snapchat and inserted the emoji as a sticker. When I was finished with that, I brought the pictures together using the layout app that I have on my phone. I was able to insert the two pictures together to create a comparison. I chose to create two photos where the two pictures were side by side and two pictures that were stacked on top of each other. After formatting the pictures, I saved them to my camera roll and edited the colors of each photo. I’m happy with the results that I got and had fun working with a few of my friends to complete this assignment.
I thought the Mashing Friends and Emojis Assignment (4 stars) would be a fun final assignment for this section! I looked through my camera roll to find a good picture to mashup with an emoji, and I found this picture of my brother! I thought he looked like the “cool” sunglasses emoji that my dad has started using instead of the word cool… It was actually a picture of my brother and his girlfriend, so I cropped his head to get what I needed…. I then went to Google images to find this picture of the sunglasses emoji. I then went to Canva, and I brought both images into the same document. I then took a screenshot, and here it is! This was a fun and easy assignment!
For this assignment, we had to take a picture of someone and match it to an emoji.
This is a picture of myself that I took using a Snapchat filter. It made me smile really big and so I thought I looked like a smiling emoji.
To create this assignment, I first took a picture of myself. I then opened the picture on Line Camera and added the emoji by my picture. From there, I uploaded it to my computer and added it to this post.
For this assignment I used an old picture of my stepmom! As teenager she worked as a welder with her dad, I thought this picture would be a perfect comparison to the new emoji of a welder since the emoji’s are trying to represent more people everyday (currently they have just woman and men with different hair color and skin tone):
I twisted the Mashing Friends and Emojis assignment for 4 stars to incorporate my character. I used the image of him that I had created back during design week & found two emojis that I thought looked like the face he was making. I used canva for this assignment & screenshotted the emojis off of my phone. Let me know which one you think matches his expression better!!
Emoji’s are really fun, that’s plain and simple. They’re also pretty useful, and they’re used thousands and millions of times every single day. We even have 3D emojis now. Everyone I know uses them, even my dad. I use them, probably a little bit too much.
There are hundreds to choose from and I use them as reactions to people. But that got me thinking, are they actually reactions?
I got some of my friends to recreate some emoji poses, and turns out if we did these in real life we’d be weird, really weird. But why do they come across so human and natural compared to words?
Here’s what happened when my friends posed as emojis for me:
But do you know what they all mean? Do they even mean anything specific? Well I’d be using the blonde girl with the hand up to be sassy, I’m using the glasses one for nerds, the smile for just generally being happy, the monkey is cute, and the facepalm is when you do something completely and utterly stupid.
I send myself the facepalm a lot.
For my final assignment of the week, I chose to do the “Mashing friends and emojis” mashup assignment. It caught my eye because it was so different from what I would usually consider to be a mashup. I play a lot of musical mashups on my radio show, so I don’t often consider other types of mashups.
The assignment also seemed appropriate because I was doing homework with my friend Simona at the time, and the woman has a way with silly snapchats. I figured if anyone could embody an emoji face, it would be her.
The mashup I produced looks like this:
It was pretty easy to do. I had Simona pose for me (she was already wearing her glasses, which was ideal). Then I uploaded the picture to my computer, and used Canva to juxtapose it with an enlarged emoji image I found online. I was able to save the combined image straight to my computer, and upload that to Flickr.
I like how it turned out. It’s cute, and Simona and I both got a kick out of it.
This photo was taken while at a top secret spy meeting. This is my colleague, Agent 00009. This shot of him is currently classified and is by no means allowed to be seen by any outsider of the organization for fear of recognition.
During this picture, we were discussing the potential outcomes and risks associated with dropping the world’s largest non-nuclear bomb. This was the face of a man genuinely concerned for everyone’s well being, the face of a man who heavily weighed his options, not taking any bias or favoritism into consideration. This was a decision maker. This was Agent 00009.
