I decided to do the Holiday Mashup assignment. For this assignment I had to make a poster that depicted different holidays together as one. For this poster I used canva and created this. The pumpkin background is to represent thanksgiving, Santa of course represents Christmas, and the bunnies and eggs represent easter.l

For this assignment, I was tasked with combining three of my favorite holidays onto one photo. My favorite holiday would definitely have to be Christmas, and my family still likes to convince the kids that Santa is real…..lol . So, I decided it would be easiest to find a picture of Santa for this. My next favorite holiday would definitely have to be Valentines Day. I am not sure if a lot of people consider this a holiday but I do. So, I just copied a picture of a heart and posted onto my photo along with Santa. My third favorite holiday would have to be Easter due to my favorite animal being a bunny and the fact that I receive so much candy on that day. Basically for all of the photos that I had found, I pasted them on Pixlr and cut them out to make them neater. From there, I then worked on layering/placing them where it would make the most sense. Overall, I think this picture spreads the joy, love and creativeness just upon first glance. However, let me know what you guys think of this!

In this mashup assignment I mashed up my three favorite holidays into a photo.

My three favorite holidays are Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. In this photo I mixed up elements from each. I got a photo of a ghost, a candycane, a jack-o-lantern, a pilgrim hat, fall leaves, and a Christmas background. I went on Superimpose and imported the background. Then, I started added all of the layers and added them together. I placed them where I thought they looked good, and then uploaded the photo on Flickr. I really like how this mashup turned out!

Many people combine Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years or they celebrate them all in the same season so I decided to mash up these holidays in a gif. These are also three of my favorite holidays.

I created a scene of a turkey celebrating Christmas in a snow globe on New Years. You can see the ball dropping and the fireworks in the sky telling you it is New Years. And inside the snow globe a turkey is sitting next to a Christmas tree opening presents. I also gave the turkey a piece of pumpkin pie.

I added all of the elements together using SnapChat and converted it into a gif using imagflip.

We all have favorite holidays, but sometimes it’s hard to pick just one! For this assignment, use a photo editing software like Pixlr or Photoshop to mashup your top THREE favorite holidays/cultural celebrations. Use whatever elements you would like from each holiday, creating a character or scene with the images/symbols you’ve chosen. 

For my first mashup assignment, I chose to combine my top three holidays and create a scene. My favorite holiday is Christmas (like almost everyone else’s), and Halloween and St. Patricks Day are tied in second place. Knowing this, I decided to make the main focus of this scene Christmas themed. I signup up for the website Pixlr, which I had never used before, and found it to be sooo easy to navigate. Then, I looked for a “Christmas scene” and put it into Pixlr as my background. From there, I found little symbols of each holiday: a leprechaun, pot of gold with a rainbow, jack-o-lantern, and a witch on a broom. I then dispersed them all throughout the Christmas scene. For these elements, I figured out how to remove the backgrounds of the images so they could lay on top of the main image without all the little white boxes around them. Lastly, I uploaded the final image onto Flickr.

My favorite holidays are the 4th of July, Thanksgiving, and Halloween! I know technically halloween isn’t a holiday, but I think it counts as a cultural celebration? Enjoy!

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I decided to create this assignment because I felt I needed a reminder of the most exciting times of the year. 

To really resonate how amazing these holidays are, I decided I couldn’t just use a plain and still photo; this called for a gif assignment.

 I went onto my instagram and through the story application (where you can create a visual for up to 24 hours), I decided to use the gif generator to create my main background. 

Nightmare before Christmas is one of my favorite holiday movies because it captures two of the best holidays, so It was only right to base my background off of Jack Skellington. I then decided to add even more gifs to this live-photo, by adding christmas accessories to Jack such as antler ears and a christmas hat. I lastly topped it off with fireworks to represent my life for fireworks on the fourth of July. 

I posted this assignment on my instagram feed, asking if my fellow classmates could guess which are my favorite holidays. 

Holiday Mashup

We all have favorite holidays, but sometimes it’s hard to pick just one! For this assignment, use a photo editing software like Pixlr or Photoshop to mashup your top THREE favorite holidays/cultural celebrations. Use whatever elements you would like from each holiday, creating a character or scene with the images/symbols you’ve chosen. Tell the story behind this character or image!

BEHIND THE SCENES

Happy Hallotine! Wait…that doesn’t seem right. Let me check my notes…oh! It seems that all of Wisteria’s favorite holidays have collided into one! Halloween, Valentine’s Day, and New Years….isn’t that a treat! You can tell she’s gotten all dressed up for Halloween (as Carmen Sandiego, no less!) while also keeping New Years cheery with her wine basket. Not to mention she keeps getting anonymous Valentine letters!

I originally was just going to sketch this assignment, but I got a little bit too into it, and ended up shading it. Oh well! At least it looks really good!

STEPS TO SUCCESS

— Open up CSP and do some preliminary sketches

— Open a text document to decide what Wisteria’s favorite holidays are.

— Open up some Carmen Sandiego reference material (she’s wearing Carmen’s outfit from the new show that just came out on Netflix!)

— Utilize multiplication layers, glow layers, and layers in general to create the picture. Choose the correct colors, do lineart, create the background as well as the little borders. Make it transparent for extra flare

— Post it into this textbox

And that’s really about it! It was really fun to decide what Wisteria’s favorite holidays would be. Valentines and Halloween were no brainers, but it became pretty clear she’d really like New Years too. It’s nice to be able to reveal these tiny facts about her. Secret agents are just like us!