JTrish Design Video Reel

Don’t have much time to go through my portfolio? Just check out my 45 seconds reel below!

Trapped in a Painting

This was my mid-term project for my Photoshop class. The assignment was simple, each of us had to pick any paintings we liked, took picture of ourselves, and then put our picture in the painting using Photoshop and made it look as if we’re a part of the painting. I chose “The Scream” by Edvard Munch painting for this project.

Here are the final result, the original painting, and my original picture:
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I did this project in May 2008.

Self Line Art

I drew this line art/vector of myself in August 2008 for my Photoshop class.

Random Photoshop Work 2008

Here are some random Photoshop work I did in the year 2008.

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Mac Makeup feat. Christina Aguilera – November 2008

Christina Aguilera on the cover of Rolling Stone – July 2008

Christina Aguilera Energy Drink – June 2008

Goo-Ers Flash Website

I designed this Goo-Ers Flash Website in August 2008 as one of my Flash courses’ final assignment.  The assignment was to make a Flash website, theme is totally up to us.  I decided to make one about my lovely Goo-Ers toys.

Here are screen caps of my Flash website (click thumbnails to enlarge):

Goo-Ers Toys Booklet

I designed Goo-Ers Toys booklet so people can get to know more about my toy characters as well as the process of making them. I designed and created everything in the booklet myself. From sketches, tracing, coloring, layout, background, everything…

Here are the pages of my Goo-Ers Toys booklet (click thumbnails to enlarge):

Goo-Ers Toys Part 3 – The Packaging

Now that the toys are done, I had to start working on the packaging.  My professor suggested that we buy toy, then use the box as the template of our toy’s box. I went to toy box hunting at Disney store and Wall-Mart, and decided to buy an Elvis sound speaker toy with a nice box.  The box had many areas for me to design, big plastic area so people can see the toys inside the box, and the box was quite big, which I was sure would fit four of my toys.

I used Adobe Photoshop to design the packaging.  At the front of the box, I decided to put just the name of the toys. I didn’t put any pictures of the toys or characters there because I thought it would distract people’s attention from the real toys which are displayed behind the plastic at the front.  BTW, I decided to name my characters “Goo-Ers” at this stage.

On the left side of the box, I put information about me as the creator and designer of the toys, as well as my illustrator drawing of the characters and my website.  On the right side, I put information about the toys, picture of the characters and also the link to my website.  At the back side, I put the story about the toys, characteristic of each toy, barcode, as well as link to the toys website.

After I finished designing each side of the packaging, I printed them all, and then the cutting and gluing process begin!  Cutting those papers and glued them to the real box took lots of works.  I was so relieved and happy when the box was ready.

Here are photos of the packaging (click thumbnails to enlarge):

Last step is to arrange how to fit all four toys in the box and still look good.  It turned out that I didn’t measure my box perfectly, and as a result, the box is kind of too crowded for all four toys.  I didn’t want to left out one of my toys, as I put lots of efforts creating each of them.  I was thinking and thinking….and then I came up with idea to add ‘a stair’ in the box, which means 2 toys at the front, and 2 toys on the stair at the back of the box.

I made holes on the cardboxes, used strings to tie the feet of my toys, and then attached them to the cardboxes.  It took me 2-3 hours or maybe longer just to put those toys inside the box and made sure they stand still in their position.  I am satisfied and proud with the result…my hard work paid off.

Photos of final product (click thumbnails to enlarge):

This whole Goo-Ers Toys project started in February 2008 and completed in April 2008.

Wii Celebrity Sports Cover

I designed this Wii Celebrity Sports cover as a part of my Audio class assignment in March 2008.  The assignment was to make a short audio of any original games that we could think of, and then we should handed in the project in a DVD case along with a cover.

I was a fan of Wii Sports at the time, so I was inspired to make a game based on that.  I wrote the storyline for the game, but I can’t find either the storyline or the audio in my PC now, so I’ll just write it down based on how I remember it.

Those celebrity voices were their real voice, which we took from clips of their voice.  We couldn’t find Paris’ voice though, so one person in my team imitated Paris’ voice, and I must admit her imitation was really good.

There were three people in my team, my contribution to the group was writing the script and designed the cover.  The other two people took care the recording and audio editing process.

Here are the images that I put up together to create the cover:
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Random Photoshop Work 2005-2007

Here are some random Photoshop work I did in between the year 2005 and 2007. Some of them have the original images, some are not. I didn’t always save the original files.

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Christina Aguilera’s Cooking Book – November 2007

Christina Aguilera in a Snowglobe – December 2006

Christina Aguilera as Batgirl – May 2006

Nexcare Packaging feat. Christina Aguilera – July 2005

Candie’s be SEXY Campaign Ad – February 2005

Random Photoshop Work 2003-2004

Here are some random Photoshop work I did between the year 2003 and 2004. Some of them have the original images, some are not. I didn’t always save the original files.

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Mercedes Benz Advertisement – June 2004

Christina Aguilera in Oldies Hairstyle – May 2004

Wanted Poster of Christina Aguilera – February 2004

Movie Poster feat. Christina Aguilera – February 2003