Matthew McAndris Portfolio

Throughout the course of the semester, I have been more heavily involved in consuming media, for that reason, as mentioned in last week’s posts I have picked favorite media sources. For number two I wrote about Kroudis, a media designer and video editor who is very proficient in his work. For this week I am…

Considering my next b log is about my actual favorite media source of the ones I have been following this semester, this post is about my second favorite. That pick easily goes to my friend Stelios Kroudis and his work on Kroudis Designs. I have known Kroudis for most of my life and he has…

So my title for this blog post is a little misleading because I’m not really describing them I’m just going to be highlighting where my media sources use them. As mentioned numerous times in my previous blogs, Pokemon Go is an excellent example of augmented reality. It is seamless, it uses the user’s rear-facing camera…

I have been following two very good animation accounts. One is arguably the best animation conglomerate in the world. The company in question is Disney, the other not as successful but still excellent animation source I follow is TheOddOnesOut. Both are vastly different animation styles. Disney offers incredible animation made for the masses and created…

This is the first blog post where I will have to keep my writing very minimal. I follow ten different media sources and there is a heavy lack of text decoration and transformation. Therefore I will highlight any decoration in little detail from as many sources as I can find. Pokemon Go has text decoration…

Typeface and fonts are pieces of media that get overlooked in my opinion 90% of the time. They have the ability to make or break the content it is a part of. My media sources use typefaces. The two mediums that have sufficient type are Kroudis and Meta. Kroudis being a photo designer uses all…

Light color is very soothing and peaceful to look at. With its calming essence, it does not harbor any negative connotations or meanings. Of course, that is my personal take on it. When I look at light colors they remind me of the imagination, or of tv realities. I say this because, in the real…

COLOR – But more importantly BRIGHT color. Bright colors are not my favorite in the rainbow but there is absolutely a time and a place where I value their use. Bright colors draw attention and for my mediums, attention is exactly why they are used. The first medium I thought of that loves the use…

Sound effects are a descriptive form of sound that are not always used, but when they are, the viewer of the media can create a better understanding of what they are seeing. This happens because a sound effect adds a unique audio element to visual content that is concise and draws attention to the visual…