The Three Types of Superhero Origin Stories

     1) Trauma; when someone undergoes a lot of stress and develops abilities and uses them to help people. An example would be Batman. 

     2) Destiny; when someone is the "chosen one", and they realize they have abilities that they never knew about before. An example would be Harry Potter or Percy Jackson.

     3) Chance; something accidentally happens to a person and causes them to gain powers. Some example of this would be Spiderman and The Hulk. 

     For my font for the villain "Vaporous Vivian", I used a cloudy sort of type. I first used the Helvetica font and then deleted all around the letters so that it was only the lines, and then created a cloudy looking paintbrush. First I went over the letters with the brush using white, then I went over again once more with a black brush around 65% opacity, and then once more with the white brush. This created the sort of separated cloudy look. After I finish with my villain, I will add it in against the black background. I will be fading into it.

Backstory for Vaporous Vivian

          The year was 1999, and the raddest human being ever to be born came to be. Her name was Vivian Rose. Even as an infant, she was so cool that the doctors who delivered her could not look her in the eyes, for the awesomeness was too overwhelming. Vivian lived with her dad and her sister out in Portland, Oregon, where there were many other cool people for her to get along with. She had always been the most fabulous person that any of her friends, acquaintances, family or anyone on the planet had ever met. She loved her life, and enjoyed every day.
          There came a day, however, when Vivian came to the realization that she had some competition! There was a new girl in town, a girl by the name of Lady Gaga. She was edgy, she could sing, she could dance, and all of her outfits were totally scandalous. What was she to do with this threat of hers? Well, there was only option. Vivian was determined to genetically altar herself to become the most beautiful, intelligent, funny, awesome, daring, cool person that had walked the Earth since the Big Bang.
          Although this may sounds complicated and impossible to the average homosapien, it was nothing of the sort for Vivian. Because her dad was one of the most well-respected scientists in all of the world, she was not alone. Her father granted her permission to use all of his labs, he hired full time assistants, and he himself started working on a syrum that would basically turn his daughter into a half-god. This is where things went wrong. While Vivian and her dad were out getting cheeseburgers, her cute lil' cat got into the laboratory and knocked a dangerous chemical into the almost finished syrum. Just a few drops, but that's all it took.
         Exactly one week later, she was prepared to drink the vial of liquid that would transform her into what she always wanted to be. And it worked, seemingly, at first. It had all of the effects that they had planned on, except for one. The ability to... become invisible! At first, Vivian was scared and upset. Then, however, she realized that she could use her powers to her advantage, to go around invisibly and do things to make other people appear less cool! Even now, Vivian is out creeping about, making everyone seem hella lame, even if they aren't.

I watched a tutorial on how to touch up models and make them look better. Here, I slimmed her jaw down, filled in her eyebrows, removed the blemish on her left cheek, made her eyes and lips a bit bigger, tucked her neck in a bit and gave her hair more volume. I also made her nose just a tiny bit smaller. The one on the left is after and the one on the right is before I did anything to it.

In Utero

Updated copy of my google doodle project

     For my google doodle project, with the theme "If I could create one thing to make the world a better place", I chose to focus on homophobia/marriage equality. My invention would be either a pill or injection that everyone gets around 12 or 13, and it shows them what it's like to be gay (constantly being picked on, etc.), and makes them understand that it's not a choice nor a sin. They are then free to have their own opinion on gay people, although the majority of people would be reasonable and understand that it's wrong to dislike someone based on their sexual orientation. I wasn't sure how to display the pill or injection and actually have people understand what I meant, so instead I just showed what the outcome of this invention would be; happiness and equality.