I've accumulated a portfolio of final products that reveal the results of my hard work and determination, and knowledge from self-teaching myself and learning graphic design in a Visual Communications course.
Some work is not included due to incompleteness or privacy reasons.
Graphic Design
Dark Frontier Movie Poster
Dark Frontier is a movie concept that features the mascots of the Sapphire Software Collection that is a work in progress.
Several assets were made in Adobe Illustrator, then imported to Adobe Photoshop and edited further with noise and Gaussian blurs.
Everest Fox (left) and Sapphire Butler (right) are shown as main characters. They are both on the same team, and share a similar blue glow.
Behind them is Dillon Doors, placed at a higher level than Everest and Butler, as a sign of dominance. He has a red glow, as a sign of opposition to the primary characters and a dedication to his corporation.
There is a black gradient located at the bottom to separate the title, tagline, and billing from the scene. The title has a white to toned down light blue gradient, and the billing and release date have a blue glow.
North Country Arts Council
As an experimental side project, I was assigned by member of the North Country Arts Council Board of Directors to recreate their logo. I made this in Adobe Illustrator.
This organization not only promotes the general form of arts but all forms of art, and this logo is designed to portray that.
They never ended up wanting a new logo.
Pebblebrook Golf and Grill Advertisements
For this assignment, I had to create static and animated advertisements of many sizes using specific assets.
These were made in Adobe Photoshop.
Software Development
Sapphire GLS
Sapphire GLS is a work-in-progress GNU/Linux distribution based on Arch and Parabola GNU/Linux. The operating system has several features that separate it from other operating systems:
- Sapphire Butler, an extensible task executor and shell script codebase that aims to make certain tasks easier to do or simply more user friendly.
- Unattended Security Upgrades, a daemon that upgrades packages that have security vulnerabilities and their dependencies when on an unmetered internet connection without interrupting work or shutdowns.
The operating system itself also has a variety of curated wallpapers created by me and other believers in the project as well as other graphic designs and music.
AR Sandbox Bootstrap
For a school project, me and some others decided to set up an AR Sandbox using software and specifications made by made by KeckCAVES at UC Davis. I found that the setup for the software required to run the AR Sandbox was unnecessarily complicated, so I used a virtual machine to test the instructions, some which were misleading or out of date.
To solve this problem, I wrote instructions and a easy to run script to automate the process of installing the software for the AR Sandbox. That's available on Github, here.
Sapphire Butler
A part of the Sapphire GLS operating system, Sapphire Butler is extensible task executor and shell script codebase that aims to make certain tasks easier to do or simply more user friendly.
Web Development
LandChad.net Nextcloud Tutorial
Personally, I use Nextcloud for file storage and sharing. As a new self-hosting tutorial website project made by Luke Smith appeared, I was ecstatic to write a tutorial on how to set up Nextcloud. So that's what this is: a tutorial on how to set up Nextcloud on NGINX on Debian. Read it here.