Radiation Designs

 

During working on Dreamweaver I learned a lot while I was learning on helping to make or redo a site. Doing this, it gave me great ideas on what to make next on my very own website to keep me occupied. Although Dreamweaver is very difficult for and learning code acadamy. Even when Dreamweaver and CodeAcademy  is very difficult for me, I tried my best to work on them both as hard as possible to get it done.

 

I spent my spring break over at my father’s house which was a very long drive, also help on making some timber as well. After that I was exhausted, but I still had fun over at my father’s house. After that I came back home and enjoyed the rest of my spring break which was really fun that I have to admit. Continue reading Spring break

Code academy was very difficult, for me at least. It was quite an experience when I was learning code academy although it was very difficult. The reason why it was difficult for me is because I didn’t understand the the directions or it was very clear for me to understand on what it was trying to teach me. Although I tried my hardest over the nights at home trying to work on code academy, it was  still very difficult for me on my own opinion.

 

Gas mask concept art design for the show so far it was great, I was going to do a photo manipulated design but I didn’t have enough time for the deadline. How I was inspired to make it was that there were gas masks in my room and it gave me the idea to make one in a design. The design along with my artist statement had a resemblance to the piece which ment that people were hiding behind a mask and weren’t being who they truly are.

 

I like my logo, I thought it was interesting. It was some hazard symbol or infection symbol design for my logo with a black and a neon green for the colors which are my favorite to mix together. I think it resembles a bit about me to be honest. Logo wasn’t very hard to make, but that will soon change when I make more complicated designs.

 

I’ve been making a lot of progress on my own website, I even have my logo ready for use to put into as well to go along with the rest of my art work. Although I am terrible or horrible at coding, I still try my best at making this website so other people see what I could do or be capable if they hire me or not.

Juniors – Kinetic Typography Project, Art Shows, 2nd Semester Classes

I think my friend Jake’s video was the best out of everyone else’s because it seemed like he actually really did work hard on his and the animation the went through the music and the vibe of it as well with the beat of the music.

I traced out one of my images which was samurai based off from a Chinese culture. The reason why I made the image is because respect and like the culture and the samurai shows a symbol of strength and honor. All honesty I had the feeling to make it and out it in the art show.

Coding isn’t my favorite learning topic, it was very difficult for me to learn from code academy and the way they try to teach me on how to code online. It was like algebra two and that’s one of my weakest subjects on. Although it would be nice to know to do a lot of coding which would help me in a long run, but it’s just way too difficult for me to learn on my own, especially whenever it’s tedious on how much coding there is and how precise it has to be. Although it helps other students and give clues and hints were given, it wasn’t very clear to me, so I had to resort for asking for help.

I didn’t really do anything special for valentines day, we really just celebrate holidays like Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, and Easter. This goes to every single other holiday as well, it’s way too pricey like valentines. If I had to pick my favorite the holidays it would be Christmas or Halloween, I can’t choose between the both.

I feel like my typography was very successful and I was proud on what I had accomplished on this project. Although I think mine was pretty good, the other students did so much more of a better job then I did. You would be amazed the amount of work that put into their own project and look on what they made so far, it amazed me on some of the other students done on their own projects.

I planned on making the samurai image or trace it on illustrator to post in the art show or something like that, I didn’t figure out what I was going to do with the other image though. I can figure something out to put into art show. After all I prefer Photoshop and Illustrator. I am kinda nervous entering my own pieces into the show though, but I can’t wait to see what other people did with theirs in their own fields in the art show! It is the first time I enter in a contest where other people could view my work and they might judge mine with or against other pieces, HOWEVER I love the thought of art piece that based off from a culture originated from China.

 

First block with English three is pretty easy since I’m fine with with English and I didn’t have very much problems with it. It’s just Math I’m weakest at and had struggles with in the past with other schools before I joined the Academy.  Because people have strengths and weaknesses the Academy is a good fit for many people. My major is a good fit for me. I am able to work in my  class for my second block Digital Communications class because of my strength and comes by easier. I’m still learning new things in that class such as Tutorials, Examples, demonstrations and so forth such as my job shadowing experience.

Well I got all A’s and B’s for the first semester so I’m really glad and happy about that. I kinda really did work hard to earn those grades. I’m going to  continue to work homework and work harder through the second semester. Not only did working hard helped me achieve my grades, but my friends also helped me on homework, studying, giving me advice on how to do certain things and other things I didn’t know about such as my job shadowing.

I chose Mortals warriyo remix mostly because I like electronic and trap. Also like the beat of the music so it goes well with the glitch since it’s an electronic music. I’m not really not interested in the words too much but I loved the beat that made me pick the song, even though I knew having words was required of the project, I still picked a song that had that both sides to it.

So far I learned simple glitching effects, embers, and how to import words into a song. It was very difficult add in the effects. The glitch are patterns appearing on the screen which show colors which also follows the beat of the music. I added embers which can vary in many different forms of color or shape that I added along with my song to give it good vibe background feeling with the music.

So far I have made a background with two specific colors which were red and grey. The next layer I added a samurai which took me a while to trace over from another image to make it my own thing so it won’t be copyrighted to whoever  owned the picture. Next I made an audio visualizer to follow the beat of the music and made it also red, it wasn’t hard to do since it was a template and made a better version. Now finally, I added the words, it wasn’t very hard to add the words, but it was time consuming since they pop out for about 3 seconds and make more in a certain time mark for the music.

I learned how to contrast an image or make it darker like a poster I also learned a little bit with after effects better then I did from off of the book. But I mean I learned better with the videos better then the book because I’m not very book smart, I prefer to show on how its done in infront of me. That’s just my preference on learning style though.

I looked up videos on photoshop and I gotten into after effects as well searching videos on that category. I basically tried to increase my knowledge and skills on learning these two categorys because felt like they were going to be important, although I can’t wait till I do animation in this class before it ends this December. I’m very interested in animations so I did look up videos on animation with some music

Not really sure who I’m going to make it for yet but I know I’m either going to be making it for my family or the other side of my family or just make one for my girlfriend, either way I don’t know who to make for of course but I put in some thought about it either its going to one of my family members or not. To be honest I could just make for myself.

Well I’m not sure if this related to the major or not but I guess it is because we have marketing and editing in our major so, I’m making a Youtube channel and starting to gather the equipment to record to also make my own content. I also managed to get a Acer labtop to download some programs to let me do Photoshop or do Illustrator, if they are free that is because knowing me, I am broke. Not really broke but wallet friendly wise.

 

 

What was wonderful about my thanksgiving break was the fact that I spent time with both sides of my family, so I had to change schedules with both sides, either way I had turkey twice on different days and a lot of food on those days like stuffing, ham, Mac and cheese, all of the goodies and foods you would usually make for thanks giving. The only part that wasn’t so great was that I didn’t expect the kind of thanks giving I got from one  of my families, we didn’t really gather around and ate together for thanks giving which I was kinda disappointed the fact we didn’t gather around but at least I had amazing turkey!

I was very proud with the both cards I made myself. I did use other cards to inspire or come up with an idea on what to make for my christmas cards, I  also liked everyone else’s holiday cards. It’s real amazing how much you can  do with photoshop.

The military cards were very thoughtful in my own opinion, it was very nice to do. What I wrote down was something about “Thank you for protecting our families and for you service.” or “Thank you for protecting our country and thank you for your service in the military happy holidays.” Something along with those lines to begin with and to thank our soldiers with for serving our country.

I learned how to convert images to implode and explode in abstract designs and I been doing it to multiple pictures and designs. I’ve been getting off from the internet and other people that asked me to do. Its very fun actually and very enjoying in my own free time to do, I also learned how to convert images into a glassy and shaped blured look  as well

 

1. I didn’t really have a favorite but I did enjoy them all and I thought they all were better then mine, If I had to choose who had the best experience, that would be Paula because she seemed to had a blast at her own job shadowing experience as she was talking about it. Yes because my schools could have never offered me an opportunity to do something like a job shadowing or something that actually did matter and focus for my future career or job so it gave me a real look on what a real job or career looks like. It also how much time was involved.

 

2. I think it was a very open thought and common topic to bring up that was necessary to bring up and all share about. Yes and no but mostly the majority of the students care rather then so little or some in our school because it is common sense and the best morale route to take and just the thought of. On the side note it’s nice to see that school to be putting effort and caring for their students .

 

3. I didn’t knew the Principal very well after all I am new to this school, but shes moving to a different district that will be better for her which is good and I know a lot of people knew her for a while and they’re going to miss her because shes going to a different district.

 

4. I’m thankful for the food and the roof over my head to enjoy a holiday like thanksgiving which i’m thankful for. I’m also thankful for the opportunity to getting accepted in technical school or academy. I’m thankful for having a major that I wanted to take and be able to learn it. I’m thankful for the successful life I am achieving .

 

It came out amazing and glad it came out the way I wanted it and proud that it reached the requirements for the hot sauce project, Although there was some spelling errors I had to fix it and make it into proper spelling. I also had to resize the image because it was the right size for the hot sauce bottle as a label.

I do need some improving with my grades at the current moment and I’m planning to do that during the weekends and hopefully that will raise my grade up a bit more as soon as I get done with them and get caught up.

Photoshop was awesome I wish I could spend more time on it, I made some cool designs that i’m very proud about and its just so rewarding! I like better then illustrator in my own opinion because the amount of editing you could do in Photoshop then you could do in illustrator.

Scad presentations was surprising because  I never heard of it before and actually the guy that I was job shadowing with actually went to scad and I was surprised to hear about it and he told me everything he knew about the place in Atlanta. I thought it was good for the school to let colleges or big universitys to do presentations at our school.

I was kinda nervous doing the job shadowing mostly because I never done anything like it at my base school and just about getting there on time and when and making the phone call. Once I got there it felt like a relief because it felt like I was worrying for no reason even though I was already and prepared for the job shadow or interview with the person i’m job shadowing with which was pretty awesome.

 

I thought my design label was Great, I liked it a lot! Although people had better designs then my original design I worked hard on it and made sure it came out as best as it could, I was also bit worried how it would turn out but I realized it came out great as it should be and met some of the requirements for the project that was necessary needed for the hot sauce project, the only problems I had was resizing it and make it able to fit on certain hot sauce bottles which was done and fixed easily with because all I had to do was just resize the entire design to a smaller version of the design which was easy enough. I enjoyed the hot sauce project and hope for more projects that are fun to do.

My first ASST Spirit Week and Fall Festival, I thought of it as a great week to go along with and it was nice and fun just to do for the entire school its self. On monday we had Red White Blue Day or also known as america day, Tuesday was twin day, wednesday was character day or also known as Disney day, Thursday was decade day which was known for dressing up around in the 1930s to the 1940s, and Friday was college day where people wear college T-shirts representing the colleges and seniors were signing up for those colleges in our school.

My first quarter into the school year went great and my classes went amazing! I had all A’s in all of my academic courses and majors, I wish I could have came to this school during my freshmen year to gotten my self through the majors, The people in my classes were nice as well and I gotten more comfortable at the end of the quarter. To be honest I worried too much switching to a different school and realized it wasn’t that much or a big deal and haven’t had to worry about anything at the end of the day.