10 words animation

Elevator Pitch

I am an e-comm student at Olathe Northwest with a talent for video production.I have been told by many people that I am creative and have artistic thoughts.I hope to gain many new technical skills through taking classes here at ONW.I'm a futuristic person who has strengths in planning and preparing for my future which helps me to take things seriously and work hard.With the skills I will learn I hope to keep growing my artistic side.

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Arcs Animation

For our second project in animation,we learned how to animate a ball bouncing in an arc.We used the same squash and stretch principles but also learned what a ball bouncing in an arc looks like.This project was much easier for me than the last because I am starting to get familiar with the features of photoshop.

The new things we did was learn how to tween slides together.It was a little hard to figure out.It came out not as expected but not terrible either.I think in the future this will help me a lot with any presentation type projects that need to be done.

My finished product turned out well and taught me a lot about animation principles.I think I am starting to get the hang of this and am glad I can continue to develop my skills.

Ball Gif Project

Our first project in animation was to animate a ball bouncing up and down in Photoshop.By doing this we learned about the principles of animation which for this were squash and stretch.This is a principle of animation that says that a ball has to get narrower and longer as it goes down and flatten when it lands for it to look like it's bouncing.

I at first had a hard time getting this project started and going.I'm generally not a very tech-savvy person so things like this don't really make sense to me right away.I eventually started getting better at it as I continued on.I finished a little later than everyone else but I still got it done.

Overall,I liked this project.It helped me learn a lot of new things about computers and Photoshop.I'm glad  was able to do it and understand a little more about animation,something we deal with everyday.

Social media's effect on college admission

                I thought the article we read yesterday was very interesting. It talked about how colleges are starting to look at the social media accounts of people applying for their school, often without telling the student. Sometimes after viewing social media accounts students are not admitted to the school and are not given a reason or a chance to explain. I think it was a good reminder that you should always be careful what you put out on the internet. Even if you don't plan on going to college, any job you have could look at your social accounts and fire you or not want to hire you in the first place. I think overall it just made me think about what I personally want to be letting the world see about me and what could potentially have a negative impact on my future career.

Handwriting Assignments

                This week in ecomm was all about handwriting and how it showcases personality. Our first assignment was to make a logo, using the rectangle tool on adobe illustrator, that was our name. It was a little bit challenging for me, because when I began creating my logo, everytime I tried to make shape, another would pop up that I didn't want. I ended up getting it made, though I had these setbacks. It wasn't as pretty as it could've been, but I liked the colors I used. I think the shape of the letters could be seen as quirky or not very neat, it depends on who is looking at it. Here it is below.

                    Our next assignment was to write our signature in our sketchbook and then write ten adjectives that described our personality. Then we had to write our name in 3 different fonts that fit with our character traits. My ten personality traits were; stubborn, empathetic, ambitious, reliable, passionate, punctual, different, indecisive, loyal, and analytical. I chose fonts that I thought represented different, passionate, and ambitious. I found the fonts by going to google images and searching "typography".Ultimately, I think it looks nice and represents me well..