Month: November 2022

For this project we had to create a holiday card using Adobe Aero. This project was more frustrating then it should’ve been. I had issues with my iCloud storage, I forgot how to turn my animation to a gif, and I forgot how to use Aero but eventually figured it out with help.

Fun fact I created the art in a couple of hours while I was in the lobby at Urgent Care 🙂 I didn’t have the time to create something more complex but I think it’s cute and it works. I really liked the final results and I don’t have anything else to say about it.

This was my inspiration:

I chose to present on Google translates AR feature because I have personally use it before. Ar is something I don’t really have an interest for or find myself using it ever except for translating a few things here and there mainly for fun.

It’s pretty straightforward. Basically, to use the feature you press on the camera icon and then you can aim your camera over any text and the translated version will appear over the original text.

This is a great, fast and easy way for anyone to travel to a lot of countries and get around easier. Obviously, technology is never perfect so this isn’t either but from personal experience, it is pretty acute for an AR Translation system. For more pros and cons go check on the slides I have created for the prevention including visual examples.

So my poster is actually a logo I made for my advisory junior year of high school. I was struggling to come up with something to create for the poster and I stumbled across the logo going through my files on my computer. I thought it was be easier to animate parts of it since the art is already made.

I will be honest that it’s not very good and that is for a couple of reasons. If I had the time I would have created so sort of artwork that was more impressive than what I have now. Unfortunately, I have 4 other classes to deal with at the same time so This class usually is not my priority. Anyway, the second reason why is not great at all is that I had already tried animating it a few days before this version and it was a little better but I did not save it and I left After Effects open so when I came back to it I had the sudden realization that is crashed and everything was gone. I need to be more careful and saving my work from now on.

In the end, The project is not great but I know how to use the software which is what matters, and in the future, with more time I know I can make something cooler.

Honestly I forgot when I applied for this program that I would be also learning a little bit from the New Media program. I think it will be fun and I’m excited to learn more.

I’m not sure what to write about because like every other DES student in this program just started. We’ve only done one module and some haven’t even taken a VME class yet. So too attempt to write 500 words for this weeks blog assignment I will also include my previous experience wit photography and film.

The most recent experience I have with “film” is when I had the animation class with Erik. It was fun and nice to dip my toes in the water of animation but its not for me. I found myself getting frustrated and overwhelmed by the end of the module because it just takes so long too animate. That’s the main reason I don’t like most things that have to do with film is because the creating/editing process is so long and I don’t have the patience for that. I feel like there is a difference between design projects that take a while vs film.

The last thing I’ll say about VME before I get into my previous experience/ knowledge on this topic I will mention that I talked to a VME student and we compared or classes. He talked about each one and what they are learning. I’d love to spend a week taking VME to get an even better understanding of the program.

I’d say my first exposure to the photo/film industry was when I was in seventh grade. In middle school we had to choose one elective pure trimester and I ended choosing photography once and video production twice. they we the highlight info my day. I would say I prefer photography over film because I feel like its easier in a way. Or less complex? Im not sure what it is.

I’ve also tried editing before with Premier Pro and to be honest is kind of a pain in the ass. Listen and watching the same thing over and over to get the right clip or whatever drives me crazy after a while. Have layers of sounds, clips, transitions, it’s just not for me. I was a freshman in high school when used premier pro for the first time. One of my projects that year was to create a podcast so I learned a lot about recording and editing on my own and it was fun but after some practice over the summer it didn’t stick. The passion left. However photography always stuck. I don’t really take pictures often but when my dad got a new camera for Christmas I borrowed it a few times and went out to take pictures. I also enjoy editing the photos in Lightroom.

Overall I don’t have much to say on VME because us DES students haven’t had much of an opportunity to discover the world of film and photography.

So for this week’s blog assignment, we are supposed to give 3 examples of us demonstrating leadership in the past either at work or school. I found this very difficult because I have very little work experience and I just graduated high school this June so I really had the think hard and I think I came up some thing to write about.

Earn Trust: Leaders listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully. They are vocally self-critical, even when doing so is awkward or embarrassing. Leaders do not believe their or their team’s body odor smells of perfume. They benchmark themselves and their teams against the best.

I actually don’t have a specific example for this one but I resonate with it. I consider myself an attentive listener and I do my best to treat others with respect even if they do not reflect the same. At my high school we had advisories and we had all four grades in each one. The other students were automatically leaders by example for the younger ones because we had the most experience. I tried to help or give advice the anyone who needed it and I was also not afraid of putting some people in their place (respectfully) when they would interrupt or just be disrespectful to students or even the advisor.

Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit: Leaders are obligated to respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. Leaders have conviction and are tenacious. They do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, they commit wholly.

Like I’ve said before ai have very little work experience so I can only really talk about who I am as a person and I am the type of person who can be super blunt and honest even to people who have a sense of authority like a professor because I believe that some people need to hear it as it is even if many don’t have the courage. I kinda of already mentioned the in the previous example.

Frugality: Accomplish more with less. Constraints breed resourcefulness, self-sufficiency and invention. There are no extra points for growing headcount, budget size, or fixed expense.

The only thing I can come up with for this is when in Freshman year me and 2 other students had the opportunity to paint a mural in our school and a big part of it was budgeting, resourceful and self-sufficiency. We did most of it ourselves with the help of our principle to get the school district’s approval. It was a big earning expiernce and a big achievement for freshman.

For the last one, I feel like Customer Obsession might be harder to adopt because it’s not something I think I have really had the opportunity to experience. However, I feel like most of these go hand in hand so I do think I can be good at most of these. With the expense of course.