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My top three hard skills are:

• Bilingual

Being bilingual allows me to have more job opportunities or live in more places although I am not able to write in my other language and my reading level is like a child. I unfortunately can’t really work on that right now but hopefully in the future outside of SCC.

• Graphic Design

I have an eye for design and that is why I want to make it my career however, there is a LOT is still need to learn so that is what I will continue to do at SCC

• Project Management

I have some leadership skills under my belt but I’m the type who steps in when needed. Many people in either program have much more life experience and usually take the lead for group projects before I do. So I’d like to continue to work on that as well at SCC.

My top three soft skills are:

• Conflict Management

This is one skill that I know I’m very good at. I don’t like conflict at all but that doesn’t mean I’m afraid of it. I will say things how it is in a respectful manner of course because that is one way to control a sort of conflict. I could go on about conflict management and how to keep anything from getting fired up. So far at SCC I haven’t really had any conflicts come up but if they do I know Ill be able to handle it and not only at SCC.

• Collaboration

Collaborating with other is something I believe I am good at. I think I’m a relatively easy person to work with and this one kind o goes with the other two soft skills listed. Over the next year and a half I will continue with my fellow classmates and learn as I go along. Just going with the flow.

• Compromise

This again overlaps with my two other soft skills but compromise I’d say is also a strong suit of mine. Since I don’t like conflict and frequently collaborating with others compromise is something that is bound to come up. I am also a little bit of a people pleaser so if I ever do have to compromise I will always try and suggest something where both parties will be happy. Again this is something that will come up time and time again in the next 1.5 years which is always good practice for the real world.

Hello, My name is Ilona and I am a first year student at SCC. I am in the design program although on Friday’s we take classes that are not necessarily related to design. For example, the animation and the film module. My personal pitch is that for next year there should be a photography module so that the modules are more even between the visual media students and the design students.

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I have 2 personal projects of mine that I would love to do at some point. One of them is to build a tiny house with environmentally friendly materials (not sure where) and or renovate a cottage in Ireland (where I’m born) and turn it into a part-time Airbnb or some sort of vacation home.

They are relatively similar projects so maybe I’ll talk about both of them. For the tiny house project, I actually made a plan from A to Z pretty much in my sophomore year of high school. working on either of these personal projects would allow me to gain so much knowledge on a variety of things. Examples would be plumbing, electricity, woodworking, roofing, tiling, insulation, and the list goes on. Luckily I have some sort of knowledge or at least am familiar with how I would go about some of these things I listed like insolation and tiling.

Figuring out the timeline of both of these projects is pretty much impossible at the moment because there are so many factors that could affect the timeline. If I had to make an ideal guess it would be take about a year or so to build/renovate either.

There are hundreds of things that I would need to know before starting either project. A couple of examples of that would be the materials, know which companies to ask to do some of the work for me, and the cost of everything.

Speaking of the cost. For my tiny house project, I did calculate the cost of every material that I would use if I were to actually go forward with this project. I found the document where I calculated the cost in my Google drive and found that tit would only cost me about $5,500 in materials to build it. I don’t think that included things like setting up the electricity and plumbing but that’s pretty cheap if I do say for myself. By the way, the house is 500 square feet.

Either way, I would love the have the means and the opportunity to do one of them one day. Not everyone gets to say they built a tiny house before 😉

I actually couldn’t think of any project where I was planning one direction and then something happened where I had to change things until recently. It’s not even anything crazy but for Jason’s first project, we had to only use letters to create an animal of our choosing. For example, I choose a narwhal so I had to use those letters to create a narwhal in any style of my choosing. Before we started the project he showed us a few examples from past students for some inspiration/ guidance. I loved the more realistic ones and they were definitely impressive so that’s what I had in mind before going into illustrator. However, when I started creating all the pattern brushes and “painting” with them it was not as easy as it seemed. So I tried using my iPad so I could use the pen to make things easier but the Illustrator app didn’t have a feature where I could create a pattern brush. In the end, I just used my computer and worked with what I got. I tried to create layers and shades of grey to try and achieve that realism but it didn’t look right to me. I was getting frustrated with myself because when I can’t get something right the first time or fast enough I just want to give up but I couldn’t do that obviously. So I continued until I ended up with a more cartoony style. There are different types of cartoon art so I leaned into the children’s book style. That can differ too but since I have illustrated a children’s book before I kind of kept that similar style. So in the beginning I wanted to be impressive and do more of a realistic approach but then realized that where my narwhal was going was in a completely different direction but it turned out well. Happy accident I guess 🙂

This week we had a food photographer come and show/ explain what he does. I was definitely hungry after that 🙂 Anyway this weeks assignment we have to take/create our own food photography or animation, etc. I like to think I am okay at photography but I’ve never taken pictures of food before.

First, I went to my kitchen to find something I could take pictures of or something people aren’t familiar with that I could make look tasty. I chose something called “nonnettes” its a French dessert that is commonly eaten in France. (I’m French btw) It is made up of something called “pain d’epice” which translates to spice bread. It tastes similar to ginger bread but better. Inside is a jelly like consistency and flavor. There are many flavor that you can get including raspberry, blueberry, pear, caramel etc.

Anyway here are the pictures I tried to take of the food. (I think I might have to focus issue with my camera)

Also having issues uploading images on here so I created a google slide with my image.

Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1p0hbC1ySYwtHdQBbh2tc0BQjrVCqeT-_YOMn4A9rIU8/edit#slide=id.g1d497a022b8_0_0

This last week we had to use EyeJack again to create these panels with our research of a specific topic while having visuals of some sort. Videos, Images, gifs, videos, etc. My group chose to research beaches in the Seattle area. I chose Alki because I am familiar with it and have a video that I took during the most beautiful sunset I’ve ever seen but it was too big to add to EyeJack no matter how many times I compressed it which was a lot. In the end, I just animated a simple volleyball because I was so done trying to figure out the file size. I still think the final results are good even with my spelling errors haha.

This week we have to choose a space on the fifth floor and resign it. I choose my current classroom even tho this could work for any class. I chose to add a ton of plants and a random mural that would be better than what I drew.

Why plants indoors? Indoor plants have shown signs of increased moods, increased creativity, reduced stress, and better air quality. All good reasons to have as many plants as possible in a space where we need all of those things.

The mural would just be an addition to fill up the empty wall(s) and add color. With the right colors, it can also positively impact others.

Simple but enough to change a space for the better.

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.