Shane Warnick

Captain’s Log

Star Date: 12.08.2022

I enjoyed this one! My group picked Seattle parks. I chose Volunteer Park.

Assets: Title panel (jpg), Park Map (jpg), Amenities panel (jpg), Info panel (jpg), and a video of ducklings in the park (mp4).

I created the overall logo for the parks in Illustrator that wasn’t directly used in the panels, but different colored versions were used for each park to distinguish them from each other. Those can be seen in the title panels that have the name of the parks (also created in Illustrator).

I went online to find info about the parks and see what the official websites would have for each. The park amenities with accompanying icons I thought would be fun to include. I thought maps for the parks would also be helpful.

Hing Hay, Cal Anderson, and Volunteer were all city parks. The Arboretum was UW’s, so it didn’t have the Amenities icons on their website. I used Alki Beach Park’s set of icons and edited them with some of Volunteer Park’s to get the Arboretum’s set of icons. I go to the Arboretum enough so they seemed accurate.

Considering we had to include a video or animation, I looked to find something that was a fun feature of the park but would also be able to move (unlike a sculpture or building)… I always love the little naughty ducks, so I found a mp4 of them.

I created the info panel in Illustrator. I didn’t find a cute enough icon for a phone online so I created that too. Looking back at the park websites, the hours would be a good thing to include. For Volunteer Park, there’s so many good points of interest, I felt those would be great to include.

After creating everything in the EyeJack app, I made a printable pdf that would have the QR code. I included the parks logo and the Volunteer Park title panel on the page too.

After school, I walked up to the park, got a good vista, scanned the QR code, it worked great, took a video, and went home to finish all this up. 🥳

I started by Googling what VR/AR apps were out there. Some cool ones were only VR (like Google Earth VE) so I had to narrow my search, but found some pretty fun AR apps like IKEA Place and Sky Guide. But the one that really caught my attention was Civilisations AR.

BBC did a pretty great job creating an assessable AR museum one can visit right in your own living room. Would be pretty cool to use right in the classroom for history or art classes.

The spinning globe is a pretty great orientation point. I also like how you can look inside certain artifacts like seeing the mummy inside of a sarcophagus. it’s also pretty cool all you need is a flat surface so you can place some of the objects on a bookshelf or table as if they’re right there.

I was trying to embed a shortened video that I made into this blog post, but WordPress didn’t like that so you get a generic pic lol

Aero is kind of fun, but kind of a mess. Maybe I’m just not used to working with Beta programs, but it’s usability was pretty frustrating sometimes… overall, I made it work.

First, I just looked around at the options that I was able to animate. They’re cute and the planetary stuff was rad so I wanted to do something with all that.

Initially I tried to build a massively scaled solar system. The parameters of Aero were too small for that. The program fucked up, and there’s no ability to save, so I had to start all over again. I built a smaller scale of the solar system that worked better with Aero. I would’ve loved to be able to build something where the sun was to scale… but yeee-haw.

It was pretty cool to get everything to orbit and rotate. I was going to try and do all the rotations and revolutions of the planets to be kind of realistic, but that would’ve made me insane… so I left all that out…

I made the earth have satellites, a Hubble, and the moon rotate around it when tapped. The Sun and the planets would rotate at the start.

For the card part, the largest holiday surrounding space was the aptly named Space Day (thanks Lockheed Martin lol). So I went with that. It would be great if Adobe had a Text option that could be animated. The individual letters were a little annoying because they aren’t all the same size (e.g. the A’s were smaller and the P’s were larger than other letters I used). I just had the text animate when the Sun is tapped.

I threw in a scared little astronaut to wander the cold, dark vastness of space by himself and a shuttle that drives right past him to show that the void of space is merciless. Lol jk, but I think it worked with the card idea.

I didn’t see a way to change the background, otherwise I would’ve tried to do a starry sky or something. But it was an… interesting… experience overall. Party.

Captain’s Log

Star Date: 11.17.2022

I’m in the graphic design program… but as a cinephile, I’d probably feel more at home learning about the cinema. I used to take classes in screenwriting back when I lived in SF. Took some other film classes as well and made some shorts for them. Cinematography and editing are the language of the cinema so I’ve great interest in those especially.

At some point, it’d be great to be apart of some film production or even be a producer of some sort. If I had my way, I’d write and direct within a co-op crew of people (a small group of people with similar visions and the ability to play to each others’ strengths) to create films together. Bringing different perspectives and all of their resources (all different kinds) into play to ensure work gets produced and released. Perhaps it’s the old bohemian in me, but I think it would be possible. I’m the right time and place, people are capable of anything.

Going into graphic design, my main goal would be to collaborate with Criterion Collection to create artwork for their releases. Or even to create posters for newly released movies. Both would be passion projects. It would be great to also collaborate with local production companies to see what can be done in that realm, as well. Pretty much anything film related would be at the very least interesting to be involved with.

Unfortunately I don’t really get the chance to actually interact with the visual design students. We don’t usually have much time to socialize in class or after. I wear some cinephiliac shirts sometimes that the film students comment on, but that’s usually the extent. Someone suggested we open the blog posts to a more open forum that would allow all of us to see them and interact with each other in that forum.

I’m sure there will be a time I might be able to collaborate with the visual media film students. I’m sure that we could all learn a lot from each other. I’m sure some opportunities could come about. I’m sure we could have a damned good time doing it, too. We shall see.

Captain’s Log

Star Date: 11.03.2022

I wasn’t always a captain, I used to be a manager in my last job. An associate manager of hunger relief in a non-profit.

Taking ownership of decisions and consequences was a daily value. I don’t usually make many mistakes, but once I didn’t place the produce order in time. Problem-solving is a skill I’ve acquired and it wasn’t a difficult problem to solve. We packaged comparable items that ended up lowering our cost. As long as it’s a one-off mistake and you learn from it, it’s merely a lesson.

Having backbone to disagree (and commit) is also a knack I’ve developed. I had to repeatedly argue and make a case to not have production on Saturdays to the director and head chef; it would save us money and give the staff a week-end day off, but required some moving around of production days. Eventually they saw it as a benefit and it was implemented.

I think one of the greatest attributes a person can possess is that of curiosity (and a willingness to learn). Stubbornness is a little existential death every time it is exhibited (not to be confused with boundaries) and is a slow destroyer of relationships. As a manager, I was always curious to learn more of what the staff needed or what would make the workplace a better place to work. I was also looking forward to learning on the job and helping others learn. I once spearheaded an affinity group so queer people could advocate for ourselves but also learn from each other’s experiences.

I suppose the larger scale (to bring broad responsibility) would be the most intimidating, because it’s been awhile since I’ve worked in a large company and it could be like navigating a maze, but like anything else, I’d be up for the challenge if I felt like the payoff would be worth it.

Captain’s Log

Star Date: 10.27.2022

and we have transversed the great infinite vastness of space playing out our meager, transitory, and ultimately irrelevant lives on a spinning rock hurdling through a galaxy with so many stars we don’t have a number large enough to count them among an equally infinite number of galaxies like ours in a universe, perhaps a multiverse, that we cannot begin to really fathom with our minds just so some people can wallow in fear, anxiety, and an indifference to living with a “maybe” instead of Living with “yes” or a “no” as one can only forge destiny as a sword is forged with a will that’s more than just knowing thyself, but more of a becoming of who you are and what you’ll be apart of because everything is so much bigger than oneself and the ego, no matter what it tells you, and we will never know where we are until we try to get there and realize that revaluation and affirmation with the self is a good start but paired with the bonds and accomplishments of a community it becomes a better way of the world that spins through the limitless void toward hope and a greater purpose even in this absurdist Land of the Lotus-Eaters where saying “yes” to that rave, “yes” to that date, “yes” to playing with your child, “yes” to that walk with your partner, “yes” to that job you’re unqualified for, “yes” to that graphic design program at 37 years old (answering the blog assignment lol), and “yes” to Life instead of a “maybe” to indifference, is a revolutionary act so when the trumpets sound, the mountains fade to nothing, and the oceans boil in a billion years, nothing will matter so, in the end, what will it matter if you say “yes” or “rock ‘n’ roll🤙🏼” or “what the fuck?!” or

Captain’s Log

Star Date: 10.18.2023

According to the Info Density/Audience graph that was presented by Joe Hallock, I would most likely want to be somewhere in the middle of the graph (with some projects to the bottom-left of the graph and then some to the top right).

As an aspiring graphic designer, I’ve wanted to professionally get into a field where visual arts and graphic communication meet: like environmental graphic design. It has been my understanding that environmental graphic design would be designing a space (e.g. a retail pop-up or a museum exhibit) where the walls, the fixtures, and a lot of the space is curated to create a certain atmosphere or experience. This would include wayfinding. On the graph, I would consider this pretty close to the center of the graph (near where the example of “Museum Exhibit” is labeled) and would include the bottom-left part of the graph as well (near where “Road Signs” is labeled).

On the side of my professional career, through freelancing, I’ve wanted to make event posters for my friend’s/community’s events. This would be closer to the center of the graph and to the right (as the posters would be for a specific audience).

I would also aspire to donate my time and skills to various organizations or non-profits that may need event posters, visual design, infographics, and/or various things. Maybe for protests or for fundraising. Depending on the organization and the time I can invest/donate, I’d love to be apart of a cause that is dear to me.

After graduating from the program, I suppose I’ll see what sort of jobs/careers are actually available; it’s also possible I won’t be able to get into the career I desire until I’ve gone through enough positions to build the necessary résumé/portfolio. But for now, this is what it’s looking like.

Captain’s Log

Star Date: 10.13.2022

For my media mash-up, I created a few title cards in Adobe Illustrator (the first and last 2) for the video footage that I recorded myself and a synthwave track (because it matched the vibe) to represent my day-in-the-life experience so far at the SCCA.

I edited and compiled the entire film in Adobe Premiere Pro. This was my first time using the software. I’ve messed around with other video editing software before (and have been working in the After Effects module in New Media) and watched a basics tutorial on YouTube so I picked up the necessities pretty fast. I’m a cinephile so I figured this would be the most fun route for this project.

I mostly wanted to show that the program is primarily a huge future-affirming stepping-stone for me and being in the program is basically making my desires reality. Considering the level of chaos it takes to go to college in a runaway capitalist hellscape (cue the Blade Runner reference) like the United States, (multiple) daily affirmations are definitely a thing for me lol

Thank you and hope you enjoy it!