I learned how to use my selected colors in a more interesting way.

2. What was easy?

It was easy finding photos to use that went along with my ideas.

3. What was challenging?

It was challenging to express my ideas using a color palette.

4. How could your submission be improved?

My submission can be improved by adding more different styles of font and maybe more colors.

5. How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class?

I do not think the professor needs to improve the assignment for the next class. It was a very lenient project.

6. How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

I might apply this knowledge when I am challenged with another project using color.

7. How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

I used items or things I have seen before in this project.

I learned how to use words creatively instead of using them in a boring way. I also learned how to use individual letters in different styles.

2. What was easy?

It was easy to begin because we had the words. I found it easy to use the words and make them pop out.

3. What was challenging?

It was very challenging trying to cover as much whitespace using the word letters within the frame as possible.

4. How could your submission be improved?

My submission can be improved by using more interesting fonts so my words are more creative.

5. How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class?

I think the professor can improve the assignment by adding a little more. I found the assignment a little boring, maybe adding color into every frame will make it more fun?

6. How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

I will keep in mind all of the techniques I used. This includes using words in a creative way.

7. How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

I actually just used my imagination for this one. I used my project 1 to help me come up with a cool sequence for my words.

1. What did you learn?

I learned how to merge pictures, remove their backgrounds, and create cool stories.

2. What was easy?

It was easy to find pictures and remove their backgrounds.

3. What was challenging?

It was very difficult do find the correct pictures to create the story I imagined.

4. How could your submission be improved?

My submission could be improved by adding more detail and creating a better story.

5. How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class?

I think the professor did a good job and does not need to improve the assignment.

6. How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

I will apply my knowledge in future assignments by using pictures and creating cool and interesting stories.

7. How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

One of the readings I used had a spaceship, so I used the spaceship in my story. I imported a beam so it looks like my spaceship is more interesting.

Sorry about my picture, I don’t know why this happened.

I learned how to use colors a different way. I was taught many different compositions.

• What was easy?

It was easy to create shapes and make my shapes have many perspectives.

• What was challenging?

It was very challenging for me to use the gradients and allow my detail to show.

• How could your submission be improved?

My submission can be improved by mainly focusing my attention to gradients.

• How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class?

I think the professor explained everything fine, I just had trouble using gradients.

• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

I looked at many pictures for my city, ocean, space, and frozen scenes.

• How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

I watched many videos about how certain perspectives looked. I tried to mimic them.

• What did you learn?

I learned how to apply Gestalt properties using only black and white, shapes, sizes, and scales.

• What was easy?

Messing around with shapes and having the ability to put them anywhere I like. Creating the characters was easy because they are different in all shapes and sizes. Everyone thinks differently about what they want their characters to look like.

• What was challenging?

Applying Gestalt properties and not having the ability to use color to express my ideas. I usually use color in most of my personal projects so looking toward the white and black side of things really expressed a different focus.

• How could your submission be improved?

My submission could be improved by using more simple shapes. I think I went a little overboard, because I really wanted to express my creative side and make sure my ideas were being shown.

• How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class?

I think the professor should improve this assignment by allowing us students to express our ideas in color. I think it was kind of hard to adapt a black and white mindset where the real world is color.

• How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

I will apply my knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios by keeping a mindset of these Gestalt properties to allow my work to be more creative.

• How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

A specific reading and video helped inspire me by showing me some creative shapes that expressed different thoughts to different people.

I learned how to build a game in Unreal Engine.

I learned how to create one long video using many smaller videos.
2. What was easy?

I think the easiest part of this project was filming the videos.
3. What was challenging?

I think the most challenging part of this project was figuring out how software works in Premier and After Effects
4. How could your submission be improved?

If I had more time, I would have filmed more. I know my video was very short.
5. How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class?

I don’t think the professor can improve this assignment.
6. How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

Now knowing how to use After Effects and Premier, I can now apply what I have learned to create more interesting videos.
7. How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

I was inspired by my car to create a fascinating happy video about our story.
8. Post images of your work.

Images are in video.

I learned how to make a 3D game using Unreal and Maya.
2. What was easy?

It was easy build my structure and put a floor in with a material I liked.
3. What was challenging?

Unreal had some difficult situations where I would always move in a different way. Figuring out which button does what was fun.
4. How could your submission be improved?

I could have made many more improvements to my game. I would have loved to add a health bar for my character, and my character look different.
5. How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class?

I do not think any improvements need to be made on the professor’s end.
6. How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

If I use Unreal in the future, I will now understand how to use most of the beginner tools.
7. How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

I got my idea from a youtuber I watch. This inspired me to create my bathroom backroom level.

I learned how to create a color palette and fundamentals for creating a website.
2. What was easy?

I think the easiest thing was creating the design with my initials and finding a color that works.
3. What was challenging?

The most challenging part of this project was creating a main component. I had to start out by individually making links for each slide.
4. How could your submission be improved?

I could have definitely taken more time to jazz up my website by adding more colors, moving parts, and more hyperlinks.

5. How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class?

I think the professor can improve the assignment by slowing down just a little bit more, as I got lost during the end.

6. How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios?

Now that I have fundamentals, I can now apply this knowledge and go even further.

7. How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you?

I just created something that was fun, meaning I did not have any video help.

Link to project: https://www.figma.com/file/gEDehuXFeNPUSqg8j05ITN/Conor-Balen-Monogram?node-id=15%3A2&t=qi6ArlBjLruDA7bs-1