What was easy: As I worked with Premier Pro before, it was very easy to know the techniques in how to input files and how to control the audio and visuals.

What was challenging: The creative aspect was the most challenging for me. I took snippets of where I lived and tried to incorporate that in a ‘calming’ tone.

How could your submission be improved: I wish the music would fit in with my images. It seemed too active for the theme of ‘Calm’. Overall, I think I did well.

How could the professor improve the assignment: I think this project I a good evaluation of what we learned for the past couple of labs, and how to combine them all together for an organic project.

How might you apply your knowledge: I would like to work in film, so this editing project has valuable information and techniques for me to know.

How did a specific reading or video inspire you: I was inspired by my surroundings and the color scheme of my location would mix well with the ‘calm’ title animation.

In conclusion, this project is a great way to show how the past labs can mix to create a great project. The project as a whole is very interesting, easy, and unique to accomplish!

What was easy: I thought the assignment as a whole was very simple. The task was easy: to create a text to define your emotion in the project.

What was hard: I thought it as difficult when I wanted the animation to be longer.

How could your submission be improved: I personally would have wanted by animation to be more neat. I know it’s very difficult to draw using a computer mouse, but I’m still not satisfied with it.

How could the professor improve the assignment for the next class: I don’t believe the professor could have improved the assignment. It’s a very simple, straightforward lab assignment.

How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios: I could apply this knowledge in future assignments by inputting my sketch in a short film, as I’ll do in the final project.

What was I inspired by: I was inspired by the settings around me. I also attempted to strike the tone for my emotion (‘calm’).

In conclusion, this lab was a very straightforward task to animate utilizing frames. It was short, but sweet.

What was Easy: I like picking and choosing the loops, and getting a feel of how they mix well together. I also thought it was easy to use the automation, as I used Premiere Pro and it had the same technique Overall, it is a pretty simple experience.

What was difficult: I wanted to adopt more and more music into my piece, but I had to learn to pick wisely. I also had to work on playing the piano with the keyboard to create the chords.

How could the submission be improved: Unfortunately, I didn’t know how to wrap up the song, so I used a simple fade-out for my conclusion. Like I said before, I had difficulty limiting my music choices, so I should have been more picky.

How could the professor improve the assignment: I don’t think the professor made this assignment that complicated. It is a straightforward assignment that encourages us to be creative.

How might a specific reading help you: The reading gave my inspiration in the sense that it allows me to know how the creative business works. I also took inspiration from my mood and emotions, as well as the type of music I like.

In conclusion, I really like this lab. It’s very creative and unique in the sense that we never utilized sounds in a lab before. Overall, this was a unique exercise that was fun to complete.

Since I used Blender instead of Maya for this exercise, I decided to redo the entire pawn lab to make the chess piece for this assignment. I don’t know how to do the Arnold model.

What was easy: I really liked using the sculpting models and different textures that we get to imprint on the chess piece. This, along with the techniques in the last lab, was fairly simple to accomplish.

What was difficult: I think using the camera and rendering was the most difficult aspect of this.

How could your submission be improved: I would have liked more color and light on my chess piece. The ocean waves are composed of many different shades of blue, but my piece only came out with one shade.

How could the professor improve the assignment: I think these creative topics are really fun to work on and tweak. The only thing I would suggest is that during the lecture he only demonstrate the project using Maya and not Blender.

How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios? I think these creative topics are really important working on animation and how to mold and film 3d models of characters for animation.

How did a specific reading or video inspire or help you? There was no reading or video that inspired me. However, I loved this image of the ocean waves. This made me start thinking of the different power set of my chess piece. Maybe whenever you move the piece, it causes the other player’s pieces to ripple back a couple of steps.

Overall, this project was really creative, interesting, and fun to accomplish. Creating a new chess piece needed some inspiration and creative thought, as well as the techniques needed to execute my vision.

What was Easy: I loved how it’s so easy to create the bezier lines into an actual 3D image by using the spin tool. Even though it was not required, I also messed around with sculpting.

What was Hard: Working with the bezier took a lot of time for me to wrap my head around. I always came up short with he amount of bezier I have, and had to redo it over again. Working with the lights and camera was also tricky, as I couldn’t find where the professor was referring to.

How could the submission be improved: My model, unfortunately, was not exactly like the professor’s. It’s a bit more curved than I would have liked, but otherwise, I’m proud of it.

How could the professor improve the assignment: If I had to answer, I would have like more creativity with the project. Instead of a pawn, why can’t we choose which chess piece we would want to create?

How might you apply knowledge: I can imagine 3D modeling is used in creating animation in films and movies. I can remember watching how companies and filmmakers use these types of techniques.

How did a specific reading inspire you: There was really no creative aspect for this, so I didn’t have to get inspiration for anything.

In conclusion, the 3D modeling was a difficult but rewarding experience. I would like to learn more about this!

What was easy: It was fairly easy to know how to type what you want to say, and it was fun trying to figure out how to make your web look better and more unique.

What was hard: Physically starting up the application ‘code pen’ was hard. I also couldn’t understand how to apply the monogram to the logo next to my name, but I eventually figured it out!

How could your submission be improved: Unfortunately, I still don’t know exactly how to change everything about the web lab, which I m a bit disappointed by.

How could the professor improve the lab: Once again, the application of the monogram from last lab is great. I only was having a bit of trouble with figuring out all the controls.

How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios: Obviously for using a resume, or to simply upload a website or blog, you have to use this format.

In conclusion, this was an interesting and surprisingly fun experience to dive into the code of web design.

What was easy: It was fairly easy to copy and paste my monogram into the board, as well as fill out all the necessary items.

What was hard: Unfortunately, I couldn’t manage how to make my card look unique and interesting. Eventually I managed to tinker with the text and color the outline using a border, but it was difficult, especially because I never worked with Figma before.

How could your submission be improved: Unfortunately, I feel as though I could have been more creative, but otherwise, I feel as though it looks good!

How could the professor improve the assignment: Honestly, I like how the lab was incorporated in with the monogram lab. It makes both labs more unique.

How might you apply your knowledge in future assignments or work scenarios: Fittingly enough, I could make many business cards and hand them out to individuals in the future.

How did a specific reading assignment inspire or help you: Personally, I simply looked at what the professor suggested, with adding color and changing the text font, and I tinkered with them. Eventually I struck the polished tone I was looking for!

In conclusion, this business card lab was great, as it combines the monogram lab in order to make it useful. It is an ultimately useful lab that I will use in the future.

What did you learn: I learned how to manifest a monogram using only text, colors, and the selection tool. This lab also expanded my creativity, from sketch to completion.

What was Easy: It was fairly easy coming up with a design idea, and using the text on Illustrator was a simple task as well.

What was Hard: On a stroke of luck, the professor chose his initials the same as mine, so I didn’t have a lot of room to be creative than I already did. I also would say that the small simple things I planned to do was a lot harder than it looked, with the direct selection tool being especially tedious.

How could your submission be improved: I would say I could have used a bit more

How could the professor improve the assignment: Personally, I couldn’t find anything that is overwhelmingly difficult about this project. I liked how this project was based more on our concept and creativity instead of how to replicate a task.

How might I apply this: I might apply this in acreative aspect for my job, like creating logos for companies, or simply to create art.

How did a specific reading help this: I don’t believe I had any specific reading or illustration to help me get inspired. I used my initialed and tried to come up with as many creative designs as I possibly is.

In conclusion, this was a unique take on a lab, focusing more on concept and creativity than replicating an art piece. Overall, I really admired this lab, as it was short, sweet, and charming to accomplish.

What did you Learn: I learned many techniques, including the object selection tool and layer masking, as well as how to use them all in order to fulfill a task and create a project.

What was easy: The text, fonts, layer styles, and object selection was very simple and quick to do. I also really admired the brush tool to blend the foreground into the background.

What was challenging: The concept as a whole was difficult. As I chose Halloween as my holiday, it took a lot of work to come up with a design idea (I never saw a Halloween card). I also had difficulty with the pen tool for text, as I somehow misclicked the text to be shorter than anticipated.

How could your submission be improved: I think I made all the corrections since the printing lab. I changed the witch silhouette to have color to show the foreground compare to the orange background with the silhouettes.

How could the professor improve the assignment: I think the professor made a great project (more like a ‘test’) that combined everything we learned during the past few weeks.

How might you apply your knowledge in future: I will apply this knowledge possibly for upcoming assignments (in the sense that I’ll know that I would use many techniques to create a project).

How did a specific reading or video inspired you: A reading or a video didn’t inspire me, I instead was inspired by my printing lab and was determined to do better.

In conclusion, this project was challenging in many ways; nevertheless, it was incredibly eye-opening to use many techniques in order to compose a full project.

What was Easy: Unlike the other labs, this was not an easy project to finish. Everything, from the creativity of the card, to printing the card multiple times for perfection, was difficult. It wasn’t immensely difficult, there were just tiny obstacles that grew as I moved throughout the project.

What was Hard: There were many obstacles I encountered while creating the card. Firstly, I was stumped on the design of the card. As my card was halloween-themed, I didn’t want my design to look overly scary to the point of it looking jarring. Still, I had to put something that has the spirit of Halloween. I also had trouble with printing out the piece. As I stated before, I am a perfectionist, so every minute flaw that I picked up means I had to adjust it to make it perfect.

How could my Submission be improved: I really didn’t like my layer masking of the witch silhouette. It could easily blend in to the background, and it’s not impressive. However, I couldn’t think of a picture to make the foreground pop out without making it look cheesy. I definitely made it too simple.

How could the professor improve the assignment: I think the professor’s goal of layering the knowledge that we gained and put it into one project was great. Needless to say, the professor’s expectations were well thought out.

Application of Knowledge: I definitely think I can apply this knowledge to physically creating a card for friends and family. I also can use it for next assignments for editing critically.

How did a specific reading or video inspire you: I looked online for some inspiration about creating cards, and I noticed a theme of an orange background and shadows to create the spirit. I also like the idea of putting jokes on the card, so I picked one that would make me smile.

In conclusion, I created a Halloween card, applying layer masks, the pen and brush tools and any other tools that we learned in the past. Even though I definitely have mistakes, I am grateful that I can now apply the techniques I used into a great project.