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!

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 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.