On Monday I was finishing up my game art and placing it all in one layout, and soon after that I was working on making posters for "Magic The Gathering" my favorite Tcg. Using adobe Photoshop I placed all of the images in a collection of posters to display the release, "New Phyrexia". I have not really learned any new techniques, but I have reinforced old ones.
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This past week in sci vis, we have been learning about bitmaps and working with them in adobe photo shop. Personally I like using photo shop for what it was meant to be used for and not stuff best done in illustrator. The fact that you can simply change the color of a car using photo shop is totally awesome. However, I don't like the selection and mask tools, I find them confusing. The picture below is an ad made in photo shop by yours truly.
This past week in school we have been learning about vector graphics, using Adobe Illustrator. Personally I prefer this program to both Photoshop and ms paint. I enjoyed the simple (compared to Photoshop) user interface. However, I did get lost due to the fact that there are oh so many tools. I can see this program being used in a game company for making maps or floor plans, and for concept art. The image below was made by yours truly using Adobe Illustrator.
I took part in a program called "Hour of Code" that was made to help teach children to code. Personally it was very similar to my past experiences using scratch.It used a system of boxes that Each represented a small part of code, this was made to show the logic behind coding. Upon looking at the actual code it reminded me a lot of my attempts at learning to code in python in my raspberry pi. I think that this did help me understand the logic of programming, but I feel like it was designed for smaller kids. In conclusion I enjoyed this activity a lot but felt like it could be improved.
I took part in a program called "Hour of Code" that was made to help teach children to code. Personally it was very similar to my past experiences using scratch.It used a system of boxes that Each represented a small part of code, this was made to show the logic behind coding. Upon looking at the actual code it reminded me a lot of my attempts at learning to code in python in my raspberry pi. I think that this did help me understand the logic of programming, but I feel like it was designed for smaller kids. In conclusion I enjoyed this activity a lot but felt like it could be improved.
For this project we used a ti sensor tag to collect data from around the school and place it in a paper.
I did not enjoy this project, the graphs were easy to make and under stand, but using Photoshop for the infografic wad absolutely awful. I can under stand using it for editing a picture, but making something from scratch is simply unreasonable. It is exceedingly difficult to make a simple line. Honestly MS paint would be more efficient for these infografics as many people have it at home, and it is much more user friendly. using the sensor tags was difficult because of the short battery life, and it was hard to find your sensor tag via blue tooth. however I did enjoy the ability to get out of the class room and have a hands on experience with technology. I don't expect to follow this plan perfectly. Life happens, stuff gets in the way, people are people after all, they are the one variable no scientist can calculate for. I do however expect to roughly follow this plan.
Year one I plan to take Band, game art and design, and Spanish one my sophomore year, I hope to get in to driver's ed, but no promises. I will take part in an after school club if I can. Year two This year my courses will be the same as last year, This will be my last year of Spanish, and my junior Year three My senior year, I will have game art and design, band and be a teacher's assistant. Year four I will take a year off of school and have a dead end job, live in an apartment with four other poor guys. And the next six years I will spend in collage. |