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Computer Science Project
3D Modelling Project: Q2
My 3D project shows a home. I decided to design that because I feel as though that is where everyone feels or should feel comfortable there. Houses come in many different designs but I chose this one because I like the way it looks. At first, I had to figure out how to use Tinkercad and it’s different tools. I was required to complete three lessons that was given to me on the Tinkercad website. One of my failures was scaling the car and garage. The car was way too big to ever fit in the garage so I had to make the car smaller. I didn’t have any other failures, other things were tweaks to make the design look better. I learned that making a design on any website or designing program is not simple. There is a lot of measuring and you can never make your design perfect on your first try. You will need to edit and tweak some things to make it look nice in your eyes and other people’s eyes. I learned that I tend to not try my hardest when I think a project is simple or not complex. I misunderstood the level of difficulty of this project and didn’t try my best with the design or with the process of this project. I would spend more time actually perfecting the design if I was able to re-do this project. That would give me the time to be more creative with my design and make it look way better. I would advise that no one should underestimate this project, especially if you are working on 3D modeling. This project didn’t give me any inspiration, it just showed me what it’s like to work on a project that has to do with computer modelling. This tool let me show visually that you should always feel comfortable at home or know that there is no place like home. I designed a home so the thought of someone being comfortable at their own home. Hopefully this inspired them to design their very own house and whenever they need to make themselves feel comfortable, they look at their design.
Image Editing
For my quarter two project I decided to do the image design project. From this project I hope to learn how to better my image editing skills. Before I knew a little bit about editing images. Only because when I wanted to post a picture on social media depending on the image I would add a filter and such. When doing things of that nature I would use an image editing app called PicsArt. But, when doing this project I learned about a new software called Pixlr. At first it was challenging because I never used it before. After playing around with it I taught myself how to merge images and I thought that was cool. Learning how to take two images to make a completely new one.
When first starting this project I had trouble. So to start off I had to select the images I wanted to edit. That’s where I had some trouble. I had trouble because it was hard to find a copyright free image. Next, I had to find a software to edit my photos I chose.
My success would be creating three different images in one day. Also, learning how to use a new program on my own. One major failure would be not turning my checkpoints in on time. I think i would overcome this by doing checkpoints ahead of time instead of the last moment.
The biggest thing I learned was learning how to merge images and blurring certain areas of the images. I learned that I have a very keen eye for abstract art. If I had to do this project differently I would stop trying to crm everything in at one time. I would do things in a time consuming matter. Don’t be scared to make mistake and be creative! It inspired me to edit more images on my spare time. Other than the images which is copyright free then no. There is no Proper citations for any work that isn’t mines. I really didn’t have a message to convey. But, this project did give me the ability to get a better understanding of image editing.
http://ajohnson25.wixsite.com/alejaejohnson
Kemet's Video Project
Kemet Musgrove January 11, 2017
Project Statement
Media & Design
My project’s purpose was to show people a sneak peek of what my life look likes. It’s just a short little clips of days in my life on a regular day basis. The video clips just show normal things and what I may have been doing at that time. The goal of the project was to show a full week of what I do throughout the day but, since I got so caught up I didn’t really get a full chance to show my week. I recorded for about 3 or 4 days. The only thing that I wanted to learn or wanted the people who watched the video to learn is a little about me and what goes on in my life. The steps that I took to create this project is just simply took out my camera and recorded for a couple of days. I ended up using a video editing website to edit my videos into one. Some failures that I encountered during the project is having my time under control. I seemed to take too much time with certain topics and never really got to the full point. I also had a struggle with looking decent in my videos, since I was in the house all the time I never looked decent. A failure that I kind of got over with is I decided to make the video a little more interesting by adding other bloopers clips to make the video actual look interesting, since it was boring in the beginning. What I learned through making the video is that it was going to be harder than I thought. If you don’t have a specific time management for the project then the videos will be all over the place and not fully together. I also noticed that if you aren’t consistent with the work than the project can look effortless. I learned through the process that my life isn’t really that interesting and it looks like my life is boring in the video. I also learned about myself that I am a very interesting person and I can make the simplest things seem interesting. I always to make things work even if it’s at a bad start. If I was able to do the project over again I would most likely use my time management a lot better. I did things at the last minute in the project and that messed me up. I feel like if I had planned more activities and showed videos of me doing those things then my video could have been a lot more fun and interesting. Also if I decided to record more at night it would have been interesting because I’m out more at night and things get more interesting. If I were to give tips to someone who was completing this project I would say use your time wisely and don’t wait until the last minute to film or to create what you want to do for the project. I also would say if you’re filming plan ideas for what you want to record. Basically have a plan ahead of time. This project inspired me to create more videos for my projects of me interaction. It inspired me to teach someone else about the project and help them out. I should also say you should be able to cite your work if you use any information from the internet or a website. The video editing helped me to convey the message is because I was able to properly collage the videos together to make one whole video to show. Last thing to add is, the project was a lot of fun and you learn things about yourself and others.
Quarter 2 Project - Aliya
For my project, I chose image editing. I originally was going to a picture of a door in a dark room with a beautiful picture on the other side. That was really hard to figure out how to do. I watched videos but I could not figure out how to use it on Pixlr. A success I had with this project is just learning how to use image editing websites, it was something I have never done before. A failure I had with this project was learning how to crop pictures into another picture. Some skills I learned from doing this project is some of the tools used in image editing. An example of this is changing the entire color of the object. Something I learned about myself with completing this project is that this is not something I really enjoy doing. It was cool to explore the website and play around with the pic but technology/photo editing is not my strong suit. I learned to have more patience with working with this stuff even when it gets hard. If I were to do this project again I would learn more about the website and how to work it better. I feel like I would of had a better outcome in the end. Some tips I have for someone completing the project is make sure you watch enough tutorials to understand what website you are using to edit your image. This project has inspired me to improve my photo editing skills in the future. The website did not necessarily help with the message of my pic, but add more details to the pic.
Computer Science
Graphic Design
A success I had was re-doing my sign over with another graphic design website. The image came out so much better and clearer that I felt like I accomplished something. My failure that I had in this project was trying to make something off of pixlr;it was a waste of time and the outcome was not good. I learned,for this project, that images are made of shapes and you can use any shapes to make that image. I learned that when making my image if I don’t have confidence in it,than it’s not worthy to be submitted because if I don’t have confidence in my own image than I could do better. I learned that when making this image I need to pay attention to comments and the feedback because to make a better image for others to understand,their perspective is important. I learned,about myself,that I should have high expectations for my work and not settle for anything less. I need to be confident in my work and work hard to submit the project.
There is simply no substitute for hard work when it comes to achieving success.
-Heather Bresch