Now what in the world is this ms paint looking map you’ve put before me Jack, well its where I would have gone with my Source project had I more time and resources to work on it. Wow, this is functional Jack, but it looks like garbage, and to that I say, Yes, Yes it is.
I must say Tuan, this class wasn’t the boon of inspiration that I had expected it to be, why do you think that is?
Though I never made a post on my work hours prior I’d say that I am adequately following an appropriate work schedule on a project yet discussed online. Working on it at least twice a week for sessions of on average 4 1/2 hours and having in total at this point 40 hours working on it, it has been completed at an adequate pace.
Sophisticated work is not something that I would have ever described my work as in the past, but being made to ask myself this question, I would say that even still such work is still out of reach for me, and of the work that I view regularly I’m not sure what could even be considered ‘sophisticated’. My ability to analyze others work has not yet broken out of the simple lexicon that I am partial to using for a majority of the mundane activities that I do.
Work this semester in typography 2 I have made little use of my knowledge from the original except in the lessons on relation to space and format, as text and language have really only played a small part of the creative process on the only project that we have worked on this semester.
When making this project I am typically a little hesitant on the colors that I am choosing to apply to bring out the subjects, and the inherent messages with those colors. I have used colors and printed out things before, and have tried to think of what colors would make things pop in the past, but time and time again I don’t take something into account and end with a final version that I think would have been better in grey scale.
In significance in scale I would say the Bat Bridge Project from last year in which I made an app for the south congress st. bridge, and then the year before that, the examination of data and creation of many graphs about that data in a pointed manner. I would place this project in between the two with the bat bridge above and graph analysis below. The bat project as a final had to have many parts that all fit together nicely and a lot of extra creative work that on top of it made a cohesive whole. The graph analysis project more than anything was more a project on being able to analyze data more than it was the ability to present that data.This project is unique in that it considers motion more than the app ever did with things sharing a space a space that they rearrange themselves in under different criteria. Bat bridge is rated higher mostly on the fact that I got to spend a good portion of the time designing a mascot character for the project making it more enjoyable experience, while the graph project is rated lower because their wasn’t as much design and creativity with analysis getting in the way. This project might have been more highly rated if Fire Emblem: Three Houses had not also come out recently and devoured a good portion of my time the first week I got it.
While I agree that creative growth stems from experience from others I would not say that anyone except for myself is responsible for this growth. While the responsibility to grow is in myself I would say that encouragement for this growth does lie in others. My professor Tuan has played a small role in this simply through the act of making assignments in the way that he does, encouraging me to go back on work previously thought to be finished but with new eyes to make it anew and better than before. But the biggest encouragement comes from my friends as the have given me motivation to attend events and with the beginnings of a dungeons and dragons campaign completely created by myself they have given me entire worlds to build and hopefully share with the world. Showing up an hour early most days of class and getting right to work has proven to be a mostly effective means to stay on top of all that Tuan has given for me to do, and doing such simply because I was able to do so at such a time.
Tuan why does it seem as though you are not confident in yourself as professor, with your insistence on the first day that you were not a teacher simply because you did not have the same certification as one, and when you eventually do get that certification, if you get that certification, what about you will have changed about yourself now that is keeping you from this.
The first video, My Bloody Valentine’s, Soon, reeks of the 90’s with very odd cinematography choices, with the constant overlays, odd choreography, and way too much contrast. Maybe it was supposed to be imitating a drug trip, or it needed be viewed with one. The Cocteau Twins song suffers from a similar 90ism effect, opting to have the music video leaving me with a sense of uneasiness, with again a high contrast camera with relatively low film quality, and constant shifts back and forth between a ball of fuzzy nothing transitioning to people playing the song or them out in nature. While personally I feel the third one is the best out of the three, It definitely still suffers from the same issues as the others with the 90isms, however the fact that the video isn’t just pure white eye cancer helps. The fades and overlays are still not there, as they crowd the screen and don’t really lead your eyes in a way that makes any sort of sense. All three pieces are still very similar with female leads, with a guitar base, the differences lie in the fact the singer for Lush is actually singing, while the other two just sort of mumble and moan to hit notes. The effects that they apply to their sounds are different too, with an echo being applied to the first (which sounds bad), a sort of compression in the Cocteau Twins one (which sounds bad), and a subtle distortion in the Lush song (which isn’t great but isn’t terrible). In short, I’ve think I’ve found that I don’t like music videos that have the visuals original color balance tempered with to an extreme level, and for the sound to not sound authentic, and droning.
Bob was the first to talk about his past and his work in the seminar, telling of his love of pinball, his involvement in revolutionary games such as Barbies Race & Ride, and other cool things he did while involved in the industry.
Joe Vitone went next showing his collection of photos taken of ordinary people. The set featured people in his family with some of the people appearing in more than one of the images taken several years apart.
Alex went last focusing not on her own work but that of her children with photos passing rapidly. She talked about how the children coming in changed her life and there by her art, constraining her space and time to work. She finished the set with some of her works that took some inspiration on the simple ideas put in her children’s strange photos.
While this class has not done much itself, it felt like it served as a reminder as to why I’m here, seeing these people who are working in areas that I want to reach and with people who I want to meet. This semester has felt like, how I imaging a tutorial for college would be set up. Nothing too overwhelming, but some challenges to prepare you for whats coming. And don’t think I didn’t notice the change in the seminars homework from something that could be bullcrapped, to something that you hopefully took notes in class for. It was a good idea to make people pay attention in class, but I feel quite a bit of content could have been missed out on, by changing too this formula.
Last seminar two people came to talk about the game that they are creating. An Indie title that uses procedural generated characters to tell a unique stories that will be unique to your experience. They use a unique comic conversation system that is used to give the player agency in the story, as well as a way to prevent the player from having to read large walls of text. They are a prime example of the amount of time that it takes to create a good game with a small team of creators, having had worked on it for 2 years I think. From them I learn that its a good idea to work in the game industry in some way to get deeper in, making games with/for bigger companies.
Of the faculty I want to know something. “What do you think of all the IGST Majors, in all honesty?
The last seminar, had more speakers presenting their works and such, with three all still being graphic design majors.
The first speaker, Alejandro, talked mostly about his involvement in the game industry, namely how he does not make the games, but markets them. With past involvement with Blizzard, he most recently worked with the people at SXSW. His speech made me most interested in an internship that they would be offering when they are running.
The second speaker, Anthony Zubia, talked about his past success working with campaigns that promote testicular cancer awareness, marketing the very successful graphics that demonstrate how to check yourself. He shows his original graphic, several deviations on that design, as well as a few other originals.
The third speaker, Edith Valle, while younger than the other two, shows some of her work, mostly centered around her Mexican heritage. She had not done as much as them but she shows what she has done and it is interesting.
To suddenly change the subject, internships are interesting and I would like one in which I work with SXSW, Rooster Teeth, or Blizzard, while they aren’t positions I’m particularly into, they are all in industries that I would want to get involved in.
The last seminar had more speakers but this time they were all graphic design proffessors
The first speaker talked about a special type of printer he had constructed with more color, showed some posters he had made, talked about the idea of public, an event called Zinefest, and brought up the works of graphic designers Molly Sherman and Kelcey Towell
Bill Kennedy the second speaker instead of talking about stuff gave us a slideshow of his pieces, which featured ones that made me comment in my notes things like “water mark” “green” and “minion shitpost”
Tuan Phan was the third speaker. He showed stuff that he made around the time of the election with trump making that one face he makes, designs for a bag, a pieces he made in Japan, Vietnam, and Thailand, and a piece on white collar crime.
Kim Garza the final speaker, focused more on talking about working on what you believe in, what you are passionate about, and what is important to you. She also showed pieces on Christianity, sudden infant death syndrome, child obesity, A musical re-dubbing with the same video, re-shooting with the same audio, and a full remake.
As far as my plan goes for the next five years, I plan on working on College, and also starting to make art regularly to cultivate a small following online, with that I hope to get a job somewhere while still in college, and to use that to further my image, and get bigger and better projects to work on. If my plan seems unclear it’s because I don’t really know how I plan on going about it either.
My major is Graphic Design, and I plan on pursuing it all four years at st. eds. With that in mind I also am hoping to do one of those semesters abroad. If plans go awry and I can’t complete a degree in Graphic Design I plan on shifting majors only slightly. For the actual four year plan I am meeting with my counselor on Thursday and putting something more concrete in place, instead of just saying “I do my majors degree plan” so that I can fit in room for my second interest
While I already dropped the Idea of a double major, getting rid of Communication, for sake of not finding it to be what I thought, I am extremely interested in the IGST classes. while there is no formal minor plan yet, I still would like to take many of its classes for the sake of learning more.
Computer skills:
Research & writing skills:
There you go with the cookie cutter answers to basic questions.
My rights in Latin America class I could be doing better in if I
With the semester rolling along, it would probably be a good idea to start thinking of setting up a new website, several websites have excellent designs to accomplish their own goals
Imgur arose out of the need for a proper place to share images and gifs on the internet for the internet colossus that is reddit. The grid view gives easy access to images that might catch ones eye as interesting, or you may just go through the images one at a time going through various collections. The layout of their mobile version is also very convenient.
2. Hiveworks https://www.thehiveworks.com/
The Hiveworks pages are a convenient way to find and follow several webcomics with ease, but the page they use is not all they have to boast as each of the comics that they sponsor has a custom made page to meet the authors needs and desires, with desktop and mobile friendly versions that make them easy to navigate and keep up with.
3. Serebii https://serebii.net/
Serebii is the location for all Pokemon and pokemon related news and information. with easy to use tabs to find info on any past game or their homepage with daily updates on current events. While it’s not the best looking site on this list, its layout is effective, and at least better looking then Bulbapedia.
4.Crunchyroll http://www.crunchyroll.com/
This site is a convenient, free, legal way to watch anime, (and dramas, but no one watches those) with a homepage that highlights currently airing series, as well as the most popular series. The queue section also gives you an easy way to orgainize shows you plan on watching. Has a convenient app too.
5. tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/
While I personally think this websites community holds the scum of the earth, the site itself is not at fault, giving a convenient way for artists to post anything they do and form a following.