Gabriella Magruder's Blog

The Process First we learned about the first of twelve principals of animation, squash and stretch. Next we learned more about Photoshop .5 discovering different features including the timeline and different mac key shortcuts including shift+option+X which would be used to repeatedly undo mistakes or the shift and right mouse click used to select frames and objects in layers. Afterwords we experimented with colors and granite's with the sky, ground and ball. Next we made several of the same frame ball frame. we changed the ball positions and applied squash and stretch. We finished the animation by moving the frames into a time line and changed the number of frames until we were satisfied with the final product. What I Learned In animation we began learning about and applying the twelve principals of animation. The first principal of animation was squash and stretch. We learned squash and stretch is used to emphasize an objects speed, momentum, weight and mass. The more squa...

Yesterday in e9 we read and article that talked about how colleges are looking at applicants internet history to see what kind of post your making online. The article said that young "tech-savvy" people were researching the history of applicants to determine whether or not that applicate should be accepted into that school. This new system gives college students the power to report applicants who post inappropriate or explicit language in their post. This method of accepting applicants isn't used everywhere, in fact only a small portion of college use this method due to the massive about of applicants they have to sort through. I believe that the way the system is currently set up, it is hardly as effective as it could be in the future. The system could easily be exploited because if a student knew an applicants full name and wanted to ruin their chances of being accepted into a college with this system that person could just create an account using their name and fill ...

This week the class attempted to make our names into logos by using the tools provided in Adobe Illustrator as well as a specific template to create our logos on.   While I wasn’t satisfied with the finished product I enjoyed exploring and familiarizing myself with the different graphic effects, lines and colors. The fished logo had rectangles of varying sizes and thicknesses put together in a form I liked. It was difficult to change the outlines of the rectangles because they changed layers continuously. I b believe next time I will spend more time exploring color and shape rather than the over all completion because I believe the finished product was sloppily put together and I should have spent more time on the project. During the week the class worked to complete their third sketch book assignment. The class reflected on their names and came up with ten adjectives to describe themselves. After writing down their name at the top of the page and ...