Arissa's Blog

 After spending 13-14 hours everyday from Thursday-Monday, I have finally finished my animation. For this project we were required to create an animation with a running time of at least 30 seconds. I drew each frame by hand using my iPad Pro. I also used Garage Band for the soundtrack, and I used some of my friends from home for the sound effects. I also created some sound effects in my dorm room while my roommates were studying! This was extremely difficult and tedious, but 100% worth it in the end. It is very cool to say that you created that. https://youtu.be/4S8FHoGhRwo

 The autoscopy project got me thinking for days on what I should do. I started to think about myself on a deeper level, and eventually came up with something. I based my project on Greek mythology, the lightning and storm symbolizes the mighty Zeus projecting anger. His followers and everyone would be stunned and shocked when he would strike. I compared that story in my life with my family. When I was younger, when my dad got mad, whether it was about us kids or not, he would scare and make everyone speechless. I connected the feelings the individuals had with Zeus to mine with my father. I made myself upside down, speechless in the sky of a dark storm. We also had to make GIFs with different colors and patterns. It was not my favorite project, and definitely the most challenging to come up with an idea for. Though, I am happy with what I created.

 This project was very interesting to do. We were instructed to take 6 pictures of us in different positions within the same setting (without moving the camera!) Not going to lie, it took me three different times to do this. I ended up doing the one with me in the bathroom at Starbucks. I liked it best because it was the most "extravagant" place I did.This project took me about 1 1/2 days to create. I really enjoyed this project, and was super fun to make a photo with 6 of me. My grandma really like it too lol!

 This project was very fun to do. We had to pick one of our favorite movies or tv shows and place ourselves in the scene, as if we were actually in the scene. I was really contemplating on which movie I should. I decided to do one of my go to quarantine films, "Call Me By Your Name." As soon as I decided what I wanted to do, I knew immediately which scene I wanted to do. This project took me almost 3 days to work on (Thursday-Saturday). I am really happy with how it turned out. This is definitely one of my favorite projects since I have a love for movies.

 For this assignment we had to turn our black and white photo into a colorful one. This took me all weekend starting Friday. It took awhile, but I am really happy with how it turned out:)

 I knew immediately what message I wanted to portray with this project. We had to make a pop art looking poster for this assignment. Mental health is something I deal with, and a lot of people I am close with deals with. As didn't know what picture to use, I really like how I laid out the poster.