My Bouncing Ball Animation

About My Animation

I actually found this animation simple, mainly the only problem I had was figuring out the technology. I have previous animation skill so it was pretty easy. Though if I spend less time figuring out the technology next time, I'll try to make my next project less choppy than this one. Besides that, I think I did pretty well for not doing a serious animation project in about two years. I got the hang of the animation after a while and it was definitely a lot better software then the one I used before, and even then it wasn't much animation as much as it was a montage.

My Personality Type

My personality type is INFP, as you can see above. I am 38% more introvert than extrovert, 53% more intuitive than sensing, 25% more feeling than thinking, and 3% more perceiving than judging. Some celebrities that share my type are William Shakespeare, Johnny Depp, Nic Cage, and Tim Burton. For my animal personality, I got Otter as my top personality.

The type description of my personality type fits me extremely well. Except for my animal personality.

I am a very spiritual person and I seem cool if we are not very close. I tend to be loud if I'm with my close friends. I am also a healer as that is my type of personality. I want to help people and I am the one that all my friends come to for advice. I even want to be a psychologist and be a counselor when I get older. I also do tend to understand people on a deeper level. I try not to judge and I am accepting of literally everyone. I also tend to put myself in other people's shoes as well. I also do have a special affection for the arts, as an artist and musician is also something I strive to be. I don't think Otter fits me very well because I'm only social with my friends and some family, but I am fun and loud, but I'm not that social and I don't really like meeting new people.

Like I said before, I am the person that helps my friends. So I think "the Healer" fits extremely well for what role I play in groups. I normally feel pretty awkward when I'm in a different role I'm not familiar with, like I'm not much of a leader so I worry I'll mess up at those types of roles. People who have issues with me probably have them because I'm loud and can sometimes be obnoxious because I try too hard to be a good friend or worry too much or I'm too passionate of my views or interests. I also tend to be too emotional about my hobbies or interests. People who I tend to have problems with are normally too clingy, or don't care about what I have to say or seem not to care about me. Also I have problems with people who won't take into consideration my view points or at least respect them.

By doing this assignment, I've learned a lot more about myself and why I think the way I do. I've also learned about my roles in groups and how it all fits into my personality type. This assignment has actually opened my eyes to new things I didn't know about myself that I just figured out. 

Colleges Track Your Social Media?

      In the article titled, "They loved your GPA, then they saw your Tweets" by Natasha Singer in the New York Times, it says how colleges look through your social media to find out more about you. But when they do this, around 30% of high schoolers have been affected negatively by this. It has also been somewhat of a controversy too, since it could possibly violate your right to privacy.

      Some things that surprised me in the article, was the overall topic of the article. I had never thought that they would look through applicants social media, but it would make sense, as that is where teenagers are most open. It also surprised me that students would post such offense things online, as it never goes away, even if you delete it.

      Some questions I had were, is it illegal to do that? People do have a right to privacy, and even if their account is open to the public, wouldn't they still need consent from the applicant that it's okay to go on there? Or if they did find something offensive, at least talk to the applicant about it? I'm in no way saying it's right to post offensive things online, I'm just wondering if it violates any rights to privacy.

      My parents always told me to be careful of what I post online, and I have. I never am rude or make rude comments to anyone on social media. Plus I don't really use my social media all that often either. Therefore, this doesn't really change my veiw points on my own social media but people definitely have to watch what they post.

Photoshop Projects

The first project was fairly simple, as is the first projects normally. In this project I learned the basics of Photoshop and some of the most important tools we used in these next projects. I learned about opacity and have/will apply this/that knowledge to future projects.

The second project was probably my favorite project because it allowed me to be creative and put my own ideas into this project. We used colors and lots of selecting in this project to create this colorful butterfly. It was interesting and fun and the color part of this project, I will use in projects yet to be done.

In this project, we learned how to put in a faded background a bit more about transparency. It wasn't too hard, but I had some difficulty fixing the colors of the background and had some trouble with the text at first, but got the hang of it fairly quickly. I will use tools such as the faded background and the transparent text in future projects.

 

The final project we did was pretty fun, but it would have probably been more fun if I hadn't been on a time crunch. I got more practice in opacity and I loved the magic lasso feature. I had to go over the raven a lot but the tips I got in class helped a lot. I will use the magic lasso tool in future projects, and the Photoshop unit we did had to be one of my favorites. :)