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The project that we just completed was called house sketch up. For this project we had to find a house and use the software called SketchUp to make it look more animated. To make this project we used SketchUp and SketchUp can help you make different things but then at the end you can make your project animated. The House sketch up was fun to make. Some parts were hard because we had to make a lot of different details. We also had to make sure the house looked realistic. The House sketch up was really fun to do and SketchUp was also fun to use. SketchUp was also sometimes hard to use because if you messed up you could have just started all over again so it can be easier to work with.

This project was made in my Animation class. For this project we had to make kinda like a flip book but on the computer.       My story is over how a penguin name Lea is going to school for the first time and she is very nervous. Then later a polar bear named Max starts talking to Lea. While Lea and Max start talking they start to get to know each other more and in the end they become friends.     I had learned so many new things. For this project we had to use Keynote. Keynote helps you animate your projects and then you send them to a different program called imovie so then you can add sound effects and music to your story to give it more flavor. I have used imovie before during the video part of e-Communication. We had to use imovie to make the video run smoothly. I had fun  with this project and hope to do more animating with the keynote program later on.

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This week we started on how to make our own web page so the unit was called web design. For web design it was somewhat easy and somewhat hard. We used a new program called Dreamweaver. To make a webpage on Dreamweaver, I had to follow directions that one of the teachers at my school had made. To make a webpage I had to do different steps. Something that I forgot to do with this project was to take screenshots. So my screenshots of my finished work. While we were making this project we had to answer some questions on a Word document. I think making this webpage was really fun and I would do it again some time if I could. This is what my webpage looks like when done.

Photoshop Project 1: Compass       We did a photoshop project in graphic design called a compass. This compass project was preety easy if you followed the directions and stayed on task. We had to take the Northwest compass and the word ONW and photoshop it into a picture of the outside of the school.  After we photos hoped it in we had to make the opacity smaller so that it looks like it is fading out. Photoshop Project 2: Monarch Butterfly      This photoshop project was called the monarch butterfly. This project we took a picture of a monarch butterfly and changed the color of the butterfly's wing to any color that we wanted. Once that was finished we had to make it look like the butterfly was flying so we used a tool called the clone stamp to clone the butterfly's wings.                                               ...

    So in e-Comm we got to make our very own logos. My logo was balloons that have the letters of my name on each balloon. I think this comprehends with my life because I like balloons so that’s where I got the idea of balloons. To me the balloons symbolize that I like to have fun. Since I have different colors there is diversity in my logo like the Google logo. According to the color emotion guide the orange one means friendly, cheerful, and confidence. I am mostly friendly and cheerful but I am not a really confident person. The color red on the color guide means excitement, bold, and youthful. I believe I am an exciting kind of person and I also am youthful even when I get older I will always be a child at heart. Blue on the color guide means trust, strength, and dependable. I am a trustworthy and dependable person. I’m not really strong so I guess that trait won't work with me. Green on the color guide means peaceful, health, a...

In e-comm we used Adobe Illustrator to make this Orthogonal Cube. The Orthogonal cube was fun and easy to make. In e-comm I have been through two different sections of e-comm. I have been through the video part of e-comm and now I am in the graphic design part of e-comm.   The video branch part of the graphic design was when you filmed different “stories”. Then when you went to edit them you would use software called Final Cut Pro. In graphic Design what you do is you use Adobe Illustrator to make logos. In video we would work together as a team to make different videos for example in one project called “the chase scene” we had to collaborate as a team to come up with different ideas on how to make our “chase scene”.   In the graphic design part of e-comm we would work, as teams when you’re making a logo for a customer or something. You would need to make sure in your logo that it has everything that the customer wants in their logo design.