Computer Animation

I haven't done this since I graduated from school, but I guess you could say that I 'concentrated' in computer animation for my art minor. Here are two short clips that I made.

This is a short story about a grasshopper who finds himself to become a hip hop violinist.



And this one is a lot quicker: I used an air hockey set-up to show dynamic movement:



Hope you like it...

Online Reputation Management for Individuals

For those of you from my Web Design Basics class that are worried about putting your name on the internet - don't worry! As long as you are careful (no social security numbers!) and monitor content out there that can apply to your name, putting your name on the internet can be very beneficial.

I found this article to be pretty interesting - it outlines a number of ways that you can utilize your brand (your name) and make sure you are putting your best (internet) face forward. Check it out!

Learning more about the internet!

Although I work on the internet for approximately 9 hours a day and spend around 2 hours outside of that for my personal enjoyment, I am still not satisfied with the amount of information that I understand about how the internet works. In school I might have spread myself out too thin (hello Psychology major with Business and Studio Art minors!), but I never realized how powerful understanding computer science could be for me in the long run.

In order to "expand my horizons" on this new-fangled world wide web, I recently registered for a Web Design Basics class at Parson's School of Design. This week's assignment was to create a blog and post some schtuff on it - luckily I was slightly ahead of the curve by a month or so. And, by the way, shout out to my random classmates who will be checking this out on Saturday!

Anyway, by the end of the class I will be able to make a three-page website. Hopefully this website will be a place for me to showcase my work (limited artwork/photography/computer animation/SEM stuff?) and may help me get my name on the internet. In the last post I touched on the fact that I've set up a personal goal to SEO myself, and so far it's not going as well as I would have liked (although I haven't been rigorously working on it). This class slash website will get my name out there, and hopefully it will get to the point where I can work on some freelance SEO or SEM. A girl can dream, eh?