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Game Design
3/3/2026
While using Unity for the first time, there were five major things I learned. The first was a general way to move objects, including left, right, up, down, and rotating them. The second was how to insert different assets, which are objects or items in the game. The third was how to change the colors of assets and how to add the colors to a bank if I wanted to use them again. The fourth was how to add physics to the assets. I was able to make a circle and a square fall from the sky. The last was how to add different code to the scene in order to start building the game. I believe that if I were to get into game building in the future, either for a career or for fun, Unity would be the first one I would try again. Mainly because of how easy it was to use. Three things I hope to learn within Unity are how to create realistic landscapes, work with code, and build a simple game.
Game Design
2/3/2026
This assignment was to create a scene in Unity, following along with a tutorial. In the scene, there is a plane, a flat surface, a sphere, a cylinder, and a square. We watched a video tutorial and explored different aspects of the game. Including assets, the objects in the game, but also lighting, shadow, and how to move the assets. I would say that the program was easy for us. Everything was laid out well and easy to find. I liked how all the interactions were right next to the scene view, and how it was simple to move and add assets.
Game Design
1/30/2026
One of the game-building platforms that we worked with was called UNITY. In UNITY, you can create a game from a template or from scratch. Most of the controls worked well, although I feel like the layout wasn't the best. With the controls on the left, it was difficult to navigate what exactly you were looking at. Another thing I didn't like was when you would look around the map. The control was really slow and would go off-screen quickly, leaving you having to move the camera from the start. One thing that I liked was the homescreen. It was really easy to see your projects and the templates.
Game Design
1/6/2026
With the raised GPU prices, gamers are forced to spend more money because companies have shifted their focus to developing AI in gaming, spending more money to make AI more advanced. For game designers and animators, it means that the job market will shrink and many will lose their jobs because companies would rather invest in AI. An example of a real GPU is the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX in 2024, the price was $950 to $1,000, and is currently in the range of $950 to $1,100.
Game Design
11/4/2025
3D Rendering - A process that converts 3D models into 2D images using an animation program that adds light to the models. 3D rendering makes an object seem real by adding lighting, color, textures, and shadows to make the object seem 3D. An example is the image at the top.
3D Animation - A style of animation that uses 3D objects to add depth rather than using a flat screen and shadows. 3D animation allows for more movement of characters and more techniques that can be used, like adding textures. An example is the image at the bottom.
Game Design
10/28/2025
Virtual reality is a world made completely virtual and online, while augmented reality is an overlay of digital elements on top of reality. Benefits of using AR include giving an example of what an object might look like, even when you don't have it. For example, using augmented reality to see how a new couch looks in your living room, even if you don't have it. Drawbacks of using AR are high cost and environmental limitations. In gaming, AR might be used to show a game aspect in the real world, like showing Pokémon in the real world in Pokémon Go. Outside of gaming, AR might be used to help someone visualize something, like wearing makeup before they buy it.
Character Design
8/19/2025
My experience using Meshy was pretty simple; it wasn't hard, and there was only a short waiting period for the image to generate. I didn't enjoy using it; it goes against my personal morals as an artist. I did not like everything about our experience, from the uncreativity to the generating of "art". I do not like using ai for4 any types of art, much less character design. In character design, there are so many creative and well-thought-out elements that, by using AI, you are stripping all types of creativity and thought away from the art. Games like PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS use AI for character design.
Character Design
8/12/2025
A character I would design would probably fit into some fantasy world. The character would be from a race that lives for a long time, but doesn't want to live and see the people they love die. I would give the character a distinct style from the rest of their race because of the fact that their race doesn't value life as much as they do. However, I would still give them elements that connect them back to their culture, maybe like certain designs on their clothes or a specific color. I would give them a more nature-themed look, for the value of life. While the race they come from has a more superior race look. I would use colors like green, brown, and maybe orange/red to keep with the nature theme. I don't have a specific backstory for them. Maybe someone they loved died because of their race, and they realized how their race views others as below them. They'd live in a sunny clearing on a farm with animals they rescued and helped. I think I would give them the look of a lot of healing supplies on their body, but also a lot of storage and packs for their animals.
Game Design
8/5/2025
What did you notice about the game design? The colors are very vibrant, and the color theory they use is very well executed, like the purple doors with a yellow/Gold rim.
What seems easy or challenging for a new user while interacting with this game? The controls are easy and match every other game's controls. However, there's no overall tutorial to the home screen, which makes it kind of difficult to navigate the app.
What did you realize about how the characters are animated and controlled? They are very fluid and easy to control, and each character has a different movement type based on themselves and their stances.
Game Design
7/31/2025
This photo demonstrates what we learned in the video because it shows the walk animation of two different characters, giving a visual to the artist when they were talking about making characters unique in the way they moved
Radio Commercial
8/2/2024
The ReVision combined film and literature class met for the first time, and the first project, an All-American Radio Food Commercial, was introduced.
8/2/2024-8/9/2024
We listened to 6 ads and picked one to reverse engineer.
Project 1: All-American Food Projects
More ads were watched on August 9.
8/9/2024
We discussed our ideas as a group and filled out the pre-production slides.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I4im66HL8ZKofrN0dc1pnYjMdWuTqm5OwcIH2e0ZaPc/edit?usp=sharing
8/16/2024
We wrote our script:
8/23/2024
We recorded our commercial. We did this in a recording booth and spoke into it. We had to say our lines and our group number for identification. We did multiple takes for the commercial until we were happy with it. However, the file for the recording was lost, so we had to re-record.
9/13/2024
The group editor put the commercial together.
10/4/2024
We presented our project:
Abstraction
3/1/2024
We've taken a look at many different types of art, one being abstraction. In modern-day art, abstraction is used for many things, such as objects, landscapes, and people. However, instead of a regular object, person, or land, the art is distorted and simplified with basic colors. Comparing this to African abstraction, they are very similar. They both have the simplification of objects into shapes with basic colors and making complicated things simpler, but African abstraction art has more detail than regular abstraction. Relating abstract art to math, Kandinsky used mathematical concepts in his art, like open and closed lines, circles, and triangles. Both mathematicians and artists use geometrical concepts such as proportion, measurement, and shapes. Relating abstract art to science, they both focus on the cognitive instead of the natural, personal, or figurative. Data can be used to make pieces with lots of meaning, and that are visually appealing. I think I would prefer to work in a more personally expressive way instead of based on data, because to me art is something I can put all types of meaning to, for me it's mostly personal because it's my style of art, my preferences, and my ideas.
Visual Art Comp II
1/4/2024
Borax is a colorless solid that dissolves in water that comes from alkaline salt deposits and is used to make glass and ceramics, and as an antiseptic. It contains the chemical compounds of oxygen and soda that have been mixed into the borax. Hot water is used to dissolve the borax, the reason for this is that hot water can hold more of the dissolved borax than cold water can because the hot water molecules are moving very fast and are very spread out. While it is heated, it is considered supersaturated. Supersaturation is a solution that has more than the highest amount of solute it can dissolve at a lower temperature. After the water cools, the molecules slow down and get closer together, and the result is that the mixture goes back to the regular saturation levels. The sculpture that I put in the borax is 3D dynamic because it is a flower; the petals are made out of 2 pipe cleaners that have been folded. These petals are sticking out just like how a natural flower's petals are. You can hold each individual one, and when looking at it from any angle, it looks like a flower.
Visual Art Comp II
10/31/2023
In this class, we have explored the parts of an atom and how we can incorporate that into art. In doing so, each group made their own mandalas based on an atom, after researching the different types of mandalas from different religions.
In our color still life, we were taught to take up all the space in the vegetables/fruits so that each item was filled with color, with no white spots. Leaving the only negative space surrounding the items.
In my planning and process, I explore the different options or angles that I could be taking to get a wide range and a new perspective on my project. I show my process by documenting the pivotal points in my process, i.e., the sketch, line art, flat colors, and shading.
In this class, I have learned about 'The Garbage of New York City' by Justin Gignac. This artist takes litter and garbage from the streets of New York and puts them into a see-through glass container. He sells them for $100s to poke fun at the notion of value.
Geometry
9/12/2023
Geometry impacts architecture by showing certain math skills that help architects to figure out the angles, distance, and size of things like walls, pillars, stones, and more. These calculations can also help with figuring out the size of the materials needed to build the actual structure. Once all calculations are precise, you are able to start building the structure, and the calculations also serve as a reference for what is being built.
Visual Art II
9/12/2023
I believe that AI art is not a good thing, and it shouldn't even be considered "art". AI does not learn different things from actual art made by an artist; it takes and steals aspects from real art to make the ones you see coming from the generators. AI art steals and is not actual art; artists put a lot into the pieces they make ad to have an AI steal it within seconds and not even credit them is disrespectful to those whose art it is. Art is not the only thing AI is used for. It can also be used in everyday life, in things like personalized shopping or creating smart content.
ELA
9/11/2023
Today in class, we worked on our script for our film. My group was able to get through and write the first scene and start on the second. We were also able to get down most of our characters and how the next few scenes are supposed to go.
ELA
9/8/2023
We watched a PIXAR short film about day and night being jealous of each other but eventually coming together and appreciating their differences. My group finished filling out the GRAPES document and brainstormed ideas. Also, we got started and finished the majority of our Plot Diagram Template.
ELA
9/6/2023
Today in class, we were working on researching our ancient civilizations and gathering information. We each had different jobs we were meant to do. I researched the geography and the economics of our civilization, the Mayas.
Unit Zero - AP World History
Describe how the Neolithic Revolution led to injustices within religions, social classes, and between genders. Please provide examples for each analysis.
Describe early Neolithic technology and inventions. Please provide examples for each analysis.
Describe the rise of Interregional trade routes and how that led to the spread of religions. Give examples.
Explain the difference between centralized and decentralized governments. Please give examples of each.
List and explain six (6) significant terms that you should remember going into Period 1.
A. The Neolithic Revolution led to injustices within religion, social classes, and genders by advancing human technology. For genders, before the Neolithic Revolution, men and women had equal jobs; men hunted, and women farmed. After the Neolithic Revolution sense men didn’t have to follow the food, they stayed at home and took over the farming roles, which led women to be put more in house roles, which leads to now, when people say women should stay in kitchens and not have a “Man’s job,” meaning manual labor. For religion, the Neolithic Revolution helped to shape belief systems like ancestor worship in China because it was more structured than the Paleolithic Revolution. Finally, for social classes, because the Neolithic Revolution essentially made it so everyone worked on farms, some people felt the need not to work, which led to social classes because of the specialized roles. An example of this is a hierarchy with people categorized based on power and wealth.
B. Early Neolithic Inventions consisted of sickles, bows and arrows, and improved axes. All tools ranged in use from building to harvesting. What they all have in common is the fact that they were all improved tools made out of stone, hence the reason the age was called the New Stone Age. The axe had a sharper stone head for cutting down trees. The sickles with a sahr crescent-shaped hook are used to cut the stalks of many plants. Finally, bows and arrows with the arrow heads being made into leaf shapes out of the stone and the arrows out of a wood called yew wood.
C. By trading through trade routes, religion, ideas, and technology spread through exchanges. This started with Buddhist merchants. When they would travel, they would build temples to honor their religion in the trade routes, for example, throughout the Silk Road. The people who ended up working at those temples would preach to their communities and travelers to pass on the ideals and faith of the religion. This contact of believers and non-believers is what ultimately caused the diffusion of religions along trade routes. Other religions that were spread consisted of Christianity, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, and Islam.
D. Centralized Governments - When most decisions for a state are controlled by one executive power
Ex. Ancient Egypt - The Pharaoh
Decentralized Governments - A system of co-responsibility between different institutions of government at the local level
Ex. Ancient Greece
Differences: Centralized governments are united under one central government, with the actions and decisions being made by one person, a ruler. However, decentralized governments are governments that have stopped being centralized and instead have the decisions and actions made unanimously by the authority spread out across the state.
f.
- Neolithic Revolution: The development of agriculture, growth, technology, and domestication leading to permanent settlements and the development of cities/civilizations
- Pastoralization: The taming of wild animals to be brought up with humans
- Polytheism: The belief in many gods
- Monotheism: The belief in one god
- Hierarchies: Ordering groups within a system
- Caste System: Social organization in India that determines how people live and what they are allowed to do
8/21/2023
What did I learn in Unit 1 of Geometry?
In Unit 1 of Geometry, we learned about polynomials. Polynomials are an expression of algabraic math terms. We learned how to solve them using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. We also learned how to name the polynomials based on the number of the degree and the number of term(s).
Addition & Subtraction - combining like terms
Multiplication & Division - Multiply/Divide the numbers and add the exponent together
8/1/2023
What does art mean to me?
Art is a creative process; it takes thought and has a meaning. Even if the meaning is small, it is just meant for people to look at it and think it looks good. Art is not something that you can make on a whim. At the beginning, it takes time to learn the skills needed to make and understand art. Even a quick sketch takes time and thought. If it's a drawing of a person, there is thought behind the pose, the character design, and the things around the character. It is true that art is all around us, it's in a tie-dye explosion in science, the old art from decades and centuries ago, and even in poems or stories that are written.
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