Learning Journal

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 their 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. 

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 object, landscapes, and people. However, instead of a regular object, person, or land, the art is instead 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 does have 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 its mostly personal because its my style of art, my preferences, and my ideas. 

Visual Art Comp II

10/31/2023

1. 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 of an atom, after research about the different types of mandalas from different religions. 

2. 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. 

3. In my planning and process I explore the different option or angles that I could be doing 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. 

4. 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 which 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 then you are able to start building the structure and the calculations also offer as a reference for what is being built. 

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 brain stormed 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 civilizations, The Mayans. 

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 structuralized than the Paleolithic. Finally for social classes, because the Neolithic Revolution essentially made it so everyone worked in farms some people felt the need to not work, this led to social classes because of the specialized roles. An example of this being 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 uses from building to harvesting. What they all have in common is the fact that they all were 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 sickels with a sahr crescent shaped hook 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 the ideals and faith of the religion. This contact of believers and non-believers is what ultimately caused the diffusion of religions in 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 local level

• Ex. Ancient Greece

  • Differences: Centralized governments are united under one central government with the actions and decisions being decided 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 of many gods

- Monotheism: The belief of 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