For this assignment, you are asked to make a poster or an ad for a law to be legalized.  Some suggested are the common ones like gay marriage and marijuana.  For fun, challenge yourself to think outside of the box … Continue reading →

This is the second part to how I made the “visual” media for my final project. I want to show how I embedded a playlist into my post. The first thing I immediately went to was the “Add Media” button, which is located directly above the text space provided in any blog post and/or on … Continue reading How it’s Made: Final Project Tutorial Two

Final Project: Final Project Hugo the Big Winner 2nd made up assignment: Crazy/Carzy Illusion 2nd made up Tutorial: Crazy/Carzy Made up Tutorial The final week was fun,  I had some difficulties coming up with a story and a character for my final assignment, but once I came up with the story I rolled with it. […]

Week Five. The Grand Finale. [Final Project Posts] Old Doll New Tricks: Sloth Ballet —> Click Here Old Doll New Tricks: Sloth Ballet [Behind The Scenes] —> Click Here [Tutorials] Rock ‘n Roll ‘n GIF—> Click Here [Digital Assignments] We’ve Got You Covered —> Click Here Final Thoughts DS106 has been a wild ride. I don’t […]

Hello! I decided to break up how I was able to create some of the media with my final project character into separate posts. This will allow me not to make a super long final project post and help organize it better. So this is the tutorial for how I did a “design” assignment for my … Continue reading How it’s Made: Final Project Tutorial One

To complete this assignment there are several steps, this assignment is not there to be hard or difficult, but its there to show creativity. Step1. Choose a picture either from Google or a Picture that you took yourself, I prefer choosing a shape, that way it is easier to create an optical illusion.   Step.2 […]

For this Assignment, there is a simple way to approach it.  To make this GIF, there is a wonderful website.  You get a sight similar to this: For this assignment you will want to take pictures of each step, or … Continue reading →

I can’t believe the semester is over already!  I’m so sad but I have learned so much from this class.  I went into it knowing it was going to be hard work and it was.  But the assignments we did were fun, which made all of the work worth it.  During the first week of … Continue reading Week Five – Completed

My Illusion was created through a program called Picsart, which can be downloaded onto any computer or tablet. This image was not taken from google, it was self created, I created the shape, and then set the background pattern. If you look at this image too long your eyes may start hurting or you could […]

The best thing I can cook is cereal. It’s probably the only thing I can cook. I don’t know if people realize this but, I think cereal box covers are often overlooked. Yeah, they are not breakthrough designs but they have an iconic. Anyways, what better way to show and create new characters than creating … Continue reading Cereal Box Fun

I had so much fun with this project! (*‿*✿) My character Samantha (Sloth) actually comes from a comic idea I’ve had floating around for a bit. A lot of the inspiration for her comes from me. I’m a bit of a sloth myself. So much of a sloth that I haven’t really done anything with […]

Day one Samantha AKA Sloth here. Most of you probably know me as the photo editor for Galaxy Doll magazine.     You know, the most popular alternative magazines for women in their twenties and thirties? Yeah. I work for them (✿´‿`)                   A lot of people […]

I really like rock music. I also really like GIFs So this assignment was a winner in my books.   Pretty cool right? It really wasn’t that difficult at all and I’m going to explain how I did it below. **PLEASE NOTE: This tutorial was done using a mac and Photoshop CS6. Windows or any […]

For this week, our big thing was our FINAL PROJECT!  This was a lot of fun seeing the military holds a dear place in my heart.  Making a story provided entertainment and allowed me to imagine different scenarios.  I also … Continue reading →

So for the final project we got to create a story and tell it through multiple means of media, being design, audio, GIFs, and video.  With the military close to my heart, I decided to write a slight love story … Continue reading →

Let us begin with the cliche, once upon a time, there was a group of men who decided one day they want to see the world, and serve their country.  They decided to, can you guess, join the military!  They … Continue reading →

You can become a famous! But in all seriousness, let me get down to the real business- Making Your Own song. I don’t know about you, but I personally don’t have the pipes of an angel so I opted to go the instrumental route, which, believe me, works just as well. The tool of my … Continue reading Now you can be a Professional DJ (Well kind of)

Hugo the main character of my story was just a normal human being, until luck was on his side and he won BIGGGG. But will the money get to him, and cause him to lose it all. Find out for yourself. Hugo received a phone call around, 330pm on June 17,2020, the phone call was […]

One day, Poppy didn’t feel well at school and came home early.  Her mom thought showing her a video of a friend’s daughter ice skating, would make her feel better. Poppy was amazed! She couldn’t believe someone her age could ice skate like that.  Her favorite part was when the girl fell and got right … Continue reading Poppy’s Road to Becoming an Olympian

For this picture, I created Poppy’s newest Olympic dream.  To do that, I Googled a picture of Michael Phelps; Poppy’s favorite swimmer. To create the picture of her dreaming, I decided to reuse the picture from the ice skating Olympic dream.  I thought, because I was going for the same idea, it would be better … Continue reading Poppy’s New Dream

For this GIF, I wanted to capture Peppa Pig falling for it go to with my character, Poppy’s, story line. To do that, I used Gyazo to create the GIF.  I watched the video, shown above, and highlighted where I wanted the GIF to start and it automatically finished on its own.  When Gyazo finished creating … Continue reading Poppy Falling GIF

For this recording, I made it a conversation between my character, Poppy, and her mom.  It thought the readers of my story would like to compare what they imagined Poppy’s voice would sound like to what she actually sounds like. To do this assignment, I googled inspirational quotes about sports.  I wanted to use a … Continue reading Mom and Poppy Convo

Hi! I’m Oalf and I like warm hugs! I wanted to tell you the story of how I started my new business of turning Aerndelle into the best vacation spot ever. Since my story is long, I created a video of it that is shown at the end of this post. BUT DON’T WATCH IT … Continue reading Oalf’s New Business →

I decided to create this picture because I thought it would give the reader a deeper understanding of my character, Poppy the Pig.  This picture was inspired by the Spubble assignment we did earlier in the semester. For this picture, I used Paint to create it.  I started out by finding a picture of Peppa … Continue reading Dreaming Little Piggy

This is a home video of me at an ice skating competition back in 2007.  I wanted to add it to my final project because I thought it would fit the story line perfectly. Originally, the video was on a DVD which I imported into my computer.  I wanted to add it to Windows Movie … Continue reading Ice Skating Video

Alright, in order to complete this assignment you are first going to need some type of audio editing software. For this tutorial I will be using audacity. It’s free and it’s user-friendly, so I recommend it (the url to download it is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/, it works on macs as well so no need to worry about it … Continue reading Sounds of Your Day Tutorial →