Walt Disney Biography      

Walt Disney took a strong interest into art at a young age and took art lessons to further develop his skills. He was very successful with this as when he was young he had a job being the cartoonist of the school magazine. Once the first world war started he dropped out of school to join the military but was rejected, and later got a job as an ambulance driver for the red cross. He did this for a year and then moved back to his home town Kansas City. Walt disney have various jobs before he got one in his field of interest- the film industry. 

In his first job in the film industry he got to work with the new technique of animation and this allowed for him to practice and develop skills that would later enable him to start his own animation business. Sadly his first firm went bankrupt which lead for him to move to Hollywood and have another crack at it. In California his business was a success and still remains successful to this day. Walt disney hold a record for receiving 59 nominations for the academy award although he only won 22.  

Photoshop Animation 

Kayla Siegfried 

TECHNICAL: Wile making this animation I got to refresh my skills on adobe photoshop cc. It was really interesting learning how to make an object have the appearance of it moving as well as how to changes things like colour to my preferences. 

IDEA: To start this project I had no idea what to make my ball bounce off. So eventually I looked up “things” and found a checker board and used that as a reference and idea and then just spun off that. 

INFLUENCES: My influences for this project was just literally looking a picture of a checker board and working from there. I don’t look towards any artists for inspiration because I'm not really a big art student so I don’t really know many artists. 

COMPOSITION: I found making this animation very challenging so when it comes to compositing there may not be a lot of that. I struggled very hard using photoshop to make an animation even though i know how to use photoshop already. Although I struggled with this I found I kept really good aspects of animation like the squash and stretch technique given that my object is a checker. 

MOTIVATION: My motivation for this project was probably honestly to find something that a ball could bounce off and just get the project done and over with as i was already behind before I started. 

CRITICAL  ASSESSMENT: If I could go back and fix this project I would have fixed some of my tracing on the checker board because from frame1-2 you can see it shift. I also might have found something easier to do as my choice as i can see now is quite challenging. Over all I am fairly happy with the end result of this project. 

Canadian Memory Game

Kayla Siegfried 

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TECHNICAL: Wile making this game I got to learn completely how to use adobe flash cc. It was really interesting learning how add my pictures to to program as well as how to changes things like colour to my preferences. 

IDEA: My original idea was going to be Canadian stereotypes but as I continued to work I decided to change it to fitting in with Canadians.  Although some of my images used were relating to stereotypes put on Canadians it is take more as something that we accept and live by. 

INFLUENCES: My influences for this project was just how we live as Canadians. I don’t look towards any artists for inspiration because I'm not really a big art student so I don’t really know many artists. 

COMPOSITION: I feel I balanced colour very well in this game sticking with morosely four colours for my backgrounds but not the actual cards. I feel that this game was made simple and there was a fair amount of movement of the eyes for players when they are playing the game. 

MOTIVATION: My personal motivation for this game was to express how we Canadians are thought to live and some of them being true. The idea came for this from talking to people who weren't from Canada during my travels and I thought this would be the best way to express this. 

CRITICAL  ASSESSMENT: If I could go back and fix this project i would have fixed some un caught spelling errors. I also might have found some better pictures that weren't as similar to some of the other ones used. Over all I am fairly happy with the end result of this project.  

Toy Hack Reflection 

1. If i was to box this toy up and sell it i would advertise it as the perfect doll. This seems appropriate to me because the doll has odd parts from various other toys, this showing how not everything thing is perfect which i think advertising has the effect of making children get unrealistic expectations and a lot of this is from toy. Also I think having different random parts give the toy a little character.
2. The thing I like most about this doll would probably be the barbie legs on it and the barbie hair! Although I had to put a new set of barbie legs on since both of the other ones fell off it still managed to work out. I like this because they are the cool little things that some people at first glance don’t notice and then it catches them off guard. What I like least about this doll is probably the new arms I had seen onto it, they look short and stubby. Also with the new arms I had to find a t shirt to put over top but the sleeves are almost too long. If I could redo this hack again I probably would have done it when I had more supply available for me the first time so I wouldn't have to re touch a bunch of pieces. I would also have thought more about what i wanted to do and find toys that would give me a little more inspiration! 

Art video Game


Some ideas I think I may be able to portray through a video game are;
- Canadian stereo  types (ex. Eh, Igloos, maple syrup). The object that could represent this problem is a polar bear. These stereo types don't directly affect the world but it is a biased opinion that the would has on us some times good and sometimes bad. It affects us Canadians because when you talk to people from another country and tell them you are Canadian they automatically expect you to be like these stereo types.
- Dolphins being killed for their skin. A image I would use for this would be a jumping dolphin smiling because in my game your dolphin is going to be escaping its killers. This is an environmental problem because the species will eventually all become extinct and for what the skin of a dolphin. Also this is a struggle because there have been extreme outburst over the fight against it
- Helping the cause for poverty. i would show some bread and water for this because the focus for this will be feeding the poor. This has a good effect of helping people and i think that in most cases this would be nice for anyone to play. There also wouldn't be much of a debate on weather its a good thing or not like there isn't much of a argument.    

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5hGHKApY1k&feature=youtu.be

Evolution of Technology( art movie) 

Kayla Siegfried 

TECHNICAL: To make this project I got to learn how to use adobe premier pro, not only learning how to use this application but also steps that are needed to make a amazing, not that mines really amazing. Some other skills involved with this is learning how to use the transitions, effects and lengthen and shorten a video.

IDEA AND CONCEPT: My original idea for this project was to show the changing nature of technology and how people really are frightened by it. My idea never really changed during the work of this project but i did have o make compromises as i couldn't find exact stock footage like what i had pictured in my head as well as a song. 

INFLUENCE: There was no actual influence from a particular artist but the influence for this project was actually some of my other classes and the debate topic of changing technology. It was easy for me to make the move because I grew up with the developments and even i can say that I technology and what it is coming to even scares me. 

COMPOSITION: For this movie I tried to keep things symmetrical by keeping the videos of the same piece of technology the same length in showing time. There are a lot of motions that the videos make them selfs so I think that is one feature that is included that really makes your eyes move with the video and makes you think. 

MOTIVATION: My motivation for this work as mentioned above was debates i have had in other classes about technology, that combined with seeing some videos on the website i used to get my stock footage from. I like technology as much as the next person but it also scares me, especially when we think of how dependent we now are on technology, we even use is as a substitute for teaching utensils. (paper & pencil)     

CRITICAL ASSESSMENT: I would have to say that in my opinion the most interesting part of my video was the idea. I also like how I added the black and white effect along with the transitions to make it run more smoother. It surprised me how long it would take the program to fully apply the changes being made to the video. If i had more time I would probably think of a better idea and way to make it less obvious to viewer’s when the actually topic was, all around i would probably start over and make it better.    

Light Painting

 Colour Pop

Colour Balance

Contact Sheet

Best Friends 

By: Kayla Siegfried 

Growing up I believed that we could only have one best friend, and I had that. She wasn’t only a best friend she was like another sister to me. Knowing how we met, how much older than me she was, even her birthday didn’t matter I had a friend that I could share everything with and spend all my time with without getting annoyed. The best part about our friendship was that we were young and innocent. Other than my actual family she was the most important person ever to me. 

All that changed on my 7th  birthday. We hadn’t been talking much that day other than her coming to say happy birthday to me before we parted to go to school. After school I was headed to go camping so I wouldn’t see her till I got home. Little did I know, after that moment I would never see her again. After she came home from school she got on her bike to go to another friend’s house for a play date. A couple blocks down the road there was a terrible accident. My parents never picked me up early from the sitters that day so I knew something was wrong. When they finally picked me up we went straight to my grandmas instead of home to get the trailer. When they told me the news I didn’t want to believe it. 

For months until we moved out of that neighborhood I would continue to visit her family, play in the sand pit or in the fort in the trees. I guess it was my way of coming to understanding with everything. Soon I found other friends at school and became really close with them and I still continue to be close with them. What I can say is a good thing that came from this all is that we have a day to celebrate together, forever. 

Memories In My Skin Reflection 

Kayla Siegfried 

TECHNICAL: Technical wise i think this project really allowed for me to learn how to us photoshop as i have never used it before especially adobe photoshop cc. Thought this project i really learned and developed skills like using brushes, eraser, feathering, layer blending, actions, magic wand tool and the quick selection tool. I also learned how to change to hue/saturation of a picture to fit a specific colour scheme as well as how the change the opacity to change how some picture show up. 

IDEA: My idea was to express my emotions on one of the most traumatic days of my life. the original piece i was working on was all bright and happy and resembling the fact of my best friend going to heaven but then I later changed that idea because I knew the idea was supposed to show my emotions on that day and by no means was i happy in any way, I had lost a family member, my best fried. Thats when I took a fresh start and began to show my emotions of that day and the picture wound up dark a dreary, my art so far has shown up to be a lot of dark and dreary pieces but i promise I'm not actually a dark person like that. 

INFLUENCES: Working on this piece no particular artist influenced me since i am not familiar with any artists except for the group of seven and I don't recall ever seeing one of their pieces of art. I am by no means an art student this is my first time taking a art class ever so i am new to all artists, techniques, rules etc. 

COMPOSITION: In my photo montage i tried to balance the the composition by having pictures that are not all the same size and have no relevance to one another. I also think a key point i tried to have in my art is i wanted to follow a colour scheme, the same few colours can be seen all thought the photo but most photos on the montage are not clearly seen. The photos i want to be seen i tried to make more visually appealing than the ones that still had significance but were as important. In all honesty i think my attempts to have my photos set up in a way that would make your eyes move around the picture was un- successful. I found this project to be very hard for someone like me who has never taken art before and who has also never used photoshop before so in my opinion my project was terrible for a first project but i how to make it up and have more of a creative mind for out upcoming projects. 

MOTIVATION: My motivation to do this piece was really quite simple, i have been thinking a lot about my significant life event lately and being giving this project was the perfect way to put my feelings onto paper and to show my emotions with having people think it was out of the ordinary to have just brought it up now what it happened almost 10 years ago. This project was a way for me to honour her in a way that i never really could until now when I'm old enough and can understand more. Again would have liked it to be something that i personally liked better so i could show her family but still happy with the fact that this project really let me honour her name and think about what happened that day. 

CRITICAL ASSESMENT: In my photo montage I personally think that the most  surprising element at a first glimpse would be the children bike or the giant eye ball. however i think the most successful parts of it are the two girls( the face in the background and the girl standing “sad”). Something that surprised me about making this project was again how hard it was! I wool have never thought that making something like this would be so hard but it really y was and i found myself overthinking a lot of aspects and being very critical of myself. If i had any extra time i would probably totally redo my project and make if still have the same theme of how sad and upset i was when it all happened but have something anything that would bring the colour up more i have a strong disliking for how dark my piece is, i almost feel like its so dull it could dissolve and disappear.