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.