Eva's Digital Media Experience

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GzumUieDPY     I think Illustrator will be easier to use than Canvas because you can draw directly onto the screen instead of coding coordinates for everything. You can create shapes with different buttons and change how many points they have. The selection tool will be helpful because you can grab however many points on a shape that you want and drag them around with the mouse. I would be able to use these to code shapes more efficiently and change them if I make a mistake. I won't have to go back and analyze my code for a small error I might have made.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4601QiodeJc     This video showed new tools such as pathfinder. This tool should come in handy because it allows you to merge shapes together and erase any lines between them. I think this will make my final results of each project look better than they did on Canvas, because there won't be hard lines between anything that make their separat...

 Canvas Project:       For my project, I wanted to create something that reminded me of life in Florida. I saw a drawing online that looked similar to this final project, and I wanted to recreate it. I started with a sketch of the drawing that broke it down into simpler shapes for coding. Then, I went onto Dreamweaver and began with the basics, such as the sky, ocean, clouds, and sun. I used gradient for the sky and sea to make them look more realistic. I added a few Bezier curves to the ocean to make it look like waves.       After I had those done, I created the island, which was just a semi circle moved slightly off the page. Then I made the trees, which were pretty difficult. I had to perfectly place eight semi circles and make a Bezier swoosh for the trunks. I thought the control points for the swooshes were the hardest part of this piece. All I had left was the boat. I used a semi circle for the base of the boat, then a couple of lines ...

      The internet is potentially the most useful piece of technology available today. However, it was not always around for people to be able to learn the answer to any question in a heartbeat. On the first day of 1983, the internet as we know it today was created by Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn. It was originally designed as a secret way of communication between scientists during the Cold War, and as time went on, engineers realized how great of a tool it could be if available to everyone in the public. The internet now is used for quick and easy research, communication across the world, and entertainment.       The World Wide Web is the collection of all webpages accessible by the public. Known more commonly as the Web, it was created in 1989 by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee. It was originally used as a system for managing and organizing documents. Over time, people realized it could be used for much more, as there are now websites for things such a...

Hi! My name is Eva Schoen, and I'm currently a freshman at the University of Tampa majoring in Film and Media Arts. My first Digital Media class was on Tuesday, August 30, and it was a pretty unique experience. We mostly just had time to introduce ourselves to the rest of our class, because the fire alarm went off and class got cut short. But I think I have a lot in common with the rest of my classmates, and everyone seems very determined to get the most out of this class going forward. I'm expecting to get a better understanding of technology going forward. I haven't had too many technological resources available to me at home, so I'm looking forward to becoming fluent in new programs.  I'm studying here about one thousand miles away from my home in Cleveland, Ohio, and I could not be happier. There's nothing I like more than warm weather and palm trees, so I think I'll do pretty well for myself here. I like to play tennis and swim, both of which I've d...