Hello Everyone!

     The Digital Media class I'm enrolled in recently engaged in using the MIT App Inventor program. Our goal was to learn this easy-to-use program within our class's length. MIT definitely out-did themselves with this program. It was fast and relatively easy to use. Not only this, but it was also fun.
     In terms of apps, our class did not go very in-depth, opting to create an app where we could tap the screen to create messages and also allow a small ball to bounce across the screen. Tapping the ball would make it bounce in another direction. It was simple, but a great start to bigger things. I was easily able to download the companion app on my smartphone to see the fruits of my progress in real time, something that I was very impressed with. Overall, while not an official creation method most app-makers may use, this was a fantastic beginning in the art of app-creation and I highly suggest anyone that is interested to check it out.

Thank You!
Allen

Hello Everyone!

I wanted to share my design for my college's small cafe, Cadillac Daddy Cafe! I wanted to go with a mixed 1950s-inspired style as well as take on a small jazz influence.

For this, I wanted a cool black background to accentuate the blue and give it a jazzy feel. I created lines for a banner, reminiscent of several 1950s logos with two white circles to give off the appearance of car head lights. The Cadillac part of the sign was done in AR Christy while the other texts were done in AR Berkeley. I accentuated the Cadillac part of the design in half of an ellipse to add to the sign design. For a more authentic feel, I added the establishment year.

Let me know what you feel. Thank You!

Allen McGraw

Hello Everyone!

     Recently, my class decided to create flyers for whatever business they chose. For my purposes, I chose a local restaurant situated in Hinton, West Virginia known as "The Market". I have enjoyed eating there for many years and they immediately popped into mind.
     For this project, I used Photoshop, gathered up the necessary images both from the website of the business and the wooden background from Creative Commons. I put all of these images into Adobe Bridge, loaded them up as layers, and assembled them over the background. I added the text for the address, phone number, email address, and their slogan of "Eat! Shop! Enjoy!" to the bottom. These are placed over black rectangle and an orange rectangle for visual flair, the same with the oval-esque shape behind the title. Then I arranged the food in a tantalizing collage format to show off their variety.

If you have any suggestions on how to improve, please let me know!

Thank You!
Allen

Hello Everyone!

     Recently, my class endeavored to make three-dimensional models using an excellent website called TinkerCad. For the class, we were to make models that we could print using a 3D printer. Very fun! I decided to make a Pokeball from the hit video game series Pokemon. Besides this, however, the process of making this model was both fun and educational.
       I used two half-spheres, making one red and a white one, which would be slightly smaller than the other. Taking a black tube, which was smaller than both half-spheres, I placed it in between both spheres. I made another tube to use as a black tube at the front of the ball inside the sphere for the black inside the indentations on the ball. Inside this were two white tubes to fit inside, one to hold the release button and the smaller as a release button for the trainer to release their Pokemon! I'm very pleased with the end result! Please take a look and let me know how I can improve!

Here is my TinkerCade account:
 https://www.tinkercad.com/users/fSpyMm98pmt-mcgraws
Or you can search for "mcgraws"

Thank You!
Allen

Hello, Everyone!

Today, our class worked on CAD or Computer Aided Design. The online website tinkercad.com was the method of choice today and it worked quite well. I was actually extremely impressed with the depth of it and the ease of use. The following pictures are just a few of the projects the website taught me how to do.

The first photo shows that I successfully learned how to duplicate shapes, make holes, etc.

 This second photo shows that I created my own name tag key chain that I can print out.

This was a lot of fun and fulfilling! I'm excited to use the program again!

Basic Globorial Test Game

http://mycode.globaloria.com/xroxkdmd

Mind you, this was me messing around for just a few minutes, but I was able to change a few things.

I have a history with coding as I dabbled in it my freshman year of college. Mostly, this was in Game Maker Language as I felt I would want to be a Computer Science major. While I decided against this, I still have an active interest in the art.

Dabbling into it again, I relearned what functions are, for example. Or the basic setup for a line in JavaScript. Very interesting.

At some point soon, I will be going back into Globorial to make a full-length game for fun since this one came out short. When I have time to dedicate to this, it can be an actual game! Yay!

Juxtaposition Assignment:

Hello, everyone!

For this juxtaposition assignment, we were to collect two images that commonly do not fit together and clash them together for some interesting reason. In this case, it was not for comedic purposes, but to juxtapose two separate issues:
1) The commonly held belief that humans are not actual animals.
2) To show just how fragile the line between our civilized society and the more instinctual one of "lesser" animals is. In other words, to show how our society (not taking evolution into account) has made us the beings we are and how easy it is for a human to be savage.

This idea was inspired by the Pink Floyd record Animals.