This Quarter in E-Comm we were assigned a team and created a product together. Our team name is RG-CHO. RG-CHO stands for our team names Ryan, Grace, Cory, Havannah, and Olivia. Together we created a product called the SnugMug. The SnugMug is a mug that can heat your drink with just the click of a button thats on the cup. I had a lot of fun creating this with my team. Because of how well our personalities matched, we worked pretty well together. In order to be able to work well together we had to listen to each other, and consider one another ideas. I think one of the main areas we struggled in as a team was communication. Some of our team members would be absent a lot without prior notice and sometimes not do their part. In my next group project i will definantly try to work harder on communication with my team. I would not really change anything because i think we did a pretty good job and I'm very happy with how our product turned out. I have improved more with group skills, leadership skills and technical skills. In video for this project, i did most of the shooting for the video. In animation, i made the basic outline of the little coffee shop place where our cup was going to be in. In graphic design, i made my own logo. In web design, i came up with some of the content for the website.

In this animation project, we did something very similar to what we did with our last project. The only thing different about this project is that we added more to it. For example, we have a name that the smiley face is bouncing on, and the smiley face is bouncing more than just up and down. So in this project we learned how to do those things.

To make this project in Animation, we used The video timeline setting rather than what we used earlier, which was the Frame-by-Frame animation. The video timeline was different because in the Frame-by-Frame animation you make a video by having different frames created from different layers which then creates the video. In the video timeline, you aren't only creating a video, but you're editing the layers or with this project, the different words, so that you can do things like make them fly in the picture, make them spin, shrink, etc.

In Animation, i have learned a lot from this one project. I have learned how to make a good animated Gif using things like squash and stretch, ease in and ease out, and how to actually turn multiple layers into an animated gif. Squash and Stretch is where you stretch the object white it is falling and when it bounces back up, and then you squash is when it hits the ground. Ease in and ease out is when it goes a little slower when it reaches the very top and the very bottom before it starts to fall or rise again, which is when it goes its fastest. Both of those things will help make your animated video almost seem professional.

This is a logo mood board i made, it helped me with logo shapes and ideas while trying to make my own logo.

In graphic design, we finished the semester off all making our own websites using dreamweaver. This semester in e-Comm i have learned so much!! I have learned everything from the 6-shot system in video, to understanding how to use these complicated programs like adobe photoshop, illustrator, and dreamweaver. I have had so much fun in e-Comm this semester and i'm so happy to be a part of this program! One of my favorite things that we have done this semester is making short movies and scene's from movies in video production. I have also loved making my own website and designing it how i want it to look. I also loved, in graphic design, making a personal logo that matches who i am and my personality. I have had so much fun this semester and i'm excited to see how our next rotation, which is animation, goes! The pictures below are some screenshots i took of the website we made for our graphic design final.