Spencer Neel My Website

 My home page on my website consists of all the necessary components. I followed the instructions thoroughly. This project was something new for me but I didn't have too hard of a time. I enjoyed learning how to type in the HTML and hope to work with HTML's more often. Creating the link to the other page amazed me since I never knew how people were able to link one website to another without just posting the link. For my projects page, I posted my personal Logo for my graphic design project and my Chase Scene for my video project. Posting the video taught me how to post a video alone directly in the website. The coloring was the only issue I had. I couldn't find which colors worked with each other, so I looked up some color palettes online and found one I enjoyed. I got the colors on my website with the color dropper tool. I hope to pursue more about how to create websites.

Spencer Neel My Bio

I live in Lenexa, Kansas and attend Olathe Northwest. I was born in Leawood and moved to Overland Park when I was five. I attended Heartland for elementary school and Harmony for sixth and seventh grade. For eighth grade, I moved to Lenexa and attended Prairie Trail. I'm in a four-year e-Communication program to further my understanding in design, animation, and video. In my personal life, I'm the youngest of four children. My eldest sister is a sophomore at Kansas University. My older brother attends Kansas State University as a freshman. My second sister is a junior at Blue Valley Northwest. I live with mother and my step-father. In winter of 2007, my father passed away of skin cancer. I love to play and program video games of all kinds. I'm a Type 1 Diabetic and have ADHD.

For the future, I plan to attend Baker University to improve my programming skills and learn more about becoming a video game developer. I love to study game design and psychology and hope to major in either subject during my college career. I'm always willing to learn something new and pursue my dreams even further.

My Personality Type

My Myers-Briggs personality type is INTJ, which stands for introverted, intuitive, thinking, and judging. That means that I am someone who functions better alone rather than with a crowd. I’m always living in the future and coming up with new ideas to improve it. I use logic for my reasoning rather than how I feel about a situation and always analyze a situation before acting. When working, I always try to complete meaningful and important parts before moving on and always stay ahead of deadlines. A famous actor that shares my personality type is Colin Firth.

I think that this personality type is close to how I actually am. I don’t rely on how I feel and act in a sensible way. Before acting, I must know all outcomes before I do anything. Understanding how others feel holds no importance to me. I’d choose the logical outcome instead of the empathetic outcome. I don’t very much agree with the judging part, though. I don’t really have a routine and I usually don’t plan as much as I should. I won’t commit to anything that interferes with what I want or need to do. Taking this test further deepened my knowledge of why I gravitate to certain activities. I usually associate myself with play that involves some sort of logic or puzzles and figuring out how to solve them.

            My personality type clarifies how I need to be the one in a group with the most logical and sensible feelings. Others in a group may be interrupted by their feelings and it would be my job to show them all the outcomes that may result if they falter. When I fill a role that matches my personality type, I can work to my full extent

Tutorial Spencer Neel

Step 1. Use the Type tool to create an N and make it 80 pt. Zoom in (command +) to make the creation easier.

Step 2. Click the N, go to Effect-Distort & Transform-Free Distort and move the bottom two anchors backwards to make it slanted forward. Make the N red.

Step 3. Create a square shape and make it overlap the left leg.

Step 4. Create a copy of the N. Move it aside, then select both the original N and the square covering the left leg and right click. Select "Make Clipping Mask".

Step 5. Now that you have the leg, change the color of the leg to black (you have to double click the leg to go into the layer and then select the shape and color) and carefully overlap the leg with the copy of the N. Use the Arrow Keys to move the leg to be as precise as possible.

Step 6. Repeat the process of making a clipping mask but for the right leg. 

Step 7. Type a capital S that's 80 pt and color it red.

Step 8. Free Transform the S the opposite way of the N so that the S and the N create the image below when they overlap. Make sure the S is behind the N.

Step 9. Create a clipping mask for the bottom half of the S. Try messing around with different shapes in order to get the best mask. Copy the S to not mess with the image.

Step 10. Put the mask on the S.  Make it bigger or add a stroke if the mask fails to hide all the color of the original S. 

Finished!

Elevator Speech Spencer Neel

My name is Spencer Neel. Video games have always been a passion of mine, and seeing my ideas come to life on one of the greatest forms of media would make my lifelong dream come true. Friends, family, and teachers alike have always complimented me on my creative abilities. I love creating stories and have always wanted people to experience them in a form where they are directly involved in the story. My strengths include being creative, persistent, vibrant, and able to listen to others’ ideas as well as bring my own. Programming and storytelling have been my passions in life and are my motivation. The four-year program I’m currently in is a 21st Century Program that will help me delve deeper into the animation of games and how the design of the game greatly impacts the message on the player. I would love to come into contact with you sometime to express more of my abilities and see if I could become a developer.

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Project 1 was where I used photoshop to fade two images on the background. Unlike Illustrator, I had to change the blend mode to make the faded images better. I also had to change the opacity, which I  never did in Illustrator. Photo shop is harder to work with than Illustrator, especially when trying to place my name in the photo. Every time I used the text tool, it would try to type into the ONW. I had to click very below the ONW in order to type my name successfully. 

For Project 2, I had to change the colors of the butterfly. I modeled my butterfly after a butterfly I keep seeing in games I play. The blue butterfly is symbolic of the start of a whole new change, whether good or bad. To make the butterfly, I had to adjust the saturation in order to get the exact color I wanted. In Illustrator, I just chose the color from the options, so Saturation was new to me. Then I had to use the clone stamp tool in order to make the butterfly's wings look like their fluttering. 

In Project 3, I had to start by making a mask on the background image. The only mask in Illustrator I did was a mask that formed shapes into other shapes on the page. This mask used lettering and I didn't have to use shapes. Then I had to adjust the gradient, which I had barely done in Illustrator. In this project, I edited the color of the gradient and where the gradient would go. I then used a stroke, which I was very familiar with from Illustrator.

Making Project 4 was very complicated from anything I did in Illustrator. I had to use the clone stamp tool again and had to hide the cars and poles from the original image. This was very complicated because I had to make it look as natural as possible, but it would sometimes the stamp would overlap onto other parts of the image. Other times, the stamp would just look completely unnatural and I had to constantly edit it. After that, I used the magnetic lasso, a tool I never once used in Illustrator, to try and crop out the Raven head from an image. It was fairly simple, but sometimes I would mess up and have to start all over. After placing the raven head, I got other images and placed them in the original image with the raven head. Then I created a mask on the layer and then used the paint brush to get rid of the edges. Using Illustrator was very different and didn't much prepare me for using Photoshop.