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Today, I saw this tutorial video about making cartoon animations.( link ) You will need: 1. Adobe Photoshop 2. Adobe After Effect This is a really helpful tutorial that you can build any cartoon characters you want and animate them. I don't have an After Effect software currently, so I couldn't practice doing it. But I summarize some tips so that I won't forget in the future. 1. Create a character with seperate layers By using Adobe Photoshop, you will be able to create a cartoon character simply using the brush tool, and remember to draw each body parts separately, then save it as a .PSD file. 2. Import & Parent the files Secondly, import the .PSD file into Adobe After Effect, and parent the body parts with the main body structure, except the legs(because it has to be moving in order to walk). 3. Set key frames to create animations By using the key frame tool, creating an animation is so easy. Rotate and move the character in frames and play it as you ed...

Today, I saw an ad on Youtube that provides a social marketing course, and it teaches people the key to achieve in the social market. I am just being curious and I went up and signed up for a free training webinar. Unfortunately, I am not affordable for the price of the course. It is $699. But the good news is that I learned a principle of social marketing. It's called the V.R.I.N. principle. I searched it on the web and I found it pretty interesting, it is a way of methods on debugging a company's business strategy and create a sustainable competitive resource for the business. V aluable: If it is useful, ideal, or creative. R are: If it is unique, special, or literally, rare. I mperfectly imitable: If it is easy to be copied by others. N on-substitutable: If it is able to stay on the market as time passes. This method is useful when you just have an idea of starting a business or online platforms. You can now easily check a company with the method and fix the mistakes. ...

Today, I started my French lesson on Duolingo , and it went out pretty good. I learned some basic words like pronouns and frequent verbs. I found that French is a language that needs a lot of practices on pronunciation. It also has some special pronunciation rules that are neither like Spanish nor English. Sometimes the letters just don't make any sounds in a particular position of a word. For example, the French word "sius" means "am" in English, and the way to pronounce it is by pronouncing the word "sweet" but ignoring the "t" sound. French is a really interesting language to learn and is being used widely around the world as a second foreign language. I will keep learning French along with Spanish.

I went through the second course that I mentioned yesterday ( link ), and I learned some pretty useful user interface codes for android. And these are the ones that I learned from the course today: ●ViewGroups ●LinearLayout ●Width and Height ●Layout Weight ●Relative Layout ●Padding and Margin By having these practices, I am now capable of making simple android apps that do some basic functions. I was really impressed by the time it took for me to learn all of these, and the power that I have to create all these amazing layouts.

Udemy I found a really useful website -  Udemy . It provides a lot of different courses, and some of them are even free! 1st Course So then I started on a course -  Become an Android Developer from Scratch , which is essentially about developing android programs with Java. I think it is really helpful for me because I've had some basic knowledge about Java, and I have no trouble understanding the course so far. Udacity However, I started with a course from this other website - Udacity . It is another free online course website which the courses are mostly about computer science and technology. 2nd Course I learned most of my android developing skills from a course - Android Development for Beginners  which is provided by Google. I really enjoyed the course and had tried coding by myself using their XML Visualizer . Review The difference between  Become an Android Developer from Scratch  and  Android Development for Beginners  is tha...

There is a way to create 7 kinds of scales easily just by using one chord. This method is called the I.D.P.L.M.A.L. I.D.P.L.M.A.L. refers to: I onian(I)  D orian(ii)   P hrygian(iii)   L ydian(IV)   M ixolydian(V)   A eolian(vi)   L ocrian(vii) The way to memorize it is: I   D on't  P lay  L ike  M iles  A fter  L unch (Miles Davis was an influential musician in the history of the 20th century music) The way to use this method is to start the scale from a different note.  For example, if I have a scale which contains only B flat,  then the one below will be an  F Major scale , which  starts from F(I) : F - G - A - B flat - C - D - E - F  this one will be an F Dorian scale , which starts from G(ii): G - A - B flat - C - D - E - F - G  and this one will be an F Mixolydian scale , which starts from C(V): C - D - E - F - G - A - B flat - C By using the 7 musical modes, you wi...

Today in history class, I learned some different types of architectural style in different ancient time periods -- Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Egypt. We were assigned to create an ancient style architecture using the Sketchup  program. So, I started up by doing some research with the style of those types of ancient buildings, and this is what I got: Ancient Rome Style: made of stone, arches, pillars, and domes. Ancient Greece Style:   made of columns, door and window openings. Ancient Egypt Style: made of sun-baked mud brick or stone, post and lintel structure. Then I searched "sketchup tutorial", and found that the company has already made a list of video tutorials . They are really helpful, and it helps me a lot to get familiar with the drawing tools. After watching some video tutorials, I first started with a 2D-design draft on a piece of paper using the Ancient Rome style. It looks like this: Then I worked on the design using...