For this video I did the Of Most Importance assignment, where we make a video about our five favorite things, places, people, etc. I decided to do this for my course character. For the video, I made a collage using Landing of her things and other aspects of her life.
I struggled to come up with the visual aspect for this. I tried to incorporate AI into it, but wasn’t able to make it work. I love making collages, so thought this was a good alternative.
For this video I did the Stories Through Games assignment. I played as my course character for about a week of Sims time. This was the most difficult video to make. I already had the sim and her house created, but needed to get a good recording of the gameplay. After a little research, I downloaded OBS. This was incredibly difficult. I think it is an actual software that professionals use, meaning it is not super user friendly and not Sydney friendly. I eventually got it to work, but it took a long time. I’m proud of myself for sticking it out, though.
The editing for this video was also complicated. I recorded a little over 30 minutes and the final video is closer to 10 minutes, so there was a lot that I cut out. I also had to rearrange some clips. Again, it was very frustrating and time consuming but I did it and I think the product is not bad.
Now that everyone is involved with Aggressive Technologies, it’s time to develop Georgia Finch’s job there. In my original post, I mentioned that she is an assistant software developer at Aggressive Technologies. However, that wasn’t her initial goal.
Out of college, she applied to an internship program at AT. After completing the internship, AT hires a few interns in jobs than most introductory positions. After Andrea Grant sabotaged Georgia’s internship, Georgia applied for a regular position. She got the job. Now Georgia and Andrea are constantly competing. Georgia may have an official job at the company, but Andrea could get promoted ahead of her.
Since she was in middle school, Georgia wanted to work in coding and technology. Her school offered an after-school program, which her parents signed her up because she was always bored at home. It turned out that Georgia had a natural talent for programming. Ever since then, she has been pushing herself as far as possible.
Georgia works every day to prove she’s the best programmer there. She’s not, but soon, she may be. Stay tuned.
It’s time for you all to meet my course character, Sol. I’ve sketched a little picture of them, but take it with a grain of salt, because Sol can take on any form imaginable.
Sol is a depiction of the sun and reveals themself as an artist, choosing to tell the stories of every single thing in life, no matter how big, or how small, through the sky. Sol, being the sun, is 4.6 billion years old, and doesn’t have a place of origin outside of space. They are a keeper of memories and a watcher of life, and translate that life into the painting of the sky, through a cascade of yellows, oranges, blues, pinks, etc.
Sol is described to be able to take on any form. Their most common humanoid form is a tall feminine form with dark skin and freckles scattering their round, yet high cheeks. Hair is in the shape of an afro, thick and furrowed in a circular shape around their head, dark with blond highlights, with a few coiled bangs falling over their face. They have large eyes and long eyelashes. They wear a yellow and orange flowy dress with a sun pattern in the torso. All of this can be seen roughly in the sketch, but every detail can change with the appearance Sol takes on.
Despite the fact that Sol’s depicted image in feminine, it’s important to keep in mind that Sol is genderless. Sometimes their humanoid figure can be masculine, other times feminine, sometimes not even a human at all. Everything is situational to Sol. Because of this, it’s important to refer to Sol using they/them pronouns.
Sol does not have a favorite food (although something is telling me they would love Italian food) and Sol does not have a favorite drink (although they would definitely love pina coladas). Sol also does not have a favorite book or movie. The reason for this is because each of these tell stories, and they feel it wouldn’t be fair to choose favorites. They feel as if it would create an unfair bias that they should not have while retelling their stories through the painting of the sky.
Sol paints the sky with a paintbrush typically, but sometimes will choose to fingerpaint or use different forms of tools. Sol intends on allowing the painting to tell multiple stories all over the world, all over the galaxy. Sometimes these stories will blur together with one another, sometimes they will not. Sometimes, the stories will shed light onto the ground below, impacting the lives of others. Sometimes they will not.
Sol’s motto is “tell everyone’s story, no matter how big, or how small.” They live by this motto and will continue to live by this motto forever.
Sol is very excited to hear the stories of everyone here and be able to tell new stories or paint the stories they hear!
Meet Xander Neoteric. Xander was born on December 25th, 1995 and raised in San Francisco, California to Hannah Neoteric and Thomas Neoteric. From a young age, Xander was always in love with the field of technology, thanks to his father’s devotion to creating and transforming the world of technology. Unfortunately, his dad was never able to accomplish his dreams. Xander’s father always saw something in his son that no one else did, he was always wanting to learn more and experiment with his various ideas that were always rushing through his head. Xander is a big man, standing at a tall 6-feet 6-inches, and weighing in at about 250 pounds, Xander is not your ordinary techno person.
Xander currently lives his life single without any care for the world about having or being in a relationship due to the fact that he is always occupied with his work and his own mind. He is trying to innovate and change the world of technology while living up to the legacy his father left behind. After graduating from MIT as his class’s valedictorian, Xander was on a mission to hit his first big milestone of his career and started his own technology company Xander Technologies. He company took off quicker than it even started after he invented a new way to perform difficult surgeries by having an AI bot built into the surgery table that gave in-depth x-rays to the surgeon so that he could carefully carry out highly difficult surgeries. Xander has a lot more to show for him and this is only the beginning of his legacy-starting story. Xander is also a little self-absorbed due to the fact that in an interview, he once said that his favorite possession was his mind. I am sure that we will see and hear a lot more of Xander in the future.
Today I am formally introducing my course character, Georgia Finch, to the world.
Georgia was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on May 12, 2000. Georgia recently graduated Summa Cum Laude from Columbia with a degree in computer science. She now works at Aggressive Technologies as an assistant software developer.
Georgia sees no flaws in herself and she doesn’t want to give other people the chance to find any. She has almost always been the smartest person in the room but struggles because she is not personable. She never quite fits in with professionals. Georgia’s goal is to prove to others that she is as intelligent as she thinks she is.
She is also mortal enemies with Andrea Grant who you can read more about here.