Mikaela\nArnold is a digital artist living in the Tampa Bay. She has been interested in\nelectronics ever since she was in elementary school. As a young child with\nHIV\/Aids she was deemed to be terminal. Due to this, she was eligible to make a\nwish with the Make A Wish Foundation. Her wish was not to see a celebrity or go\nto Disney World but to have a Windows 95 PC computer. The computer brought new\nopportunities to her. Since then she has been glued to computers. In her early\nyears she learned how to create using the computer weather it was a printing software,\nan activity game, or the original Sims video game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During middle school she attended\nYoung Middle school and took part in the magnet program. This is where she\ndeveloped an interest in creative writing and technology. She took part in a\nweek-long day robotic camp in which taught students how to build and control a\nrobot. High school is where her talents started to show. She attended Middleton\nHigh School and again studied within the magnet program. She studied digital design\nfor three years, drafting\/autocad for four years, creative writing, game\ndesign, web design, and Chinese. By the time she graduated she gained\nexperience in the Adobe Creative collection, basic game logic, HTML, CSS, and\nAutodesk AutoCad. She was certified in Adobe Dreamweaver Cs4, Microsoft Office Outlook 2010, and Microsoft\nOffice Powerpoint 2010 with the help of Middleton\u2019s magnet program. During\nhighschool, she taught herself how to use video editing software such as Sony\nVegas Pro and Adobe After effects with the help of the youtube channel,\nTheNewBoston. She also explored 3d modeling software under the guidance of the\nmodding community of Sims 2. She experimented with modeling clothes using\nMilkshape and Blender to use for the game. She also experimented with animation\nin order to create custom poses\/animation for the Sims 2 game that would aid\nwith Machinama-a form of video makeing that uses a game engine such as GTA,\nSecond Life, and The Sims franchise. With these experimentations she gained\nexperience with video editing, 3d animation, 3D modeling, and film making\ntechniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mikaela attended Hillsborough\nCommunity College after graduating highschool going for a A.A in Art. She\nstruggled during her drawing classes due to her physical weaknesses but as a\nresult she worked harder to get through the class and passed. Her painting\nteacher worked to accommodate her disability and allowed her to use Coral\nPainter program on her computer instead of a huge traditional canvas. With\nthis, she painted a beautiful landscape for class in which she later donated to\nthe Children\u2019s Aid Foundation for their silent auction. The piece was bought,\nand the money went to the foundation. After graduating from HCC, Mikaela was\naccepted to the University of Tampa. She originally went for a degree in\nGraphic Design but found out that it did not interest her. She tourn her major\nto Digital Arts. In this program she further studied her studies of 3D\nanimation, 3D modeling, image editing, HTML,CSS, and started studying 2D animation techniques,Java,javascript, and\ndigital photography. She has found that she is strong with 3d animation\ntechniques such as character animation but still struggels with advance\nrigging. She is much better with HTML 5, CSS, and Javascript but would like to\nimprove her skills. Due to this, she has gotten a volunteer position doing\nwebdesign for the charity-Children\u2019s Aids Foundation- which is a currant\nposition. She is tasked with redesigning their webpage and is going to\nvolunteer to be a photographer for one of their charity events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the future she would like to be a\nfreelance digital artist specializeing in video editing, web design, animation,\nand photography. She would like to travel to Japan for artistic inspiration as\nshe loved the Japanese culture and would like to do work over there. She is\ninspired by Asian culture, anime, manga, and movies that are filled with CGI.\nShe is also inspired by animale rights, disability arts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"