10/29 Work Done Post

Work For today

Worked on my destroyed city background in Flash

Work For Today!

Chess Renders

Even though it feels like forever since we started this project,I finally got it done today, ugh. If I have to work on chess pieces ever again,it will be too soon. They look nice actually,but I can't say the same for the prints,which look,kind of well...printed.

ChessSet Render One (Black & White)

Depth of Field

Rawr.

Late posting again,ugh, I need to get on top of things this year

Chess Set-Exlcluding King. (and Knight)

Render Practice stuffs

Finished yesterday,but I forgot to post them in Mr. D's class.

Goals for IMD

My IMD related goals this year are to:

1.  Get better at managing my time.

2.  Help people if they need help.

3.  Share my ideas/input more readily.

Final Exam

Printer isn't working, and the school's server crashed, ... business as usual.

Animating a Blockbuster

Reading this article on Pixar surprised me. I knew it took awhile to make an animation, but each frame having its own steps, taking hours to complete is crazy. Sitting everybody in a screening room, and showing seconds of the animation finished the previous day, just to have each frame brutally shredded by anyone with a mouth is just part of the process to the animators at Pixar. It also surprised me to learn that not a lot of studios actually keep their animators and other staff after the movie or project is completed. I thought all studios did that, but it seems there are few who home their animators, directors, and technicians and have them move from project to project. Another interesting thing was Pixar’s relaxed air, and how the higher ups don’t really care what your room looks like or how you get the animating done whether it be a bowl of Cap N’ Crunch or a 70s’ love room, as long as it’s not illegal and helps gets the job done I assume. It also surprised me to learn that the actors actually act out the script before the movie is done, so the animators can truly portray realistic emotions in the film. We sit in IMD and wait for our computers to render, but the rendering takes so long and is so detailed at Pixar, and other animation studios I’d imagine, that they have rendering farms, which hold computers that do just one specific thing, albeit with very innovative software—render.

The article also confirmed a lot of things that I already knew, or had heard about. Such as how an animated movie takes a long time to complete, and even then, it’s not truly done. There is always more that could have been worked on. Another confirmation was that criticism is a good thing. Pixar gets their movies done, frame by frame with criticism from anyone willing to share it. I’ve always believed a lot in criticism, especially my own, which seems to be harsher than anyone else’s.

Infographic

Concept

1. The end product - what will you create


Energy Wipe Title and other titles, using what I learned

2. Timeline - How will you spend your time (6 hours)

Creating useful and artistic titles for movies and advertisements

3. What will you learn from this activity that will make you a better interactive designer?

From this activity, I will learn to use Adobe AfterAffects to enhance video projects with things like titles.

4. Collect any tutorial links that you will need to help you complete your project.

http://www.videocopilot.net/tutorial/energy_wipe/

http://www.videocopilot.net/



5. How will you share what you have learned with the class - your activity must be something you can share and teach to the class.

I will demonstrate the tutorial myself using AfterEffects

Website Test

1. Do all of the site links work correctly?

Yes

2. Do all of the images load correctly?

Yes

3. Does the page load from a jump drive on a different computer?

Yes

4. What do you like about the page?

The pulse/flash movie thing at the top

5. What could use improvement?

The button spacing on the 'About Me' page

Yesterday's Work

This most of what I was working on yesterday,which I forgot we had to post.

iPad response

Yes,I think that the iPad will inspire a new class of computer. It won't be anytime soon,but within a few years, more copies of what was originally the iPad will be made. Hopefully, the competition sparks better technology, because touch screens can still be a little inaccurate, as well as dirty, not to mention that you generally have to buy an entire new computer system instead of just the touch pad screen itself.



Anyway,I think it will inspire a new class of computer because it's very versatile. It makes reading books easy,so textbooks will be a thing of the past thank goodness,since holding a 1.5 lb mini computer that can do more than hold text,is a lot better than holding a 10 lb English book,which suprisingly only holds English literature. It also makes drawing easy,since mice are very coordinate based,pixel by pixel. The iPad is also very very small,compared to the big tank computers we have at school.


I do see future problems though,with the iPad's versatility being abused. Students playing very uneducational games during class time,reading unrelated books during class time,drawing during class time-which at least wouldn't waste notebook paper,among other things.They're going to have to monitor iPad screens,kind of like they do now with our tank computers,though I'm sure there's probably an app for that too.

HTML Q & A

1. HTML stands for Hypertext markup language, it is the most widely used language that is used to add additional information to a document that gives it additional meaning about a documents structure and formatting.

2. Five examples of HTML tags: "title", "html" , "p","body" , "h1"

You can format these tags by rendering them in a browser.

3. Opening tags open with a "<" angle bracket, and close with a ">" angle bracket
Closing tags open with a "<" angle bracket followed by "/" forward slash and a ">" angle bracket

4. If an element contains other elements, it is thought of as the parent of the enclosed child elements. Any elements contained in the child element, are considered descendants of the outer parent elements

What I worked on/learned today...

Worked on some images that I plan to use in Adobe After Effects, for my WIWTD project. Probably going to work on a few more images tomorrow, after watching more of the tutorial for fracture effects. Speaking of tutorial, today I learned how to fracture something, though I havn't quite perfected it myself. I also learned how to add code to animations in After Effects and add filters in Adobe Photoshop.

WOWTD

As of today, I experimented with Adobe After Effects to get a better feel for the program.

Learned How To:

-Add default images and backgrounds
-Delete layers
-Transform objects
-Format different things of an object, or effect, like blur and opacity
-Add effects like sharpen
-Tell what tool goes to what shortcut, even though quite a few have the same shortcut and you just cycle through them
-Add an effect to change color
-Create a simple animation

Exam Stuff