Day 14

The app is finished. It is published and online. There is a huge sense of relief especially because giving presentations isn't very daunting to me. I'm excited to have a finished product that I can show people if they ask about Digital CUrrents.

Day 13

I've almost finished my app. Pretty much all I need now is sound fx. All my buttons work and there are minimal bugs. I want to make sure I add very explicit sounds to accompany the slapstick humor. Also, I will add key narrations from the MXC show.

Day 12

More editing... I finished my rotoscoping and placed my animations into the stater app. It's really exciting because I can finally see the end product in sight. I can now fully envision what my project will look like. I'm hoping that my project will be funny and the audience will enjoy it. I just hope that they all know what MXC is...

Day 11

Let me start by saying that Google is awesome. There exists a plethora of entertainment items at our disposal. However, dispite temptation, we successfully started work on our individual final projects.

I began and nearly finished my rotoscoping of my MXC characters. My project is an adaptaion of the Monty Hall problem application and I created and MXC challenge spin on the app. So far the rotoscoping has been the focus of my work but I hope to expand tomorrow.

Day 10...

I wrote another KNOL! Link here: KNOL.

Also I decided what I wanted to start doing for my final project. I'm going to do an MXC theme and have people crash through the probability doors. If the person successfully crashes through, then it is a success. If they bounce off, then they lose.

I think it's time for another haiku:

An MXC challenge,
Will be created through flash.
It will be awesome.

Day 9

We officially finished all of the stater lab apps. We now get to start thinking about our own. I'm hoping to make one out of the probability or population doubling apps. I'm excited because the art is my favorite part and I'm going to finally be able to focus on the graphics portion and hopefully I can get really creative.

Day 8

Today we did rotoscoping. I created a flash animation of MC Hammer dancing his "Can't Touch This" dance. I started with the video and then traced my artwork over the frames of the movie. After I added coloring and highlighting I deleted the movie background to finish the flash animation.

Day 6

Today was the first day that I was able to expand a lot and create a truly visually different lab than the original version. I made different backgrounds and found what is really easy to do and what is quite hard to accomplish. It is helping me to develop ideas which I could implement to combine and add to the labs to complete the final project.

Here is my first test Vlog along with my a picture of the view from my photo booth. I am experimenting with the technology to see how to incorporate different media elements into my projects.

Day 5

Today was a relaxed day to foster creativity and help us catch up. I got to write a knol (which is basically a different more Google version of Wikipedia and the link is: http://knol.google.com/k/samuel/how-to-crop-irregularly-shaped-objects/3bpij5zizjy5s/1#) It turned out to be a lot of fun to create and share my knowledge. I also feel good knowing that my tutorial could help someone out.

I'm also starting to add more personalized aspects to my applications such as artwork and bringing in other picture elements. So, in the spirit of art, I will end today with another poem:

At today's start I was behind on work;
I had dug myself into a hole.
But I got everything done,
And I even wrote a knol.

I made some cool apps,
And created lots of art.
Yet despite some frustrations,
I gave my work a lot of heart.

Chapter 4

I'm starting to develop my ideas for the final project. I'm going to try and incorporate some of the movie clips like the octopus I made today.

I really enjoyed the planetarium and lunch at the engineering building. It was a fun tangent. The science on a sphere was super cool because the inventor used light's bending properties to make the Earth appear in its correct proportions.

Day 3

Today, I learned about the bone tool. It's really exciting and I can find a bunch of cool, creative applications. I'm planning on probably creating a giant octopus or something. Also, I am setting a goal for myself. My new goal is to be able to write and trouble shoot a few different things using action script and use it in my final project.

Day2

Today I was really excited to create a 3D and 2D animation. It was pretty exciting. I feel like I'm going to be able to create a lot of cool things. I was also able to figure out some of the code on my own, which made me feel really accomplished.

First Day

The Day went by really fast. It basically served to get us all psyched up. Macs. Programming. Flash. Entertainment. Food. That was pretty much how the first day went. It was basically AWE inspiring. The primary work accomplished today makes me feel like I can really learn a great lot of useful skills. I look forward to using my new abilities for film class next year.

So I will leave you with a haiku which amply describes today:

Rainy and cloudy
Yet full of great excitement
I sure cannot wait!