Just finished the flash game, decided to make it about Batman and Robin, here are a couple of frames from it!
Friday, 5 December 2008
Batman Flash Game
Just finished the flash game, decided to make it about Batman and Robin, here are a couple of frames from it!
Monday, 1 December 2008
Someone just showed me this video on YouTube by Venitian Snares, and as we've been doing all of this editing melarkey, thought it was kind of relavent as it is so well made and edited to the music, so am sharing it! check out some of their other videos on YouTube too, they've done another really good one edited to bits of Tom and Jerry clips!
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Rule of thirds
The rule of thirds is probably the most well know photography technique. It is a fairly simple technique, where the photographer imagines four lines over the image, two vertical lines dividing it into three, and two horizontal lines doing the same. Using these lines can help a photograph be more interesting and draw the viewers’ eyes to different parts. An example of using these lines effectively is, when taking a picture of a horizon, imagine the horizon lying on one of these lines, instead of in the centre of the picture, or anywhere else. The same applies when taking a picture of a person or a building, apart from using the vertical lines to place the object on. Where the four lines intersect are known as points of interest. The main focus of a picture should lie on one of these four intersections, as a viewer is naturally drawn to these points in a photo, rather to the centre. However, this rule is not definitive, and doesn’t always mean that it is going to make a picture better than if rule was not applied.
Monday, 17 November 2008
Another quick bit of Pixilation
Made another quick pixilation today!heres a frame from it!
I'll upload it to YouTube soon!
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Favourite Designed Object:
Think about what goes on in your head when you buy something new, take a photo of your favourite designed object and answer the following:
· Why is it that we want our belongings to do more for us than function well?
· Why are we willing, as soon as we can afford it, to pay extra for things with appealing forms?
I have decided to talk about the Sony PSP, I recently got given one by my work, as I am going to be promoting it and the PS3 around Nottingham. I think that the PSP is especially well designed, as in it is incredibly aesthetically good looking. I can even remember when they first came out, a girl at my old school went out and bought one just because of how good it looked, don’t think she ever really actually used it though. I think that we are willing to pay more for things with appealing forms because when something you’ve bought looks nice, you like other people to see you with it, so are more likely to use it, just like the clothes that we buy, some of them not so practical, but look nice. For my job, the fact that people are willing to pay more for things which are appealing should help, as the PSP looks, feels and works brilliantly. The reason we want our belongings to do more than function well is because more and more these days everything does more than one thing, and the more likely its going to be that we end up with one thing that does everything, for example the I-Phone, not just a phone, its pretty much a stylish, fashionable PDA.
· Why is it that we want our belongings to do more for us than function well?
· Why are we willing, as soon as we can afford it, to pay extra for things with appealing forms?
I have decided to talk about the Sony PSP, I recently got given one by my work, as I am going to be promoting it and the PS3 around Nottingham. I think that the PSP is especially well designed, as in it is incredibly aesthetically good looking. I can even remember when they first came out, a girl at my old school went out and bought one just because of how good it looked, don’t think she ever really actually used it though. I think that we are willing to pay more for things with appealing forms because when something you’ve bought looks nice, you like other people to see you with it, so are more likely to use it, just like the clothes that we buy, some of them not so practical, but look nice. For my job, the fact that people are willing to pay more for things which are appealing should help, as the PSP looks, feels and works brilliantly. The reason we want our belongings to do more than function well is because more and more these days everything does more than one thing, and the more likely its going to be that we end up with one thing that does everything, for example the I-Phone, not just a phone, its pretty much a stylish, fashionable PDA.
300- 500 word artical!!!
Sorry it has taken me so long to get this up on my Blog, but for some reason my internet hates Blogger.com, just like it hates the NOW! well here it is anywho!!!
The new technology which I have decided to write about is Playstations online community called Home. Its is currently in its closed Beta version but when it is fully up and running it will be a free down load for Playstation Network users where you will be able to create your own avatar and home (call HomeSpace) to live in. Users can then buy new clothes and furnishings for their avatar, and will eventually be able to buy them bigger apartments and maybe even design their own furnishings. It is very second life-ish, however in Home, one can invite people over to their apartments where you can share anything that you have on your hard disk drive. You do this by, in the case of a video or film, sit down in front of the persons virtual Sony TV, everyone can then watch it full screen on their TV at home. For pictures you o over to a virtual picture frame and can scan through the persons pictures on their HDD.
Outside of the HomeSpace their will be a lot more to do such as; meet up with friends to chat, either by text or through headsets, go into playing multiplayer on an online game with friends, play other types of games with friends or anyone else such as bowling and chess. Home will also have a virtual cinema where people will be able to go and sit down next to other people’s avatars and watch a film that has been released in DVD/ Blu-ray, they will be able to make the film full screen so it will be just like watching a DVD at home. There will be shopping malls for you to take your avatar into, in which you will be able to make you avatar try on clothes and trainers, which you can then pay for and get the real items delivered to your door.
Personally when I first heard about all of the features Home will have, I was amazed, I mean it is pretty cleaver. However thinking about it, is it not really going a step too far? I’m sure the security on it will be fine, as Playstation have said that they will block anybodies account and IP address if they break the rules, so it should be a safe place for people of any age, but surely some people won’t have a proper life because of it. Fair enough meeting up with someone who lives really far away to chat and watch things, but I bet the majority of people who use this will live a few houses down, or a 10 minute walk away. I think it will be fine to use every once in a while, but for some people I can see it nearly becoming their life, almost as much as World of Warcraft or Second Life, which personally I cannot see as being a good thing to happen to society.
The new technology which I have decided to write about is Playstations online community called Home. Its is currently in its closed Beta version but when it is fully up and running it will be a free down load for Playstation Network users where you will be able to create your own avatar and home (call HomeSpace) to live in. Users can then buy new clothes and furnishings for their avatar, and will eventually be able to buy them bigger apartments and maybe even design their own furnishings. It is very second life-ish, however in Home, one can invite people over to their apartments where you can share anything that you have on your hard disk drive. You do this by, in the case of a video or film, sit down in front of the persons virtual Sony TV, everyone can then watch it full screen on their TV at home. For pictures you o over to a virtual picture frame and can scan through the persons pictures on their HDD.
Outside of the HomeSpace their will be a lot more to do such as; meet up with friends to chat, either by text or through headsets, go into playing multiplayer on an online game with friends, play other types of games with friends or anyone else such as bowling and chess. Home will also have a virtual cinema where people will be able to go and sit down next to other people’s avatars and watch a film that has been released in DVD/ Blu-ray, they will be able to make the film full screen so it will be just like watching a DVD at home. There will be shopping malls for you to take your avatar into, in which you will be able to make you avatar try on clothes and trainers, which you can then pay for and get the real items delivered to your door.
Personally when I first heard about all of the features Home will have, I was amazed, I mean it is pretty cleaver. However thinking about it, is it not really going a step too far? I’m sure the security on it will be fine, as Playstation have said that they will block anybodies account and IP address if they break the rules, so it should be a safe place for people of any age, but surely some people won’t have a proper life because of it. Fair enough meeting up with someone who lives really far away to chat and watch things, but I bet the majority of people who use this will live a few houses down, or a 10 minute walk away. I think it will be fine to use every once in a while, but for some people I can see it nearly becoming their life, almost as much as World of Warcraft or Second Life, which personally I cannot see as being a good thing to happen to society.
Monday, 27 October 2008
YES!!!
HI THERE!!!
Sorry this is my first Blog, but i have been trying to get this sorted out for the past couple of weeks but have failed miserably, hence the two other 'Journal of an MDF Cow's which don’t work... yeah sorry about that! Hopefully you can do something with them! I ended up having to kind of half guess, half get bits of info from other people on how to set it up!
ANY WHO...
... The reason i didn’t know how to set up my Blog in the first place was because i couldn’t make it to any of the Welcome Week shenanegins due to me being a freshers rep this year, so i had to do things for that all week.
SO HI TO EVERYONE! Guess everyone else talked to each other in the first week things!!!
Yes, so i am in my second year at the WONDERFUL Nottingham Trent Uni!
Last year i did Criminology, so have had a bit of change in direction, and from what it seems like this course is going to be like, it should be MILES better!
Well, what do I say, I’ve never blogged before, or kept the old school version of a diary either!
Hmm, well Freshers week was amazingly fun, but also absolutely nackering too, think it took me three days to recover after! Hopefully going to be doing it next year too!
Onto the course then...
I noticed everyone must have been told to write about what they want to get out of this year of Multi media studies, apart from a pass. Well without getting into too much detail, as in flash scripting etc, i mainly want to make some friends, have some fun with the projects and experiment as much as i can with every aspect of what we do this year so that i can make the right decision of which path to take for next year. I'm still pretty uncertain, and I’m sure i will be pretty much until i have to make the decision, and maybe a little bit after, but hey, what can you do.
The Course So Far!
I wasn't quite sure what to make of our first lecture, i didn't really take that much away from it, but the Lecturer seemed pretty fun so hopefully should be a good module! Andrew Love's Lec and Sem were pretty interesting, and some of the video's we were shown were amazing, so much so i ended up sitting down watching YouTube for a good few hours afterwards watching the likes of 'The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb', nearly all of PES's work that’s on there (especially liked the ‘sex on the roof’ pixilation), a lot of other random pixilation work mainly posted by other multi media students across the world and, well I can’t remember the name of it at the mo, but the one that 12 Monkeys was based on. The one 12 Monkeys was based on was really well done, I liked how it wasn’t pixilation as we are doing it, it was more like reading through a picture book. To be fair, I got a bit bored of the story and kept drifting in and out, and knew the story to 12 monkeys so didn’t end up watching the whole thing. Kind of did the same thing with Tom Thumb, watch the first few segments of it on YouTube which were extremely visually impressive but the story got a bit boring after a while. It must have been a painstaking process of pixilation with stop motion.
From the seminar work (which I was only there for an hour due to having to go to London for job training… which by the way is promoting PlayStation 3! How good is that, anyway) I got a couple of ideas of what I would like to do with pixilation. I had already had a couple of ideas, the first being a first person shooter game, I started a couple of test and it ended up being quite difficult so decided to go for a Mortal Kombat sequence. It took me WAY longer than I thought to draw out all of the writing and life bars for MK and I originally wanted the life bars to fall throughout and there to be the time ticking down, but this ended up being too much of a pain, especially as two of my friends were doing me a favour by participating in it as well. Due to all of this, it didn’t end up being as good as I hoped. I am still in the process of changing all of the pictures in phtoshop from this sequence. I am planning to do an even simpler pixilation, maybe in the market square in the next couple of days to replace the MK pixilation.
Before I started the MK pixilation I did a couple of test ones around my house too which I will post on YouTube when I figure out how the hell to animate them.
I’ve been thinking for a while of just doing some time lapse sequences in this project, maybe at the train station or market square.
WOOOOO
Just realized how much I have just written! So I will leave it at this for now but shall keep it updated from now on, that is if my laptop and internet ever do like this website, or the NOW for a matter of fact too!
Anyway, Toodle Pip! And anyone on the course… say hi to me when you see me next!!!
Sorry this is my first Blog, but i have been trying to get this sorted out for the past couple of weeks but have failed miserably, hence the two other 'Journal of an MDF Cow's which don’t work... yeah sorry about that! Hopefully you can do something with them! I ended up having to kind of half guess, half get bits of info from other people on how to set it up!
ANY WHO...
... The reason i didn’t know how to set up my Blog in the first place was because i couldn’t make it to any of the Welcome Week shenanegins due to me being a freshers rep this year, so i had to do things for that all week.
SO HI TO EVERYONE! Guess everyone else talked to each other in the first week things!!!
Yes, so i am in my second year at the WONDERFUL Nottingham Trent Uni!
Last year i did Criminology, so have had a bit of change in direction, and from what it seems like this course is going to be like, it should be MILES better!
Well, what do I say, I’ve never blogged before, or kept the old school version of a diary either!
Hmm, well Freshers week was amazingly fun, but also absolutely nackering too, think it took me three days to recover after! Hopefully going to be doing it next year too!
Onto the course then...
I noticed everyone must have been told to write about what they want to get out of this year of Multi media studies, apart from a pass. Well without getting into too much detail, as in flash scripting etc, i mainly want to make some friends, have some fun with the projects and experiment as much as i can with every aspect of what we do this year so that i can make the right decision of which path to take for next year. I'm still pretty uncertain, and I’m sure i will be pretty much until i have to make the decision, and maybe a little bit after, but hey, what can you do.
The Course So Far!
I wasn't quite sure what to make of our first lecture, i didn't really take that much away from it, but the Lecturer seemed pretty fun so hopefully should be a good module! Andrew Love's Lec and Sem were pretty interesting, and some of the video's we were shown were amazing, so much so i ended up sitting down watching YouTube for a good few hours afterwards watching the likes of 'The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb', nearly all of PES's work that’s on there (especially liked the ‘sex on the roof’ pixilation), a lot of other random pixilation work mainly posted by other multi media students across the world and, well I can’t remember the name of it at the mo, but the one that 12 Monkeys was based on. The one 12 Monkeys was based on was really well done, I liked how it wasn’t pixilation as we are doing it, it was more like reading through a picture book. To be fair, I got a bit bored of the story and kept drifting in and out, and knew the story to 12 monkeys so didn’t end up watching the whole thing. Kind of did the same thing with Tom Thumb, watch the first few segments of it on YouTube which were extremely visually impressive but the story got a bit boring after a while. It must have been a painstaking process of pixilation with stop motion.
From the seminar work (which I was only there for an hour due to having to go to London for job training… which by the way is promoting PlayStation 3! How good is that, anyway) I got a couple of ideas of what I would like to do with pixilation. I had already had a couple of ideas, the first being a first person shooter game, I started a couple of test and it ended up being quite difficult so decided to go for a Mortal Kombat sequence. It took me WAY longer than I thought to draw out all of the writing and life bars for MK and I originally wanted the life bars to fall throughout and there to be the time ticking down, but this ended up being too much of a pain, especially as two of my friends were doing me a favour by participating in it as well. Due to all of this, it didn’t end up being as good as I hoped. I am still in the process of changing all of the pictures in phtoshop from this sequence. I am planning to do an even simpler pixilation, maybe in the market square in the next couple of days to replace the MK pixilation.
Before I started the MK pixilation I did a couple of test ones around my house too which I will post on YouTube when I figure out how the hell to animate them.
I’ve been thinking for a while of just doing some time lapse sequences in this project, maybe at the train station or market square.
WOOOOO
Just realized how much I have just written! So I will leave it at this for now but shall keep it updated from now on, that is if my laptop and internet ever do like this website, or the NOW for a matter of fact too!
Anyway, Toodle Pip! And anyone on the course… say hi to me when you see me next!!!
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