February 2011
1 post
Test
Just testing, will be deleted shortly. Posted via email from sn11’s posterous | Comment »
October 2010
1 post
Onward and upward...
New year, new blog (This won’t be a yearly occurrence).
http://www.simonsaysstuff.com
Basic layout for now, have a better design on zee’ way.
May 2010
8 posts
When it rains it pours...
I am not having a good time lately… Firstly my office chair breaks so I’m using a wooden stool thing - Which is leading to the demise of my backNext the macbook is having problems with its CD drive and dead pixels on screen Next my iPhone’s battery indicator seems to be broken, I’ll not be able to send texts then my phone freezes switches off switch it back on and it says...
Pre-Presentation Post
Before I begin, I just want to point out the illiteration above, Oh yes… I still have it!
Anyway, I’ve finished everything, it’ll all be posted in this blog (what I have) and I’m hoping its good enough to get me a decent grade.
Interactive Media:
The two things I have left to post on this is my rational and my updated quiz so here it is:
http://fav.me/d2qcoi9
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Finally finished my visual essay (I think)
Well i’ve finished my first draft of my visual essay. Just got to wait for the official verdict as to whether it passes or not.
Flash Update (Minor)
Here’s the latest version of my Flash quiz, I updated the background images because it was annoying me having a ‘the last question’ with it not doing anything, and online the video doesn’t play but you still see the speech bubble (and have no animated guy!).
If I had more time on this project there’s a ton of things I’d do to improve it mainly adding the...
3D Update
Well, I’ve been on somewhat of a mission creating as much as possible for my lair as I feel like I’m really lagging behind with the constant changes I’ve been making… But now I think i’ve made some serious progress in that I now have: Four rooms/buildings, a boxing ring, a ‘punch man’, a Japanese-esque banner, stairs and a little extra. Even though at...
3D Futurama 'Planet Express' Building...
I was trying to work on my lair, but ended up going on a complete tangent and made a poor version of the Planet Express building from futurama. So I thought i’d post a few pictures of the progression of it… See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from sn11’s posterous | Comment »
Flash Quiz.
Well, since the end of the academic year approaches I thought it would be best for me to upload all of my work so far since I read through my blog and noticed I never actually uploaded my quiz.
I’ve been working on this throughout and have only finished it to a standard I am happy with today. This being that until now I haven’t had this part of the brief ‘It must record the...
I'm finally happy with something I made in 3DS...
Here’s the first thing I’ve created that I’ve not automatically deleted after making… See if you can guess what it is? (So I can see whether its decent or not…)I know its nothing in comparison to what most people have made, and it didn’t take a hugely long time and its not got any fancy textures etc but hey this is something I’ve not deleted and I’m...
April 2010
4 posts
Y-O-Y-O-Y.... Is the structure of my chromosones
Well, after the rather witty title I thought I’d do a semi update as I’m working on my lair before class.
Even though 3D interests me, I think its safe to say that after these lessons I won’t be doing it next year. Coding in PHP, CSS and even C for mac I can handle… But this?!
For me personally, there’s not enough art in it. Now I know what you may be thinking thats...
Second Test
Another random test to see if I’ve properly created my ‘Posterous’ account… Here’s hoping? Posted via email from sn11’s posterous | Comment »
WordPress n web
Well,
Over the holidays I got my iMac up and running and installed various software that I regularly use including MAMP.
MAMP (Mac Apache MySQL & PHP) essentially allow you to work on a website without uploading it to the internet to fully test it out.
So I got on with two tutorials, one from this...
March 2010
15 posts
Web problems...
I think this adequately describes what issues I had with web design: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
but who am I kiddin’ I still think its great.
I miss WordPress...
I’m starting to miss word press. I think if I can get some time over the holidays I’m going to really work hard on my own hosted site (http://www.sn11.co.uk) and add wordpress onto that make my own theme etc and start using that… If i’m allowed it changed again lol.
Moving Image, Moving away...
Well, we’ve pretty much finished the moving image section of the course now, I very very very very very much doubt I’ll ever be going back to it, but I have to admit - it had its fun moments!
This is the edited ENDING to our film as this was going to take the longest in editing as others are just simple shot changes figured it would be better to be done first - Although I’m...
Gamer Update...
Just thought I’d post about the news that Xbox MIGHT be releasing a new console…
Thats right, an xbox 360, but this time… Its slimmer, and smaller - So therefore in the height of fashion and loved by all. Hopefully there’ll also be some of the circuitry bug fixes (No more death lights please) but it looks quite good and hey, if its generally improved on the old one and...
My lair...
I’ve decided on how I want most of my lair to be:
Outside
Dark, eerie surrounding. Wrought iron gates and a pathway leading up to a Gothic church/mansionesque building. Camera leads up to the front of the building and to a tiny door.
Door swings open and camera “peers” inside
Inside main hall
The main hall will be almost circus looking black, white, reds filling the room and...
Crazy Nokia...
Thought I’d post some pictures and a link about the Nokia concept phone I talked about a week or two ago:
http://www.varologic.com/blog/post/2008/06/14/Morph-Nano-Costliest-Mobile-Phone.aspx
Context 1 - Task
Thought I’d do this whilst it was in my head. This is essentially the write up of what we did in the seminar with Jools on Tuesday.
After asking questions and listening to the responses I have the following theory:
Generally people are talking amongst themselves as students to further their decision of what to do next year
It seems that the vast majority of people are fixed in what they...
Advice of the week...
Although some of the advice you’re about to receive has nothing to do with my Multimedia career/course I think everyone can take something away from it:
1) If you’re doing animation next year buy this magazine: “3D Artist”
(Looks like that!)
2) If you’re doing web word of warning: Clients will say that you have creative license, and they will want super...
Updated web site(ish)
I’ve been working on updating http://www.newworldexotics.com to the 21st century by adding some CSS coding to it, a nice php slider, a CMS (content management system) amongst other things…
Well, since I don’t have tons to do with the Moving Image project I thought what better time to begin work. So here’s what I got after a day - Its only one page, non of the links work...
For any aspiring designers...
http://colorschemedesigner.com/ this seems like a great site for helping with potential colour schemes
On a totally unrelated note...
Do this, go on, you know you want to…
Read this sentence: FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-IC STUDY COMBINED WITHTHE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS
Now count the F’s in that sentence. Count them only once: do not go back and count them again. How many did you get?
Moving Images, Images that move!
Well, a quick update on how the moving image section is going…
We’ve found a total of one actor and we need 2 and a few extras We’ve got our script written up and sorted We’ll have our storyboard written up by Friday I don’t have tons to do since I’m the “Camera Operator” We should be filming soon We want to get a (I believe its called) crane for...
Music £10 a month!
Just thought I’d post this, its not much to do with the course and what not but I think its something a lot of people may be interested in: http://www.spotify.com/en/products/overview/
Spotify is basically as much music as you want to listen to for £10 a month. I’m still trying to do the math as to whether this is really worth it and get more information on whether once you download...
Funky salsa time!
Well, this certainly was an unexpected use of video space on vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/9194146
I’m mainly liking how we expect the entire video to be within the “frame” and it just takes away from any preconceptions about how we should be watching it. Its one of the funkiest adverts I’ve seen.
February 2010
6 posts
"Come to the dark side, we have cookies!"
Thought I’d post that I had my first session today with Jools for “Moving Image” and actually enjoyed it somewhat!
I know I know, shock shock horror horror and all that jazz. But yes it does seem that these next five weeks won’t be so bad. We got a somewhat confusing script but have managed to turn it into something I’m quite happy to be associated with we have a...
All quiet on the uni front..
Not much to report this week to be honest… I’ve finished the flash project but haven’t uploaded it yet as I’m still not 100% happy with a few bits and bobs so want to mess around with that for as long as possible before uploading I think?
Looked a bit into the next project (Moving Image) and there doesn’t seem to be much I can actually do in preparation before...
Is the UK Animation Industry Under Threat?
I didn’t quite realise this article was THAT old when I mentioned it earlier today but I have managed to find it. The video can be found here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8225954.stm (3:06 total).
But there’s also a post about it here: http://www.animationforumwm.co.uk/news-display.aspx?id=155
There’s also a small amount of that touched on here:...
STOP! Update time!
Right so rather busy this week with a few things which i’ll bullet point out below but just to say I basically forgot to update my blog until I realised I hadn’t updated all week (shock horror!) so heres the run down (more detail below bullet points) :
Bought “3D World” magazine
Looked through various careers sites
Began work on an update for a website I run
Began...
Quiz..
I’m REALLY tempted after talking to a friend of mine to change my questions in my quiz and base mine around “the impossible quiz” http://www.notdoppler.com/theimpossiblequiz.php so addicting!
Practitioner Investigation...
Well, I thought I’d take some time away from my flash project in order to further investigate the visual essay assignment. The flash project is going well now, all my questions are up and sorted there is animation throughout as well as score keeping and final score at the end. All whats left to do now is improve the general “look” of the pages, add a facility in which the user is...
January 2010
1 post
Back to work...
Well, its back to work and we’ve been given a small assignment based on highlighting anyone who’s reading this with what has been done throughout the holiays…
I’ve actually done quite a few bits and bobs throughout so quite proud of myself not totally forgetting about the course.
I have done the following:
Looked into and added expression engine...
December 2009
9 posts
Post Christmas...
Well, had the lecture (in the rather nice building/room (Can’t we have that one normally ?!)) and I must say I am really looking forward to starting some of this work!
I’m already looking at the coding scripts for the game for Interactive Narrative and my download for the trial copy of 3DS Max is on the go!
Oh incidently… ...
While I'm Here...
While I’m still surfing around trying to finish my presentation I thought I’d link a really great flash SWF file (Its going to be a website when fully finished) for a friend of mine (Martyn Littlewood) Who’s on a multimedia HND at NCN. http://martynlittlewood.com/DayInLife.swf This is some really impressive work! Definitely in my list of inspirations!
Just a note from Martyn...
My inspirations...
Thought I should post up a little message on here listing the moments in life that I saw a piece of work and thought “I’d like to do something like that” or “Thats really good!”. I’ll list it in order of section.
One Shot
For my one shot, the only real inspirations I had was all the advertisements. I really didn’t get on with the One Shot. I think its...
Updating my work...
So, i’ve been looking into ways to improve my work and I’m going to work on a new stop-motion piece as soon as possible whilst trying to use a make-shift tripod until I can get my own. I quite liked my work in my stop-motions but the more I look at them the more I see and want to improve on them, especially the steadiness of the camera.
The second thing I’m looking into...
Animation Creation...
Well, I’ve been really rather busy since my last post what work work, the essay, the presentation, trying to redraft my flash narrative and creating my animation piece.
Creating a short piece of animation is far from the easy task I first envisioned. Before beginning I had in mind take a few photo’s put them together job done. But the most difficult task within this project came from...
On with what has been done...
This may seem a little redundant as I’ve already linked up where to find all my previous posts but I thought I should do a little course round up anyway - I’ll be going from the most recent to the oldest.
November 26th
I finished and uploaded my first Interactive Narrative design after illness. This can be found here:
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Welcome...
Okay, so I had some issues with NTU’s internet being able to access my own hosting and as such I have decided to create a new reflective journal using tumblr. I know I probably should be using blogger but I just can’t seem to get on with it as well as this. Plus this enables me to post via my iphone and who could pass up such an opportunity?
Important Notice!
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