One Shot Short

Well if you read the last yourll be happy to know its finally up, and b4 anyone says you should have compress it, this was the compressed file, it took that long to upload 94mb. yer its that bad.

right anyway. the ammount off problems involded in gettin this film finished was unnbeliveable, and needless to say i am not overlypleased with it but its the best it can be at the time being, as my skill with preimer improve etc i will most probably re visit this and touch it up once i know how, my first would be to completely re edit the audio, as dispite all the tweeking i did, the voices are lost in the background, background noice was too loud that i couldnt cut out as it was mixed in with dialoge etc, so yer, enjoy.

I hate Halls interenet

Ive been waiting to upload my one shot short for awhile now, but my halls internet is so slow its making me want to just go out and punch the server box in our common room, well as you guess my next post will hopefully be that.

Red Dot Test

Yes thats right my flash prject is a red dot eye test, or so you would think by the first frame. This little baby will either calm you with the lovely music, drive you insane with the never endingness of it or boggle your mind as to how you didnt see the it comming, and not that is not giving anything away. when or if you get to the end youll understand.

This is my third flash project, my First was an Animated version of the card game munchkin and after many an hour off trail and error, uploading images, gettin code to work, in places, and each time involved a revision of the complicatedness of the game it finally resulted in the project being put on hold until my knwoledge of actionscript is imporved as at this time i simple could not comlpete the project the way it was ment to be. The second was a "simple" survival game involve crawling through a dungeon as a kobold to collect Cheif Breeeeeeeeeeessss lost sandwhich, without dieing but for it i wanted to create a acoring system for it marking efficentcy, deaths, times fallen over, times killed by chickens, and any other random thing that may befall a kobold in a dungeon. But again due to my lack off Actionscipt knowledge i had to simplify that project. Then while i was taking a break the other night i was atching Derren Brown and sundly had the idea for this red dot test, and low and behold my action script knowledge supported it production, although attempts to simplify the ammount off codding need resulted in multiple errors and looping but anyway. enjoy.

Red Dot Test

Massive update

I havent updated this in a while due to forgetting to, so its about time i did, over the weekend i will be posting all the updates i need to post on here, starting with my final flash project.

Parkour and the War on Physics - Pixelation

I thought its about time i upoaded the project video, it would have been up sooner if it wasnt for my crappy halls interent speed, right anyway.

I was going to edit the project we did as a group, but when i went home for the weekend i got talking to a firend and i cam up with this idea, so 3 hours of standing on the cold grimsby waterfront and i had my images, after hours of re aranging and selecting the correct images, half off which where used, i could finaly touch it up in photoshop. After many different attempts and version i was finally happy with one, and so here it is in all its glory.

Assiment New Multimedia Technology

Write a 300 - 500 word article that tells the audience about a recent multimedia technology that is being or has been developed in the last six months and explain what you think the impact of this technology will have upon society.

When the Wii Came along in 2005 it was a huge leap forward in immersive gaming. It was such a leap that it was destroying the Xbox 360 & PS3 in sales. However it's not as big a leap forward as you may have thought, as most people who have used a Wii mote will have discover it's not as accurate as you would have liked, as it uses only a 3 axis sensing using an accelerometer and a gyro meter to measure motion and tilt, and likewise utilizes both infrared and Bluetooth technology to interact with a sensor bar to map its location in relation to the TV. This all together is an incredible piece of scientific equipment. But it has a large number of flaws. If your too close to the sensor bar the slightest left or right movement sends the crosshairs from one side of the screen to another with no accuracy. If your too far back or point the Wii mote too far to either side it loses track of its location. Now what would you say if I told you that a company had developed a more powerful motion control for gaming in 2001, but due to market research, the world was not deemed ready for such a leap. Instead the creators of this tool took it back to the drawing board and adapted for sporting uses and it became known as the iclub. The Company in question is MOTUS, and the iclub has become an industry standard in golfing instruction. It detects your motions in real time and relays that information back to the instructors who gets a display all your movements, weight dispersion, swing acceleration and deceleration, body rotation, swing angle, and more throughout each and every swing so they can quickly improve the users abilities much faster than just by simple watching. After the release of the Wii, MOTUS re examined the original ideas and combined them with lessons learnt from the iclub to create the new Darwin Control.

Unlike the Wii mote the Darwin is a multi platform controller and due for release for PC and other consoles in 2009 (date currently to be confirmed) as it has only just been passed on to games developers, that has a 6 axis sensor using the in house 6 (D)egrees (O)f (F)reedom technology that are the motions that represent real world movement broken into rotations and translations, 3DOF represent being able to rotate the controller and have it know what angle it's at, working with the other 3DOF the transitions which will detect its movement gives it true motion mapping in virtual space. Think of it as a GPS system that knows exactly where it is and what position it's in. Another huge advantage over all other motion control devises is that it is completely self contained and does not need external sensors like the Wii mote. The Darwin has a unique gaming feature straight out of the box as well, its best described as two Darwin's in one, it comes in 2 halves that can be used as a combined single unit (2 handed), a multi hand unit (one in each hand) or a basic 2 player unit 1 half for each player, that doesn't mean 2 player control 1 character it has a mode changer to allow for full 2player 2 character action.

The Darwin will revolutionise the idea of immersive gaming across the entire industry not just a single console. This combined with future potential of the product with revolutions many more industries as adaptations are made, already in the works is a medical training aid so that medical student can practice procedures in real space on a virtual patient with a Darwin controller and as a result improve their experience 10fold before they've ever cut some one up.

http://www.motusgames.com/index.html

Rant No.1

Well this blog's now up and running time for you all to be bored out your minds as I rant for hours about all my own work, work I like, work I don’t like, and anything else I need to have a rant at. So for my first none rant we have all been set questions that I am going to answer now;

What do you want to get out of the course, other than passing?

Well id of course likes to learn enough stuff so that when I leave I can land I high paid job so that I can fund my attempts to conquer the world. On a less dominating note I would just like to pick up all the skills I need to set me on the way to become a successful 3d artist and concept designer.

What did I get up to in my first week?

Well after arriving on the Sunday, 2 days after everyone else, and then having to wait 3hours as 2 female refugees from the great Hampden hall fire of 2008 where waiting for there safety visas to re enter the surviving rooms. That night was spent with my girlfriend and other friends that are studying at NU eating and drinking in Weatherspoons. Monday spent bored in talks, librarians can’t half drain all the life out a room. That night was spent in full British army 95 dpms out drinking all my flat mates and then going off to Trent army of which most of the time was spent queuing as all us brits love to do. Tuesday was spent in course inductions, which included making a beer can camera, mine sucked of course, I blame the Stella can, girly larger, not a real drink. Others though had some really good images, who knew that you a beer can, some card and duck tape could give you just as good a photo as a £300 camera. Up yours photography. Wednesday and im currently sat writing this blog. That’s the week so far. So until next time, do something interesting, and stop stalking me.