March 27, 2007

Downloaded some sound bites, having problems with the school computer playing real time clips.

20Mar2007 What I like now, after project

http://www.onewordmovie.ch/

20Mar2007 What I learned

The most successful thing about this piece is that I finally figured out how to take my drawings from sketchbook to Flash, without to much lag. In the past, with Flash, this has been a problem for me. I am noticing that I am developing a tendency to clump alot of images together, I use to fight it, but I am thinking it is a evolution of my style, so I am not fighting it or paring down the amount of images in the work anymore. There is alot of meaning behind this, but again I ran short of time, so I had to cut down the narrative. The pieces are symbolic, and though I like them to be vague or elusive, I feel I did not give the viewer enough to piece them together due to running out of time. It is fine to make things with out any point or message, I really the message to be the main theme, and really that is what I am good at, is layering messages and symbolism, not really animation or aesthetic.

20Mar2007 comic animations review

Comic_cierra- Since I have heard her in the past say that she is a collage-ist, I like that this piece
has that sort of feel to it. This one combines some drawing as well as pictures, so her
her work is evolving from just collage.
Hodge_comic- This is a clean and adequate piece. I wish more was going on in the cells so that the ball would interact more with them.
Ashley 3_20- the combination of vector and raster images is a good idea. there is no middle image to bring them together(something that appeared to be both raster and vector). I like that there is a narrative, or a meaning. I don't know if the paper in the background relates to the seasons.

Questions for Instructor?

I think I understand how to implement the things we learned last week, for example x-yscale, xy position, alpaha, but I cannot move the objects back to their original postions. I remember you saying it is about the registration point, but I can not figure out.

Question,

Is this piece doing anything new?

Response to the Response of Simon

This article responded to the artists aesthitics and motivations behind the piece. It speaks about the interactivity of the piece and the ability to end up on alternate paths, much the same as in my response to Simons piece. The article seemed to imply that this was the first to do that, but in our first class we learned of all the hyper-linking that was done long ago. Simons is a good piece, but not ground breaking.

Simon Norton’s “Testimony: A story Machine"Response

This site is highly interactive and allows the viewer to travel many paths. These paths guide the observer to alternate stopping points, which makes it somewhat confusing. To enjoy this, the idea of a static narrative has to be swapped for a dynamic one. The spectator must be willing to allow the piece to take him/her where ever they end up. The craftmanship of the piece is excellent. All the drawings are well done and animations move fluidly. It functions fluidly as well, there are no boggs or delays and runs seamlessly on the web. This is probably due to the images all being vector based, however, I prefer to work in a raster world and I wonder if the same level of fluidity could be achieved with pixels.

March 6th, 2007 Interactivity

I think that my concept is good, it could be more interactive, but I did incorporate the things we learned in the last class. Things like x,y movement and xscale,yscale as well as the main spinning flower can be drag and dropped. I had a custom cursor but had issues with it aligning to the objects. Also, I feel like I spend the majority of my creating time on re-figuring out what we learned in the previous class. During this class, I take notes, but we jet through so quickly it is hard to keep up and take good notes at the same time. We brush over things and then I spent alot of time re-figuring.