Interactive Resume 12/15

Today we talked half of the period about our weekend and this coming fridays party thing...

When i started working i developed an idea to replace my menu ive already created as a the main menu with another one, that would also have a 3D hologram i will make in after effects. I started out with the floor, and thats as far as i got today. The floor is complete and 2morow ill hopefully have a mojority of the area done, in which i can post an image online for you to see.

Interactive Resume 12/03

today i actual got the screen to work. i had to get around a roadblock by creating a movie clip inside a movie clip created in a movie clip, but hey, whatever works, right? So now the screen flickers then fades in with the buttons.

The other change i made was a very dim white light that passes over the screen at random times. I created a movie clip inside the movie clip inside the movie clip and then created a white bar. then i moved it across the screen. walah!

The Greater Good

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This notion in a cooperative learning process called “complex instruction.” Multiple ability tasks are emphasized as a way to affirm the contributions of each person in the group. In this way the status of each group member can be acknowledged and protected.

Interactive Resume 12/02

today i tried to change the way my monitor comes in. I wanted to change it so that it flickers and appears like i had at first, but make it fade in and out this time, so it look more natural. I ran into some problems getting it to fade in and out, but had a nice rough copy. Then, flash decides to close on me, and i lost all of that work, so..... yeah, im gunna try again 2morow, and hopefully i can get some help from fitzer.

game theory

Game Theory
One of the two topics that I had read about was in-game advertising. Games have become way more popular than they have in the past and the number has skyrocketed. Companies have now started to actually use games to do advertising. Say for instance that your playing a game like grand theft auto 4. Now on the billboards and posters all over the game, are actually advertisement posters for companies wanting you to buy what they have to sell. One statistic out there about this advertising is that around $75 million was spent on advertising in games. The main reason companies want to do this is that they know that lots of people play games and they figured that if they advertised in games, people would see them and hopefully buy whatever was advertised.
The second topic I read about was games and education. Since children love to play video games, then why not make games that they can learn from. Some companies have started to make education games that help teach children basic things like math, science, reading and writing, which are all essential to the development of children. Having education and gaming together actually helps children learn, because they are in a fun environment and they are willing to the work, unlike school work or test. Playing games actually helps you memorizing things better than the old read and study method found in schools. Students have fun playing the games while they learn at the same time. Basically killing two birds with one stone.

Interactive Resume 11/24

Today i got a pass to go and get my locker open, so i spent most of the period doing that. Then i came back with about ten minutes left and so i moved the buttons down bc a couple were overlapping, then i got a new idea for my computer consol which i will add next time we work on IR

Interactive Resume 11/18

Today i took each individual button on my monitor screen and added all the coding and layers inside of them. i ran into some problems with actionscript 3 not wanting to do wht actionscript 2 can do easily, so i switched it ovr to actionscript 2. Then all my problems changed and i had to go through and change all those things. I LOVE FLASH!!! (note sarcastic voice)

Hopefully now that im using actionscript 2 i can get some work done. pic up..... maybe sometime later.....

Interactive Resume 11/12

Today I explored adobe after effects again getting use to the controls and everything. I was getting ready to do a tutorial so i could relearn some of the things i have learned in the past to get a quick refresher, and then did some slave work for Fitzer instead. So i cleaned up the studio with my partner in crime Jon Allen. Then i looked for some tutorials and saved the links, then made this post.

Interactive Resume 11/10

We did peer grading today, so i looked at Jon Allen's interactive resume. Then i gathered some ideas on how to create the buttons. Then we discussed the new actionscript 3.0 and how the on function doesn't exist.

Interactive Resume 11/07

Today i gathered ideas for making shooting stars and possibly creating a person. and then i looked at a few peoples resume and then showed mine.

Then i set up the games for third hour.

Interactive Resume 11/05

Today i worked on the new animation for the screen, instead of apearing and growing, im actually going to make it pan down and flicker. To do this, i created a movie clip, and inside that movie clip, i created the screen, and had it move from the top of the monitor to the bottom. Then i created a layer and covered the bottom of the monitor. Then i made it into a layer mask, and that made it so that the screen would seem to come out from the bottom of the monitor. Then i selected random frames and moved the mask off, making the screen invisable. then moved it back, when viewed it appears that the monitor appears and disapears.

Interactive Resume 11/04

Today i created animation with the computer consol for more neutral state animation. the lines i animated to move side to side in a random fashion so that it doesn't look dumb. Then i added animation to the lights on the consol so that they will light up in a random order, the order is what im still working on.

Interactive Resume 11/03

Today i changed some of the gradients by changing the darkers point and making it lighter, creating a less harsh shading effect. Then i also added some animation to the computer consol.

Interactive Resume 10/22

Today i added motion to the asteriods. I took the asteriod off to the right side, and created it into a movie clip. Then i double clicked it to add motion inside the movie clip. I created keypoints from the right side to the left side, and then blank keyframes so that there would be a delay from the next time that they would appear. I didn't get to do much else so it doesn't look good at all but im going to slow them down and make them more random. here is the video example.

Oh wait, nevermind, apparently blogger doesn't like .swf files and failed to recognize my video. oh well.

Interactive Resume 10/21

I didnt have any time to work today because i was one of the 5 students selected to have an internship oppertunity with SWCS. Then after that me and Nate were sent to talk to Steward G. Gibbony III to talk about the internship.

ill have more work done later.

Interactive Resume 10/20

today i opened up my project and then we got called down to the cafeteria for a jostens senior meeting. So we were there for most of the class. I came back and went to flickr.com to get qa picture of a asteriod. I took it into photoshop and got rid of the edges, and saved it as a .gif so it would have a transparent background. Then i added it to my library and then put it into the picture. Im going to make it into one of my neutral state animation. so..... heres the new pic.

Interactive Resume 10/16

Today i started out by creating a yahoo account since you need one to have an account on flickr. Then I opened up flash and got my resume up. The first thing i did was to add more detail to the teleporter. I created circles using the oval tool, and added a filter to it and played a game and left. pic up later.

Interactive Resume 10/15

Today i create the monitor. I used the line tool to create the basic outline of the monitor. Then added some curves to give it a smoother feel. I created the screen after that. Added more color, and changed the alpha to the screen to make it see-through.

As follows.....

Interactive Resume 10/14

Today i noticed that the legs on my computer consol were'nt in the same perspective as the floor and wall. So i used the sub-selection tool and selected the bottom corners of the legs and moved them down. This also drug an unneeded part of the desk down with it, so i used the selection tool and moved the lines back up and deleted the unnwanted background.

Next i started creating the time machine. I created a circle using the oval tool and added the fan blades and gradients, then distorted it to match the floor. Then i copied the bottom and moved it to the top and deleted the fan and added a curved top with the line tool. I connected the top and bottom together with the line tool and then added a yellow fill and changed the alpha so that it became see through.

Interactive Resume 10/13

Today i worked on creating the space in the background of my mm. I started off by goin online and getting a pic of the moon and bringing it into photoshop. I wanted to change the color so that it wouldn't look so original. So i changed the hue of the moon and adjusted the intensity of the color so that it had an orangish glow to it. I also added filter, render, light effects to get the shading effect on the left side of the moon.

After that i got a space template out of the studen drive and took it into photoshop. I raised the brightness so that you can see the stars. Then i saved the moon as a .gif and the stars as a .jpg, and imported them both onto my library in flash. Then i drug them both in and then adjusted the size and position till i found something that i thought suited the envirnment.

Interactive Resume 10/10

Today i added more detail into the computer and some more color for the consol itself. i used the line tool to create some of the levers, and then i used the eliptical marquee tool to create all the lights. This is what it looks like after all the new details in it.

Interactive Resume 10/9

I added some color to the computer consol, added the new background and then also added color to that.

Interactive Resume 10/7/08

Today i started creating the floor on my resume. I used the line tool to make one pattern on the floor, then copied the pattern across the floor to save time.

i applied some gradients just so i can get colors in, to get a better effect, so their not final. I also highlighted the whole floor, went to edit, transform, distort, and changed the angle of the floor to match that of my perspective.

Then, i started crustruction on my computer consol by using the line tool.

The Final Product so far is the following....

Test

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