WAAAAAA

If you don't already know,

there is no final exam in our ART 201 class, besides our final project!

Now you can feel a lot less bummed out :).

I'm going to tell an interesting story with all those fancy Ap Div's that give me a headache.

-Avalon V.

Project 2 text

I have my story done, but I need to do the pictures. I can't do it tomorrow and need to work on my other major projects this week. Work takes most of my time and I have been to worn out to work on it most of the days. Depression's a bitch.

Christopher Brown

Thanks gibbing

Wow that went by really fast. It was supposed to be a weekend of gaming followed by a few days of school work then a long weekend. instead it ended up being a lot of computer work. I spent most of thanksgiving working on the project 2 layouts and some of it with my girlfriend. yeah, she was kinda mad even though she thought building web pages is cool. I don't have to worry to much about it though because we split on Saturday. it's ok we've been arguing most of the time anyways. Friday I was trying to animate an image so it looks like an IM conversation going on in the browser and I'm not sure how to do the typing effect any suggestion

-Matthew Blancher

Project Reminder

Don't forget that the project can only b 5mb in size to be accepted and graded.
-Josh Reinus

CS5

): I dont like it very much. i guess its because im so used to CS4... does anyone know where i can find a tutorial online on how to use cs5? I know its not too different but its different enough to frustrate me a bit (: haha thanks~
-jasmine awad

Thanksgiving Break

Every year thanksgiving rolls around and I promise myself that I'm going to use my vacation wisely and use it to get ahead (or catch up) with homework and studying. Yet, just like last year, once the family started showing up and the tequila began to flow, there was no way I was getting anything done. But at the end of the day I wasn't that disappointed because I got to spend some much needed time with my family. Got to eat a lot, drink a lot, and sleep like a bear too. I guess one way to look at it is that im rejuvenated and ready to take on finals. I am a bit worried about our last project though; the due date came up so fast. The pressure is on so I better get focused. Goodluck with your last few weeks of school everyone.

Keep It Classy,
Jonathan Silva

Interesting...

I saw this a while back but I stumbled upon it again today when I was looking through my friends blog. I think its very interesting that our mind works how it does. Can you read this?

Pretty cool huh?
On another note, how's everyone's project? I can't wait to see them!

-Jonriel Nicart

Hello everyone

Hello fellow classmates,
How was everyones thanksgiving break? I hope u had fun and ate a lot because i did. I can't believe we are done in a couple of weeks it past by so fast. Worse thing is that somehow all my project two was deleted from my laptop nd i never saved it to my usb drive so here i come all nighters. Hope everyones doing good in there project.
-Jacqueline Corey

birthday giving Blog

So hows was everybody's thanksgiving weekend? I spent mine doing webdesign. nah just kidding, it was actually my Birthday so I was doing everything but work. I hope all your projects are going well, I just wanna get the project over as fast as possible so.
here is a joke

Oliver Grau

Project Two is due

Greeting Art 201,

As you already know our project 2 is due December 2nd. The Idea of this project centralizes around an abstract and artistic depiction of a scrap book.

We will be graded for our originality as well as our use of skill in Dream Weaver. But after all of our in class assignments using Dream Weaver, this should be easier than it was before :).

Congratulations class, we've come a very long way.


-Avalon Varada

On Tweens

I have to redo this post because it appears that it did not post last time. When you do tweens in flash animation you should convert it to keyframes. Then add an extra frame on every other frame and then delete the other single frames. You do this because the tweens does not look natural in the motion. If you do this it brings the animation how it suppose to look throughout the animation. Using tweens is fine but without changing the frame works, it looks to mechanical and lifeless.

Chris Brown

Nearing an End

As finals come upon us yet again I find myself realizing how behind I already am. Pretty soon i'll be locking myself in my study dungeon; which is where i'll probably stay until school gets out for winter. I'm going to eat as much as I possible can on Thursday, take a long nap, and then eat some more. Gotta love Thanksgiving! Good luck on your final projects everyone.

Jonathan Silva

Downloadable customized tools

Hi guys, Some of you may already know this, but I found out you can download customized tools for Photoshop. For example, for my project 1 I used a customized texture tool which really helped me a lot; with just one click, instead of experimenting forever, I made my picture look like a masterpiece. Here is a link to customized brushes, patterns, textures, and more. http://www.brusheezy.com/

-Oliver Grau

Its almost coming to an end

I can't believe that the semester is almost done. I been working on my second project and hopefully everyone is doing good in their's second project. I just need a little more work to do so i can finsh it off. I noticed our new class photo and if i do say so myself it looks great. Have an awsome weekend everyone.
-Jacqueline Corey

Final Project

I can't believe this semester is almost over! With the Thanksgiving holiday coming up, we are so close to being done! It's so exciting.

I finally figured out what I'm going to do for my final project, I hope it turns out ok :)

Good luck!

Kaytlen Weller

(: lots of work

But I'm loving it~ I wish i had more ideas for my e-book..
(: I'm glad you guys like my proposal, I'll try drawing the new pic soon so everyone's in it~

-jasmine awad

Excited

I'm excited to see the different class website proposals! Hope everyone's second project is going well! There are so many things happening in the next couple weeks and its going to be hectic but fun. Thanksgiving is next week and I hope everyone has a good one. Our semester is almost over! Hang in there!!

-Jonriel Nicart

P.S. Harry Potter is coming out!!!!! Who's going to watch it?

File nightmare

So Helping a friend with a website this week I realized something...
on a server Organization is everything. We were trying to figure out why certain pages would show up one minute but not the next and many times the wrong pictures would show up in the pages on the site. I can't stress enough to everybody out there
keeping your data organized in folders followed by sub folders will always save your A$$. Also keep the same file structure for your work. that way backing up your info and sorting through it is easy and you don't spend four day sifting through a few terabytes of data...

I was also wondering if anyone would know the repercussions of making a production network of gamers and programmers completely web based. They will mainly be saving their data to the server from their homes to a server located at my home. They will also be using a forum and moodle served from my home internet connection.
-matthew blancher

Flash is faster!

The advantage of Flash is that you can use the same image multiple times, and Flash beyond this use vector graphics, which are graphics created by mathematics rather than traditional "bitmap-graphics". Thus taking Flash only a fraction of the time an image takes to download. For example, in an animation where a ball jumps across the screen, it would with Flash be the same ball jumping across the screen. But when using for example a GIF animation, it would be a whole series of images played in sequence. This means that for each frame a new picture has to be downloaded even if there has been almost no change compared to the previous picture.
-Oliver Grau

It would appear that our entire blog has been wiped out with the addition of Chris's last post. Fortunately I had noted posts as of yesterday but what a drag. All of those helpful and interesting posts!

Well, I'm attaching our class photo. Hopefully, those of you who need or want it, can use it.

I'll also put the photo in our Moodle classroom.

Professor Anderson

Something about Tweens

When you use tweens in a flash animation, you should convert the tweens to frames and then add a frame to every other frame. This makes your animation less mechanical looking. Tweens makes animation to smooth and looks different than your other animation in the file. The smoothness distracts the viewer from your animation, which you don't want.

Chris Brown