Past two weeks

Week 1

The past two weeks have been quite hectic learning maya for the first week mat from atticus media came in and gave us some truly awsome tutorials. To train people in a 3d software application in three days is an amazing thing to accomplish. I found the training extremly intresting and finally i have made a transition form 3d max to maya quite smoothly.

I am currently finishing off my characters for the maya project the scene is complete just rigging/ Uvw unwrapping if i have time and animating to go should have this project complete by firday. I have made my scene light weight to render most objects in the scene are around 3000 polys max meaning rendering time will be short to say the least.

robot image (so far)



Monkey image so far Legs need rework















Scene animated waiting for character animation















Weapen needs retexturing















Week 2

Last week we were trained by steve from atticus media in html/css and dreamweaver. In some caes it was a little bit old ground for most of us wihtin the class but it was really helpful i learn't to change som bad habbits and how to make Css tabels which was truly intresting and refreshing.

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Digital Story

This week has been really exciting

Tuesday

Worked with Catherine Limstrum on my script for my digital story. Had a lot of fun she discussed how their were only two stories my life as a dog and mission impossible aswell as how to write great scripts and how ever story needs a begining middle and end.

Wednesday

Finalised script started to get ideas for images and recorded script to sound file.

Thursday

Edited sound and started to compile digital story.

Friday

Finished digital story.

Here it is click play.

Week 3 started

Last week was great on wednesday we went to the bbc and saw their new media department. We saw a lot of intresting products the bbc have worked on, i really enjoyed looking at the education department's productions.

On friday I presented my presentation on the multimedia pioneer Ted Nelson. I was extremly nervous during the presentation i got through it in the end.

Third week today started today digital story telling breif today. In this we will have to take photographs record sound write a story and put it altogether in premier. Hardest asset to create is the story do i use a Philosiphal story an approach looking at the world from my eyes or do i use a deeply personal story something in my past regurgitated for the first person.

Wrote a personal story so far. I have decided to write a philsophical one tonight maybe a veiw on poltics war and why democracy is a lie.

Photoshop An illustrator Training

Its now the second week at dimension 10. The first week was extremly intresting we looked at the design ethics of hauristics. Hauristics is a way of creating a multimedia product that better relates to the user. A easy definiton of hauristics is a set of rules to giude a user round a interface of a product. Though some rules have to be obeyed within hauristics some can be bent or completly broken though certian design ideas though most of these rules have to be obeyed to create a fubctional site.

It has been an intresting week so far, on monday we were trained in Photoshop in the morning then in the afternoon we visited s4c web department. The lecturer was really great he went through near every possible use of photoshop we could use he gave a lot of new shortcuts i was not aware of before. The s4c staff were very welcoming and explained how they work on their products.

On tuesday we spent the day learning illustrator. Illustrator was great to learn it really helped me. I found a new way to concept my work before i go into photoshop or a 3d program. I feel a lot stronger as a designer through learning this program. At the end of the lecture i spoke to the lecturer about 3d he gave me a good link to a new 3d program that may end up replacing some industry tools mudbox 3d I signed up last night to the beta testing of this product hopefully i will be accepted.

Received a new assignment on tuesday aswell a mockup of an idea for an interactive media product based on a user using the product at lunchtime. The options are either a website or a game. Currenlty im going a game idea considering that my main users will be office users who access their internet a lot on their lunchbreak it has to be quick to use with a standard set of controls. This assignment is going to be a lot of fun to mock up.

My learning of maya ple is going well i think im on track to show a new peice of work on friday.