D-Day Has Finally Arrived

Blogger
Since the creation of my blogger account, I have made regular posts, 11 all up, such as ‘Why Oh Why did I become an animator???’ and ‘The Epidemic Sweeping The World – Fraping'.

Over time I have tried different styles. I chose a template, then added gold and red to the colour scheme to add more zing. I had size issues when adding pictures to the background, memory and physical wise. I chose the current background as it suited the colour scheme, but still introducing additional colours that weren’t overwhelming. An extra column on the left deformed gadgets on the right so I didn’t have one. I used interesting fonts to make the headings to attract attention, then reverted to more regular fonts to write the article, making it easier for the reader to read the smaller writing.

I then added multiple gadgets to the page to add personality, such as quotes from movies, interesting pictures, a poll to determine people’s favourite anime, a list of my favourite links, and my personal favourite, the fish.

I have studied the blogs of class mates, and offered support and feedback, such as on Liz Rehling’s page, and Beau Buckley's.

I have tagged my posts by group, e.g. mpi104 related posts have MPI104, by title, e.g. My First Walk Cycle is tagged with walk and cycle, and by subject matter, e.g. Never Too Old For Cartoons is tagged with anime, manga, and picture, as it supplies pictures.

Over all, I’ve learnt how easily indaviduals can express themselves and get information across well by using blogs. Their easy to use, can be personalised to the topic being discussed if need be, and are be widely accessible.

Flickr

All up, I have uploaded 23 photos in two categories, university related, and recreational pictures, my 3 favourites being Joy, awkward moments, Mace Windu.

I quite enjoyed using the flickr account. It allows me to keep lists of my favourite pictures on the internet, so they are not taking up my hard drive space, and are accessible from any computer with a web connection, without carrying around a hard drive. I can view other pictures without uploading them myself. It also allows others to view my pictures of their own accord.

Delicious

So far my Delicious page holds 22 bookmarks, ranging from recreational sites, like Red vs. Blue, a machinima comedy,university sites, like the Animation and Visual Effects Forum,(which is hiddenand everyday sites like my Hotmail.

My favorite 3 sites are Red vs. Blue (see above), a machinima based comedy, SoulEater, one of my favorite manga's, and Grooveshark, a good site to listen to music on.

D-Day: 1 Day Away

At this point, I dont know if the D stands for due or death. I'm so over this walk cycle. When I scan the second one in this morning, i'm 100% certain it will be worse than my first. So today, I have to fix up my first and add a hat. 25 frames in one day. Yay. And then I have to work out how to put sound in. Lucky I already have foot steps.
At least MPI isnt due till midnight tomorrow. And all I have to do is add another post and also update flickr and delicious.
I am so gonna fail VFX.
Sigh... Wish me luck.

Never Too Old For Cartoons

You know what I'm looking forward too the most after I've finished the stupid walk cycle, this MPI104 assignment, my VPA106 song remix and my VIS101 essay. It's not the relaxing, or the xbox time (though they both rank highly, or the time to wash my clothes (I'm wearing these pants for the third time). It's the being able to sit back and enjoy some anime/manga.

I cant believe more people don't watch it, it's designed specifically for teens. They are always entertaining, and offer a well needed escape from reality.
I love how the emotions are expressed not only through facial expresions, but symbols, words and body warping. You know the chick is ticked off when her eves go wonky, her teeth get sharp, and the background is filled with fire.
I love the comedy ones. Wether it's Ichigo freaking out when Yuroichi appears naked in front of him, or Colin tripping and ending up on top of Lelouch, or even Negi having to hide in the bath because his students (in an all girl school) are coming in to wash as well, and he doesn't want to be seen by them.
Gotta love those awkward moments :-).

Become a nerd today! Read awesome manga at Manga Reader, or watch some great anime on AnimeFeul.

Why Oh Why did I become an animator???

I dont know why I decided to do animation. I've never been any good at creative subjects. I was always a sciency maths type.
I can still remember that the rodopsin in the optical receptors produce transducin when stimulated by light to start an action potential to send messages to the brain. I remember that mewtons calculation for cooling is M=P+Ae((-kt)superscript).
I remember that a fruit fly produces the longest sperm of any animal on earth, measuring 2.3 inches, 20 times it's own body length.
But I cant draw a good walk cycle. I just cant draw full stop. Maby it's not too late to transfere into science...

Ah well, if I fail, i'll rethink. Till them, wrist cramp, here I come.

My Firts Walk Cycle!!!

I finally created my first walk cycle. I hit the play button and this annoying character that I've drawn over 50 times so far started walking and it became my baby, my walking baby. Sure a walking baby that bobs up and down too much, and who's foot and knee's bounce twice as much as they should, but a walking baby none the less.
I'll love him, and cherish him, and look after him forever and ever... or until later today when I start the next one and kick this one to the curb. Whichever comes first.

View it now on Flickr.

Not Enough Time To Be A Gamer :-(

Sigh. I'm so bogged down with assignments and other things to do, I've had no time to play any of my games. I bought assassins creed nearly a fortnight ago, and I've barely scratched the surface of it. And it's so cool too. I LOVE the free run. This dude can perform some pretty cool parkour. And I havn't worked out how to use my laptop as a gateway yet to allow my xbox to access the internet, so my account hasn't updated recently.

Any I haven't been able to finish my new bleach game either (anime. see poll on right). It's a DS strategy game, and I'm up to the last level, and the suspense is killing me.

Sigh... maby next week.

Find me on Xbox.com

The Epidemic Sweeping the World - Fraping

Have you ever logged into Facebook and had a bunch of notices saying people had replied to your last post??? Once you get over that moment of confusion, you follow the link to read your post, only to be shocked that you could write something so embarrassing without remembering it. Was I drunk? Do I have amnesia? Did aliens take over my brain in some plot to rule the earth?

Then it hits you... you set your account to sign me in automatically for easy access, making it easy for frapers to mess with your account, usually with sexual comments designed to isolate you and subject you to the ridicule and mockery of your peers.

The cure and prevention: change your password right now, and turn off the sign in automatically button. And never, EVER, leave your account open on your computer unattended. Not even in a locked room with armed guards, lasers, and a strong worded note. Been there, done that.

That'll keep them frapers out. Good luck my fellow Facebookers. Happy networking :).

Delicious

Not the most fitted name, but it would be a very useful site. Being able to have your favorites accessible on any computer in the world. That's pretty cool. Pretty useful because there are so many sites we need to remember for this subject. If they weren't linked to the same account, I'd be stuffed remembering all the passwords.

If you want to join delicious to access your favorites anywhere, click here.

Animation Assignment Sucks

There are no word in this or any other language to describe how much I loathe the walk cycle. I will destroy the walk. Anyone I see walking will feel my WRATH!!!
I have a week to draw 25 pictures, scan them into the computer, learn how to use adobe photoshop and after effects, the most complicated programs in the history of the computer and create a walk cycle. Any my stupid arms wont swing the right way.
I don't know if were allowed to swear, so fuge you animation, fuge you very, very much.

Flickr

Just made a Flickr account and posted some pictures. Who thought looking at pictures on the net could be such a social event? I love how we can link so many different things through g-mail. Learn't about tags, and how searching that word will probably show that image. I doubt I would gave discovered the site without this class.

If you want to show off a cool image you found on the net, a painting you made in art class, or the funny picture you took last week, then sign up to Flickr here.

My animation class

Check out my progress in animation at My Animation Thread

Love this class. We have to watch cool video's in class.

My first post

                       This is my first post in MPI104. I hope the rest of the semester is this easy.

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