Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Chapter 5 articulated motion and morphing - CONTINUED FROM SNOW DAY


ok guys,
Since most of the class didn't show up last tues (the 16th) I didn't assign chaper 6 yet.

so today we are:


  1. reviewing Chapter 5 articulated motion and morphing
  2. INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS WITH TYLER TO DISCUSS YOUR PROGRESS AND IDEAS for the MIDTERM PROJECT, AND TO TURN IN YOUR WORK ON CHAPTER 5
  3. CHAPTER 6 INTRO TO INTERACTIVE NAVIGATION DUE MARCH 2ND (DETAILS BELOW)

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Chapter 5 review:
you should know how to:
  • animate armatures with multiple linked movie clips
  • constrain the joints
  • animate armatures with shapes
  • morph organic shapes with shape tweens
  • use shape hints to refine shape tweens
CHAPTER 5 TUTORIAL QUESTIONS:
P152 STARTING

INVERSE KINEMATICS P153 -top of page
P152-157 DEFINING THE BONES

ARMATURE HIERARCHY P157 BREAK OUT BOX
P158-159 INSERTING POSES
P160-161 ROTATION OF INDIVIDUAL NODES

CONSTRAINING JOINTS P162
P162-165 CONSTRAINING THE ROTATION OF JOINTS
P166-169 CONSTRAINING THE TRANSLATION OF JOINTS

INVERSE KINEMATICS WITH SHAPES P170
P170-173 DEFINING BONES INSIDE A SHAPE
P173-175 EDITING THE SHAPE
P175-176 EDITING BONES AND ARMATURE

THE BIND TOOL-BOX 176-178

ARMATURE OPTIONS P178
P178-179 AUTHORTIME AND RUNTIME ARMATURES
P180-182 CONTROLLING EASING

MORPHING WITH SHAPE TWEENS P184
P184-186 KEYFRAMES CONTAINING DIFFERENT SHAPES
P186-188 APPLY THE SHAPE TWEEN

USING SHAPE HINTS
P188-192 ADDING SHAPE HINTS
P192 REMOVING SHAPE HINTS
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IN CLASS TODAY: INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS WITH TYLER TO DISCUSS YOUR PROGRESS AND IDEAS

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ASSIGNMENT DUE TUES MARCH 2ND
READ CHAPTER 6 (194-236) WORK EXERCISES USING .FLA FILES IN THE BOOK

AND/OR
TURN IN ITERATIONS OF THE CHAPTER 6 EXERCISES USING YOUR OWN SOURCE MATERIAL / IMAGERY--

this CAN BE A CONTINUATION OF THE WORK THAT YOU STARTED IN CHAPTER 5

check out http://kraftwerk.com/

****IF YOU NEED HELP WITH THEMES / SUBJECT MATERIAL PLEASE ASK
OR SET UP A MEETING WITH ME tyler.jacobsen1@marist.edu

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Chapter 4 Adding Animation Review _media_multitasking

Chapter 4 review:
you should know how to:
  • animate scale, position, rotation
  • pacing and animating timing
  • changes in motion paths
  • keyframing effects and alpha channels
  • easing in/out
  • 2D objects in a 3D space
CHAPTER 4 TUTORIAL QUESTIONS:
P100 STARTING
P102-105 POSITION
PACE AND TIMING
P106 DURATION
P107 ADDING FRAMES
P108 MOVING KEYFRAMES
P109 ANIMATING TRANSPARENCY
P112 ANIMATING FILTERS
UNDERSTANDING PROPERTY KEYFRAMES***
P117 ANIMATING TRANSFORMATIONS
P121 MOVING THE PATH OF MOTION
P122 SCALE/ROTATION
P123 PATH OF MOTION
P125 ORIENTING OBJECTS TO PATHS
P126 SWAPING TWEEN TARGETS
P127 NESTED ANIMATIONS
P128 MOVIE CLIPS
P131 MOTION EDITOR
P132 MOTION EDITOR DISPLAY OPTIONS
P134 CHANGING PROP VALUES
P135 INSTERTING KEYFRAMES
P136 EDITING KEYFRAMES
P137 EASING
P138 EASES OF A MOTION TWEEN
P140 PRESET EASES
P144 3D MOTION

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ASSIGNMENT DUE TUES FEB. 16TH
READ CHAPTER 5 (150-194) WORK EXERCISES USING .FLA FILES IN THE BOOK

AND/OR
TURN IN ITERATIONS OF THE CHAPTER 5 EXERCISES USING YOUR OWN SOURCE MATERIAL / IMAGERY.

****IF YOU NEED HELP WITH THEMES / SUBJECT MATERIAL PLEASE ASK
OR SET UP A MEETING WITH ME tyler.jacobsen1@marist.edu
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DIGITAL NATION: MULTITASKING parts one and two



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Interacive art ANNOUNCEMENTS:
http://artandeducation.net/announcements/view/969

INTERACTIVE ART EXAMPLES:
http://www.luftwerk.net/#luftwerkprojects
http://openendedgroup.com/index.php/about/
Synchronous Objects web kiosk

LOCATIVE MEDIA EXAMPLES:
http://mapsicle.projectx.co.nz/
http://mapsicle.projectx.co.nz/examples

APPLE QUARTZ COMPOSER:
http://developer.apple.com/graphicsimaging/quartz/quartzcomposer.html

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

interfacing symbols




1. Pass out
Interacting with an interface
or what happens when you switch on LG Chocolate.

by Manovich 2007


2. Look at Student postings on blogs

3. Watch ADOBE VIDEO: Symbols, Instances, Library Panel

4. Talk about chapter 3 Review questions (p. 97)
***I am going to have you guys come up and answer these questions using examples from the book
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ASSIGNMENT CHAPTER 4 CREATING AND EDITING SYMBOLS
READ P98-148 WORK EXERCISES AND ANSWER REVIEW QUESTIONS P148

and

READ MANOVICH ARTICLE write a short response / analysis as an entry in your blog. YOU SHOULD NOW HAVE 2 Blog ENTRIES, including this one and the one from last week.