Hmm...

I've applied for my extension, but I haven't heard anything back yet. I'm assuming it'll be a phone call, but my presentation's supposed to be on Monday, so I'm getting a bit nervous about that :/

That aside, I discovered a series thanks to The Escapist called Drawn by Pain, which I'm absolutely loving so far. I say so far 'cause all but the last part's been posted. I love how they incorperate live action and animation while making it an integral part of the storyline. The animation's also partly rotoscoped when it's based off an actual character and frame by frame with a sketchy feel to it.

I think what I love most of all about it is the fact it makes me a bit jealous. That sounds weird, but I've got a good reason for it. The guy who created the series completed his film making course, but no one in the industry would pay attention to him. Eventually, he spent a fair bit of money on decent equipment to make an idea he'd had in his head for 10 years become reality. I always both envy and admire anyone who can put so much time, money and soul into their work. It's not like with big companies that easily get to make what they can 'cause everyone pays attention to them. It's a small crew that worked hard to create a completely professional looking piece of work.

So that's my reasoning. It felt quite good to type all that, since I've never really explained my point of view on independant projects. They always inspire me to make something special of my ideas. They most likely won't be as popular, but I'll still do my best to make my ideas become reality.

Wow, it's been a while

And boy have I had a lot going on!

First of all, I'm going to try and get an extension for my essay and presentation, but I'm hoping I won't need it. The reason being is that I've spent the last couple of days in hospital. For anyone who remembers me mentioning that my arm had an infection, well, it got worse. I went straight from a checkup on Tuesday morning to hospital where I had to stay the night, and now I've gotta have a load of medicine and have my dressings changed every day.

So, that's what's been happening to me lately, and that's why I haven't updated here lately, despite the fact I've had so much to post about that I've seen around the net. I'll get onto that when I'm feeling more up to it.

Oh yeah, Jools asked in my last journal post what I'd done to solve that problem. Turns out that in CS3, you have to swap around some of the wording in the gotoAndPlay command. I put gotoAndPlay("Scene 2",1), when in CS3 you're meant to put gotoAndPlay(1, "Scene 2). I found it kinda weird that they'd change something as trivial as that, but I figured it ^^

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(Update)
I've figured it now (thankfully). It's going pretty well now ^^



I can't get my action scripting to work, and it's looking less and less likely that I'll be able to get my project done. I'm trying to use a gotoAndPlay command, but it's not doing anything.

So yeah, I'm hoping I can find someone to help tomorrow at uni, but right now I'm getting really stressed about it, 'cause nothing's working.

Okay, my bad

I keep forgetting to post details of my interactive identities project ^^; Really sorry about that.

So, to start things off, I collect trinket pots. A lot of them. About 5 shelves worth, actually. I thought it'd be a great idea to select 5 of my trinkets and make them say different things about me.

So, the five sections I've chosen to look at are info, art, what's special to me, music and animation. I was gonna use my own music for it, but I can't export it properly, so I might have to use something else. I hope that's allowed ^^; I might chose Melodies of Life from Final Fantasy IX, since it's one of my favourite songs :3

I've had to make a few changes to simplify it, since I'm not too good at coding. I hope it'll turn out okay.


Each trinket opens as you click on it and I used photos for reference.

Portfolio sites

Looking at 3 different portfolio sites who fit under the 'virtual environment' catagory. I don't entirely get what contextual info means, so I won't write anything next to that.


Site 1: Heather Kelley
Impact: 1/5 - Nothing stood out for me. Bland colours and nothing to attract the eye.
Range of work: 2/5 - Slightly varied amount of work.
Navigation: 2/5 - The sub menus are practically unnoticable, which really confused me.
Contextual info: 3/5
All around: 1/5 - It didn't impress me in the slightest. Nothing really sold this person's work to me.

Total: 9/25


Site 2: hdhcg.com
Impact: 3/5 - Nice graphics and a simple animation drew my eye to the navigation, but moving text drew it away again.
Range of work: 3/5 - Some of it's a bit samey, but there's a nice solid selection of good work.
Navigation: 4/5 - Easy to work your way around. Each link opening with a popup window gets annoying tho'.
Contextual info: 3/5
All around: 4/5 - A neat website with a few distractions. Also has some worksteps for some of the images.

Total: 17/25


Site 3: TargeteArt
Impact: 3/5 - The first image you click on really stands out. The actual site is a usual blogger template, tho'.
Range of work: 4/5 - Mainly fantasy, but there's a nice range in techniques and styles.
Navigation: 5/5 - Easy to find what you're looking for. Not too many options to over-complicate things.
Contextual info: 3/5
All around: 4/5 - A bit somplictic in it's design, but a nice, mostly consistant site with lots of artwork.

Total: 19/25

Preview of my latest animation

Okay, so it's more like a 3 second clip, but this is the only bit I've finished so far. I'm not going too badly with it, tho' :3

Here's the link. I can't remember my SWFup password, so I can't embed it ^^; I'll post the final version when it's done, but that'll take a while with uni work and all.

SCGMDx3

Quick look at the latest in the Super Crazy series, Super Crazy Guitar Maniac Deluxe 3!

I loved SC2 when it was released, and this 3rd one, although a LOT harder, gives you that smug sense of satisfaction when you kick a really hard song's ass X3 Personally, I've got gold in all but 2 songs (in which case, I have a bronze and a silver), so I'm not too bad at it. It's like a free online alternative to Guitar Hero. If you take out the 3D graphics, the plastic guitar, and the fact that Yahtzee hasn't reviewed it ^^;

Anyway, if you wanna play it, I've posted a link. It's downloadable too, if you're connection's slow.