interactive media

So i've been having a hard time comming up with a quote that i've felt I can design an interactive media project with. after narrowing it down a Jimi Hendrix quote and Bob Dylan quote, I've settled on the Bob Dylan quote "Chaos is a close friend of mine." I want to show the idea of the multitude of things that occur in our everyday life and the pressures that were often put under. I sometimes procrastinate things if I'm not particularly interest in the subject... as most people probably do. But as we all know with procrastination thing usually pile up until the very end until we have so much going on that we have time to think or sleep. But when pressure is on I can stay focused. If I have free time my mind will wander and I won't get as much done. That's why it's important for me to set realistic goals with reasonable time. But a lot of times I've noticed that a lot of times I work better under pressure because of the feeling that whatever I'm working on MUST get done, and soon. It's almost like an adrenaline rush through all the chaos of the situation.

interactive + text

For our next project we are using a quote or words and making an interactive animation using them. I've chosen a quote from Bob Dylan "Chaos is a close friend of mine." My other and actually first choice was a quote by Jimi Hendrix "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens" but i have been having a hard time thinking of how I can use that for an interactive animation.

AT&T... more deaths in more places. Final

Finally Finished

I think the only things i should cange are make it a little slower so you have more time to read the text, and also have it show no service when he looks down at the phone after loosing it.

problems with sounds

I've been putting sounds to my animation, and in my timeline there key frames line up right, however when I test the movie they sounds play about 50 frames early. you'll notice it when he is outside trying to get service and starts to talk on the phone. Also i can't get the music to play continuosly through each frame, it stops aftr the first even though there is still more than 2 minutes of sound left.

walking

I've figured out how to make my figure walk pretty smoothly. It wasn't that hard once I figured out how to use the bone tool right but took a little time to position him right in the sequence.

little progress

been working on my animation, but have ran into a few backfires that have been worked out. I'm now working on animating a walk cycle for the figure to move from in the house to outside.

AT&T animation

I've been working on my animation for my flash video.. showing how bad AT&T cellphone service is in kalamazoo. Ive been working on the intro mostly and trying to just animate scenes separately and than wanted to combine them all at the end to save from the confusion of 700000 layers and folders. I haven't been having the best of luck using the bone tool. specifically on editing armature animations once they have been made. but i have most of my intro done up to where he receives a phone call. I also don't have sound yet. But heres where i'm at so far.

maybe something like this... the arms and feet will be a lot easier to animate, but they remind me a lot of nintendo wii.

Character for flash animation

possible character for my flash animation. Concerns as of now are just when i go to make him move, how the arms and legs move. If i use the bone tool, it might bend them in weird ways so im going to draw a more simple character as a back up.