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Neat Flash Tutorials
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
If your interested in getting even more creative…some of these begin to introduce you to Actionscript and programming using flash. Try them out to start to see what the possibilities are. Using a microphone to control movie clips http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/microphone.htm Creatign a shine effect http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/shine.htm Creating a Mousetrail http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/mousetrailer.htm Follow the Mouse http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash5/follow.htm Creating a Shiny [...]
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Task #2 – Your Personal Logo
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Task: Design a personal logo for yourself using imagery to replace certain letters in your name. Your logo should represent how you want to be known. Must Haves: 1. Your name or nickname. 2. At least one letter that has been replaced or manipulated into imagery. HAND IN: 1. Post your logo to your blog. 2. Answer [...]
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Colour for Emotion
Friday, October 24th, 2008
[Purposeful with Colours] Be careful with the number of colours that you choose. There is no rule but keep i mind that the more colours you choose the more expensive it will be to print. Most effective logo’s out there generally stick to 1-2 main colours. Unless you see companies purposely choose to use “rainbow” [...]
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Blog DUE Today!
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
**Must haves: About page Personal Polaroid Background Faked Personal Profile [How to hand in your blog] Click comment to the left. Leave me a msg providing me with 1. Name 2. Blog Web address 3. Class # [Personal Profile Questions] Answer on an “About” PAGE a) Name: Angie “miss ang” Shen b) Known for: Running [...]
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Task #1c – Faking the background.
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
In order to really create the illusion of the polaroid sitting on your blog wall, set the background color of your canvas to match the color of the wall. Check out the following examples. In example “b” I used the [eyedrop tool] to get a sample of the wall colour, and filled the background colour [...]
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Task #1b – Personal Polaroid
Monday, October 13th, 2008
“What is a polaroid?” A Polaroid is an instant camera with self developing film. When people refer to a “polaroid” they are referring to the picture taken with this instant camera. Task: For the “About” section of your personal blog, you will create a “polaroid” of yourself cropped from a picture taken in class. [...]
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Challenge Task #1: Photo Restoration
Sunday, October 12th, 2008
For today’s class task I’d like to challenge you to figure out a solution to the following problems on your own. *Hints* (though there are many ways) You will probably select an area, copy and paste an area, flip horizontal maybe flip vertical, rotate. Then to clean up you may even use an [eraser] with a soft [...]
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Task #1a – Create your own blog.
Sunday, October 12th, 2008
What’s a blog? A blog is a website that is usually contains regular entries in reverse-chronological order. Like a diary, commentary, or events. Task: Create your own blog using WordPress. Include an “About” page and use this blog as your portfolio to display your work throughout the semester. **Must haves: About page, Personal Polaroid, Personal [...]
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Hello Rm305 Designers!
Friday, October 10th, 2008
Hey Hey :) Last year I quit my design job of 7 years to become a teacher. I taught grade 10 media arts at a school in Toronto. The great thing about working as a designer is that you can work freelance, which I am still doing. Freelance means that I work for myself and [...]