Xpider Sven
We had a baller 7-legged spider hanging outside of our project window the other day and took some awesome footage of it. Unfortunately, he went missing when the weather got colder and rainier :(
I played around with the footage of our Xpider and video effects in Premiere.
Watch the videos in FULL HD and FULL SCREEN for the ultimate experience!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed4MM_nLc-Y&hd=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_0OINiWsIU&hd=1
[HOW] HTML/CSS: Prevent Scrollbar Jump
Firefox and Chrome doesn't show a scrollbar on the right if the content of a page isn't longer than the window. But when the content becomes longer, the vertical scrollbar appears and causes the layout to shift. This "jump" can be quite annoying as the whole layout moves to the left. To fix this:
html {
overflow-y:scroll;
}
Project Xense & Random Doodle
At the Entertainment Technology Center they allow us to borrow Wacom Tablets, so I got myself a Wacom Intuos 4 Extra Large. Yes, EXTRA LARGE!!! It's 462mm x 304.8mm (18.2" x 12.0") with 8 express keys, a touch ring and a pen with Advanced Pen Tip Sensor.
Anyway, working hard on Project Xense to create 3 interactive exhibitions for the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington DC about retinal implants, cochlear implants and neuroprosthetics.
Here's random wacom doodle of a girl with a prosthetic arm...
Future Film Force - Mario Paint Game Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tBwDBUhKxo&hd=1
Mario Paint Game Trailer for Visual Story class 2011 - Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University
- Albert Gea
- Dicky Lou
- Elwin Lee
- Daniel Hausmann
- Eric Zhang
Design and develop a 1 minute long video, to sell an existing PC, console or handheld game. Make it as exciting and believable as possible.
Another team's pre production work (4.0. Game Trailer Pre Production) will be given, move the project forward by doing any kind of filming, editing and post production work.
Ryusei Teaser
Presenting tomorrow at Round 4, Building Virtual Worlds. Streaming will be available in the afternoon (UTC -05:00)!!!
Visual Story Class
Visual Story is a storytelling/film class part of my boot camp semester at the Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University. The course combines the traditional notions of a film course — how to use the visual language from film — with the emerging notions of how interactivity changes the way we communicate with an audience.
On my team were Albert Gea, Dicky Lou, Daniel Hausmann and Eric Zhang. And for our first assignment, we had to create a short promo video of our team and team members. Below you can find the deliverable requirements and the final video for the assignment.
Deliverables:
1. Each team will create a 10 second animated logo for their respective Visual Story teams.
2. In addition, each team will shoot a 60 second promotional short on your team. The objective is to show off your team's talent in a creative way. Try to follow a storyline through time and space that depicts your team in the most creative, crazy, or fun way possible. Use all elements of visual grammar and work at building in elements from the first few lectures and workshops.
For the 2nd assignment, we had to recreate a scene from a movie. The choices were "3 Iron", "Tenacious D", "American Psycho", "Stranger than Fiction" and "...". We picked Tenacious D
Recreating a scene shot for shot
Choose one of the three scenes screened in class and break them down into these three steps (Due with Rough Cut):
1. Text – Dialogue and shot list
2. Images – Storyboard with matching dialogue
3. Schematics – Over head floor plan with numbered camera set-ups
[How-to-Fix] Catalyst Control Center & Native Resolution
My 23" Dell SP2309W has a native resolution of 2048x1152 and worked fine until yesterday when I tried to update the driver of my ATI Radeon HD 5700 graphic card. After updating, the highest resolution I could select was 1920x1080 and I was unable to set the resolution back to the native 2048x1152 resolution. This was driving me crazy, because everything was all blurry in 1920x1080 :(
The problem seems to occur when you have multiple screens connected to your PC; in my case I have my Dell monitor and my Samsung TV connected to my desktop. Before, my Dell was my primary and my Samsung was my secondary screen, but after the update my Samsung became the primary and my Dell the secondary. Apparently, after updating the drivers, ATI's Catalyst Control Center sometimes selects a different screen as your primary which results that my PC wasn't showing up the native resolution of my 23" monitor. To make it worse, your screen is duplicated across both screens, so it's not apparent that the index of your screens are changed or what so ever.
Anyway, to fix this, just disable your 2nd screen or make your monitor; with the higher native resolution, your primary! Easy as that, but it's not very obvious :)