Archive for the ‘multimedia authoring’ Category

The Crisis of Credit Visualized

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

Robert pointed me in the direction of this excellent Flash presentation/animation highlighting the effectness of audio, text and moving imagry combined:

Student Work - Hello Kitty!

Friday, February 20th, 2009

Further to our Hello Kitty drawing lesson 02 , here are a few cats I wanted to hightlight:

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I love how Chris (R) has managed to draw such a happy cat!

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The lovely detail Chris (S) has capured on his cat

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Gary’s fit-enducing, strobe-lighting,  manic-rave cat!

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Manus’ “controversial” cat

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“Go Team ITB” from Mark

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Monika managed to add in the motion tweening

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as did Paul

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and Richard too

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AWWWWWWWAHHHHHHH, Robert’s Mr & Mrs Kitty….

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Kinetic Typography

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

This type of expressive animation combines of text elements and motion. Time has an effect on the expression of text, and emotion can heightened through visual signifiers, emphasis, unity, proportion and other design principles.

Flash is an ideal authoring tool for producing kinetic typography movies, as audio can be combined with text and graphics, filters, effects and Motion/Shape tweening.

We’ll start a very simple example during Multimedia Authoring Practical Lesson 03.

The Shins - Australia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzau5QV185g

Nancy Sinatra – Bang Bang
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JA4OoG9YA0

Sin City – Tell her I love her
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC7C0_iYEU4

Anchorman – After the fight scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mb7_wIZg94

Site of the week

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Click here to visit http://www.neave.com/

URL: http://www.neave.com/

An inspirational site for Multimedia Authoring! Paul Neave is an incredibly talented interactive designer showcasing his ideas and talents on this site…

…. plus you can play space invaders