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I’ve been bad about getting
I’ve been bad about getting around to write Part Three of my little essay. I’ve just had to much stuff going on. It is finals week and all. I’ve been working rather hard on not one but two Flash pieces. I think you’ll like’em. The first is a VERY cheesy motion graphics piece. It’s mostly blurs, text effects and so on. It’s pretty standard. The second is a hand drawn and hand animated cartoon featuring Jason, myself and some Counter-Strike fustrations. Both of those will be in final form tomorrow, so you’ll be able to check those out. Ok, I just wanted to say that I hadn’t forgotten about stuff, I’m just busy.
But just to keep you what I’m sure is the edge of your seat, here’s a still from the cartoon.
Later.
What a friggin’ ordeal it
What a friggin’ ordeal it was this morning. Well, it wasn’t “that” bad but it did take far longer than it should have. Yesterday I found out that my film (if it was even mine) didn’t come out so today with Jason’s help, I reshot my assignment. We got downtown around 9:30 and headed into Burgen. Apparently the lab monitors desided it would be a good day to be really late and didn’t show up until 10:15. Which is rediculous since they’re supposed to be there at 9:00 when the building opens. So, after getting equipment checked out the shoot actually went well and it only took about 40-45 minutes. Which is really good considering 20 minutes of that was setting up and taking down equipment. Just as I’m leaving, the lab monitor asked me if I had found my film (I forgot it on Wednesday) and I said yes. She then held up a roll of film which was the exact same type and speed that I had been using and said “oh, well, someone found this on Wednesday, I thought I might have been yours.” I said it probably was and took it, feeling rather sheepish. So, on my way home I dropped off the film to be developed and so if the roll I lost was actually the roll I got back today and my reshoot was for nothing, I’ll mock myself openly. Although, I wouldn’t have “found” it if I hadn’t gone and done the reshoot. I guess life just works in funny ways like that. So, best case scenerio I have two rolls of film instead of one. Worst case scenerio, I only have the reshoot roll and the other was just someone elses. Either way I covered my ass.
I also remembered to save the Poloroid test shots from this one. Mainly because it’s not a half-bad picture of Jason. Actually, it’s rather funny. He’s making the “I’m mocking you” face. If you know Jason, you’ll probably enjoy that. At any rate, it gives you a good idea of my lighting set up. The actual shots themselves involve his face being wrapped up like the Invisable Man, but I’ll have to wait to share those until I get the negatives back. Anyway, check this out and enjoy.
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Thanks to Nagle, now I’m
Thanks to Nagle, now I’m addicted to SurfStation. It’s an odd mix of design, news and links showcasing some amazing graphic design, flash and web work. There’s enough links floating around this site to keep you (and me) busy for days. Thanks Nagle.
I’d like to thank Chip
I’d like to thank Chip for pointing me in the direction of Games Fusion. A funky little site covering anything FPS related. Especially cool are the Counter-Strike packs. These little beauties feature 50 Mbs worth of replacement models, sounds, sprites and anything else you could think of needing. I had been looking for the perfect replacements for my CS stuff and apparently someone has collected all my favorites in one place. Huzah. Go down load them here, and do so NOW!
Today should be fairly busy. I have to run downtown and drop off some film and a cd of digital stuff to be processed. The film will be ready in 2 hours, the digital stuff is another matter. You see, we have this really nifty $20,000 digital back for our RZ-67s (a sweet camera) and it takes some great shots. I think the smallest resolution on that baby is 3063×2040 @ 24bpp and it only goes UP from there. So, I took some shots with it the other day and they turned out really well. Now, the point of taking a picture with that kind of resolution is that you get them outputted through a film recorder. Which is also another amazing piece of equipment we happen to have. The downside is that it takes forever for the thing to print and the turn around time is about 3-4 days. Now, that wouldn’t be so bad if this was the begining of the semester and everyone wasn’t trying to use it. Oh, did I mention it’s broken? Yah, someone broke the film recorder and now the department isn’t sure if they can have it fixed in time to be useful. So, our teacher told us if they didn’t have it fixed we could just make a nice ink-jet/laser print of it and she’d accept those. So, I have to drive downtown to see if it’s fixed (because apparently no one likes to answer the damn phone). If it’s not, I’m heading to Office Max to buy a print cartridge and some nice photo paper. What a day.
Oh, and PART 3 will probably be written this afternoon as well. Just to let you know.
Carry on.
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