Today in Intermediate Authoring we had to turn in our promotional websites. We had to create a website that promoted a website, television show, or video game completely authored in ActionScript, all externally loaded content in XML and free from the timeline.
I am pretty proud of what I have, even though I turned it in incomplete. Things I’m hoping to change and update to turn in for a better grade include enabling the full screen for the trailer, resizing it to be larger on the screen, and getting the reviews section to work.
http://silver-leaves.org/gamesite
So apparently spambots read(troll) this blog. In the last three days I’ve had over 700 emails/entries to my guestbook for Advanced Scripting Class. I thought it was a different file that I was getting trolled from, from last quarter and had deleted it. When I kept getting emails I was thoroughly confused… thinking maybe it had been cached on google or something and that’s how it was still going through… then I realized my mistake… and I have learned my lesson. I shall have some sort of spam prevention from here on out! damn you spammers!
Though it gets me thinking… who exactly decided there should be spammers? Who sits around to develop these things that just type gobbldigook into forms? Does this job pay well? Cause I’ve got some serious student loan damage.
So here is the form, this time with reCaptcha to fight against spammers!
http://www.silver-leaves.org/htdocs/guestbook.php
a little sneak preview of something that might be coming soon. 
Well, here we are starting Week 4 of Spring Quarter 2010. I am sad to say at this point in the 4th week, I haven’t created anything entirely … creative – yet. I have been doing mostly PHP for my Advanced Scripting class, you can see all the problems/results/solutions at this link.
For intro to Authoring we’ve been creating a class in an actionscript file which is pretty cool. Our coming up project is a website authored entirely in flash to promote a movie or video game. We’ll see which one I pick soon. ^_^
And for Writing for IMD, we haven’t made anything really at all. Its mostly lecture/conversation. We will be working on our about statements in the coming weeks.
Again for a final breakdown of last quarter’s grades (if you didn’t read the previous post):
Fundamentals of Scripting: A
Intro to 3D Modeling: A
Introduction to Authoring: A-
The following are my final projects for Winter Quarter 2010:
For Fundamentals of Scripting Languages
This website is going to be a gift to Zac and Tara for their wedding. There are some pages that are going to change, be deleted/added to suit their needs. However I’ll also be updating this website to better fit my portfolio needs. There are a few things that need to be changed updated that didn’t end up exactly how I envisioned them in the mockup. The photography is by Brittany Tupa, also a good friend of there’s who will be in the wedding party.
I got an A in this class for the quarter.
For Introduction to Authoring:
My partner Beth and I created a flash game “Egg Catcher”. I did the graphics, and we both worked on coding. We recorded the sound effects, and got the background music from newgrounds.com off a creative commons license.
Final grade for this class was an A-.
Finally, my Intro to 3D class which I had trouble with all quarter I did not give up on. The final project was an organic model. The suggested model was a human head. Some people did plants, and animal heads. I decided to go the suggested route, and modeled a head from photos of my friend Lisa Hylle. Personally, I think this thing looks terribly inaccurate. There are a ton of little things I’d like to tweek and move around but I ran out of time. I still received a good grade in this class, an A but I definitely was jealous of some of the other final projects. These first few images are in progress shots, followed by final renders. As you can see I ran out of time to do the ears… I’ll have to sit down to this file for a few hours one day and finish them up.
