Weekly Comments

Well, since I'm annoyed with Flash, I guess I'll do these.

• What I learned this week: Um. Time management? That ideas on paper don't always work correctly on a computer?
• What I want to learn in the future: Learning the walk cycle now, so...yeah.
• Something that frustrated you this week: The pen tool. It's not difficult to use, but it is just SO GLITCHY. And I hate it. HATE.
• Something that made you happy: I have friends coming over this weekend, and I got my type project in on time.

I'm recording the sound to my short story today after school. I hope it goes well.

Reader

Yay new Google Reader!

Kiwi!

So sad.

The Star Wars Prequels Reviews

I'm not a fan of the prequel trilogy for Star Wars. So when I stumbled on these reviews almost two years ago, I laughed so hard I woke up my dad sleeping in another room who made me go to bed...anyway.

If you're looking to kill some time this weekend, watch them. The first one is 70 minutes long, the second is 90 minutes long, and the third is 100. They're not animated, but Star Wars is one of the most popular sagas ever created, so it's definitely digital media.

A small viewer discretion. They don't swear profusely, and the worse words are censored, but I wouldn't play it around small children. The reviewer plays the part of a psychopath trying to review movies. It adds to the review a little bit (though it begins to get old in the second and third episodes), but...yeah. It's not too bad though. We're all 16/17.

Weekly Comments

I'm doing these a little early this week. My other two posts will be put up tomorrow.

• What I learned this week: Sound. Finally. But it was a little hard to get through those notes, when you've used Audacity since 7th grade. But oh well. At least I know how now.
• What I want to learn in the future: Nothing that I can think of. But I'm starting to get sick of Flash.
• Something that frustrated you this week: Not too much, actually. The typography project a little, but that's it.
• Something that made you happy: I saw The Lion King at Sheas Tuesday night, with my school's band and chorus, and it was really, really good, and as a percussionist, holy crap were the drummers awesome. Also, I'm almost done with the script for my animated short. I'm just worried it won't come off as funny (the humor is really off-beat, and is based on a conversation I had with my friend Andy on Monday. The working (and probably real) title of it right now is "Story Time with Will and Andy", and I just hope it goes over well.

Friday tomorrow!

Weekly Comments

Yesssss, it's Friday!

• What I learned this week: I reviewed how to create masks in Flash. 
• What I want to learn in the future: Soooooouuuuuuuund...
• Something that frustrated you this week: Substitute on Thursday equaled a boring 2.5 hours of doing nothing. Also, (in the Khan style) APUSH!!!!!!!!!
• Something that made you happy: We shortly regained our big bus, only to lose it again. Now our school is giving the morning BOCES kids the big bus and the afternoon kids the little bus. NEWFANE!!!!!!!!!

Also, good news for all you Reader users out there: It's getting a redesign next week!

Flash help

So, I promised a few weeks ago I'd post some kind of tutorial for Flash. I've got...something like that.

Whenever I need help doing something in Flash, I go to Adobe's help site, where they actually have some pretty good directions for whatever you need to do. For instance, I had forgotten how to add a mask. I would've looked in my binder at the Flash tutorials we did a while ago, but it was being graded. So I found this:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flash/cs/using/WS9388626D-B940-43f3-87BB-7C3159F5EDE4.html

I used the instructions there and it helped me out quite a bit.

Anyway, look for my Weekly Comments on Friday.