IN PROGRESS: FLASH ANIMATION

So... this animation is due tomorrow and I am nowhere near done as I just had the best idea come to me last class period. Also I am bedridden so my productivity is momentarily stalled. I am exhausted, in the true sense of the word. An all-nighter (stupid, stupid) compounded with illness last night has made me completely useless today. After somehow managing to attend class/work/mtg/class in full-zombie mode i am succumbing to screams of my body to Please Sleep, which I intend to do after I post the (very rough) sketch of my animation. You probably wont understand a bit of it by watching so let me explain.

Looshkin (my cat) wants to go outside
I let her out
she plays with a butterfly
she is a cult leader and all her followers drink the magic milk per her instruction and die
Says in LOLspeak "I can haz poplation controll?
she trots back home
Gulps up the butterfly
Meows to come back in
Winks to the camera.

The last scene will be text stating "X amount of cats and dogs are put down every year. Please neuter your pet."

So, I humbly present my flash quite obviously in-progress flash animation:

... Okay I WAS going to post it but vimeo uploader is down so I guess I'll just leave a screenshot placeholder instead and will upload it tomorrow. Good night.

 

{Edit 11.11.09: Vimeo is up! so HERE is the Very Rough sketch.}


Kitty Kontrol from Valerie Armstrong on Vimeo.

IN PROGRESS: FLASH ANIMATION

I must admit, that I really had to force myself into signing up for this course. Flash and Dreamweaver have defeated me in the past, leaving me wading water in a pond made up of my own tears of frustration. Not quite, but still it's pretty much a hate-hate relationship.
However, in these fast times it is important to diversify one's skills, especially on the electronic front. When it was time to register for fall classes I put aside the tempting option of losing myself in the satisfaction of making a perfectly crafted book in Bruce's Book Concrete and instead dove into the murky waters of ART 3710: New Media.
We have officially passed the halfway mark for the semester and I am glad to report that I am still alive, and not so scared anymore! Though not they are not quite as intuitive as the Big Three CS programs, I no longer dread opening up Dreamweaver and Flash.


Which brings me to the next item on the agenda for New Media: Create a one minute Flash Animation.
 I am choosing to do an animation on what my cat, Looshkin, does when I am not around. Currently, she is laying across my forearm as I type. Silly girl. I can only imagine the antics she gets into when I am at school.

JASPER MORRISON: REFRESHINGLY NORMAL DESIGNER

via spotd.it:

The most important skills a designer should have?

A good pair of eyes and a brain which is good at making random associations.

UPDATE: PORTFOLIO SITE

My website does things now! I'd like to expand it at some point but I am pleased with how it is developing. I will post process pics soon.

FRESH FLASH

I may be too distracted by this shiny website to process its contents but... daaang yo, that's nice.

http://wonder-wall.com/

UPDATE: ART BLOGS

worldfamousdesignjunkies.com

ART BLOGS

Here are a some art/design blogs that I frequent, I think you'll like them. Do you have any to add to the list?

+ notcot.org (if you know me you know this one.)
+ design*sponge
+ fecal face
+ ISO50 (thanks to kirk for turning me onto this one)
+ lost at e minor
+ society6
+ computer arts (nice tutorials & freebies)