I’ve been smothered in the horror that is week 10 and finals week here at RIT. I’m just about through it with lots more to post about, but in the meantime I’ll keep this one short. This is my Intro to Digital Animation final project, as usual it was a bit rushed because I’m taking 20 credit hours and I’ve got final projects in all my classes but here it is.
The assignment was a humorous father’s day short about an experience we’ve had with our dad. This is actually based on a true story so I thought it would work well. I was going for a “South Park” feel, and came up a bit short on sound but that’s always a bitch.
Here is a quick poster layout / background I did for my buddy’s senior project poster (printed at 40″x32″). He just wanted a background he could add his text and images into. I whipped it up pretty quick, can you say Microelectronic Engineering meets Web 2.0?
A while ago I made a post about FileReference in AS2. For a recent project I needed to create a simple uploader class which uploads files to a given server from flash, so once again I was face to face with FileReference, but this time in AS3. The syntax is almost identical, with a few small nuances. Ill let you download the source** to get the full details.
This example has some a few small frills, my favorite of which is the constructor takes a directory name where you would like the file to be uploaded (relative to the upload script), this allows me to reuse this class for many different uploads, to different directories.
** Note: For this to work you need to put “upload.php” on your server and point the variable ‘phpUploadScript’ in FileUploader.as on line 20 to upload.php.
Lately I’ve been buried in work relating to my ever-closer graduation but somehow I managed to squeeze out this poster for the booth I was running at RIT’s first Innovation and Creativity Festival. While the audience wasn’t exactly the TCBN target demographic it was still good to just get out and spread the word about the College Blog Network. I literally whipped this up in about 3hrs late late the night before the festival. Not my best work but it printed very nicely and I think it conveys the idea behind TCBN well.
Although I haven’t been able to do much work on TCBN the past month because of school, after graduation there are some huge new features I plan on adding. Just counting the days til I’m out of school and can actually have some real time to dedicate to this project.
This is another short piece I did for a class I’m taking this quarter. It was supposed to be any type of short (30sec) piece with an earth day theme. I am satisfied with the result but I feel like due to our 10week quarters (and me going to FITC) it ended up being rather rushed and definitely could be better. Finding free high quality sound samples wasn’t easy either!
My buddy is the president of the RIT Microelectronic Engineering Student Association (MESA). He does a lot of work for the group and was looking to develop a more print-friendly logo. The old logo was just text against a photograph background which didn’t print well. He didn’t want just any kind of printing though, he wanted a logo that would print well via micro lithography (which basically prints based on shades of gray, on a silicon wafer).
I worked with him and created this logo for his use, nothing fancy but works well and came out great when printed on the wafer (and standard printing as well). Now he actually has a vector file to work with instead of a low-res jpg
