Finals Week

Besides napping, eating, sleeping, FaceBooking, snoozing, and avoiding doing housework, I've been finishing all the projects that are due at the end of the semester... mostly using fine Apple and Adobe products.

The final out-of-class PhotoShop project was to take an old, damaged 8X10 black & white (or sepia) photo and restore it to pristine B&W, then produce two different colorized versions. I'm glad I put this off for a week or two because the professor taught us the ideal work flow for the job only a few days before it was due. I didn't waste any effort reinventing the wheel and only spent two whole days on it, mostly because I had to select a photo that was so complicated. My Grandmother is the little girl on the far left, I think.














The Multimedia Design I (Flash) final project is an interactive "kiosk" flash featuring video, music, and sound effects. I didn't have any trouble coming up with video, as y'all can probably guess. I picked a subject near and dear to my heart.









Film Animation put me back in touch with the Bolex 16-mm film camera, only this time, it was shoot two frames, move the subject a tad, shoot two frames, move it again, lather, rinse, repeat. I'm still struggling with this beast and I'll probably be elbow-deep in Final Cut Pro and Soundtrack Pro (and maybe a little Flash) all weekend to meet the Monday deadline.

As you can see, it's a South Park parody. The characters were originally drawn in Flash, printed, and cut out into paper dolls. It would have been easier to just animate the whole thing in Flash, but doh! it's a FILM animation class. I'm probably going to replace some fuzzy or missing footage (forgot to bring the backgrounds) with short Flash segments if the professor lets me get away with it. I'll post the final product some time next week and hope Parker and Stone and their lawyers have a good sense of humor.