Week 4 - Gorillas

Wahey. Next week the countdown for Christmas starts and its 8 weeks and counting.

I have had a mothers, mother of a week.

My Bug has gone back to the Garage with faulty paint.

My other car the Almera (sh*tbox) had a kid in a MGR smash up my backside and write it off.

Whiplash is good fun too by the way.

My wifes car got bumped by her mother who drove into the back of her father!!!!!!!!

So all three cars out of action in the space of 2 days.

The Tutorial.

This week i had a go at animation tweening. My inital word turned into another relative word slowly almost by a morphing technique. I will have to get the hang of keyframes and their positions as i keep forgetting to implement new keyframes and the tweening ends in a jumble at the end. Still practice makes perfect. I will crack it by next week.

I am slowly reading the flash for dummies book and its pretty good for a complete amatuer like me. I have a week of quiet time in the house next week as my little girl is staying at my parents house, so i will spend some time in flash to get it right.

The tutorials are great by the way. The weighting is just perfect for new flash users like me ans Andreas is pretty helpfull too.

The Lecture.

Laughed my *ss off with the Bush and Blair love song. The flash movie was the best home brew animation i have ever seen. The amount of imagination in the animator v animation flash movie was astounding. I want to be able to make flash movies like that. And if it didn't inspire me to learn flash competently then nothing will. Congrats. Geneen that was a great showcase - i loved it. I found the follow up movie on the web at home too.

The volume in the hall was a bit deafening - i think at one point it nearly woke up Ed. Campbell (Software Engineering.)

The lecture seems to be one of those lessons that you wish never ended. It is both informative and interesting too. The wife on the other hand has a different viewpoint when she found me glued to the home computer, moving my name from one part of the screen to the other. "Arent you learning anything worthwhile?" she chortled at me on friday when she came home.
"Next week i'll move your name from one side to the other!" i shot back, as she trudged off downstairs disgusted. She can look out. I'll soon be tweening pictures of her mother and the devil (maybe one and the same already.)


Reflection.
Just seeing the flash animation movie files has shown me what i want to get out of Multimedia Computing. If i can master flash then i will have a solid platform to start with for years 2 and 3.

My timetable does not give me much in the way of free periods around the tutoral and lecture times, therfore i need to set myself some quiet time at home where i wont get disturbed learning the flash package. Also need to invest in some bigger flash drives to transport my own files back and forth to university. I have a busy week ahead.



Off to bed but first the small room.

See you next week

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