Monthly Archives: March 2006

Chiptunes

By jedypod | Published: March 30, 2006
If you have have watched the Bleary Polka, then know, you have heard a chiptune. Following is a smattering of textual quotes from the Wikipedia article on Chiptunes: Chiptune, or chip music is music written in sound formats where all the sounds are synthesized in realtime by a computer or video game console sound chip, [...]
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Frame Interpolation as an Aide for Object Animation

By jedypod | Published: March 30, 2006
Recently I have been continuing to experiment with the frame interpolation and warping capabilities of Reelsmart Twixtor and the TimeWarp and Optical Flow plugin for After Effects 7.0, in order to create smoother motion for 3d animation. Frame interpolation refers to the process of creating new frames by analyzing existing frames. This is usually necessary [...]
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An update

By jedypod | Published: March 27, 2006
Animation Tests: Wednesday, 2006-03-22, I got my proficiency for the 3d animation labs. On the morn of Thursday, I frantically attempted to convert Barbie dolls into functioning armatures using steel wire and stage blood. The results are somewhat cybernetic, and interesting looking. On the evening of Thursday, Brad Hutchinson showed me the ropes by helping [...]
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Budget and Schedule + AE7!

By jedypod | Published: March 20, 2006
Bleary Polka is an experiment I did over the last couple days, trying out the amazing new graph editor in After Effects 7 to control time-remapping video in order to synchronize with music. The latter half of the video still sucks, partly because of the footage, and partly because I didn’t spend much time on [...]
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Treatment for Spring Project v2: Corporeal Composition

By jedypod | Published: March 13, 2006
By tapping into a visual curiosity and desire for novelty, attractions draw upon what Augustine, at the beginning of the fifth century, called curiositas in his catalogue of “the lust of the eyes.” In contrast to visual voluptas (pleasure), curiositas avoids the beautiful and goes after its exact opposite “simply because of the lust to [...]
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Tony Buba: Fictive Humor as a Reflexive Self-Critique

By jedypod | Published: March 6, 2006
Tony Buba uses a number of innovative techniques in Lightning Over Braddock: A Rustbowl Fantasy that are quite remarkable for documentary film. He plays with the genre expectations of the audience by interweaving staged performances which could be considered fictional throughout the film. This is only one aspect of the many reflexive techniques he uses, [...]
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Exegesis on "virtual identity: a portrait of james t. kirk (captain)"

By jedypod | Published: March 3, 2006
This portrait project was completed by Jed Smith and the excellent Graham Klyme, both of whom are somewhat compulsively addicted to online methods of social communication. Because of this interesting shared attribute, we determined to do a portrait of someone with a distinct and prevalent online identity. This approach would allow us to hopefully create [...]
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