ART 349 book assignment

ART 349

1.      Spring showers and flowers; Season of joy and growth

2.      Book of flower photos and interesting quotes

3.      This is to be a book of flower pictures that I have taken myself, with quotes that I feel match each picture.

4.      As a photographer, I have taken many pictures of flowers in the spring and I still do so.  I will be using pictures from the past two years and from this year as well to create this book.  I will be spending time searching for quotes from various persons to combine with my pictures.  The quotes may be familiar to everyone or may not.  The photos and the quotes will reflect the joy and growth of spring. 

5.      Oops…expansion of the words above into a page long statement is not something I do well.  I am much better at being short and concise that expansive.

6.      I have spent time reviewing books that look like what I am interested in producing.  These books include Pooped Puppies, If Cats Could Talk, and Wisdom of Kittens.  All of these books are hardbound printed books and each varies in size.  They are all small, 5.25x5.25, 6.25x6.25 and 5.25x6.75. 

7.      Sample pictures

8.      I will use photographs taken with a Nikon digital camera.  The book will mostly be in color though I may include some black and white photos too.  I will use quotes with each photo.  I will use an easy to read font and font size.  I am considering 7.25x7.25 or 9.5x7.5 as possible size for the book.  Length could be 24 to 36 pages.

9.      Timeline

a.      19 April 2012…review spring flower photographs and start selecting pictures

b.      23 April 2012…contact printers about book and what they need

c.      26 April 2012…start finding and selecting quotes for book

d.      3 May 2012…start combining quotes with photos and arranging them for the book

e.      10 May 2012…finalize selections and combinations for book

f.       17 May 2012…send book off to printer for printing

g.      12 June 2012…turn in completed project

ART 450 Special Projects assignment

ART 450

1.     Mary O’Garrin

2.     A book of memories as we remember Mary.

3.     This is to be a book of pictures and text that presents the memories of Mary’s siblings, children, grandchildren and nieces.  It is intended to give a real picture of who she was and be a memorial to her.

4.     I have asked my siblings and others members of our family who are directly related to Mary to present information and pictures for this book.  I have given a deadline for when I must have submissions. It is my hope that those invited will participate in the creation of this book about my Grandma Mary.  She was a very wonderful person and I am pleased to have known her and to be one of her six living grandchildren.  While I know how many children, siblings and grandchildren she has, I do not know how many nieces and nephews Mary has.  I have met one of my cousins, who I believe is going to contribute to this book.

5.     I am going to produce a book.  It will be bound and copies given to my siblings, and other family members.  I am thinking of using a 9.5 x 7.5 format for the book.  The book will have text and photos included and may be as short as 16 pages or as long as 50 plus pages.

6.     I have been researching other books of a similar form and purpose.

7.     I have no specific ideas or work to present today.

8.     Issues I need to address include getting everyone who can to actually contribute information in a timely manner, contacting a printer and actually completing the project on time.  Deciding on how many copies to have printed and then distributing them is another issue to be reviewed.

9.     Timeline

a.      1 May 2012…have all submissions for book

b.     7 May 2012…have basic organization of book completed

c.      15 May 2012…have book reviewed for errors and get it ready for printing

d.     21 May 2012…send book to printer

e.      12 June 2012…turn in finished book

Essay

The DMF203 class has been a lot of fun.  I really enjoyed working with Miles Inada in both class and lab.  During the length of the course, I have discovered that writing games is not one of the things that I excel at, though I am pretty good at coming up with ideas for games.

The final project I created was called “Kitty Pong”.  It has a face for a ball that bounces around the screen, a paddle to redirect the ball with, kitty faces to remove from the stage to change levels, and a star and bug.  The star is in the upper half of the stage and the bug in the lower half.  They move from side to side and the ball may bounce against them to change direction.  The paddle is player controlled via a mouse. The number of kitty faces starts at about 10 or 11 and increases by five for each level cleared.  The stage background is green in color and the objects are all different colors.  This game lasts until you get bored and kill it.  There is no score kept and no life gained or lost, so it can last indefinitely.

A change I have considered making when time permits, is to have the star provide life and the bug eat life.  Life is measure in the number of balls you have.  This change would require setting one edge of the stage so the ball disappears when it hits the edge.  It would also require setting up a score keeping function, and an end game function.  Another function that could have been useful is a level up notice function.

I am pleased with the drawings I made for my game and pleased with how it looks and works over all.  I suspect that my nieces and nephews, other family members and children would also enjoy this game, with or without the proposed changes.

final project

FinalGame.as
FinalGame.fla
FinalGame.swf


attempted to embed the .swf file.  this failed.  the space for it to show up in was there. but the file was not.

project 4 part b

project4f.swf motion tween and frame by frame

project4g.swf

project4h.swf

project4i.swf

project4j.swf

project4k.swf

the first was made some time ago and the last five were completed today

project four part a

project4.swf code animation

project4b.swf code and frame animation
the above link includes the first one and then two eyes that were animated in a different way than code.

project4c.swf frame by frame

project4d.swf tween movement???

project4e.swf 


these were completed sometime ago...I just had not gotten them up and posted.
please enjoy