One of the many productive things I've been doing during the uni break is discovering the LITERAL trailers, and so I thought it best to share one of my favourites with you:

Animation Assessment #2

Well here's what you've all been waiting for, the animation I handed in for my second assessment (you might notice it's a tad unfinished), enjoy!:
http://s1094.photobucket.com/albums/i456/riczsowvfire/?action=view&current=VFX10122011ArthurCollie.mp4

Assessment 3

Well here goes:
Unfortunately this will be my last post for MPI104,which means that the only thing that will keep me posting will be my burning desire to let all of you faithful followers out there about the interesting things that seem to happen to me every day.
I'm pretty sure that now would be a good time to recap on all the good times I've had so far in MPI104 with our swell lecturer Matt Barron:
So far I've set up a new google account, which I've then used to create a blog, flickr and delicious account with. Whilst doing all of this I've also learnt a little bit of html and how to use it on some websites (namely putting in a link using the 'a href'...), as well as how to include pictures and embed videos. We also just recently learnt how to use an RSS feed using Google Reader, or the web browser itself, and then put it into our blog or website.
As well as setting up a google account and all that followed I also learnt how to make a website, just with HTML and also with iWeb (which makes things ridiculously easy), so I created a website about myself; putting in some pictures of myself and pictures of stuff I've done. Plus a blog. Plus an anchorman quote. And an anchorman picture. And other cool stuff like an RSS feed and some info about me.
And that's all I have to say about Vietna MPI104. Except that Matt Barron was a super-swell teacher who always found time to end most lessons with some quality educational youtube videos.

MORRRRRRRE GUNS!!!

Well I was recently introduced to the works of Freddie and also the Epic Meal time episodes via youtube, and seeing as I'm on a roll with embedding youtube videos I thought I'd put up a popular clip of these two geniuses together.

Peter Griffin on Red Bull

Well since everyone else in MPI was putting up videos during/after the lesson I thought I'd do the same. Here's a family guy clip I added a link to previously, but thanks to the awesome teaching powers of Matt Barron I now know how to embed a cideo, so here's Family guy's Peter Griffin on Red Bull:

RSS

We learnt how to add some RSS feeds to our blog using Google reader and also using a url after looking on wikipedia for some fun facts (which were surprisingly hard to find). So we put a few feeds into our blogs for our websites we created for the previous assignment, as well as another random site which looked interesting (so I put in one linked to some Monty Python clips).
But even more interestingly Matt Barron went surfing youtube for some interesting videos. The more entertaining ones included star wars elevator music, marshmellow men and llamas with hats.
All in all a good lesson.

AND THE ULTIMATE DOG TEASE WAS AWESOME!!

I made a website!!!

I finished my website today :) It's all about myself and has some extremely interesting bio information plus some pictures (including some of my art and a few photos of me), a blog, and an anchorman quote (and a picture of the classic news team fight).

This website was created using iWeb, which makes it a lot easier than writing your own html script for a whole, complete website. However it also proved to be very annoying at times. More often than I would’ve liked. But it’s all working now :). Or at least I think it is :|

Hope you enjoy it!!

FTP post

Well FTP's really swell as well. Put up a practice website today which was also really swell.

iWEB

iWEB MAKES IT SO EASY TO DO WEBPAGES!!!!!!!!


That is all.

HTML + CSS

So.. CSS makes it a lot easier to make a website becuase it means you can make default settings for the whole webpage instead of having to go through each paragraph and heading and set the same font and colour. Also turns out colour needs to be spelt color when using html. Annoying.

HTML!!!

Here's the catch up blog for when we did html in class. HTML is very cool but also very frustrating because of the extreme ease with which you can stuff it up. >:O !!!!

Another exciting Friday VIS lecture!

Today our lecturer decided to assault a cardboard box during the lecture. Yes, a box.
At the time he was demonstrating/explaining how cubists mashed together different perspectives together onto the one plane, but most of the students managed to see the humorous side to his demonstration:

The cardboard box before the lecture:

and Dr. Overton doing his best to obliterate the box...for educational purposes:

My hovercraft is full of eels

Knowing how much my devoted audience out there would be missing me imparting my gems of wisdom via blogger.com I feel compelled to put another one out there:
Monty Python's Flying Circus is awesome!
Over the course of the weekend I (with the help of a friend), worked my way through the second half of season one and all of season two of this truly magnificent series. One skit in particular that stood out was 'the dirty Hungarian Phrasebook', which I highly recommend everyone youtubing as soon as they finish this sentence, or if possible before they finish the sentence.
And now  for something  completely different: Uni assessments!
Very recently I handed in my essay for VIS about the meaning of an image, I received my mark back for my first MPI104 assignment (a pass), and apparently later on today we all get our marks back for introduction to sound production.

And that's all there is.

Pre-Easter blog

Have had an alright two days back at uni so far. In VFX I've starting doing some serious drawing for my next animation assignment, so hopefully I'll have an animatic ready soon, and in VIS I realised along with most of the class on Tuesday I the had an essay due by next week.

On a non-uni related note I watched Paul at the movies on the weekend, and got shown a family guy clip featuring Peter on Red Bull, both of which are awesome.

Holiday/non-contact period post!

I'm not too sure whether we have to keep up our 2 posts per week over the 'non contact period', but here goes anyway.
Kind of enjoying my two week break, but it's made harder with the imminent threat of two assignments due when uni goes back. But I'm sure they'll be a breeze. Once I start them.
Looking forward to sucker punch this Friday with my fellow animators!!

Stay classy San Diego

Assessment Blog - MPI104 so far...

So far in this subject I've done heaps of super swell stuff to do with flickr, blogger and delicious, all thanks to the google account we set up at the start of the subject!

In blogger I've made 6 posts (7 including this one), many of which revolve around the swellness of some websites and the lecturer of MPI104. Really all of these posts are thrilling masterpieces which illustrate my superb command of the english language, but if I had to pick here are some of the more interesting ones: It's a wonderful day for pie, and My Friday at Uni.

I've also applied my creative genius to several other people’s blogs in the form of comments, and here they are: A discussion about the impossible quiz and Cookies!! Weirdly this cookies link isn't working, so I'll put in another exciting comment I made! Random swimming facts!

I’ve also put a lot of effort into the aesthetics of my Blog, trying out a couple of templates and font colours before realising that I actually liked the first template I tried out, and I also changed around the format of my blog.

Other work that I’ve done in blogger includes putting a peice of audio at the top and putting in the fishies gadget.

The tags that I’ve used in my blogs include links to my finished walk cycle for animation, my delicious account, my flickr account, a picture in flickr and google.

I also created a delicious account with the help of my google account. I have 8 web pages bookmarked, and I’ve done so because I use them regularly (particularly google and the pages I’ve bookmarked for this subject), and/or because I find them interesting. Here’s my three favourite web pages: A couple of mind blowing scientific theories, Gmail, and My Blog (previously discussed)

...And finally Flickr. I’ve uploaded five images and two videos to flickr. Here are some of my favourites: A tattoo/design/thing, Part of my Art Major, and Cyanide and happiness

It's a wonderful day for pie

First Animation assignment down! :-) :-) :-)

For those of you out there who wish to view this magnificent piece of unparalleled awesomeness click here! (would've uploaded to Flickr but turns out Flickr only gives you two video uploads every month....dodgy...).
This walk cycle was a lot of work (or at least it seems that way when left to the last couple of days so to make up for lost time you find yourself coming into the labs for the best part of the night and morning to work on it with most of your classmates who wished they started earlier and are wondering whether the midnight rule is made up until they see the second and third years walking around without shirts (or pants) whilst being serenaded by Sam on his guitar or watching Family Guy's Road to the Multiverse)... but it's awesome to get a finished product that you're happy with. Until you find out when it's handed in that it's not compressed properly.....  >:O
We marked everyone else's walk cycles in the workshop, and I can't help but feel i was a little generous with mine-giving out more HD's then passes and more distinctions than credits...but im sure that was more because everyone did a good job on their walks :-)....especially Tim's..which was extremely swell.

My exciting friday at uni!!

The VIS101 lecture ended on an abrupt note when Dr NO spontaneously told us all to get out, and then it was off to my first proper animation screening! (excited face emoticon!!) This meant watching a documentary on chuck jones' animation which was very informative and at times funny. After that we first years snacked on some (free!) muffins before finding an appropriate room to watch the yellow/blue submarine, which unfortunately didnt work Instead we resorted to watching a couple of animations on you-tube (win!).

For more super excitingly swell posts stay tuned!!

Delicious

Created a delicious account, which weirdly enough is also swell.
Bookmarked my blog, the master blogger, flickr and the animation forum. Tagged a few things and out them in bundles.
also found out matt barron has a weird sense of humour. and likes to joke about bananas. and the infinite monkey theorom. interesting...

Heres a link to the delicious account:

Delicious

Flickr

flickr is super cool and swell.
especially the MPI104 group.
and the bazzinga group.

the end

here's some links!!

My flickr account

bazzinga!!!

Arthur's second post!!!

Going away to kiama this weekend :) so getting my second post out of the way now.

.....

so yeah

FIRST POST!!!

This is my first post for mpi104 with matt barron, who...is.....swell

link to google