This week I did not do as much work as I initially planned for. I ended up picking up several shifts at my job and because of that, the research I had done was much less than the previous two weeks. However, I still managed to do some digging on the album/LP format and the… Continue reading Alex’s Research Update 3
This past week my research efforts have been focused on preparations for animation work later this semester. I plan to do both 3D and 2D animations so I have been researching the best way to do 2D animation that aligns well with my skills. I have been studying the techniques involved in 2D animation via… Continue reading Marcus Moore Research Update #3
This week I looked into how movement and pathing work for tactics/strategy games. I learned about something called Breadth First Search, which is an algorithm used to search graphs. I suppose that it works in this case because the board is a grid, and so it can be used for determining positions, and then it… Continue reading Snyder Research Update 3
This week, much like the weeks previous, I have spent researching the Unity development platform. Much of my research into Unity entails working to create smaller micro-projects that serve to cement a specific aspect of the program. Scripting here, animation there, each project helps a little more with my research. I do realize that in… Continue reading Albright – Research Update 3
I further prepared my demonstration material including visuals, music, and the means of controlling all of this. When preparing the Zwobot visual effects, I quickly found out that Ableton Live’s macro controls are limited to how many parameters can be mapped at once without grouping groups of video effects adding eight more macro controls each… Continue reading Kenny’s Research Update #3
This week’s research has been the most frustrating, as I have finally undertaken art research. Thing’s are not looking great and I am becoming more accepting of the fact that my game will be laden with what is known as “programmer art”. In other words, art that is not exactly visually appealing but art that… Continue reading Chad’s Research Update #3
While writing my songs I have ran into some difficulties figuring out how I want to write them. So I did some research on songwriting and I found an AMAZING tip. The tip was to write from a unique perspective. Initially I was going to try and write the whole thing from my perspective, but… Continue reading Rashid’s Research Update #2
This week, I have discussed my thesis with Kel, a professor I had IMM130 which focused on HTML. As mentioned before, Kel is a very perfect outside resource other than online tutorials or documents. Discussion with Kel focused on making looking at what type of users would be interacting with the page. User stories are… Continue reading Research Update #3
I dedicated my first research to finding different film techniques in visual albums. I found a few examples that peaked my interest. The first of which is from Frank Ocean’s video album, Endless. This video used a very different technique that I hadn’t seen before. There were 4 cameras used for the video. One camera… Continue reading Rashid’s Research Update #1
My Senior Thesis idea is to create a Visual Album which is based on mental health and Suicide. What inspired this idea is my interest in the topic. Suicide is a very serious and sensitive topic. I believe that it is something that should be talked about. So why not talk about it in song… Continue reading Rashid’s Revised Concept