Advanced Media Lab, College of Design

Animation

Great overview and showcase of ComicPress. ComicPress is currently at Vs2.8 and has grown in features since its introduction in 2005. Vs2.9 Beta is in production. It’s available as a download and is “donationware”. John Bintz covers how he’s used it over the years, how people have helped with development over the years and the [...]

Animation Workshop
monday + tuesday
November 23+24, 2009
1:30-4:00pm
Brooks 109, Advanced Media Lab
It will be hosted be presented by former alumni, Jason and Mike Carpenter from The Carpenter Brothers Animations
For more information contact:
McArthur Freeman (mcarthur_freeman@ncsu.edu)

SUBMIT YOUR FILM!
Film submissions are now being accepted for the next Carrboro Film Festival on Sunday, November 22 from 2-7pm. Deadline: September 21. http://carrborofilmfestival.com

The 2009 Carrboro Film Festival call for submissions promo is by
Ajit Anthony Prem at Squigglebooth. Edited by Jim McQuaid of Turnip Video.

Career Opportunity

Freelance Graphic Designer
Applicants must have at least one year of design experience as a freelancer. To be considered, applicants must be bright, communicative, hard working and exceptionally proficient with Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. An understanding of HTML and web technologies, as well as web design software is a plus. Big bonus points to those who [...]

The Museum offers college internships for academic credit in administration, education, exhibits, public relations/communications, research and collections. During their internship, students use and supplement their classroom knowledge, obtain valuable job experience and establish professional contacts.
After acceptance into the Museum’s internship program, interns meet with the Internship Coordinator and their Museum Curator supervisor to come up [...]

Hardworking, motivated college students are encouraged to apply for a paid 2010 summer internship at Artspace.

This Internship is designed to help Visual Art, Art Education Majors or Art Administration Majors or MFA candidates develop skills in Education Programming and Management. Interns are expected to work Monday through Friday from 11:30-5:30, Tuesday, June 9th through August [...]

Tutorials

// create an event listener for a FLV Playback Component
// FLVPlayback component has an instance name of: myFLVplayer
// FLVPlayback component is located in a movieclip: myMovie_mc
// listens for when the video has completed playing
// “rewinds” it to the beginning of the footage and plays it again…
import fl.video.*;
//import fl.video.FLVPlayback;

myMovie_mc.myFLVplayer.addEventListener(VideoEvent.COMPLETE, donePlaying);
function donePlaying(e:VideoEvent):void {
// trace(”myFLVplayer has stopped playing, [...]

// call switchCase(), pass in one number to execute a set of
// other functions or lines of code based on that number.
// limited error detection
function switchCase(num:Number=NaN) {
var num:Number=num;
if (isNaN(num)) {
throw new Error(”no value defined”);
}
switch (num){
case 1:
trace(”#1″);
// someFunctionToCall();
break;
case 2:
trace(”#2″);
// someFunctionToCall();
break;
case 3:
trace(”#3″);
// someFunctionToCall();
// someFunctionToCall();
break;
}
}

//call this function, pass it two numbers (low number, high number)
// should return a random number between lo and high number
// some error checking,  checks to see if low number < high number
function randomNumber(low:Number=NaN, high:Number=NaN):Number {
var low:Number=low;
var high:Number=high;
if (isNaN(low)) {
throw new Error(”low must be defined”);
}
if (isNaN(high)) {
throw new Error(”high must be defined”);
}
if (low>high) {
throw new [...]

News

Fifth Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium will be held in the Jane S. McKimmon Center THIS WEDNESDAY, March 10, 2010. The poster session will be from 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. This year, there will be 191 poster presentations representing research being conducted in 62 graduate programs from all colleges.
The Symposium is co-sponsored by the [...]

CHAT, a digital arts and humanities festival, will draw together the diverse digital and artistic resources of the Triangle through performances, discussions, exhibitions and workshops February 16-20, showcasing Collaborations: Humanities, Arts & Technology.

WWW.CHATFESTIVAL2010.COM
Festival highlights include:

Keynote speech by Robbie Bach, president of Entertainment and Devices, Microsoft (responsible for Xbox 360, Zune and Windows Mobile)
Watch as [...]

The Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media doctoral program will host a research symposium about the material aspects of rhetoric and communication on Friday, Sept. 25, and Saturday, Sept. 26, at the Park Shops Building.
Jennifer Daryl Slack of Michigan Technological University will deliver the 2009 Rolf Buchdahl Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Science, Technology and Society [...]

Research

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The sleeper must awaken… in a whole other context. Clay Shirky tries to tap into the incredible potential that could be available but unfortunately lies behind “where do we find the time” sucker that traditional television has to offer us at the moment.
[ via WarrenEllis.com ]

A low-level heatmap used to visualize how a “person” might view the website and the process/order in which the visual information attracts the user…  simulated using some convincing AI but pretty interesting information and toolkit to work with…
Feng-GUI empower designers and advertisers to effectively analyze Attention and Attraction in visuals. Find out how people see [...]