Posts Tagged ‘movies/books’
Digital Comics for Literacy
Storytelling is a key element of learning. We tell stories to explain the world not just for others, but for ourselves. Being able to explain relationships allows us to build on our knowledge, as is related in Paiget’s Theory of […]
The Knights’ Tale
Living a quiet life as an animator, Travis Knight never dreamed he’d work for his father. Then the Nike founder gave him an offer he couldn’t refuse… I would have to say that the July/August issue of Fast Company is […]
Visual Effects Details for 300
Fusion-developer Eyeon has added interviews with the houses behind the special effects in the VFX-driven films and TV shows such as 300 and Battlestar Galactica. The first piece interviews Screaming Death Monkey’s Jeremy Hunt about his work on Zack Snyder’s […]
Lecture: Scott McCloud, Cartoonist/Author
On January 16, 2007, Scott McCloud, one of the leading cartoonists and popular scholars of comics, and his family will brake their 50-state tour in Raleigh for McCloud’s “Making Comics†seminar, sponsored by Lulu. To celebrate the HarperCollins release of […]
scene detection
scene detection is a tool to automatically detect scene changes in pre-recorded video and generate automatic chapter markers for quick navigation. scene detection is written in Java and relies on a somewhat modified version of Dan O’Sullivan’s vxp library for […]
It’s Jerry Time.
Not that Jerry or this Jerry. This Jerry. He’s still going strong. Animations, docucomedy and sage advice for anyone to listen. Great film/animated concepts developed from short stories and anecdotes. I’ts like a mini-thisamericanlife webisode – but don’t hold that […]
It’s Jerry Time.
Not that Jerry or this Jerry. This Jerry. He’s still going strong. Animations, docucomedy and sage advice for anyone to listen. Great film/animated concepts developed from short stories and anecdotes. I’ts like a mini-thisamericanlife webisode – but don’t hold that […]
Happy Feet – Previsualization Lecture
North Carolina native Shawn Lovette is visiting the state after working on location in Australia and California to share his experiences of working on the recent blockbuster feature films SUPERMAN RETURNS, HAPPY FEET (Warner Bros. first computer animated feature film) […]
Lecture | Art of Machinima, The Garage Innovators
Hal Meeks makes a great comparison to the early innovators working out of their garage (Apple, HP, Disney, et. al.) to the new animators creating content from non-traditional applications. He may not know that he’s really hinting at is basic […]
O’Reilly Digital Media 2006 Photoshop Cook-Off
“The 2006 Photoshop Cook-Off ” contest is open all summer. This contest is open to anyone and everyone in the United States who shoots photographs and manipulates them with Photoshop. Not only can you win Adobe Creative Suite 2, an […]