Monthly Archives: March 2006

Chiptunes

By jedypod | Published: 2006-03-30
If you have have watched the Bleary Polka, then know, you have heard a chiptune. Following is a smattering of textual quotes from the Wikipedia article on Chiptunes: Chiptune, or chip music is music written in sound formats where all the sounds are synthesized in realtime by a computer or video game console sound chip, [...]
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Frame Interpolation as an Aide for Object Animation

By jedypod | Published: 2006-03-30
Recently I have been continuing to experiment with the frame interpolation and warping capabilities of Reelsmart Twixtor and the TimeWarp and Optical Flow plugin for After Effects 7.0, in order to create smoother motion for 3d animation. Frame interpolation refers to the process of creating new frames by analyzing existing frames. This is usually necessary [...]
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An update

By jedypod | Published: 2006-03-27
Animation Tests: Wednesday, 2006-03-22, I got my proficiency for the 3d animation labs. On the morn of Thursday, I frantically attempted to convert Barbie dolls into functioning armatures using steel wire and stage blood. The results are somewhat cybernetic, and interesting looking. On the evening of Thursday, Brad Hutchinson showed me the ropes by helping [...]
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Budget and Schedule + AE7!

By jedypod | Published: 2006-03-20
Bleary Polka is an experiment I did over the last couple days, trying out the amazing new graph editor in After Effects 7 to control time-remapping video in order to synchronize with music. The latter half of the video still sucks, partly because of the footage, and partly because I didn’t spend much time on [...]
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Treatment for Spring Project v2: Corporeal Composition

By jedypod | Published: 2006-03-13
By tapping into a visual curiosity and desire for novelty, attractions draw upon what Augustine, at the beginning of the fifth century, called curiositas in his catalogue of “the lust of the eyes.” In contrast to visual voluptas (pleasure), curiositas avoids the beautiful and goes after its exact opposite “simply because of the lust to [...]
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