Who am i?

So for the new year we'll be starting our new projects on identities, one of which is to start a secondlife character to online to show (to what i'm lead to believe) what our other side is like, for example we could be a very outgoing person on the outside, but on the inside we could be very lonely or angry or any other types of negative emotions.

I will be setting up a secondlife character once

a) i figure out how to do it on my home computer as it is not allowing me to do so.
or
b) when the university has updated the computers to allow students to do so at campus.

I have however been involved into online gaming, as i am at heart, a big kid.

The game is FINAL FANTASY XI online, created by Square enix and is a very well established company and has over half a million of the population are regularly logging in each day.
So far in my online experience seems to be of an interesting on as communicating with people that do not actually speak a word of english seems kind of insane, but with Square Enix's programming you can use something called an "Auto-translate" key to communicate simple words to others.

My character is named "Ragingmonkey", was a spur of the moment thing as i did not think i would participate too long into the whole online addiction. But 2 years later i'm still around from time to time.

It's your average MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role-playing game) like World of War craft. Missions, Storylines, Socialising and having fun seems to be the most part of this game, once i gather more information on "identites" i'll post more on here to let you know my experience with my "second-self"

snowboarding is cewl!!!

So heres something i've been playing wih on flash,

i played around with it on illustrator and flash, what i did was got a random snowboaring cartoon from google, put it onto illustrator and changed the file into a PNG, then messed around with it on Flash. Took about an hour to do, but it seemed like a fun outside project for me to do as it got me to play around with flash abit more.

You'll need to click on the link below to view it as i did not know how to update the thing onto Blogger >.<

file://homestud-01/8$/N0108780/outsidework/snowboard.html

ONE SHOT, AND I'M DONE!

So it's finally here, my one shot film has been completed...



It was a fun piece to do and enjoyed the filming very much, we did have a few issues with the lighting and seemed to have casted alot of shadows on the walls as you can see throughout the film, but hey, it was our 1st try at this so i'm sure in the future it can only get better. There was alot of things that i wanted to do with this but had limited time to do it as i had very little experience with preimere. One of the things i wanted to test out was to make the whole movie in black and white but still keep the colour Red in for the colours of the cards. I was told it was possible but no one seemed to know what the effect was... i guess ill read into it sometime and test it out on this to make it visually more interesting.

The casts..

I've created my character for my interactive narrative piece, since the narrative is revolved around drugs and the outcomes of it i have decided to create pills for the main character and have filled in the colours differntly for differnt characters and also resized them. Heres a screenshot of what it looks like from flash

So here is the main character which is what the narrative is based around on him having choices on taking drugs and what will happen to him when taking drugs. This i find is a very fun character which may appeal to children and could be used as a learning activity for kids to understand the outcomes of taking drugs.

Urika...

After thinking for days on end (this is no joke) of this prjoect for interactive narrative, i have come up with my narrative. I have decided to make my interactive narrative an educational piece on drugs and the fundamentals of its outcome.

Next on my to-do-list is :

Draw images/take images
Plan on how to structure my work on flash