schedule
9:00 - 11:30 am, Tuesdays and ThursdaysTuesdays classes will be held in CFA 215.
Thursdays classes will be held in the lab (room tba).
Tues. Sept 1
Thurs. Sept 3
Tues. Sept 8
Thurs. Sept 10
Tues. Sept 15
Discuss: The Language of New Media intro & ch 1
Viewing:
- Man With the Movie Camera
- John Whitney - Permutations (1966)
- John Maeda - calendars
- The calendars were made for purely aesthetic reasons and represent no intent to advance the state of the art in digital time management. They were in fact, designed for you to waste time instead of save time.
- Cosmos/orbit calendar
- Line
- flora calendar
- Hanabi
- umi/aki
- Snowflake
- etc.
digital gurus
Garry Schyman
young hae chang
daffy's
two two
Yugop
What We Want
Levitated
Pollock
ultimate flash face
neave
Thurs. Sept 17
- interaction: dragging a movie clip on the stage
- seamless looping of a tweened animation
- cutting and pasting paths
- mask layers
- moving background, moving mask
- morphing shape (shape tween) within mask movie clip
- moving a mask layer (follows mouse)
- moving a mask layer (drag)
- filters
- project 1 assigned
Tues. Sept 22
Thurs. Sept 24
Tues. Sept 29
Thurs. Oct 1
NO CLASS - will make up class on Dec 15
Tues. Oct 6
Thurs. Oct 8
Tues. Oct 13
Thurs. Oct 15
Tues. Oct 20
Thurs. Oct 22
Tues. Oct 27
project 3 due.
generative design... looking at work by Joshua Davis
Thurs. Oct 29
project: image generator
demo file
tutorial on working with dynamically created movie clips
Tues. Nov 3 setting element properties - scaleX, scaleY, width, height, rotation
- alpha expects a value between 0 and 1 ie myElement.alpha = .5;
demo file w/random generator 2
Thurs. Nov 5
Tues. Nov 10
project 4 due.
Thurs. Nov 12
Tues. Nov 17
Thurs. Nov 19
Tues. Nov 24
Thurs. Nov 26 NO CLASS (Fall Recess)
Tues. Dec 1
Thurs. Dec 3
Tues. Dec 8
Thurs. Dec 10
Tues. Dec 15 (CRITIQUE)