Seminars & Christmas Parties!

The Proof of Attendance!

I've always hated being in pictures, and now its biting back at me!

It's not a very nice picture but its delivers the messages. The first message would be that I never seem to stick the name tags on my person and that I usually keep this for a souvenir. I was actually hopping that they wouldn't rip my ticket, i like my things to have no tears by they seem unavoidable when I hide them in my pocket.  I found the event fun, though I did not get to spend as much time as I had wanted because DesPrin had a field trip set on that day. I definitely enjoyed the Squishies! As of the moment I have seven, but if anyone reading this wants to donate to me a few more then I welcome that! There is just some thing about those things that make them wanted and collected.


While I wondered around the event area I found that a lot of the games seemed a little unattractive (plot wise). Then again who am I to say so? I did like the game play of some of the side scrollers especially that one whose name escapes me. I know it had three possible character which the player could pick from. It had an archer, an arnis, and I think a mace.


.... I want more Squishies!

BasPro: Level 1

It will always be hard to start, fun to run, and a rush to finish!

Who knew that drawing with 3D objects was a lot more detailed than drawing on paper? I really thought it would be easy at first but it was wrong. In Basic Programing (this replaced  CompFun) we started with making programs that printed things, then move through making calculators, then 3D objects until finally making an assortment of things. By this time we were already grouped and know that we have to make projects together. Since we were taught with OpenGL we made it in OpenGL. Each groups was made up of three members, this would last them the whole term. As a group we were to create two main projects. The first one was the midterm project and the second one was the final project. 

The first project require us to make a 3D object complete with its own 3D scene. My group originally came up with a project per person, but we made changes it when we found out that only one per group was needed. As a whole we came up with a garden with a rabbit playing/about play a piano. The scene has seven different trees( four normal trees,  two cherry blossoms, and one bunny tree), five walls of hedges, four park benches, a one water fountain(it's not the moving kind!), and a piano playing bunny(with the piano bench and the piano. It took five hours to put everything together with three people working on it, and ten hours to get the piano done.

 

 

 

The final project required us to make a game using OpenGL. It was mentioned that Pong was a simple game to make so my group made 3D Pong. It looked like Ping-pong but the gravity is missing a long with a few details on the table. The ball could bounce off the walls to the sides of the table and it never touches the ground. The lovely thing about the program was you could turn on or off the one or both AIs or watch them play. There is a reset key if some one loses.

Desperate DesPrin

Ah the plates~ DesPrin (Design Principles) replaced Astetha this term, but it's still art! Unlike the last art class this one has more art plates. The first plate was one using dots and nothing more, or at least nothing that could be seen. My plate was of the smiling Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland, one of my favorites.

I found the next plate easier, because it was simply using lines to express an emotion. The emotion I chose was "confused", which I found the easiest to convey in my plate (the lower left plate in the picture). The plate on the lower right is the fourth plate asked of me my by Prof. It is done with posted paint, and one I did in a hurry since i lost my original in school the day before it was to be submitted. On the upper left is the color wheel, the fifth plate. Again I used posted paint, but this time I used magic tape to keep the colors fro mixing, fortunately I don't like using water so the thickness of the paint made it easier to keep the colors apart. The top right plate is the sixth plate about opposites. I chose asleep and awake. I used owls to represent this because big eyes can easily show the emotion of sleepiness. One owl even has eye-bags from staying awake too long.

 The seventh plate reminded me of my high school days~ In the high school I was in, MI (Multiple Intelligence International School), we had a subject called entrepreneurship and every fourth quarter of the school year we needed to create a business from scratch. We did the documents, the product making/if not retailing, and we sold them. This plate reminded me about my high school because we were asked to draw up a logo, and make a make-believe foundation. Mine was named "Nine Lives" it was 'made' to save and protect the civet cat. The foundations tag-line/slogan was "Don't let it drop to Zero!"  The picture might look like a fox but in fact the civet cat does look like this.

The second plate was my favorite among all the plates for this subject. Its half a dragon's face in a pixelated form. This shows the shading with the use of tone. I wish I could put more details into it, but I don't because I might make a mistake and erasing it could destroy what I've done.

Astetha? The Artsy-fartsy Stuff

Till now I'm not quite sure what Aestheta is or how to spell it correctly. For me it just means a way of looking at art. Others beg to differ, but they way the explain it just confuses me further. Any ways during my time with Astheta Class I was able to draw up a few projects, some for ever lost due to my mother's love of tossing out things that don't really belong to her. Here is one of the lucky survivors.

The one bellow is part of the final project which my team put together with our CompFun Final Project. Of course we made changes! Here are some more of my contribution in this project. If you didn't notice the post before this has similarities then look at the pictures of the sword and the scythe then the wolf spirits at the bottom.

The project with the highest score among the block was the one about the Trojan war with Achilles~

With thanks to: http://get-ish-ed.tumblr.com/post/14264810050/back-to-the-greeks

CompFun is Fun! : Growing Ideas with Ideya

CompFun what fun it is to make video game covers and animations as a project. My group was the RPG group. Our team name was called IDEYA. Our leader even made a site for the project. (Link to the IDEYA site) She place me in charge of the concepts of blade weapons, creatures, and (my favorite) slave-driving. And because I still had spare time she asked me to do the honors of designing the disc cover and case. The logo was a bonus~

Both characters Minaori and Senzu's weapons were my design.

 

This particular monster is of my design. It is based on the shape of my dog.

CompFun is Fun: Crawling with Alice

Jogging with the Alice Turtle 

What better way to learn programming than to start with playing with the fun and simplified building blocks of programing?  And what better way to do this than to use Alice~(Link to the Alice site)

Alice is a fun and creative program to make3D environments which makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing  games, or a video to share online. Alice is a free available program designed to be a student's first baby step to object-oriented programming. It allows students to learn the basics programming concepts. This is done in the context of creating animated stories and simple games. In this program, 3-D objects (ones already made like animals and plants) populate a virtual world and students create a program to animate the objects by dragging and dropping commands.

This was a fun learning experience under the ever-guiding Sir Norms.  He made use do projects using this program. The most memorable was the first one. This one was about making a turtle run/jog. the catch there is the Sir Norms wanted there to be a scenery, a story, birds, and the jogging turtle. I wanted to add a little more so I dropped in a waterfalls, a dinosaur, and sound effects(bird chirping).

The story of my little animation  starts with the turtle jogging into view. By view I mean the scene with the waterfalls and the trees with the sound of birds chirping in the background.  It has a few opening remarks with the speech bubbles I found. the story progresses with the turtle meeting the water dinosaur, which look s like the magical Liopluradon from Charlie the Unicorn. This dinosaur asks the turtle if he was food and gets the answer no so it leaves back into the waterfalls. Once the dinosaur is gone the turtle goes birdwatching and sees all kinds of birds. The end.

Another story I created using Alice was themed about war. It is a simple alien war with two sides. In this project I had two group of soldiers fuse into two bigger soldiers which I had fight. I was able to play with the light setting so that the screen would go into a shade of red each time the bullet was shot. At the end I pulled in a Pokemon theme where in one opponent is shot at with a gigantic bullet and is trapped in a Pyramid.