A Study in Interactive Media and Communications.
My favorite podcast is Last Podcast on the Left. Hosted by three friends (two comedians and one normal, funny dude), LPOTL delves into all manner of high strangeness from cryptids and hauntings, to vampires - both psychic and of Sacramento. What I love most about LPOTL is that it blends humor and meticulously researched storytelling.… Continue reading Shout out to my research assistant… oh wait…
Remember last week when I made a big proclamation about how the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time and everything is possible if you make a plan? Well... here's a little caveat. MAKING a plan doesn't do you a darn bit of good if you don't actually go ahead… Continue reading Working the Plan
I've suffered from anxiety my entire life - avoidance behaviors are my bread and butter. Of course, I don't want to be a serial procrastinator and I work really hard to keep things on track. My mom told me once that the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. This… Continue reading Eating the elephant: Project planning
The end of my grad school career is in sight - just a few more months until you can kindly refer to me as Jenny Dupré, Master of Interactive Media. My favorite part of this experience has been the forced creativity. Through my classes, I've had to create and expand and be ok with not… Continue reading Research, research, research, create.
Second Summer for Huck Finch Intro: For my final project, I decided to draw on the second summer (formerly called and perhaps more easily recognized in New England as the Indian Summer.) It is the second week of October, but the weather has been warm and pleasant. No better time than to find an excuse… Continue reading Motion Across Media Module VII: Advanced Motion
Intro This week I took on digital interface motion. WTH? It's how the back button appears on your iPad version of Safari when you scroll up. Reading Chapter Nine: Animate! Liz Blazer finishes up the book Animated Storytelling with a bit of practical advice for the fledgeling animator, "don't be the fool who has to… Continue reading Motion Across Media VI: Interface Motion
Intro: This week I learned how to animate a logo. Animated logos, or Logo Stingers, can be used to create a more dynamic, memorable logo than a still image. Reading Chapter Eight: Technique Chapter 8 of Animated Storytelling deals with the importance of finding the correct technique to tell your story. Liz Blazer urges animators… Continue reading Motion Across Media Module V: Motion for Promotion
Do you know what you get when you cross perfectionism with having a poor understanding of how long things take? Several meltdowns while trying to edit a stop motion project! For some reason I had it in my head that most of the work would be completed in the pre-production and production portion of this… Continue reading Motion Across Media Module IV: Stop Motion 2
I've been in love with stop motion for as long as I can remember - claymation to be specific. When I was four years old, I watched the original 1964 version of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer every day for the better part of a year. It's still my favorite Christmas movie... next to another… Continue reading Motion Across Media Module III: Stop Motion 1
Have you ever seen those cool images on social media in which most of the frame is a still photo except one part that is moving, like the water or clouds? That's called a cinemagraph and this week I discovered that they are deceptively difficult to do well. Reading This week's chapters in Animated Storytelling… Continue reading Motion Across Media Module II: Mixing Motion
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