Ugh. Not again. The thought invaded my mind as I laid on my bed. Yet another fight had broken out between my parents and my adopted brother, Jake. And of course, by “my parents” I mean my dad. I doubt my mom is doing anything except observing the byplay with a worried expression on her […]

Last one.

The time lapse assignment in the video assignment bank is one I had some fun completing, and I notice that it has one tutorial already posted for it. That tutorial, however, does not cover trying to screen capture video from a computer to use in the time lapse, so that is what I covered here. […]

This game is one I got bundled with my Playstation 3 when it arrived in the mail a few weeks ago, and I went into it knowing very little – merely that it was a triple-A title and highly recommended by pretty much anyone who had played it. After playing it myself, I feel most […]

This tutorial goes over one possible way to do the Chipmunk Video Assignment, which I found incredibly entertaining when completing it myself. It’s not a very difficult assignment with the right tools. Before you begin, you need to have Camtasia 8 or later – I haven’t seen Camtasia 7′s interface and I’m not sure how […]

Didn’t edit this one much except to trim the edges and make the lighting a bit brighter in GIMP, for which I followed the instructions from here. As I posted the assignment as an ice-breaker sort of assignment, feel free to take it in any direction you want – my only requirement was cups in a […]

Or at least, I’m sure that’s what a lot of people did for this assignment in some way, it wasn’t too difficult to set up once I had the list of things I needed to add sound effects for. My final list looked like this: Footsteps entering onscreen Horse gets up and starts running (overlap […]

The intersection was deserted as I stood there, wondering. How did I get here? One second I was eating breakfast at a diner, the next – standing. Here. In… apparently Arizona, unless that shop front was merely advertising the city. I’d seen plenty of that kind of thing before, but it was also hot enough […]

Decent airplane design.

Couldn’t really think of a good title for this blog post, so I kind of copped out. I’ll dive right into the assignments: TDCs - Well, I managed to just straight-up forget the daily creates six days out of seven this week – I went on a nocturnal sleep schedule, so I’d go to bed right […]

Felt a bit odd this week. Not sick, just… odd. This photo reflects that.

Making a time lapse video isn’t something I’ve done before, and it’s pretty easy as things go. I decided to make a time lapse of daily quests in Mount Hyjal from World of Warcraft because it has a pretty substantial story behind it instead of just being a group of quests with smaller objectives – […]

For this, I looked at the Chipmunk Video Assignment and couldn’t possibly resist – there were so many good scenes to choose from to chipmunk and make a funny scene even funnier. I went with Angel Beats! for the series since it actually has a lot of instant gratification humor that you don’t see coming […]

The two videos I watched were of zooms and one-point perspectives, and they gave a great number of examples of things I’d seen before – one point perspectives, in particular, had me thinking of the classic Scooby Doo chase scenes, where a series of doors line either end of a hallway, and the characters seemingly […]

I quite liked Bruce Almighty as a comedy, being both silly and entertaining with a few serious moments thrown in, so when I saw this on the playlist of recommended clips, I knew I’d have a fun time analyzing it too. Since all the characters are stationary for the majority of the scene, the camera […]

Or at least, it will soon. I spent an hour setting up software on Monday, was out of town Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday, came back exhausted from travelling Friday, and then simply ran out of time on Saturday-Sunday. No excuse besides that. Got the daily create finished through mobile upload on Thursday after editing on my laptop with […]

I chose May I Take Your Order, since I recognized that I could get that done in less than 10 minutes, and I did. I did it poorly, but it is infinitely better than getting a zero after the last two harrying days. Did a quick smash-and-grab recording with a short script and threw it […]

We all know that moment when our computer crashes and we have to go fix it somehow. This file tells one such story. First, the computer crashes in the middle of typing. Then, the user unplugs the computer, followed by checking the inside of the case chassis – this involves removing the outer case, unscrewing […]

The assignment prompt was very straightforward, and that made the creation and editing of the assignment very straightforward as well, even though it was time-consuming. I used Camtasia to both record and edit the audio, since it is on a free 30 day trial and this class lasts less than that, and has all the […]

I honestly didn’t have much inspiration for this – I picked a generic quote, and drew it up in GIMP, trying to stick to the style I saw. It’s not nearly as neat as the other artist’s style, though I feel I made it similar enough, with disjointed multiple lines used to make letters. Didn’t […]

Conservation of Energy A purely isolated system is required No matter what else is desired To uphold this law That scientists saw And wrote down and sired. Neither created nor destroyed energy cannot be annoyed. But it can be changed and changed and changed and still be reemployed. I certainly never would have thought to […]

When I’m feeling lonely, I count myself lucky that I have a great number of positive memories to draw on to chase that feeling away. Many of these memories come from stories I read or watch, specific moments that I have an emotional attachment to, where the author or producer did their job well, and […]

The prompt said “vintage” and “old”, except that sort of thing is accomplished easily with the mentioned “cheesy sepia filter” or “black and white” imaging, so I decided to burn my image instead, using the literal burn tool in GIMP. I added a mostly-transparent yellow layer on top of the image afterwards to complete the […]

As always, I start with the assignments I have completed. Daily Creates Five – Interesting photo of the light reflecting off a fixture on to the dining room ceiling. Six – Explain Twitter to someone 100 years ago. Seven – Not able to complete. Eight – Silly cow jokes. Also why seven didn’t happen. The […]

I first went about looking for objects  with my mind on positive aspects – what works for a particular object? Or at least, what has worked for me personally? I came up with my first 2 objects this way – my main monitor (a Samsung SyncMaster T22B350) and my current mouse (a Razer Naga 2014 […]

These four elements are often the backbone of superhero origin stories – the film I chose for this assignment isn’t such an origin story, but it certainly contains these four elements, in that order. The protagonist is born to a loving family that is later torn away from him in a horrible accident (no, this is […]

This is perhaps one of my greatest pet peeves on the road – people who don’t use their turn signals. I’ve been driving for 5 years without any sort of accident happening to me or because of me, and I think at least 10% of that 100% success rate is because I LET PEOPLE KNOW […]

“An avenue to “better” is through a million, teeny tiny disruptions, whatever is sitting in front of you.” “…that the world is full of order that doesn’t necessarily deserve our respect.” Those two quotes represent what stood out most to me from this speech – the core of the idea Kelli Anderson presents, the idea that […]

Or so says Monkey D. Luffy (pronounced Loofy) whenever asked about his goals in life. Assignment here. One Piece, an anime that many people love, isn’t really one of my favorite series, but it does have compelling characters, Luffy being one of them. He has a very straightforward goal in One Piece’s universe, but that […]

Skipping number 7 because I honestly wasn’t able to get TDC909 working. It definitely wasn’t a 15-20min assignment, after trying to first download the Beatles video, convert it to a format that video editing software (in this case Movie Maker) would accept, trying to find images of me to stick in the video or make […]