Welcome to my Blog!
I am a student at Hedmark University College in Norway and I take a course called Virtual Art and Design. For my class in Animation and Interactivity, we are to blog about all our assignments, or 'cases'.
So what's going on?
We primarily work in Adobe Flash CS5, and I will be writing about my ideas and thought process through each assignment, as well as post sketches and finished work. This term we will have six cases, and we are obligated to write about each in an individual blog, as well as create a wiki for our entire group. This is handy, both as a threshold into the world of web design that we will delve deeper into later, as well as help with advertising for our course and help next year's students when it's their turn to throw themselves at these tasks.
About my School and Course
Hedmark University College is one of the few places in Norway where you can get an education in Virtual Art and Design, Animation and Visual Simulation. These courses are great for anyone interested in digital art, including 2D as well as 3D modelling, concept art as well as photography (Virtual Art and Design, as per my choice of studies), animation, including some traditional, 2D and 3D (Animation, go figure), and programming (Visual Simulation). Advertising and web design are also represented.
Interested? Check out the school's home page http://www.hihm.no/hihm/English/Campus-Hamar/Study-in-Hamar
This year, students from all three courses have been put in the same class, so we are somewhere around 60 - 70 students all put together in one class. For the subject Animation and Interactivity, we have been divided into groups of around 10 each, and each group has a leader from a year above us who directs us and gives us helpful pointers. Ours is a pretty cute guy :D (I hope you're reading this, Kim).
My Prior Experience
When I started this course, I already had three or four years experience working in Adobe Photoshop (several versions, my favourites being CS and CS3. I am now working on getting used to CS5. CS5 and I started out with a sort of love/hate relationship that have now turned to mostly love). The school has supplied us with a pretty good deal on a nice laptop, including a huge software pack consisting of Adobe Master Collection CS5, 3D Studio Max (which we have yet to recieve D:< ) and a few other programs.
I have been drawing with a tablet for a long time, and I have also had some minor experience with Flash animation. My oldest animations, including some buttons and a dress-up game, are sadly lost in the great black void I call my external harddisk, but here are some samples of some quick work I have done during lectures.
Yes, I know I should be paying attention during lectures, but it was a lecture about Flash animation! It is so much fun and I cannot resist.
While as drawing in Flash is something entirely different than drawing in Photoshop, I will likely do a lot of sketching in Photoshop and work as much with both programs than I can. Cell shading isn't one of my stronger assets, but Flash requires it because it uses pixels rather than vectors.
TL;DR
Fun times with Flash! COMMENTS PLEASE :D
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