Video game designer urges moderation to avoid addiction

Video games are great...they are fun...they are entertainment...but don't make it your religion...don't become so devoted to it that it becomes a way of life as opposed to a pass time...I am happy that designers are speaking out and saying that the games are supposed to be fun...and they will be...in moderation. Many, many people do become addicted and it's horrible...video games should exist in a life...not give meaning to it. Have fun...and don't let it take over your life in the meantime...happy gaming!

Movie

This is the movie Melanie and I made using windows movie maker...and more importanly...a camera.

The Week is Over...the week is over!

Well the school week is anyway...cause tomorrow is a P.D day...{under breath} Huzzah!...This week was mostly spent learning about animation...and I really find the whole process fascinating...it's amazing how these inanimate things can appear alive and moving up on the screen...So we learned a lot about that and then really the only other thing I did was make the Godfather part 4 poster.

"The Godfather 4" poster

Here it is! For the first time ever the poster for the upcoming the Godfather part 4...Dan O'Brien takes over the iconic role of Don Vito Corleone...look out Brando and DeNiro...there's a new Godfather in town...and he'll make you an offer you can't refuse!

Screen Print Design

This is the screen print design I made...

Another week bites the dust...

This week mostly what I learned was about animation. I learned about stop motion animation, claymation and pixilation. Stop motion animation is taking a inanimate object {e.g puppets} and animating it. Like in "The Nightmare Before Christmas" or "The Corpse Bride". Claymation is animation using clay. Such as "Wallace and Grommit". Finally Pixilation is using humans as "puppets" to animate a scene. So that's pretty much all we've really been learning this week.

Animation

Stop motion: (or frame-by-frame) is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own.

Claymation: A service mark used for an animation process in which clay figurines are manipulated and filmed to produce an image of lifelike movement.

Pixilation: Movies. animation of people, where performers change their positions slightly between exposures of one or two frames each, to obtain a comic effect of jerky movement when the film is projected at normal speed.

These are the types of animation you told us about. So there they are...with definitions! Hurray!