Animators...Galore

lets first start with the obvious choice..walt disney. mickey mouse was walts first cartoon character and after 2 series of 2 cartoons he wanted to move onto feature length animations in 1934. but at that time Max Fleischer's Popeye The Sailor was more popular that Disney's' mickey mouse untill he re-coloured and redesigned the famous mouse.

Since Disney's ventures into animation and feature length films, Disney has become the most famous iconic animation of all time and the walt disney studios are still producing work today in the form of new films including recent titles such as Finding Nemo and Monsters inc. which have now harness the power of computer CGI.

Walt Disney holds the records for number of Academy Award nominations (with fifty-nine) and number of awarded Oscars (twenty-six)

making him and his studios the most successful animation studio ever.


MAX FLEISCHER

Most famous for the creator of Popeye the sailor man, betty boop and koko the clown. born to a jewish family in Poland but emigrated to USA in 1887.
Fleischer came up with a concept to simplify the process of animating movement by tracing frames of live action film. His patent for the Rotoscope was granted in 1915, although Max and his brother Dave Fleischer made their first cartoon using the device in 1914. Extensive use of this technique was made in Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell series for the first five years of the series, which started in 1919 and starred Koko the Clown and Fitz the dog.

when he released Popeye the sailer, this grew to become more popular that Disney's mickey mouse.Fleischer invented the "Bouncing Ball" technique for his " Ko-Ko Song Car-Tune" series of animated sing-along shorts. In 1925, Fleischer added synchronized sound to this series, using the Phonofilm sound-on-film process developed by Lee de Forest; these Song Car-tunes would last until 1927, just a few months before the actual start of the sound era. This was before Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie (1928), which is often mistakenly cited as the first cartoon to synchronize sound with animation.

Final Podcast and evaluation

here is the final podcast attempt for the ubiquitous city brief :)



ouch the quality :/

Evaluation: Podcast on the Microsoft Surface

I studied the new Microsoft surface as my chosen piece of technology to do my podcast about. I found it really interesting how so many people will be able to interact with the interface without any previous knowledge of computers. Anyone can use it. It makes browsing photos, paying for bills at restaurants and transferring files to mobile devices incredibly easy, thus avoiding complicated interfaces previously used by Microsoft. This is the future of home computing and retail businesses and has the potential to be something amazing in the future making this a valuable piece in the fight for ubiquitous cities.
For my project I used a method of recording text to speech using windows speech tool and Microsoft Sam’s voice. I had to record the speech in bursts of 30 seconds each using sound recorder (XP tools). I then gathered images of the Microsoft surface I had found whilst researching the technology and pasted them together, synchronising with the speech I had knitted together using windows movie maker. The only real problem I had come across was some feedback caused by the computer tower and the surround sound system installed on the desktop computer. This meant the voices have a really deep bassy tone to them with some slight distortion. I did however manage to combat this slightly by adjusting levels of volume and pitch in order to stabilise the sounds as best I could.
If I was to adjust anything I would detach my surround sound system and mover the tower onto the floor in order to try to get a clearer sound. That being said the microphone should then be able to pick up clearer signals from the speakers. This should mean the quality of the podcast should be much better.
Other minor problems, rather inconveniences were the fact that the sound recording device would only last for a minute, whilst the text to speech converter was only able to manage around 200/300 characters, which caused trouble since I had to record 7 bits of speech instead of only 1. The technique of the stitching could also have probably been made a bit better by using final cut pro. These means I could have blended the transitions from each of the sound clips together better and edit the actual sounds much with much more detail. I could have also made better transitions between the images had I used final cut pro providing a better experience through the video.
Overall I found the project to be a success and enjoyed the experience of my first video pod cast. I learn different techniques on how to produce a pod cast but also about the new technological advances what will change how we live in the near future.

Microsoft Surface +

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/index.html

Incredible ^

the new micrsoft surface, capably of accessing cameras, mobile telephones and credit cards for easy sharing of images, videos and even the splitting of the bill via credit cards providing a much easier way of sharing a restaurant bill.

it reacts to fingers, brushes and all everyday items allowing you to paint, move objects on the table like surface and control access to mobile devises from the microsoft surface. It has the ability to set coordinates on a GPS system or a mobile phone for day trips.

you can even order food in restaurants from the table itself before paying the bill via the microsoft surface..amazing.

they have been put into effect allready at Sheridan hotels.

go see it now,see the world of tomorrow!!

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browisng youtube the other day for my favourite band "Tool" i found this video which i found extreamly disturbing but visually/technically really great. it fit perfectly with the theme of the song and the issues discussed.


excellent visual composition by 'morgasmo'. highly disturbing still.

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20th Dec

DAVID GUETTA :D