New Banksy exhibition in Bristol...

Most of us won't get a chance to just nip down to Bristol and take a look. Thanks to the BBC website however, we can still get a flavour of the new Banksy exhibition:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8096000/8096891.stm

Nat Dip - Catch-up

Following on from our discussion here are the links explaining the reports you need to produce.

Check what you have done so far.
Add to it where necessary.
Then, when complete, print and submit.

Here are the links:

Principles of Interactive Media Design:
http://iteachinteractive.blogspot.com/2009/01/principles-of-interactive-media-design.html

(These may also help:
http://iteachinteractive.blogspot.com/2009/01/visual-treatment-in-interactive-media.html
http://iteachinteractive.blogspot.com/2009/01/interface-design.html
http://iteachinteractive.blogspot.com/2009/01/interface-design-part-2.html )

Legal and Ethical Constraints for Interactive Media:
http://iteachinteractive.blogspot.com/2009/01/legal-and-ethical-constraints.html

Current uses of video in Interactive Media:
http://iteachinteractive.blogspot.com/2009/01/nat-dip-understand-current-uses-of.html

Investigating Web Technologies:
http://iteachinteractive.blogspot.com/2009/01/nat-dip-investigating-web-technologies.html

Stop Motion Animation Software

It's that wonderful time of year again when first year ND Art & Design (Interactive Media) students are getting into their stop motion animation production unit. It is good to see that some students are so enthusiastic about it they even came in on Friday when they had no timetabled lessons.

The high level of interest means that some students have even begun to practice the techniques at home.

Free Stop Motion Animation Software

So that you can experiment and enjoy doing stop motion animation at home what follows is a list of FREE software to help you with your productions. None of it comes with any guarantee, and you download and install at your own risk blah blah blah, but you get the gist.

Here it is:

AnimatorDV - http://animatordv.com/download7

MonkeyJam - http://www.giantscreamingrobotmonkeys.com/monkeyjam/download.html

SMA - http://www.clayanimator.com/english/stop_motion_animator.html

Papagayo - http://www.lostmarble.com/papagayo/index.shtml

Other programs also available on college intranet under unit 116.

Creative COW - great FREE resource for budding designers and media producers

Serious art, design and media students will be interested to hear about Creative COW Magazine available as a FREE PDF download.

The latest issue was bound to get my attention being all about Stereoscopic 3D (no doubt also of interest to a student of mine who produced an anaglyph 3D animation recently).

To give you a flavour of the insight you can gain from the Creative COW magazine take the opening paragraph from an article about the production of South Park:

Each episode of “South Park” comes to life in six days, start to finish — a crazy pace for an animated series. Even crazier: each episode arrives at Comedy Central in New York via uplink somewhere between 6:30 and 8:30 PM on Wednesday, to be shown that night at 10 PM. Cutting it close?

Want to read more? Download issue 10 - click here >

I recommend that serious students add Creative COW to their favourites and check back regularly to download each issue - click here >

You can also download all the back issues you may have missed. Some back issues that may be of special interest for you include:

• Commercials - History, Design and Production >
• Music Videos >
• Film Values >

But there are plenty of others too.

What are you waiting for? It's free...