It seems strange not to be working on any assignments or dealing with any deadlines right now. Our next course, Musical Theory & Education Applications, looks cool. It will be a challenge, though. It looks like we will be making our own music compositions. Yikes! I always liked singing in the choir, and like music in general, but I have no where near the background for creating my own music.
I am borrowing a keyboard from a relative and hope to be able to record in Garage Band, but I still need a snowball mic if I am going to get better sound recordings. Right now I get a lot of echo on my voice when I do podcasts in Garage Band.
As for our last class, I learned some basic of working in Flash. I am glad I already had some experience working in Photo Shop and Adobe Illustrator. I drew most of my stuff by hand or in Illustrator and then imported it into Flash. I still need to fix a synchronization problem I had with my final Flash project. We are using CS5, which apparently has a lot of changes from the earlier versions.
If you would like to see my first efforts, the first (I included it in my last post) is a twiddle...meaning I was just trying out the animation on my own. The second is my opening page for lessons on Medieval times. The third is my final project but without the synch correction. I don't dare fix it until it has been graded, so I will correct the timing as soon as I can and re-post it. I also did not have time to animate the mouth on the agent. I want to learn how to do the small animations you can create and use as objects in the program. It was very tricky to try to keep track of everything and my first animation is very amateurish. On the other hand, I've never used Flash before, so they aren't bad first efforts.
