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New Media Production - Capstone

Dig 230 - New Media Production, is the final class in the new media program, referred to as capstone. Each class member proposes two ideas to the class and as a group decides the best proposal for each person. Each class member presents to the capstone panel. Three projects were chosen for our class. The creator of the project that was picked is designated the lead and selects another student to be a co-lead. Every student in our class contributed to every project in some way. The three projects are a short film called Tech Support, A game based on the FLCC Logging team called "FLCC Logging", and an interactive book about what we do in new media. Below is the work I did on each of these projects.

Film: Tech Support

Tech Support : Film

Tech Support : Visual FX

Overview:

I started creating Mac in Adobe Illustrator. Created a rectangle with two colors and adjusted the centerline to resemble a noise. From here I took the files into Adobe Animate. I created the eyes and the blinking animation. For the mouth animation, I created different shapes to represent different phonemes. From there, I match the different shapes to the phoneme built into Adobe Animate. Adding the audio lines for Mac into the project Animate applied the correct shapes for the given audio making Mac look like he is saying the lines. I kept the phoneme shapes simple considering that the AI was just born and would not have a complex visual. During the movie, Mac gets rebooted, I created a scene of a screen turning back on and Mac appearing. I created this in Adobe After Effects. The final effect was Mac taking over all the computers in the lab. Utilizing the teacher controls on the computer in the front of the class to project Mac to all of the screens.

Tech Support : Social Media

Game: FLCC Logging

FLCC Logging: The Game

FLCC Logging : Assets

Overview:

The event I worked on was the ax throw event. Another student started work on the event. They created models for the targets, the player, and the ax. They eventually ran into a wall with the ax-throwing action. I came in and finished the event. I coded the ax to stick to the target and the wooden supports only. I made a function that determined what area of the target hit and scored the highest point area that the ax blade struck. It's how scoring is handled in the official rules. I created the stage select scene and coded the function to get into the different events. I programmed the options menus and added local storage to keep track of the high scores. I added this functionality to all four events. I shot reference photos for the structures I planned to create for the game. I created the field including the barn, fence, and dedication sign in AutoCAD, and imported it into Maya. I created images to use as materials in Maya using my reference photos. Once all the materials were added to the objects in Maya, it was exported as an FBX file. The FBX is then imported into Unity.

Book: The Book of New Media

Book of New Media: Web Site

Book of New Media: Assets and Updates

Overview:

I was tasked to make a web version of the new media book. Ideally, I would have liked to code a true web version of the book, because of time constants exporting, the Adobe Indesign file to HTML was the only option we found. Natively Indesign does not have the cappablility export to HTML. As a solution a 3rd party plugin was used. In5 is a plugin on adobe exchange that accomplished the task. The HTML exported was challenging to edit. The only thing that I could do was to add “A” tags () to the outputted HTML. I was able to add hyperlinks to the table of contents, index, and glossary. Though unable to do much adding directly to the HTML, I could add things around the code. I created navigation systems using HTML and Javascript. The original idea was to post a PDF version of the book, but I feel the website endded up being a little more interactive. I created a Tic-Tac-Toe game for the website. I designed with javascript and HTML. I coded a basic defensive AI into the game that could tell if it was about to lose. The AI would randomly decide if it would block the player or pick a different random spot on the board. The philosophy for the blocking was how humans sometimes miss the obvious move.