Where the Hell is Dan?
Hey blog fans! I have been MIA for a bit as I was at FITC2008! The conference was amazing, it’s really cool to see what other people are using new media for, and how the industry and the products that support it are advancing. I could ramble for hours about all the cool thing’s I saw but in a few words: Adobe Flash CS4 (Bones, true 2.5d, GPU-based shaders, advanced After-Effects style tween controls), AS4 (actionscript continues to mature), and lots of inspiration (Flight404).
But now I’m back in rochester, hammering away at school again. Actually I should say school is hammering away at me, FITC caused me to miss 4days of school, not that I really “missed” anything but I did fail to turn in 2 projects because of it. So now I have to bang out a Data Analysis I Minitab Exercise, finish my After Effects “slate”, animate and finish my “Earth Day” after effect piece, write a Query Letter for science writing, and finish an MVC framework for New Media Team Project. Ah and also continue to maintain TCBN, and do work to create some income. My life is dandy!
It’s all a huge pain in the ass but I’m working through it, updates are sure to follow as my time opens up. Some very cool thing’s I’m looking forward to posting about but for now I’ll just give my readers a sneak peak:
- TCBN Widget – That’s right, now if you blog is on TCBN it’s content will be published on sites around the world through the new TCBN widget. Some sites are already using it but the official public release is coming soon! All members will get their own unique API key and have the ability to tailor the widget to their liking!
- Some Cool School Projects – Hopefully my After Effects animations turn out looking cool, although we definitely aren’t given enough time to make anything amazing (see also: 10week quarters) but I’m doing my best to push it to be all it can be.
- AS3 Particle Engine – Inspired by Robert Hodgin and his work in processing, as well as the work of Joshua Davis I have decided to try and write an advanced particle engine in AS3. I am not usually one for these “creative” projects but these 2 really inspired me to try and apply my hardcore application programming knowledge to a completely different field. I am having to learn alot of math but I’m hoping the end result will be cool, updates will be posted regularly on this one
That’s all for now! Back to slugging away at school work, but keep your peepers open for updates some cool stuff should be coming over the next week.
