Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:00:43 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Jacobson To: 810-088-12-fall@uni.edu Subject: [810-088-12-FALL] Visual Effects, Animation, and Motion Graphics exam - 10 am. Tuesday... Hi 088 students, Our exam is tomorrow morning, Tuesday, at 10 a.m. 10-11:50 a.m. Tuesday morning - Lang 213 All UNI final exam period are 2 hours long, so you have 110 minutes for the final exam, but nobody should require that much time for our final. What will the exam cover? i. Study your previous quizzes from this semester. I will make a link to all previous quizzes later today. ii. Study the previous quizzes from spring of 2010 semester. You looked at those earlier this semester. Note that one or two of those spring 2010 VE, A, and MG quizzes includes questions on Flash and Flash buttons and Flash symbols. We have now covered Flash and some ActionScript coding in class this fall. That stuff will be on the test. iii. The study guides for the quizzes this semester are spread throughout the first five weeks and the second five weeks (actually 2nd and 3rd five weeks, or last ten weeks) Calendar's of links for what we have covered. iv. The study guide to the May 2010 spring semester final exam is a very useful link. It is a good start for what to review for tomorrow's test, but I will update it for our semester later today. http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/AE/16/f/finalStudyGuide.html v. Watch the tutorial again that shows you how to create 5 seconds of snow or rain or bubbles in After Effects and then import that into Flash and have the FLV you created be a movie clip symbol and part of the SWF file. How is this different from when you have the FLV separate from the Flash application and have to upload: SWF and HTML and FLV and the SWF for the SkinUnderAll.swf or whatever player you use? http://www.uni.edu/jacobson/023/fla/snow/snow023.html We emphacized this and it is clearly explained again in the video so watch that a 2nd or 3rd time, if you need to review. Even though the video is based on After Effects CS3, it hasn't changed and applies perfectly to AE CS5 version. Know and understand the FLV, SWF, HTML, and FLA file types. There was material and questions on that in the spring 2010 semester quizzes. Good news! ---------- I will skip having the PUPPET tool questions, as there just was not time and is not time before tonight to make a video tutorial about that puppet tool and we covered it too long ago in class. Student projects links page: --------------------------- I have received the URLs from about 10 of the students for your final open-ended project that uses After Effects or After Effects and Flash to do your own idea and story or animation showcase of what you have learned. They will begin to be posted later today so you can see your name and see your project has been received and so you can see and enjoy and savor the projects your fellow classmates in fall 2010 VE, A, and MG have done. Mark -------------------------------------------------------------------------- P.S. If you have any friends who still need to satisfy their LAC Quantitative Thinking requirement at UNI, I need a few more students in 810:025 01 9 MWF spring class: Computational Modeling and Simulation http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/025/r/ It is much more enjoyable and relevant for any Electronic Media or Art: Studio Emphasis or Graphic Design or Graphic Communications major than Math and Decision Making or Introduction to Statistics or Calculus I. Major changes are in progress for the spring offering of 810:025 Computational Modeling and Simulation. It will include about 2 weeks of Adobe After Effects expressions and math related stuff, but for beginners. It will include about 2 weeks of Adobe Flash and models we play with that help expose students to gravity, collisions, perspective, etc. and things of interest for computer games and computer graphics and animation. Its a heavy subject, gravity, lots of laughs here. Of course, CC Snow and CC Rain and Particle Playground from AE would be seen from a totally different angle in the 810:025 class. http://www.cs.uni.edu/~jacobson/025/r/ will be revised soon, but the main change is the inclusion of more Flash and cutting AE down from about 4 weeks to about 2 weeks. Computational Modeling and Simulation - sounds intimidating, but it really is NOT, and is likely more fun and more useful than Math and Decision Making or 800:070 Intro Statistics or 800:060 Calc I for most students in many majors that don't require Statistics or Calc I anyway! So tell your friends about it, if you know they still need to fill that category for LAC, or if they or you just want a useful and fun elective at UNI, and have room for it within your degree! :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------------