Book Report, Shmook Report
How cool is it to be in school right now, with the ability to leverage machinima as well as affordable DV for reports and presentations? I think about the possibilities and it’s one of the few things that makes me miss school days. While the following example vid isn’t terribly impressive by technical machinima standards, I love seeing machinima in this kind of application, and really enjoy the spirit of vids like this:
I think about a couple video presentations I did back in the early 90’s during college… one trying to edit and render captured video on a P/166 machine, the other using good old fashioned linear editing with two VCRs and a shuttle/jog device. And the end product in each case was something so unbelievably crappy, yet gained points back then as impressive because it just wasn’t done very often. But what a colossal pain in the butt it was to edit and render out back then. We really do have it so good right now. Imagine where we’ll be in another 15 years!
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Hi Phil. My first experience with animation and 3D modeling was in high school in our school’s technology lab (1992). I went to a rural school and our school received a grant to build a very much needed opportunity for students to work with video editing, animation, broadcasting, CAD. We even built those C02 racing cars too, I mentioned it was rural. Never was such a grand gift so strangely out of place in a community of primarily agriculture and manufacturing employed families. I took residence in this new technology lab and never really left. Education needs emphasis on achieving ultimate exposure to every student with the arts, electronic arts and computer creativity.
Reallusion, where I work, is partnering with schools in the USA, UK and elsewhere. We are working with students and teachers in primary and secondary education introducing CrazyTalk and iClone. Storytelling as part of classroom projects promotes creative learning technology and satisfies many state and district requirements for technology in the classroom.
Reallusion in the classroom:
http://education.reallusion.com/schoolcase.asp
Thanks,
John aka Animize
Comment by John Martin II — February 8, 2008 @ 10:38 am
I can’t see the video (I have youtube blocked at work here), but the writeup reminds me of a small project I did back in college the weekend following Fake Science. Had to do a presentation for my college psychology class, so I just used the Half-Life 1 resources we built up from the previous week and made a short on ‘Death and Grieving,’ with scientist using poor security guards as rats on the subject. I dumped it to VHS and showed it off to class with great results (100% baby!) I say dumped, but this was back in the day before FRAPS where we used VHS as the RAW footage capturing tool. To save on tapes, time, and trouble, it was all edited in valve-hammer (AKA: world craft) and captured from the game in one take. Good times.
The best part was the teacher, she introduced it as a MAC-ENEMA film. Sadly I have no idea where the tape, or the original HL files ran off to. Once I got my A it didn’t get on my back-up priority list I guess.
Comment by Buddy_DoQ — February 8, 2008 @ 11:03 am