12-18-08

Today was fun i worked on BPA web design. I created a side navigation with some really cool effects and also and some art inside of movie clips. I used plenty of code.

today i found multiple tutorials and tested some of them

Pause and resume tutorial
http://tutorialvid.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=909&title=add_a_simple_pause_resume_using_Actionscript&cid=7

Self writing text
http://tutorialvid.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=907&title=Create_self_writing_text_via_masking_in_Flash&cid=7

Creating 3D Carousels Actionscript Flash Tutorial
http://tutorialvid.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=571&title=Creating_3D_Carousels_Actionscript_Flash_Tutorial&cid=7

Cool animated button effect
http://tutorialvid.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=567&title=Creating_Animated_Buttons_Flash_Tutorial&cid=7

12-12-08

The past couple of days i have been working on making the icons for my IR and finding sounds. Sound boot is an epic FAIL. There are not very many good sounds at all and i found audition to be way better anyway. On the other hand sounds on the Mac are very promising as well as sounds from flash kit. I have many icon finished all ready and ready to be presented next week when they are do. I got them done early.=] And today i will continue to work on my art for the IR and the icons mostly.

I finally finished the rose petals in my IR =] now i just have to take my art back into photoshop and fix a background problem that i found. But it should be simple and not time consuming at all. Today i also looked for audio for my IR. Used soundbooth and was not very successful.

Today i fine tuned my petals falling in the back ground and i typed up something for mr F. I also solved the problem of why one of my petals were disapearing. here is Mr. F work.

For Mr. F

Developing a Purposeful Practice

George Leonard once wrote about the concept of mastery as it is used in eastern cultures and in the martial arts (Leonard and Murphy 1991). He pointed out, for instance, that in India mastery is a lifelong process; it is not achieved just by learning skill, but instead must become integrated into one’s whole life. The martial arts in Japan and China are not characterized by graded levels en route to mastery, as they are in the United States. Rather, one continues a routine of practice throughout one’s life to discover ever new subtleties of the art, and the art reveals ever new insights about life. “Practice” is seen as a journey toward mastery.

Today was okay.. pretty simple i guess. I just tried to animate the petals in my IR. Its going pretty well. Its not finished because I have not figured out the exact layout that i want but im getting close to done.