tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61695285972702897152011-04-21T21:00:56.945ZBetnXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115935168713880720noreply@blogger.comBlogger361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169528597270289715.post-20003398435752308252008-07-01T10:19:00.003Z2008-07-01T10:22:04.823Z

we have reached mega w000t on the yey-omiter! I have found out that i got a 2:1 and have now completed university...YEY!iv now moved out of wrexham, staying in a lovely village of llansannan, but hopefully going to be in manchester by the end of the month:D

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just got back from london and a long 3 days at the d&ad new blood exhibition at earls court.was a great experience tho. got to meet alot of my 'competitors' and see some really good work. Met a fair few company reps, andd collected a few bussiness cards which was ace. got a few pictures for now. il probably add more later after iv unpacked:D

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WAHAY! ok, due to my bad time management on this one the crow went out the window, but the rest of it was done, took around 50/60hours to do, but full flowers arrows...the works:D Happy with how it looks on the finished video, unfortunatly the sound doesnt sinc with the video the way it should, but think the animations good. Just gutted didnt have the time for the crow animation since i think

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In the last term my acting ‘skills’ have been put well to use. Midwife in Neils movie, Lead actress/dancer and supporting role in kikis, general background person in badgers movies, and Stacie Mathews, damn good reporter who gets shot in Daves. Its interesting to see how each persons work looks and feels. Neil badger and kiki tend to work together on everything, they have a very good team working

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This week its been a careers week for the second years, but a couple of the guest speakers have been really useful. Their were a couple of people from games companies that really helped me understand the busness more, and has given me a bit of insight into my potential future. But the one that really helped was Ian Fitzsimmons. Hes from Tequilla London, who set the Army brief for D&ad. He used to

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Ok. This is taking ages. I can do roughly 5 frames per minute, but to do 3/8s of the flowers has take like 12 hours so far….gonna be a very long week, and Im thinking that some of the crow may have to be cut. Not only for times sake but for the look of the movie, bit worried how weird itll look. Tho iv found this movie as a sort of inspiration for the crow movement.

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Yes, that is the name of the current fla of my game☺. The ball is realising, ‘WOW water I better become a boat or il turn into mush’ and it will happily sail about on the water. The only problem is that wen going over the jeti, theres a behaviour happening that means its constantly switching between ball and boat. The behaviour says if youre on tile 190(the jeti) and youre a ball, become a boat,

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Ok today was Daves action shoot. Since he was directing, lead actor and co-filming with the lovely miss kirsty, he needed me to do the on site photography. I got a little snap happy, but I feel I got a good selection of photos. Clearly dave likes them, since I haven’t gotton copies back yet☹ But this was the second ‘shoot’ I have /im going to be part of over the next few weeks, and its definitely

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Okies in the lack of getting any placements at companies or workexperience☹ Iv been given a website to be done for Wayne Clark in cermanics. It will be the first time I hit on css or html in a year but will be good for busness to get back into. Iv drawn up some initial sketchs, talked to him about it and I feel that we’ve reached a look that he wants, its just the actually building it. Trying to

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JOIN ME ON WEEK 12 OF MY TEN WEEK PROJECT, aka flash must die!Its really bugging me now, iv searched high and low on the net, racket many brains and its just not doing what I want it to. Im being told this needed to of been finished about 4 weeks ago, but don’t think they understand how hard it has become. Im getting there slowely, and cant wait for the moment it will work, cos I would of

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JOIN ME ON WEEK 12 OF MY TEN WEEK PROJECT, aka flash must die!Its really bugging me now, iv searched high and low on the net, racket many brains and its just not doing what I want it to. Im being told this needed to of been finished about 4 weeks ago, but don’t think they understand how hard it has become. Im getting there slowely, and cant wait for the moment it will work, cos I would of

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Ok easters done, back to the game. Been trying all week to get this actionscript right, and it doesn’t seem to like me. Iv been working on having a variable for onland and offland. Onland is walk=0, ofland is walk=1. 0 initiates being able to only walk about on grass as a ball of paper, and 1 is floating about on the oceon as a boat. The only problem is, the boat wont work. I gave up on having

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Advice for all future d&ad entrants. Finish your project a week earlier than intended, because stuff will go wrong. I learnt that the hard way. Last entrys are in next Thursday, but I only had until last Monday to finish it, since the homelands called to me. The previous Monday I thought all I had to do was layout my boards all else was fine, but there were so many little things in my work that

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Ok well this brief has certainly taken a turn over the past 3 weeks. Since christmas all iv been doing is churning out ideas to the firing line that tende to get shot down....ALOT. Then i had the comic idea, loved and pushed by dan and liz. So been spending 9-5s in the hub trying to churn something out for this. Well its easter break tomoro and i need this printed off and dusted today. May have

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Ok after ‘staring’ as the dancer in kikis flowers in the road video,"http://indiestore.7digital.com/loki" im no doing the animation for her too. Its about a 4000 frame job. She wants a very sketchy white chalk on black background feel to it, which she found in some of my work apparently.The idea is where ever my feet touch the ground a flower grows, and when my foot leaves it wilts away and dies.

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Ok. As i am writing this, im in the middle of no where, surrounded by mince pies, and no internet, so i appologize to my many readers(lol) for having like 5+blogs appear out of know where come january. Been sent the new D&AD briefs for 2008, and once again i find myself attracted to doing something for the sevices. The policing brief "designing out crime" http://www.dandad.org/studentawards08/

BetnXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115935168713880720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169528597270289715.post-77570064019710514972007-12-18T12:17:00.000Z2008-05-16T12:14:00.992Z

'HiIm a third year Multimedia Student studying at N.W.S.A.D. Iv been interested in many areas of design communication since i can remember, but over the past year, my love of games and interactivity has really become apparent in my concepts and ideas. It is an area I know i want to work with when iv left Uni.I was wondering if there was anywhere i could get some proffessional feedback on my work.

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Just back from spending the weekend in Cardiff. Filming the music video for TenCentToy-Fractures Most of the day was spent in a small practice room in newport, with two digital video cameras, and one digital camera. the main idea of this video was a mix of 'every day homevideos' and them playing, looking ROCK! Their will be a difference in colour to show the homevideo as a different time line.

BetnXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115935168713880720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169528597270289715.post-42638258327395203002007-09-28T20:43:00.000Z2007-10-24T22:29:52.694Z

New and final year so why not start here. Had to put the final plans of our negotiated brief into practice now. Iv found a competition with disney imagineers on creating a theme park/hotel....ect http://disney.go.com/disneycareers/imaginations/assets/faq.html Its mainly for American students, but hopefully by showing that im willing to do the work it will be a good sign in my portfolio. For many

BetnXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115935168713880720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169528597270289715.post-91829981254386843772007-09-04T14:32:00.000Z2007-10-24T22:34:43.442Z

Well been meaning to sit down and completely re-do my website. Head to toe in one go. Since almost everysite iv done previously has been done in bits and didnt feel like it flowed. So i give you the new improved Intelligizers domain.

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Been out filming today with dave and kirsty (www.myspace.com/goodnightgirlproductions). Im acting in kirstys movie as a scared chick running around the woods, escaping a guy shes just had a crap date with. And its kinda interesting seeing how the moving image side of things works. Like all the hassle they have to go through with the additional mike, and lining up shots. Also seen some of the post

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Loving this project again, hopped the wall and jogging along nicely. After experimenting with photos i came across, using pen and water colourpencils iv made a style that suites it perfectly. Exactly how i saw in my head. Iv also got the characters sorted. Alisters done some concept design for characters, which iv worked on a bit to suit the game. Size and colours a problem, since i want it

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Hit a wall in terms of developing this. Havent been keeping a research folder as much as i should really. Need more research into game creation, style, characters, flash technology, flash lite...ect. Atleast Al's helped me narrow down my levels, and the amount of work i thought i had to produce( was thinking was designing many levels). I definately like the idea of test tube crittas escaping,

BetnXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115935168713880720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169528597270289715.post-45410316739486317662007-04-23T09:43:00.000Z2007-04-23T09:55:40.298Z

WEll its april, and its frikin scary how fast the years gone. Got bout 4/5 weeks left.Just came of easter but unfornatley thanks to having ft work in claires(+overtime) managed to get barely 2 projects goin. Finished disertation presentation atleast, and got some work done on my interactive brief(not near wat i wanted tho)As for my interactive, i do love the idea, the fact its kinda a version of

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Outline/Rationale for proposed dissertation topic:I intend to look across the scope of media and how the advances in our understanding of film, photography, painting, architecture and many other areas of media, has aided our ability and need to create narrative worlds. I shall begin approaching this subject by having a brief overview of the history of exploration. Looking most keenly on the

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Well just back from the emerald isle....and loved it. Was kinda kewl to get away, was even nicer for a bit of inspiration. The ferry crossing meant i got a few promising photos and once was over there, whitnessed an urban environment i havent seen before. Stayed at bfs familys place which was a minute away from the Europa and center of town, so was interesting being so close to a massive city

BetnXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115935168713880720noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169528597270289715.post-33881831207686721802007-03-16T09:06:00.000Z2007-05-21T09:07:26.234Z

Reached an idea on what my game is. Its going to be a form of Ying and Yang. It relys on two players, theres no other way to play. So you have to search for people to play it. Theres various levels in which you work through. First level iv thought bout is the over and under. One persons a vampire the others a kid. One stays in the dark, one stays in the light. You have to work together to get to

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Guess its to do with me work, just felt had to right something so in future if it happens again i can sort it out better. Just really lost me creative flow. Think i made the mistake of going out last week. Went something like 4 weeks of no real partying, just work and chillin at mates occaisionally. Went out with a fair few people last weds and eversince i cant get into me work. One project i

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Okies well its been a good 3 months since iv put in a post on here, which really isnt that good.This term has definately been different. Times and projects seemed a bit different. For the first 4 weeks all i had to do was my website(betnx.co.uk). My original plans were very restricted. Based on alot of grids and styles that were just not me. It wasnt atall creative and was very dull. Think once

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Been set a new project today, Two way interactive. Its got to be a 60second interaction using mobile phones.So far my main ideas are based around exsisting games. Such as the paper folding story/person game, or a live version of lazer quest. Where u have alerts sayign when someones near....try get as many points as poss in one day shooting people as you go. Thought of how it would be done and

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Part 1 (06/02/07)This brief does seem a really good one with lots of possibilities. Thats equally a problem, with no restrictions of content im not sure which way to go. Initial ideas were bog standard boring historic timelines, of things that i do enjoy personally. Taking on the whole 'free your mind' aproach i started coming up with some more interesting ideas. The lab rat game would be

BetnXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115935168713880720noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169528597270289715.post-7943403397539879172006-12-11T17:19:00.000Z2006-12-11T17:25:58.181Z

This project definately has come on well...Atleast i think so/feel so. The images that im producing at the moment im really pleased with, and finally feel like i have a better understanding of illustrator. Seems rather sad that what i feel is the most professional looking piece of work that i have done in the past years is a b/w blue-print for this task, but im over the moon about it none the

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This project has been really racking my mind. The first time that i'v approached a website for a practical/universal use. Previous ones have been more of a creative piece, so iv enjoyed developing it. But this one, im learning how to make a real website. There are so many rules for them that iv had to learn. Font is something that i deffenatly need to read more into(or atleast re-read stop

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Ethics PresentationThis project is definitely a brain scratcher. The first few weeks were souly trying to find something that I am passionate about. I initially felt about doing violence in media, or the rise in Britain’s ‘yob’ culture, but when I had the group discussion with Alan and Dave, it became a bit more obvious that I was more interested with the armed forces. Another person in the group

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I am finding this part of the Music/image task harder. I think the fact it is so broad in possibilities, im going off on tangents everywhere, and as Alan said, not sticking to one idea and persuing it. I definately need to focus more on this. Hopefully it will be aided by going back to liverpool at the weekend, give my self some more specific ideas for locations.I definatley liked the idea of

BetnXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06115935168713880720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6169528597270289715.post-85303880927785989062006-11-16T18:01:00.001Z2006-11-23T10:16:38.958Z

">BriefWhen we were given this project to do, it took me a while to get into. Initial money problems/and music accessability was bad but when I finally got a hold of some tunes, I instantly had images appearing in my head.Micheal Nyman: Since I’ve never heard of this artist before, it took a while before I had a piece of his that I reacted to. I chose Streets of Paris, since I felt a lot of

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