Narrative Design (Fall 08)
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Workspace for the Narrative Design course at Metro State [1], Fall 2008.
Contents |
[edit] Readings & Screenings
[edit] McCloud, Scott
- Chapter 3 Blood in the Gutter
- Chapter 4 Time Frames
- Chapter 2 The Vocabulary of Comics
- Chapter 5 Living in Line
- Chapter 6 Show and Tell
[edit] Story Archetypes
[edit] Questions/Help?
[edit] How to access E-Reserves!
posted by Sama
- 1. Go to this link: Course EReserves Page (Link can also be accessed from the course reserves link listed from the Auraria Library link under the library services rollover.
- 2. Click on the link that says Course Reserves by instuctor (trust me it goes faster that way).
- 3. Find Arnold-Mages in the drop down menu.
- 4. Click Search.
- 5. Click the Narrative design link.
- 6. Accept the link.
- 7. Click on the appropriate folder for your topic. Not sure if they still have a password protection or not still, but as many of us know/may not know it is banjo.
- 8. Adobe reader opens up with your article! Save it to your computer and Voila! All done.
[edit] Partners
[edit] Downloads
[edit] Tools
Image:Storyboardart.pdf Image:Beeping.mp3
[edit] Class Demos
- Tutorial: Controlling Movie Clips with onRelease actions
- Image:Making a MovieClip.fla
- Image:ColoredRoomsDemo.fla
- some processing examples
[edit] Audio Editing Software
- Audacity open source free software. Save audio as AIFF or WAV. You can download and add a special plugin to export MP3 files. Won’t work with wma files.
- Goldwave - $45 shareware
- Garage Band comes free with your Mac
- TEXT TO SPEECH Create Custom Voices and download the sound files. Works with flash. After you preview the sound, click on the drop down arrow on the Quicktime preview screen to save you custom speech sound.
[edit] Tutorial Sites
[edit] Flash
- http://www.flashvillage.com/ has free templates that you can look at to learn new things.
- http://www.flashkit.com/ is one of the oldest running tutorial sharing sites.
- http://www.kirupa.com/ has very well-written tutorials on the site.
- Adobe's flash developer center has some great content.
- w3schools has some good flash tutorials.
- Smashing Magazine posted a blog article of their favorite tutorials. Some of them would not be my favorite, but some are quite good.
[edit] CSS/HTML Help sites
- Hexadecimal Color Chart Codes
- CSS DEVIANT ART JOURNAL PRACTICE - If you have DA or just want to practice CSS this is a Great Tool.
- CSS Beginner Tool at HTMLDOG.COM
- Creative Journal CSS
- CSS Zen garden design
[edit] Cool Stuff
[edit] Blogs
- The Die Line: the leading package design blog
- http://www.dezeen.com - can research artists, artwork, exhibits, etc.
[edit] Artists and Designers
- Mk12
- http://www.karlssonwilker.com/ - cool lads with steady style]
- http://www.adamespinoza.com/ Lives and works in Denver. Real nice guy, real nice work.
- / Takashi Murakami - works and explanations by Takashi Murakami
- My Schizophrenic Brain
- / Craig Thompson
- Me Company
- cypher13 - a Boulder design company where the creatives portray themselves as photoshopped centaurs.
[edit] Webtools
- LinkDup
- Love My Flash - The lazy way to make your Myspace BLING.
- Illustrator Disco Ball Tutorial
- Fantasy Names - Don't want to come up with your own names? Go here to see what you like.
- Fontstruct - This site you can make your own online font and even download it for use! It's really fun to play with.
[edit] Animations
[edit] Ummmm....
- Animus Films
- Haute Doll Magazine
- Deviant Art - (DA) A site where you can post your own art in a gallery and meet other artists.
- Sociometry - DaInfoBomb
- List Verse
- CharmingWall - Illustrator/Designer Co-op
- http://www.5gum.com - a lovely gum for all you chewers
- http://www.kutztown.edu/acad/commdes/ very cool homepage
- http://uniqlo.archive.tha.jp/us/index.html a crazy interactive clothing website. Play around with the uniqlo explorer!
- http://manbabies.com/ Man Babies. Photoshop site with pics of men and babies with heads swapped. Must See!
- Animator vs. Animation
