Comment Sections Are Wastelands Ruled by Trolls. Here Are Alternatives

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/gl_honan-conversation/

Have you ever been reading the comments under an online article and realized that MOST of the comments are from trolls or spambots? CEOs are coming up with new ways to deal with the comments sections of their online articles to elevate the conversations into real meaningful conversations instead of dumping grounds for trolls.

Read the article at wired.com and answer the questions in the handout.

Project Loon. Google's Answer to 21st Century Internet Problems

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/googlex-project-loon/

Project Loon, a breathtakingly ambitious plan to bring the Internet to a huge swath of as-yet-unconnected humanity—via thousands of solar-powered, high-pressure balloons floating some 60,000 feet above Earth.

Read the Article.
Answer Questions on handout.

Everyone Dies! Game

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/everyone-dies

Everyone Dies! is an awesome game that you will not be able to stop playing.
It was created in FLASH and does a really good job of setting up the game with a weird short story.

Write in your blogs about WHY you think it is either a good game or bad game. Be constructive. Tell the author of the game HOW you would make it better and WHY.

Spot the Designer Flash Game

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/games/designer

This FLASH game is kind of addictive.

Constructive criticism is an evaluation of performance, good and bad, with an eye to improvement rather than simple critique. It is designed to be helpful to the person being evaluated.

After playing the game a bit, write in your blogs about WHY you think their game is good or bad, and HOW you would improve it or change it to make it better. Help them, don't just compliment them.

Flash Pulp Flash Movie

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/pulp

Pretty cool Flash movie. The music is electronic.

Main Entry:	constructive criticism
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	criticism or advice that is useful and intended to help or improve something, often withan offer of possible solutions After watching the video, in your blogs write a short paragraph(3 to six sentences) explaining how you think their game could be better. What would you change? What would you leave because it is successful?

The Wizard of Odds (3:33)

The Wizard of Odds
2009 Thesis Film - SVA Computer Art
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhJBafT1yQA
By cbdevil

The Joke - 2007 SVA Thesis Film (5:15)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpKD7qwLPEg

The Joke by asiabrew81

Alien Abduction- SVA Computer Art (2:08)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f5-hdejtSQ

Created by School of Visual Arts student David Han through the SVA Computer Art Department, 2008.

Art Is... SVA Computer Art (1:57)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Db5Q0OBro

Emilie Liu Reel 2013 (1:16)

[Turn the sound off.]

By Emilie Liu

http://vimeo.com/63876430

Designer Illustrator Animator
Work for Hire

Emilie.hpliu@gmail.com

Marcel (2:56)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8qZwsbdEpg

"Marcel" - Thesis Film By "Eric Cunha & Seung Sung" {School of Visual Arts

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Hap-Pea - A Pea-ceful Aniboom Animation (1:57)

Hap-Pea - A Pea-ceful Aniboom Animation by Shota Imai and Nana Hatori

'Hap-pea' is a short 3D animated film about magical peas that are grown in the sky by Cloud People. These Cloud People include farmers, assembly line workers, chefs, graffiti artists, a DJ, a train conductor, musicians, and even pirates who shoot colorful peas out of canons into the sky! These peas transform a colorless and boring city into a colorful and happy place. It just goes to show us - a little color goes a long way!

Notes from the Animator:

This is my thesis at SVA (School of Visual Arts). Created by Shota Imai and Nana Hatori.

Made with Maya, After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Logic Pro on Mac OSX.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMVpr-1nFYU

Foot Fetiche (2:14)

http://vimeo.com/12851746

Foot Fetiche
By Nuno Nobre

"Short animated movie that I started at the School of Visual Arts, NY, and Finished back in Portugal. It´s the story of two neighbours and the tension between their feelings. It´s up to their "feet" to turn things around and make them fall in Love.

Photoshop, Flash and After effects were the tools I used for this project."

Destiny Is For The Birds (5:41)

http://vimeo.com/48888474

By Michael J Ruocco

2011 thesis film from the School of Visual Arts. Won the "Outstanding Achievement in Traditional Animation" award at the 2011 Dusty Film and Animation Festival, tied with Zach Bellissimo's Blenderstein! (vimeo.com/26253095)

Oscillate (4:26)

http://vimeo.com/65475425

Music and Animation By Daniel Sierra

thesis animation done at School of Visual Arts, class of 2013, Computer Art MFA.

Software used: Houdini (animation), Reason (music), Nuke (comp), After Effects (final render), Processing (pre-viz)

Girl Vs. Monster Flash Animation (:56)

http://youtu.be/NOvwvb0UmGg

No Sound

From Photoshop To Flash (8:42)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uIcMOHiFhw

Watch the creation of King Klunk. From Photoshop concept, to being Flashed, to being animated! 

Flash Animation (1:56)

http://vimeo.com/8523789

Road Rage (1:35)

http://vimeo.com/34460118

Animated in After Effects.

Psychic Land (1:54)

http://vimeo.com/39659731

Directed by: 
Pablo Gostanian
Art Direction & Design:
Pablo Gostanian
Animation Directors: Martin Salfity & Pablo Gostanian
3d Animation: Martin Salfity, Sebastian Garcia & Juan Pablo Siaccaluga
Monster Modeling & Animation: Sebastian Garcia
Postproduction: Pablo Gostanian
Additional Animation: Jorge Herrero
Music and sound fx: Hula-Music.com

Center For Native American Youth Fast Facts For Everyone

http://cnay.org/uploads/FastFacts.pdf

Center For Native American Youth Fast Facts For Everyone

Internet Safety Video

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/advice-for-parents/internet-safety-rules-road-kids

The video at the top of this page is a great video about cyberbullying and using the internet.
It's 3:21 long.

Cyberbullying: Stand By or Stand Up (15 mins activity)

http://www.nsteens.org/Comics/StandByOrStandUp

This is an interactive comic about Cyberbullying. It takes about 15 minutes to go through it.

Inspiration: AZUL - 8 min. short animated film

This is super great!

http://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/70764352

Animation from Still Photography... In Space (4:00)

Check out this video made from actual photos that the Cassini Spacecraft too while it was orbiting Saturn. This is one of the coolest movies ever. Seriously. These are actual photos from space. The music and editing take it over the top.

http://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/70532693

If you want to know more about the mission please visit saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/

Inspiration: The Light by Ihsu Yoon (3:35)

This next video was created with 3DSmax with Vray Render, Afterburn, Realflow and Aftereffects.

It's kind of mind blowing. It's a thesis project for a MFA in computer art at School of Visual Arts.

http://vimeo.com/11513211

Exoids Video (5:30)

Slugs and robots battle it out in a post nuclear apocalyptic world. I thought this might inspire you guys.
The music is very intense and loud.

http://vimeo.com/45478189

Vector Art: The Bug Video (4:47)

The Bug
http://vimeo.com/11513988

Here is a thesis project a student made at School of Visual Arts in New York. This project is how they earned their Masters Degree in Computer Art. The animation is awesome! They really have created their own world eh?

Multimedia Arts Festival 2013 Reel (2:38)

Here is some pretty cool vector art animation. They used AfterEffects to make this promo video for the Multimedia Arts Festival.

http://vimeo.com/63585755

Fishing With Spinoza Video (7:10)

This animated short film is really funny and well made. The art is so minimal it shows that you really don't need that many colors, or objects in your movie to tell a good story. Check it out.

http://vimeo.com/15798255

Between Bears Video (5:22)

This is some really amazing animation that I thought all my students should see. Winner of Best Animation Award at Vimeo's First Film Festival.

Between Bears

http://vimeo.com/13776542