My thoughts on the class.

Well this class has been… interesting to say the least. My thinking process is definitely different than it was upon the beginning of the semester. I think I have a better idea of what I want to do with this major. Also, I have a new appreciation for many types of films, literature, and art.

I am definitely purchasing, “The Gospel is…” because I learned so much from that book about story-telling. I’m sure I will read that more than once time in my life.

I loved the section that we did when we just looked at painting after painting, and I also loved the literature that was included. This really broadened my interest and my knowledge about what affects art.

Every single reading that I read taught me something that I never knew before, and then I continued to learn when discussing it in class.

The best part of the whole class was watching the film. I mean, how many classes do you get to have that the majority of it is watching good films and animations that you have never seen before. I still remember watching World of Glory, and thinking about the future class consisting of darker videos. Fortunately this did not happen.

Overall, I am Extremely grateful for this class and wish it lasted the entire year.

Gaming: Character Design

Something that I have always loved about watching my brother play video games was the character art. I loved the belts and buckles that Sora had all the way to the kinds of swords Cloud yielded. Needless to say, I hated when characters were poorly done. Detail work is important to a good character. If you are working with 16 bits, then that's fine that Mario is pixelated; one can still see his mustache, blue overalls, and red shirt and cap. It is very important for character designers to take special advantage of the level of detail that their game can handle.

George Lucas in Love

i love this film it really showes you being in a pblic surrounding can give you the best ideas sadly in this film it didn't Walt Disney trying to buy his script lol. i would like to see something like this for star trek aswell i think it would be interesting to see!

Blogging

I’ll have to admit, blogging was super beneficial to me in this class. Although, I personally do not really like to blog, I am learning to like it more. Sure, writing blogs was helpful and caused me to really focus on my thoughts, but the main thing that was influential to me was the blog discussions that we had before class. I did enjoy reading everyone’s blogs on the site, but there were always just so many different points and topics, and typically I always thought that they were good points of view and that the writer had something valid to say. But then when we discussed the particularly good, controversial, or conversation-related blogs in class, I was always very challenged. I was force to think and decide what I though about each controversial issue. I found so many interesting clips and sited from those blogs. I often times ended up re-reading many of the blogs that we discussed in class.

I left this class with a whole lot more insight thanks to the blogs and the discussions. I know that blogging had helped me a lot in this class, and I hope to someday become better at it, cause I think it serves a good purpose.

Merry Christmas

if anything should calm us down i say its christmas every yar when i see those lights on the tree i get a warm fuzzy feeling i think we all need to calm down and take 5 n just look at your christmas tree, and relax all these finals are coming up not to may of us has had time to celebrate. m

Steins;Gate

Recently, I watched the anime Steins;Gate, and I have a few things to say about it. First of all, the drawing style was very interesting in that it was not entirely traditional for an anime series. It took a little bit of getting used to, but in the end, if it was going to be an off style, I wish it had been more the style of Death Note. Next point is that the concept of time travel that they imagine is absolutely unique and fantastic, and the plot is so very intriguing that if you are not careful, you will end up watching half of the series in a day or two (don't ask how I would know). Finally, it is one of the best animes out there. The second half, in particular, is so mind boggling, that you do not really know what is happening until it's all over. Since I personally LOVE "think pieces", this was absolutely fantastic. If you liked live action films such as Inception or Looper, you probably would like this show a lot.

psychological thrillers

i loved this topic because it was from a fellow ps3 gamer (just kidding) lol but seriously i love these movies aswell because their so abnormal i love the psychological horror movies such as "The Killing Room" or "The Cube" and seeing the mental capacity of peple and what they'll do to survive it kind of like
"Saw" in a way whereas they had an option to save themselves maube im blowing this way out of text but i enjoyed it either way thank you!