Motion Test

Bounce Test from Daniel Ghan on Vimeo.

The main purpose of this video was to test how well we could emulate realistic motion using the cup animation. I thought it was okay.

We were going to make one to test if moving columns of cups further into/out of the fence could create a 3-D wave effect, but it failed utterly. We looked at the pictures and couldn't see the effect at all, so we didn't even bother making a video out of it.

Cup Tetris!

Cup Tetris from Daniel Ghan on Vimeo.

At last, the long-awaited Tetris video is here! We filmed it over 3 days (which is why it jumps a couple times). I wrote the music myself (well, arranged it; the tune is the famous Tetris music everyone knows) just for this video using some old software from an old computer. The software allowed me to adjust the tempo, so when we sped the game up on the 3rd day because we were getting tired of taking pictures and just needed to make the player lose, I did a few calculations and set it so the change in the music's timbre and tempo coincided with the speed-up of the game. The sound effects are system sounds from Windows 95. This video was done entirely with Windows Movie-Maker, Midisoft Recording Session (to write the music), and Windows Sound Recorder (to record the music as a last resort to convert it from .mid to .wav).

Cup Snake

Untitled from Daniel Ghan on Vimeo.

As promised, another stop-motion animation! This one was actually probably easier to make than Pong, so we were able to make it longer. The sounds, like last time, came from C:\Windows\Media.
Ed and I will probably make another of these soon. Hopefully we'll be able to get more people and more time and be able to make something besides simple videogames. In the meantime, vote for my medal!

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Illustrator Tutorial

Mr. Sands had us do a very basic tutorial for Adobe Illustrator. This comes from a screenshot I took of my work on the program.