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Achievement Awarded: Survive University
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 Posted in About Me, BAIMP, Uni Life, University
Damn, It has been a bit quiet around here hasn’t it…
Please excuse the long delay between this post and last, I have been a tad busy… Actually busy is a bit of an understatement. There is no words available in the English language that can describe the amount of work I have done this year for university, especially in the last couple of weeks.
I have been spending the last couple of months working on my dissertation as well as my major project for my third and final year at Bournemouth University. For those of you who are interested in new technologies (I am specifically talking about Augmented Reality here) then go check out my major project here. In summary, AR Battle Cards is an augmented reality version of the classic Top Trump statistic card game.
As of this evening, I have completed all of the requirements for my third and final year at university. All I have left to do is bind both printed copies of my Production Analysis and hand them in tomorrow. Then all that is left to do is set up my project at the exhibition (23rd-26th of May – Linky for details) and demonstrate the fruits of my labour. If you are in the Bournemouth area, it would be awesome if you could drop by for a couple of hours.
I won’t celebrate just yet but it is a great feeling to be able to sit back and know that everything has been done. No more deadlines, no more planning on what needs to be done, no more bugs to squash (except for the real ones that run across your desk when your trying to type FDHG&Y$Y^$%Y$%YSGFG – got the bugger…)
So… I can finally sit back, relax and download and play a game of Portal 2… (I have been good and resisted the urge to purchase it for fear of being completely absorbed in it)
At least I have been able to accomplish something in life… University… Check… just a thousand other things to do before I kick the bucket.
If you will excuse me… Portal 2 has finished downloading… See you in several days
Tags: BAIMP, exhibition, finished, flash, IMP, media, project, Uni Life, University, website
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Blog Theme Change
Friday, April 30th, 2010 Posted in About Me, BAIMP, Uni Life, University
As those of you that follow can probably tell by now (absence of blog posts since last update might be a slight hint), I have a laptop once again. Due to the ash cloud that ground the majority of Europe to a halt Apple were not able to ship a replacement part to me (heatsink if you wanted to know, to stop the overheating problems). So instead they gave me a new laptop from their new lineup (15″ Core i5)
So with a new laptop and a fresh slate I am slowly clearing up all the folders and organising myself. (Spring is here after all, might as well do a bit of spring cleaning)
Along with cleaning up my laptop, I will clean up my website a bit too… I will be refreshing my portfolio with more recent (and more pretty) work that is much better than the work that is up there currently. Along with that, I will be changing this blog theme to match the rest of the website (I am sure some of you wondered why it looked odd in comparison).
Other than that, the essay for my media options has been finished. Went pretty well but I wish I had spent a bit more time looking for some more solid theory… Not easy finding theory for documentary though.
I had a pitch session as part of the university course. Was definitely interesting teaming up with TV production and scriptwriter courses again. We had to make a company and do a theoretical pitch to a big company over a particular event. We went for TOPSHOP and created a theoretical event that could take place in London and New York, with a competition on which city could dress up a theoretical model best. The theoretical winners could then win theoretical TOPSHOP clothes. The event would be held on a theoretical stage with large theoretical LED screens in Times Square and Trafalgar Square. We had a theoretical budget of £100,000 too!
Ok enough of the theoretical crap, you get the point. But yea, interesting event and gives insight on how best to approach a company and pitch yourself to them… Now all that I need to do is sort out my placement for this year
Anyone fancy giving me a 6 week job placement? Preferably paid but I am not fussy 
Anybody???
Thought not….
Tags: apple, blog, cleaning, core i5, event, job, laptop, media, new, options, placement, scriptwriters, spring, square, theme, time, topshop, trafalgar, tv, website
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Im back
Saturday, March 6th, 2010 Posted in About Me, BAIMP, Humour, Uni Life, University
I can’t help but say I told you so!
Sorry I just had to get that out of my system. At the start of this blog I said it wouldn’t take long before it went stale. However, after a considerable break I am back and writing another blog post. The last post left off with me finishing year 1 at uni. I am now well into year 2 and I have almost finished it!
Yes it has been that long since posts! But without much further delays and without going into all the stuff that I have been up to (because quite frankly it would be boring) I will update you with that I am currently working on.
Behold the games project! A twelve week assignment in groups of 4 or 5 with the aim to create some sort of interactive game in either Unity3D or Flash. What initially started off as being a simple project in my eyes has turned out to be a lot more difficult that I imaginged.
As with all my projects my ambitions far surpass my abilities but with the help from the rest of the group we may once again be victorious!
That is if I don’t collapse in a heap in the uni mac labs a bumbling mumbling idiot due to the sheer amount of scripting that has to be done.
The reason why I have managed to spare the time to write a blog post is because my laptop has decided that it requires a hard drive scan to fix errors. I started it initially at 9am this morning and it’s now 15:15. There is only so much work you can do on the iPhone. But the good news is that I have managed to make a considerable dent in the number of non essential items on my to do list (this blog post being one of them) bad news is that I am running out of time for those important to dos.
Anyway I have bored you enough with my ramblings and I have spent too much of your precious time already so all I can say is thanks for taking an interest in reading this far down and have a good day, what’s left of it anyway.
The long gone but since returned for a while,
Matthew Shield
Oh and before I forget again, I have finished my portfolio I just have to theme this blog to suit (another item on the todo list)
ok ok I’m going now
Tags: back, BAIMP, bournemouth, break, chill, cinema 4d, errors, fix, game, interactive, iphone, media, off, production, project, time, unity 3d, University
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Out of Class Exercise (16th March 2009)
Monday, March 16th, 2009 Posted in About Me, BAIMP, Humour, University
For a seminar on the 10th March, we have been set an out of class exercise of 300 words to be posted up on the blog to be displayed in the 5pm lecture on the 16th… Here is the question set in brief:
We’d like you to try some identity tourism. Choose an ‘identity’ which
you consider alien to your own: perhaps a different gender; but perhaps
also a different racial or ethnic group than your own; maybe even a
different species!
Find out more about this identity/role. What is their life like? How
do they see the world? What are their concerns? What are they doing
now?
When you’ve explored some of these background issues, we’d like you to
write (about 300) words from the point of view of your chosen identity,
and post it on your blog. We’ll use the work you do for this in next week’s IMT lecture (Folk Cultures / Global Cultures).
Now here is my contribution:
The Life of an Anthro
The life of an anthropomorphic is an interesting one. Being half animal half human has both advantages and disadvantages. Having characteristic traits of both humans and an animal allows you to expand your view on life. Lets start with the basics. As an ‘Anthro’ you have physical traits of both species combined together.
The average anthro usually looks more animal than human. For example, you have the animal ears, fur and tail. The face usually consists of a muzzle (with or without whiskers depending on the species), animalistic ears and of course fur. The body however has quite a few human features. Anthro’s tend to walk upright on the back legs like humans and often have paws as hands, though usually feature opposable thumbs help with holding objects. Further down the body you have the animal tail. Possibly helping with balance, it can also be used for helping show expression or emotion. The feet are again, usually paws however the leg can either be digitigrade (imagine a curved dogleg) or plantigrade (human legs where you walk on the soles on the ground).
Anthro’s tend to be more connected to nature. They base their lives on instincts, and if they are not careful, they can let their instincts control them. For example, a deer anthro could jump or bolt at the slightest movement made by other objects, or canine anthro’s chase after Frisbees. Having animal features allows them to extend human traits, such as a canine’s sense of smell for detecting fear or mood of a person.
Though quite often, anthro’s are considered to be genetic ‘mutations’ and go against the laws of nature. Some beings become scared of the unknown and so sometimes anthro’s can be regarded as a threat to society. But, if anything, anthropomorphic beings, being connected more to nature, tend to have more unconditional love for the things around them.
I could go on, but I am limited to 300 words. So there you have it. Process it how you like. I’d like to hear some of your views on the subject.
Tags: an, anthro, anthropamorphic, canine, class, exercise, furry, human, media, of, out, paws, tail, Uni Life, University
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