week 3…status: feeling sane
this week has been very busy, once again….in my programming class we are dealing with using bitmap instead of vector graphics because flash can process the bitmap graphics faster instead of recalculating the vector graphics. we are using some classes provided to us to make a functioning 2d world with different layers that move at different speeds. apparently that is called the parallax effect. it’s pretty cool.
for my animation class we have a homework due next week. a 30 second frame by frame animation using photoshop cs3’s new video layer. class tomorrow should be interesting, as it pretty much always is. i’m thinking telling the story of prometheus for my homework. he’s on a cliff tied to a giant rock, and every day this bird of prey comes and eats all his organs. and because prometheus is immortal, he regenerates every day. i’m hoping to make it more humorous, though.
for myth, legend, and folklore, i’ve got an essay due saturday. we have to compare the genesis myth to either the egyptian myths we’ve been reading or the enuma elish. i’m thinking i’m going to compare it to the enuma elish because it is more of a story whereas the egyptian readings are more like instructions on how to perform different rituals. and the names are very confusing.
as for the novel. we’ve just finished up daniel defoe’s “moll flanders“, the first of what would come to be known as the whore novels. it was so-so. and now we’ve just started frankenstein. i have to have it read by tuesday, which shouldn’t be too bad.
