I did an animation for Reader’s Digest promoting the Reader’s Digest iPad app. This project really showed me how many edits anything at Reader’s Digest has to go through before it’s acceptable to publish. I finished it in like… May, then the next 4 or 5 months were spent making edits, mostly based on copyright issues and marketing priorities.
My final project in Interactive Design was a game where you are a little boy who carries a bazooka that shoots art. The objective of the game is to decorate.
You aim and shoot with the mouse, and move around with A, D and spacebar. the number keys 1 through 7 change the bazooka mode. 4 builds platforms and 5 is like a water jetpack.
I hope it works for everyone! If it doesn’t, try using Firefox or Chrome instead of Internet Explorer. It won’t work for me with Internet Explorer. If that still doesn’t work, maybe you need to install Java, www.java.com. Otherwise I don’t know. I’m new at this.
HAVE FUN DECORATING!
Also if you want to learn how to animate and haven’t checked out my tutorials yet, check them out now. www.youtube.com/alanbeckertutorials
Alan
I’m taking a class called Interactive Design, and we’re learning how to make games in Javascript. It’s my favorite class by far. Sometimes writing code can get more frustrating than anything in my other classes, but the reward in the end is so worth it. I made an interactive art piece called Lilypads, and it has no purpose other than to be relaxing.
use the left and right arrow keys to rotate the boat, and the up arrow to go forward.
Note: for some reason it won’t show up in Internet Explorer. Try Firefox or Chrome.
This was made using PaperJS. (www.paperjs.org)
Probably the most asked question that I get via email, besides “How did you make Animator vs. Animation”, is the question “Can you teach me how to do that?” So after saying no hundreds of times due to the sheer number of people asking, I finally got the idea to start a video tutorial series explaining how to use the program that I made Animator vs. Animation with. It’s called Adobe Flash. The official way to get it is from the adobe website:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash <– USA
http://www.adobe.com/eeurope/products/flash <– Europe
So my YouTube username for my video tutorials is AlanBeckerTutorials.
so visit me at www.youtube.com/alanbeckertutorials. and subscribe!
See you there!!!
Hello!
Sorry I haven’t updated ALL summer… I’ve been doing a commission for Reader’s Digest but until it’s done it’s confidential.
So… I made a game! Contrary to popular belief, I do not have extensive experience with programming games. The Animator vs. Animation Game was programmed by Charles Yeh. So I just started an Interactive Design class in which we’re using a basic program called Scratch, which is awesome because you don’t have to write the code itself, you just fit the pieces of code together. I made a game called Breakfast Flip:
On another note, I made some extremely necessary additions to my Minecraft Spirited Away world.
The back of the bathhouse used to be completely blank.
I added Yubaba’s office.
I added baby’s room.
I also added Zeniba’s swamp.
And I made Zeniba’s house!
If you have Minecraft you can visit the world yourself. Here.
Other than that, stay tuned for the animation I’m doing for Reader’s Digest!
