The Crane Vs. The Old Solid Block

My first 3D crane was a lab in 3D class. This one is my own animation. Our professor, Gavin provided the specs to design this particular model crane. 3Ds Max supplied the bitmaps.

Don't Attempt The Following At Home

This was actually the first assigned project in Video this semester. Unfortunately the Fire Store we were using to record our footage had some issues and we were unable to secure the green room again, so this video remained unfinished. I took a minute tonight to finally throw together a quick, fun mess of adventure. Don't try this at home. Unless you have your own green screen.

p.s. I thought my grammar sounded fine while exporting the final video, but might need to adjust a line (in the end credits).

It was filmed in HD, but is compressed for this blog.

Pecha Kucha

I've decided it's okay to have no certainty in the exact pronunciation of Pecha Kucha, because when I look it up, I see three pronunciations and several people sure that they are right. It seems obvious that the Japanese way of saying it would differ from the English, so I'll presume (PETCH-ah KOO-cha) is English and will probably become the common way it is said in our accent. The three that I hear touted as the actual pronunciation are (p'KAh k'CHAh ), (p'CHAh k'CHAh ) and the third and somehow obviously just wrong as though someone heard the real thing and tried to sound as though they were saying it correctly (puh-CHAWCH-ka).

I'll be saying (p'KAh k'CHAh). If that pronunciation guide is confusing, think of a chicken sound... I'd write it: " b'GAh! "

...but you can't hear me for now anyways, so let's move on.

It's taken me quite some time to come to this entry, which I said was forthcoming weeks ago. Of the available topics in my criminal psychology course, I could not settle on one. After reading a relatively good amount and watching several documentaries, I decided to go with "The Media and Misconceptions About Psychopaths." For it, I decided I would touch points from other selections for the assignment.

Tying everything to either media or conceptions about psychopaths, true or false, I decided still to examine psychopathy as mental illness, Hare's research, empathy, movies and television, behavioural indicators and the subclinical psychopath (including white-collar psychopathy), the idea of childhood psychopathy and the potential for treatment of psychopathy.

I also created a loose frame to structure my research, but will allow for it to be merely a guide not written in stone. My frame sets a direction by predetermining a possible slide series for my 20 images.

1-Intro

2-What people tend to think of psychopathy

3-Movies and television

4-News Media

5-Mental Illness

6-Hare

7-PCL and behaviour

8-Serial Killers

9-White Collar

10-Next Door

11-Prevalence

12-Prison

13-Therapy

14-Biology

15-Will Power

16-Emotions

17-Children

18-Prejudice

19-Rights

20-Conclusion

Don't Stare

Just a quick little render of the Sun I created for a 15 second animation I'm working on in 3Ds Max