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The Prototyping Lab is a the new name for room 212 the space at the end of the 2nd floor corridor (opposite the GDNM office). Its got a new name and even a fancy new logo designed by (Bob Wilson).

Prototyping Lab is more than just a room however, it is about encouraging and equipping students with the skills to make what they conceive rather than being limited to rendering an animations, drawing a diagrams or presenting PowerPoints to name but a few outputs.

So often students ideas are limited by what they believe they can make with their own hands, which often leaves great ideas tethered to the computer. Prototyping Lab will include workshops in many areas and utilise new equipment within the department and the college as a whole.

Sound interesting, click read more to find out what we’ve already got and whats coming…

Next week & WTF are you!

Hello Yr1, I have noticed a distinct lack of attendance today/this week and this worries me as the course can’t afford to run whole day workshops on this basis i.e. attendance needs to improve or workshops like this may not be viable in the future. A professional workshop in the area that Tony offers would cost about £400 per day so i’m asking why are you not more interested?

OK rant over. Next week looks like this (below) make the most of it!

Best,
Ben.
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PS on monday you need to TURN UP WITH the following: final storyboard & animatic.

Monday AM: path tweening in 3D Studio (learn how to use vector paths to control animation effects and timing)
Monday PM: 1 frame style test and crit (finish and present 1 frame style test)

Tuesday:
Self Directed Study (i.e. time to develop your project work NOT A DAY OFF)

Wednesday AM: Camera control/animation and lighting in 3D Studio
Wednesday PM: Project development

Thursday AM: Using 3D assets across programs i.e. 3DS stuff in AFX
Thursday PM: Project development

Friday: AM: Finishing & Refining
Friday: PM presentations (you are all expected to present what ever you have so get cracking!)

Arduino Amnesty

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Happy New Year and all of that. Hope the season of festivities passed with festivity. Welcome back!

We are looking to pull together our dwindling Arduino resources to help us deliver a workshop in data visualisation next week. Please help fortify our 6 Arduino by bringing in all those that have been out on loan.

Friday 19th Jan – 2pm in Rm 210

Hello All,

I know you are all due in for a workshop tomorrow (Fri 19th Jan) but you all need to be present at 2pm for a course meeting regarding the student survey and course level student feedback. THIS IS IMPORTANT so please ensure you attend.

Best,
Ben.

Well Done!

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Congratulations for surviving last weeks solid 4 days of workshops. We’ve introduced you to a lot of things (3 languages in 4 days is almost insane) and you’ve done amazingly to take in as much as you have, so consider yourselves fledgling geniuses and go out and play with this stuff, explore it, and make things.

If you would like to submit your work from this weeks workshop, then please drop it in a .zip and send it over to admin@gdnm.org and we will have a look through it and help out if you’re experiencing any issues.

 

HTML Workshop – The Plan

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Find a page on Wikipedia. It needs to have at least three sections of text content and at least 3 images. Use a Random Page if you want, or pick something by hand.

Break the content up and add it to the template provided, ensuring that your markup is structured to be readable to a human viewing the source, logical from the point of view of the semantics of the tags used and displays correctly in a web browser.

Once you have added the content you will need to use CSS to style the page. How it looks is up to you, but the information should be accessible and legible.

Once you’ve got this structure in place we’ll work on enhancing it with Javascript.

Library extended opening hours this weekend

Friday 13 January to Sunday 15 January 2012.

For this weekend, the Library’s opening hours will be:

Friday 13 January         8.30am – 8.00pm

Saturday 14 January 10.00am – 7.00pm

Sunday 15 January 10.00am – 7.00pm

 

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Transmediale – Berlin trip

Note to all : The festival programme has been published

http://www.transmediale.de/tm2k12

Please note the final payment for those going on the trip is Monday 16th January. We need to pay the travel company so please ensure you have paid in full by this date. Thanks

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