Brad Curtis Final Project

My final project would have involved showing everyone my version of a segment from an anime. The person I researched was Akira Toriyama, best known for drawing the manga (Japanese comics) of Dragon Ball. His biggest aspirations that got him into the line of work was seeing other animations and liking fighting styles. Dragon Ball utilizes these and is also based on a Chinese folktale called Son Wukong, parodying it. This is where my version comes in. My main things I like to do are play video games and watch anime and movies. Seeing different styles have made me come up with my own style, one I say is realistic by using blood, gore, cussing, and other things some companies tone down. From this, I have even come up with my own anime storyline (don’t ask what it’s about; for right now, I’m keeping it a secret). This is how I come up with the storyline and style. I place my characters into the scene and just let it play out in my head. That’s how my style came about.

(Unfortunately, I still don’t know how to get things into the blog, so I can’t post the animation here. It takes the fight scene at the beginning of Dragon Ball Z episode 31 with my style.)

Brad Curtis Innovation

New Media is basically anything visual and using some form of electronics to create something new and/or help make life easier. Innovation is the process of creating something new, whether it’s something entirely new or a new way of doing something already.

1. Video games – realistic graphics and game play
2. Movies – like Blu-Ray to get HD
3. Meijers (where I work) – scan barcodes to order more product
4. Bowling – keep track of scoring and use animation for various things
5. Vehicles – navigational features to help with directions

∙For video games, there are mainly three companies that do it now. There is Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. Sega used to do it.
∙It involves putting together many different circuits and creating an interface to interact with both on screen and in the user’s hands.
∙It was mainly aimed at teenager boys, but has tried to incorporate adults, a younger group, and females. Nintendo’s newest systems, the Wii and DS, have been aimed at those non-gamers.
∙Flash games are being made all the time, so by using these systems if I choose, I could create something with more power.

Brad Curtis 4/20/09 Cl . . . Chicken!

Ah, what a class. Oh my, is that a chicken? Yes it is. That was diffidently something different! It helped show to just try something new and see how it works out if you can. The movie was pretty funny. Might be something I check out at a later time.

Brad Curtis Different

My idea of quantum theory is taking what Beth said, but looking at it in a different way. It’s true that when we decide on a decision, all others are thrown aside. But this is where I look at it differently. Even though we go forth with one decision, the others are not completely gone. True, if that chosen decision works, then the others don’t matter anymore. But if it doesn’t, then the others are back in the decision-making. Not to mention that when doing that chosen decision, who’s to say we are not thinking of those decisions just in case that one doesn’t work, and/or if other decisions have similar parts?

Brad Curtis 4/13/09

Class was thought provoking. In this day and age, we use the Internet for many different things. But with the idea of communication like MySpace and FaceBook being accessible by pretty much anyone if all people are allowed to see it, our privacy is starting to go away. We don’t want everybody to see our stuff, yet we use the Internet time and again for other purposes. Will we ever have true privacy?

Brad Curtis What The Bleep

This movie was pretty interesting. It brought up a lot of things I normally don’t think about. It was nice to see many people interviewed to get different takes on the same topic. The animation blobs were a nice touch, including when they mixed it with real life. Focusing on one person throughout the movie I thought helped the journey process.

Brad Curtis Gift

For Mary Ellen, I made a really simple birthday card. Unfortunately, during the week I had to do it, I concentrated more on other homework and did this at the last second, but for what it’s worth, here is something!

Note: I still do not know how to get stuff into the blog, so the picture would be posted here instead of the words.