I’m pretty excited how many of my classmates’ work have been picked out and praised in the past year or so, including Justin Schrader (FWA), Brian Cain (Motionographer), and this morning, Errol Schwartz (FWA). Good job guys, it shows that RIT New Media is just kickin’ ass and that the time and effort we all put in aren’t going to waste! Congrats!

Also, check out Rachel Diesel’s new website, just released this past weekend.

I’ve been working on my new site, but it’s not done yet, look for it soon!

This was my first project done in AS3, I’ve been putting off doing a project in AS3 because I wanted to wait and practice the AS2 OOP skills I developed at Rokkan over the summer. It was well worth the wait. It was a pretty smooth transition for the most part(and with the migration documentation)! The only things that drove me crazy were the syntax changes, small things such as the removal of the underscore from, say movieclip._x (it’s now just movieclip.x in AS3).

Anyway, about the project! When clicking on the project, it will create a movieclip that changes scale and color based on the audio input (be it from mic or the output of your sound card), and when clicked again, the movieclip is frozen and placed on the stage. Repeat the process until a desirable design is created, then right click > print to pdf or printer. If you print it to pdf, the shapes are still retained and you can open the pdf from illustrator to tinker with positioning and colors or add post generation effects.