My Blogspot:
So I've updated my blogger's design because everything was overlapping each other. For example the videos would overlap the widgets on the side, so I made the main blog section a bit bigger. I removed a few annoying widgets, because they were... annoying. I changed the feel of the blog a little bit by changing the texts and colours. It's still got a simple design. I've been adding a lot of videos to my blog as it seems, instead of talking much.
My Flickr account:
I've added pictures and videos of my VFX101 assessment progress mostly. I use photobucket more often because it doesn't have the limited number of video uploads of 2 per day.
My Delicious Account:
I've bookmarked and tagged my favourite or my most visited websites, which include the Animation Forum and Photobucket.
My CSUSap Website:
My website is about my animations mostly. I'm uploading all my works on here. They include the walk cycle, to my current assessment, the village kid.
What I've learnt from MPI104:
First of all I want to thank Matt Barron for being an Awesome teacher. This subject didn't give me a lot of problems. Though I could've dedicated more time to it. I learnt from basics of blogging to making my own website. I learnt how big blogging is and how good it is to share your ideas with others. I learnt about Flickr and how to upload photos on Flickr. This was helpful as I needed to upload my works to show to other people in my course. I learnt how I can add bookmarks in Delicious and therefore visit those bookmarks quite easily. I learnt the basics of HTML, although I had used HTML before. So it was a refresh for me. I learnt how easily you can build a website in iWeb. I had tried a lot before making a website in Dreamweaver but it is too complex for me. iWeb makes life easier. And I learnt how to upload my website to the CSU server with FTP.
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Xavi the playmaker!
Lionel Messi rightly grabbed most of the headlines for his latest European masterclass in Barcelona’s 3-1 Champions League final humbling of Manchester United on Saturday.
However, the Argentine World Player of the Year’s superbly-struck goal, his 53rd of the season in all competitions, and his all-round brilliance distracted attention from the man who has been at the heart of the phenomenal success achieved by Barca and Spain in recent years: Xavi.
Regularly nailing more than 100 passes per game, with a completion rate in excess of 90 percent, the 31-year-old has perfected the playmaker’s art.
United were powerless to prevent him seizing control of the match as he sprayed the ball left and right, twisting and turning his way into space and leaving the English club’s players chasing shadows across the immaculate Wembley turf.
One amazing statistic from this year’s edition of Europe’s elite club competition, courtesy of Opta, is that in 953 minutes of football he did not concede a single foul.
A product of Barca’s famed “La Masia” youth school along with six other members of the starting 11, Xavi was 12 years old when Barca won their first European Cup at the same venue in 1992.
His father, Joaquim Hernandez, told Don Balon magazine recently that his son wept bitter tears when he was told he could not travel to London to attend the game with his two elder brothers and had to watch at home with his parents.
His triumphant trip this week to the British capital, nearly two decades later, gave soccer fans of all stripes the world over a rare treat.
One of Xavi’s predecessors in the centre of Barca’s midfield, Pep Guardiola, is now the club’s coach and the 2011 Champions League was, incredibly, his 10th trophy in his first three seasons since stepping up from the post of B-team manager at the end of the 2007/08 campaign.
Guardiola would readily admit that he never reached the heights that Xavi has scaled and it will be a near-impossible task for the Catalan club to find a replacement when he retires, perhaps in three or four years, which brings another topic of who should replace Xavi when he retires.
However, the Argentine World Player of the Year’s superbly-struck goal, his 53rd of the season in all competitions, and his all-round brilliance distracted attention from the man who has been at the heart of the phenomenal success achieved by Barca and Spain in recent years: Xavi.
Regularly nailing more than 100 passes per game, with a completion rate in excess of 90 percent, the 31-year-old has perfected the playmaker’s art.
United were powerless to prevent him seizing control of the match as he sprayed the ball left and right, twisting and turning his way into space and leaving the English club’s players chasing shadows across the immaculate Wembley turf.
One amazing statistic from this year’s edition of Europe’s elite club competition, courtesy of Opta, is that in 953 minutes of football he did not concede a single foul.
A product of Barca’s famed “La Masia” youth school along with six other members of the starting 11, Xavi was 12 years old when Barca won their first European Cup at the same venue in 1992.
His father, Joaquim Hernandez, told Don Balon magazine recently that his son wept bitter tears when he was told he could not travel to London to attend the game with his two elder brothers and had to watch at home with his parents.
His triumphant trip this week to the British capital, nearly two decades later, gave soccer fans of all stripes the world over a rare treat.
One of Xavi’s predecessors in the centre of Barca’s midfield, Pep Guardiola, is now the club’s coach and the 2011 Champions League was, incredibly, his 10th trophy in his first three seasons since stepping up from the post of B-team manager at the end of the 2007/08 campaign.
Guardiola would readily admit that he never reached the heights that Xavi has scaled and it will be a near-impossible task for the Catalan club to find a replacement when he retires, perhaps in three or four years, which brings another topic of who should replace Xavi when he retires.
Good on ya Gerrard!
So I heard the Gerrard Pique (Barca Defender) has a love affair with Shakira through this comedy series (Crackovia).
Then it all came true when I saw this video of Barca players celebrating/dancing with Shakira. Good on ya Gerrard!
Then it all came true when I saw this video of Barca players celebrating/dancing with Shakira. Good on ya Gerrard!
U21 Euro Championships
U21 Euro Championships is coming up in Denmark. And it means more soccer to watch during the mid-session break. Here is a cool promotion video that I found on the Internet:
Barca win!
Oh hey I'm a Barca supporter and last Saturday they had a game against Man UTD in the Champions League final. The match was at 4:30 in the morning. I was working on my animation until then so I just went to the common room and watched it. But I am missing my own soccer matches and trainings because of so many assessments due shortly. Here is the highlights of that match:
Animations
So I'm halfway into my second animation. I'm trying to make it look good as much as possible. I'm using Flash for character animations, making backgrounds and other still objects in Photoshop, and then importing in After Effects. I'm trying to give a 3D feel to it. Here is my first scene:
Untitled from Jawid Hassani on Vimeo.
How about I show my animations that I've done so far. So at the start of the session we had to do a walking cycle. I thought it was gonna be easy but took me about 30 hours of solid work. Now, I can do a walk cycle in 10 minutes in Adobe Flash, which is going to look a lot better. Here is my walk cycle:
Thursday, 19 May 2011
Assessment task 2: Website
Hi everyone. I'm writing this blog to tell what my website is about. My website, Jo's Animations, is supposed to be about my animation and vfx works. But because I don't have enough works to fill up the space, I've included some pictures off Facebook about my personal life at Uni. The theme I've gone for is black/grey and white which in my opinion are very professional colours. I wanted to give my website a clean professional look as it is about my works mostly.
Welcome page:
The Welcome page basically is the homepage. It has some galleries of my artworks and a bit of description about the website.
Videos page:
On this page I've embedded a few of my videos from Youtube. I wasn't able to stream the videos from the hard disk and eventually from the CSU server, which I'd have liked more. These videos are pretty old. They are showing some of my works that I've done either for assignments or just in spare time.
The Albums page:
I've included some galleries of my works and some pictures that I've downloaded from Facebook. I don't really have permission from the people that are in the pictures but I hope they don't mind, because the pictures are already public on the Facebook anyway.
The Widgets page:
I've made a separate page for some cool widgets. The widgets at the moment include a Google Feed, A weather widget, a widget in which you can play Tetris and a counter.
The Contact page:
This page gives my email address, phone number, links to my Delicious account, Flickr Account and Blogger Account.
Hi everyone. I'm writing this blog to tell what my website is about. My website, Jo's Animations, is supposed to be about my animation and vfx works. But because I don't have enough works to fill up the space, I've included some pictures off Facebook about my personal life at Uni. The theme I've gone for is black/grey and white which in my opinion are very professional colours. I wanted to give my website a clean professional look as it is about my works mostly.
Welcome page:
The Welcome page basically is the homepage. It has some galleries of my artworks and a bit of description about the website.
Videos page:
On this page I've embedded a few of my videos from Youtube. I wasn't able to stream the videos from the hard disk and eventually from the CSU server, which I'd have liked more. These videos are pretty old. They are showing some of my works that I've done either for assignments or just in spare time.
The Albums page:
I've included some galleries of my works and some pictures that I've downloaded from Facebook. I don't really have permission from the people that are in the pictures but I hope they don't mind, because the pictures are already public on the Facebook anyway.
The Widgets page:
I've made a separate page for some cool widgets. The widgets at the moment include a Google Feed, A weather widget, a widget in which you can play Tetris and a counter.
The Contact page:
This page gives my email address, phone number, links to my Delicious account, Flickr Account and Blogger Account.
Thursday, 31 March 2011
MPI104 Assignment 1
About my blogs
I have posted a total of 8 posts on Blogspot. My favourite one is the Music blog. There isn't much in there but it can be improved to make playlists and you can have a music blog. I'm also excited that you can embedd flash games like Dirt bike .
I've tried to go for the clean and neat look because it looks more professional. I tried Adsense to check if I get any money out of it but it just destroys the whole blog. So this template includes black backgrounds because black is professional. And a little bit of personal flavour of Orange headlines. The main texts are grey which suits the black background.
I've been amazed checking other classmates blogs. Some of them have very interesting blogs. Like Jordan's and Katrina's
Some tags that I've used are music, laidback luke, turbulence, soccer, messi, barcelona
So I'm trying to bring more media to my blog because I'm not a reading type person. That's why I've embedded games, music, and videos.
Delicious
I have about 8 bookmarks at the moment. Some of them are related to my subject MPI104 but the rest are sites that I visit regularly to check my emails, to check news etc. My top 3 favourite web sites, according to the number of times I visit them are:
Facebook
youtube
goal
Flickr
The total number of images I've uploaded are 35. Most of them are for my assignments. My favourite images on Flickr are:
Messi
Barca
Boobies
I have posted a total of 8 posts on Blogspot. My favourite one is the Music blog. There isn't much in there but it can be improved to make playlists and you can have a music blog. I'm also excited that you can embedd flash games like Dirt bike .
I've tried to go for the clean and neat look because it looks more professional. I tried Adsense to check if I get any money out of it but it just destroys the whole blog. So this template includes black backgrounds because black is professional. And a little bit of personal flavour of Orange headlines. The main texts are grey which suits the black background.
I've been amazed checking other classmates blogs. Some of them have very interesting blogs. Like Jordan's and Katrina's
Some tags that I've used are music, laidback luke, turbulence, soccer, messi, barcelona
So I'm trying to bring more media to my blog because I'm not a reading type person. That's why I've embedded games, music, and videos.
Delicious
I have about 8 bookmarks at the moment. Some of them are related to my subject MPI104 but the rest are sites that I visit regularly to check my emails, to check news etc. My top 3 favourite web sites, according to the number of times I visit them are:
youtube
goal
Flickr
The total number of images I've uploaded are 35. Most of them are for my assignments. My favourite images on Flickr are:
Messi
Barca
Boobies
Music!!!
I've been trying to add a music player with some of my songs as a playlist but the steps are either complicated or they don't work. But I have managed to embedd a song from another site. There are copyright issues, I know but it's for educational purposes only ;p
| Steve Aoki MP3 Download |
Games!!!
Check out some games. Also testing if you can actually link games from other sites.
Check out more games
Check out more games
Messi 2010 goals and skills
Wanted to share this video to test if it works. This kid is really good btw.
I'm writing this to apologize if I'm going to do everything for this assignment in one day. I was just busy with VFX101 walk cycle animation for the last few days.
Anyway what I wanted to talk about is Soccer and money. It seems that it's all about money these days. The more money a club spends on players the more audience they'll get. Real Madrid for example spent $300 million USD buying players such as Christiano, Kaka and Khedira. This spending has become a tradition for them. But they also make big profits out of this. The more they spend the more earnings they get not only financially but also fans.
I'm a Barca supporter and I love their system of building young talents in their academy. Players who have come out of this academy and done extremely well are Messi, Xavi, Iniesta and even Fabregas. But not even Barca is safe from spending big on players. For example I've noticed that they buy one or two expensive players at the end of every season, which they don't really need. I believe it's because they want to keep the fans happy and excited about new players.
My suggestion is to put more work on youth systems, building talents in their own club. This way the player becomes loyal and doesn't want to move from club to club.
Anyway what I wanted to talk about is Soccer and money. It seems that it's all about money these days. The more money a club spends on players the more audience they'll get. Real Madrid for example spent $300 million USD buying players such as Christiano, Kaka and Khedira. This spending has become a tradition for them. But they also make big profits out of this. The more they spend the more earnings they get not only financially but also fans.
I'm a Barca supporter and I love their system of building young talents in their academy. Players who have come out of this academy and done extremely well are Messi, Xavi, Iniesta and even Fabregas. But not even Barca is safe from spending big on players. For example I've noticed that they buy one or two expensive players at the end of every season, which they don't really need. I believe it's because they want to keep the fans happy and excited about new players.
My suggestion is to put more work on youth systems, building talents in their own club. This way the player becomes loyal and doesn't want to move from club to club.
Thursday, 24 March 2011
My Delicious Account
I don't get the point of delicious. Why would u need to save bookmarks in a website? u could just use the options provided by the browser.
My Delicious Bookmarks
My Delicious Bookmarks
My Flickr account
I have just made a flickr account that I'll post interesting pictures on. I didn't know much about flickr but now I think it's a pretty cool idea, letting people upload their pictures and share them with the world. Below is my flickr account url:
My Flickr Albums
My Flickr Albums
Thursday, 17 March 2011
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