75+ Resources to Get FREE Images, Music, and Videos For Your Projects
This post attempts to list my top favorite free sites and resources for royalty-free images, music, and videos for creative projects. Since 2000 I have been teaching university students how to design for print, the web, and the screen. One of the very first things we...
Online Crowdfunding Tool Spotlight: Review of Youcaring.com
Hi! I hope all is well in your part of the world. Recently I did a mini crowdfunding project for my former sponsored child, Aura to secure her last three semesters of university tuition in Guatemala City, Guatemala as well as a little extra for graduation costs. Since...
Episode #13: Daily Afri-mations. Animating Ethiopia (Conclusions)
So I'm about to go to the airport now and will leave this wonderful host of a country. I thought that for my final afri-mation that I would actually post something I wrote weeks before I even left for Ethiopia. It's an excerpt from a new book I am writing with...
Episode #12: Daily Afri-Mations. Animating Ethiopia (Ethiopia Animated!)
I can't believe it. Two weeks have come and gone and somehow I was not only crazy enough to try and teach animation from scratch in a mere 14 days but I also found students crazy enough to learn and create animation in such a short amount of time. Below are students...
Episode #11: Daily Afri-mations. Animating Ethiopia (Slow and Steady Wins the Race)
One thing I forgot to mention is that one of my poor students, Hermella, got arrested for trying to do her animation homework over the weekend. She was shooting a simple scene of kids playing soccer in a public place. The police didn't like that apparently and she had...
Episode #10: Daily Afri-mations. Animating Ethiopia (I Am With You)
I Am With You I'm down to my last few days in "Hope-ia" as my youngest son calls Ethiopia. I will have a busy day helping students with their animations tomorrow so will just post a few photos from the week so far. First up, this is my walk to the university each...
Episode #9: Daily Afri-mations. Animating Ethiopia (Paradise Found, Part 2)
Paradise Found, Part 2 OK. Lucrezia is leaving the country tonight and heading back to Rome so myself and our German professor friend, Klaus will bring her to the airport soon. I have a few minutes to be online with a shaky internet connection so I'll see if I can...
Episode #8: Daily Afri-mations: Animating Ethiopia (Paradise Found)
Paradise Found I only have a few minutes to make this post (I'm leaving to teach in a few minutes) so it will be mostly photos from the weekend in Bahir Dar. It's by Lake Tana which is the source of the Nile River. It's sort of like the garden of Eden with lush...
Episode #7: Daily Afri-mations. Animating Ethiopia (Down Down in Hope-ia)
Down Down in Hope-ia As is not uncommon here, my plans have changed. Instead of going to Harar today, we will go to Bahir Dar, close to the Blue Nile Falls, the source of the Nile tomorrow morning until Sunday night. Lucrezia went to buy the tickets since we...
Episode #6: Daily Afri-Mations. Animating Ethiopia (The Six Syllable Thank You)
Thank You Today was storyboard critique day. I was a little wary this morning to be honest because there were 25 people to review, but everyone presented well and most are ready to start creating animatics and gearing up to produce their "final" animations. We'll see...