Tuesday, 3 March 2009

Grades and Projects

The envrionments, game desgin and game engines project has been handed back. I got a Distinction, which is good as it now means that I have enough points to get an overall DDD for the course, even if I only get Merits for the next several projects. Which is unlikely as I like to strive to do my best, however the hellish video editing unit is now in and I'm not confident on that one, I never am with video.

Which makes it strange that I have taken on a new personal project tied in with my Final Major Project. I have a capture card currently on very kind loan from a course mate, and with a small £5 cable I can convert VHS to DVD. I may have an issue with the lack of space on my hard-drive due to partitions and it being an old hard-drive and well, the leap in space on HDD since I last upgraded. :)

I plan to get the last of the Dreamstone onto DVD, it won't be the best quality, and my tapes are getting old, and I am slightly concerned that they may not work anymore, which means that I will now be testing them tonight. As not only would I like to use them as reference, it might also give me a small bargining chip with the creator of the show, to give me permission to bring his idea to a new generation through Little Big Planet.

One a small last note, it's amazing what you can achieve if you know some code and some smooth animations: http://www.mirrorsedge2d.com/ Better get practicing. :D