Final Screen Design
Research
Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process. Since the 1970s, various names have been used to describe the process including computer art and multimedia art, and digital art is itself placed under the larger umbrella term new media art. The impact of digital technology has transformed activities such as painting, drawing and sculpture, while new forms, such as net art, digital installation art, and virtual reality, have become recognized artistic practices. More generally the term digital artist is used to describe an artist who makes use of digital technologies in the production of art. In an expanded sense, "digital art" is a term applied to contemporary art that uses the methods of mass production or digital media.
Dev Harlan
Dev Harlan is a multidisciplinary artist whose hybrid practice combines the physical and the virtual with the use of sculpture, light and projection. As a self educated Artist, Designer and CG Director, Dev's uniquely identifiable aesthetic language and reductionist approach place his work at the forefront of a new mode of media arts practice.
Works have recently been shown at Scope NY Cinema Series, Optronica Festival, One Dot Zero Festival, Whitebox Gallery, Christopher Henry Gallery, Scope Miami Art Fair, and the Vimeo Festival's “VimeoWorld.”
Dev is a native Californian and currently lives and works in New York and has been featured at a number of galleries there and in Miami. One of his latest works is the Parmenides I, that showed at the Christopher Henry Gallery in NY as a part of a solo exhibition entitled “The Astral Flight Hangar.” The Parmenides I is a large geometric sculpture that is brought to life by light.
ActionScript
I am new to this ActionScript. So in this assignment im try to make application as I can. ActionScript is an object-oriented language originally developed by Macromedia Inc. (now owned by Adobe Systems). It is a dialect of ECMAScript(meaning it is a superset of the syntax and semantics of the language more widely known JavaScript), and is used primarily for the development of websites and software targeting the Adobe Flash Player platform, used on Web pages in the form of embedded SWF files. The language itself is open-source in that its specification is offered free of charge and both an open source compiler (as part of Adobe Flex) and open source virtual machine (Mozilla Tamarin) are available.
In this assignment I try to make my design like tutorial that I get in Multimedia Authoring subject. This design has 4 pages, 1 parent page and 3 child pages. Parent page has 4 buttons, 3 buttons to each child page and 1 button to exit. Script that I use in here nearly the same like script that the example I choose. The script loading external swf file when each button clicked. And unload the external swf file when the child pages click anywhere. So here is my wireframe.
Artist Statement
In this project I try to make my work better. I am new to this ActionScript thing, so I search a lot of tutorial and try it before I make my work. First time I though ActionScript not so hard as it seems, but it is hard to understand the language. To know what script go to where or which timeline, scene or it can be another swf file. I’ve been stuck and confused a lot of time doing this project, so I try asking friends and looking for help from internet to gets the application working. There is a time when I stuck so bad to get the game working. Since I didn’t know that AS2 and AS3 have totally different script code. My game was using as2 and other page in as3, the only way that I find to get it working is to call/load the game swf file to the parent page. Maybe there are many ways, but for this time I just know this way. I hope in the future I can do more.
Artwork Treatment
I am using flash in this assignment. In this assignment I make 4 different page in different fla file,so it makes all 4 swf file. I connect every page using loading external swf file script. I use ActionScript 3 to make each file except for the game page. For the game page I use ActionScript 2 to make the game. This is why I am using loading external swf file script. Because, I want to get the game into the application.
References
http://www.flashandmath.com/intermediate/swfload/unloading.html
http://www.flashandmath.com/intermediate/swfload/unloading.html
http://the-dude.co.uk/tutorials/flash-as2-tutorials/using-scenes-in-flash-as2/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3biv0GG-IY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FH25b3t6aE
http://swantoon.com/tutorials/making-simple-flash-game/
