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  • “The Challenge of Creating Audio for Planet Coaster” – Using contextual impressions and data gathering to design crowd audio.

    “The Challenge of Creating Audio for Planet Coaster” – Using contextual impressions and data gathering to design crowd audio.


    Questions? Please contact us at mflorianz@frontier.co.uk 🙂

    In 2017 We presented a talk at the Develop: Conference audio track hosted by John Broomhall.

    For Planet Coaster, keeping track of thousands of crowd-audio objects was an obstacle to re-creating the authentic sound of a user generated open-world theme-park. The very large crowds we were after, we’d be be spending a substantial amount of our cycle time, finding objects to put emitters on and keeping them in sync; That wouldn’t scale.

    So we had to get creative; both technically and in our design by using contextual impressions and data gathering and come up with a solution which does scale.

    https://lnkd.in/dhsJPiB

    Apologies for being a little nervous and awkward, as it was my first ever talk in front of peers. We hope this is helpful 🙂

    Develop Conference – https://www.developconference.com/ | John Broomhall – http://www.johnbroomhall.co.uk/ | Tandem Events – http://www.tandemevents.co.uk/ | Hugh Edwards – http://www.high-score.co.uk/about.php | Matthew Florianz – http://www.matthewflorianz.com/audio/

    Planet Coaster – https://www.planetcoaster.com/en-gb | Using Data to Generate Dynamic Crowd Audio – https://blog.audiokinetic.com/planet-coaster-part-1-crowd-management-using-data-to-generate-dynamic-crowd-audio/ |Designing the audio for Planet Coaster – https://www.mcvuk.com/development/interview-designing-the-audio-for-planet-coaster

  • Agility and Quality – Sebastian Bergmann

    Agility and Quality – Sebastian Bergmann


    Agile methodologies and processes have changed how PHP-based software projects are realized. This session gives an overview on how agility and quality can go hand-in-hand helping to deliver software on time and in budget. Agility does not stop at software development, though, but extends into other realms such as web operations. The audience will learn about some of the core ideas of DevOps, such as ‘Dark Launches’, ‘Feature Flags’ or ‘Gradual Ramps’ that help with implementing continuous deployment strategies.

  • Minecraft Blender Cycles Render

    Minecraft Blender Cycles Render


    With an instant diorama generator in hand and a new render engine, who could resist rendering something? This video is a simple camera tour of a Minecraft windmill level, rendered in Blender, found on http://www.minecraftworldshare.com/

    The Minecraft AddOn for Blender 2.6 is a lot of fun. It reads Minecraft game levels and re-creates them in Blender. The entire scene is made only of cubes. Each cube inherits its color and location from the Minecraft game level. All cubes are the same size.

    This is my first posted animation using the new Cycles render engine still in development for Blender 2.6. This animation is using the Cycles render preset for Direct Lighting. This is the lowest quality setting but also the fastest. This scene took approximately 1:00 per frame to render using direct lighting model. With the full illumination model it took 5:00 minutes per frame. There is only a minor difference visually which can be fixed in post processing. At this time Cycles direct lighting is almost a practical animation render solution.

    Here is a link to the Minecraft AddOn For Blender 2.6
    http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?237105-Mineblend-Blender-importer-add-on-for-Minecraft-worlds

  • NASA Space Grant Exhibition Prep

    NASA Space Grant Exhibition Prep


    Process Documentation

    Dan Goods-Concept & Design
    Austin S. Lee-Technical Development

    Dan Goods Interview Link:
    http://www.exploratorium.edu/tv/index.php?program=1154&project=93

  • Reel Tony Borda

    Reel Tony Borda


    Samples of my work as Multimedia Artist.

    – Graphic Design / Illustration
    – Web Design / Web development (HTML CSS PHP, JS WordPress)
    – Motion Graphics
    – 3D Modeling and basic animation.

  • How to create an news website on autopilot using Newsomatic plugin?

    How to create an news website on autopilot using Newsomatic plugin?

    In this tutorial video I will teach you how to create an autoblog using the Newsomatic plugin – I will present more approaches to this, also ways on how to create unique content using the plugin.
    https://codecanyon.net/item/newsomatic-automatic-news-post-generator-plugin-for-wordpress/20039739

    ▶Portfolio – https://1.envato.market/coderevolution
    ▶DONT CLICK THIS – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVLIksvzyk-D_oEdHab2Lgg?sub_confirmation=1

  • Talks on Art : Tod Hanson – painting The Storey

    Talks on Art : Tod Hanson – painting The Storey


    The artist Tod Hanson was commissioned to create a new piece of public art for the entranceway and staircase of The Storey building. He produced brightly coloured decorative paintings on the walls and ceilings which both echo the historic architecture and bring it up to date.
    Tod gave this talk about the development of the piece, and how it relates to his previous work. He described and illustrated his influences including comics, punk, space-travel, rococo architecture, skate-board parks, Gilray, Cruickshank, fairgrounds, and his parents’ house.

    Further information about this painting, and Tod Hanson’s work, can be found on Storey Gallery website at –
    storeygallery.org.uk/programme.php?item=000078

    Film by Morph Films – morphfilms.com/

  • Sol lucet omnibus!

    Sol lucet omnibus!


    [Die Sonne scheint fĂŒr Alle]
    The Sun shines for everyone!
    http://www.egatsolar.com/index.php/en/
    The present difficulties of the Egyptian energy economy demands more than one renewable energy power plant, rather itÂŽs necessary to look at the energy situation in its entirety. And that begins with the raise of awareness for energy and ends with the development of Egyptian know how as well as providing the use of local manufactered system components.

  • The forbidden forest of the Dayak – Borneo, Indonesia

    The forbidden forest of the Dayak – Borneo, Indonesia


    Deep in the remaining old growth forests of Borneo, the Setulang Dayak village guards its forest with deep commitment. To date, the village’s traditional law of Tana Olen (forbidden forest), withstands increasing pressure from encroaching logging industries. Now as rapid development rolls in, the village is trying to secure sustainable and forest-friendly future, including a eco-tourism venture and carbon credits.

    Featuring Pah Kole Adjung
    Co-director/Camera/Editor: Luis Patron
    Co-director/Producer/Editor: Citt Williams
    Associate Producers: Setulang Village Forest Management Board
    Graphics: David Jimenez
    Sound Mixer: Tfer Newsome

    Shot on location in East Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia
    Duration 9:05 minutes

    Developed and produced for United Nations University (UNU) by UNU Media Studio & Setulang Village Forest Management Board, in association with UNU-IAS Traditional knowledge Initiative and The Christensen Fund.

    Further information for this film can be found at film’s website: http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/forbidden-forest-of-the-dayak/

    United Nations University has published this work under a Creative Commons license – share alike, attribution, no derivatives, non-commercial

    *About this Project*
    Collaboratively made with Indigenous storytellers, these videobriefs are told in local languages, respect Intellectual Property rights and provide storytellers with media training, resources and a fair media engagement model for future projects. The final videos played alongside other international climate change videos at a locally coordinated forum event, in April 2009’s Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Summit and later at a special screening at the National Museum of Denmark during the Copenhagen COP15 meeting.

    *About the filmmakers*
    Luis Patron- Co-director/Camera/Editor
    Luis Patron works as an independent documentary filmmaker, producer, HD cinematographer and editor. He teams up with talented local professionals in Japan and around the world to craft factual films for cinema and television.

    Citt Williams- Co-director/Producer/Editor
    Citt is a documentary filmmaker at the UNU Media Studio with over 12 years producing experience in broadcast media. Citt’s produced documentary films have been screened at festivals including Cannes (Yellow Fella), Sundance, Mumbai, Melbourne and by broadcasters including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Discovery and National Geographic. She has a Masters degree in documentary from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (Sydney) and a Business degree in Film and TV Production from QUT (Brisbane). Within UNU, her unit “Media Studio” (MS) has grounded expertise in online learning, interactive media and video production and in linking development issues with visual media and online content on social and environmental issues. Her role in the UNU-IAS Traditional Knowledge Initiative seeks to build greater understanding and facilitate awareness of traditional knowledge (TK) to inform action by Indigenous peoples, local communities and domestic and international policy makers. Key outputs include research activities, policy studies, capacity development and online learning and dissemination.

    Setulang Village Forest Management Board
    The village of Setulang in the Malinau District of Kalimantan is exceptionally committed to conserving their forest. There are, however, tenure disputes between Setulang and neighbouring villages who have brokered deals with logging companies. Yet, Setulang’s commitment has piqued the conservation interests of neighbouring villages. Setulang is interested in marshalling support for the continued conservation of the Setulang forest area. General goals and specific objectives: (1) implementing conservation activities in the Setulang forest area and (2) working with neighbouring villages to resolve tenure disputes the area of conserved forest and better ensure its integrity, sustainability and management. IUCN projects have provided support to three villages for forest custodianship conflict-resolution, training in livelihood options for the benefit of forest conservation, and help local villagers to communicate with local government over forest management.

    United Nations University Media Studio
    The UNU Media Studio was established in March 2003 and works in collaboration with a global network of partners to develop and share open educational resources. Through a small team based in Tokyo, the UNU promotes innovation in the building of interactive content and video documentaries that engage, entertain and educate. The core creative team is comprised of specialists in web and graphic design, documentary and multimedia production, as well as educational technology and instructional design. In developing projects, this team collaborates with subject matter experts from within the UNU, from other UN bodies and from partner universities. The UNU Media Studio also collaborates with independent professionals in the area of documentary production, web application development, web design and instructional design. mediastudio.unu.edu

    United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies – Traditional Knowledge Inititaive
    The UNU-IAS Traditional Knowledge Initiative seeks to build greater understanding and facilitate awareness of traditional knowledge (TK) to inform action by indigenous peoples, local communities and domestic and international policy makers. Key outputs include research activities, policy studies, capacity development and online learning and dissemination. unutki.org

    For more information:
    Our World 2.0 ourworld.unu.edu and UNU IAS-TKI unutki.org

    See related article at Our World 2.0: http://ourworld.unu.edu/en/forbidden-forest-of-the-dayak/
    Also:
    unutki.org/news.php?news_id=51&doc_id=7

    A high resolution version of this video, and additional langauge subtitles are available. Please contact us for details:
    Media Studio
    53-70 Jingumae 5-chome Shibuya-ku
    Tokyo JAPAN 150-8925
    Ph: +813 5467 1324
    onlinelearning@unu.edu