The Muppets
Reflecting on what made the Muppets successful and high hopes for the upcoming Muppet movie.
Author: Akram Taghavi-Burris
Akram Taghavi-Burris is an award winning designer, an educator with over 15 years of experience in graphic arts and web design. Akram has an M.Ed. with an emphasis on Design Education and has been awarded several prestigious awards for her work such as the American Advertising Federation (AAF) Award and, the Davinci Fellows Award for innovation in teaching. Currently, Akram teaches Computer Simulation and Gaming (Video Game Design) at the University of Tulsa. to life.
Why Cars 2 is Gosh Darn Awful
Cars 2 is like hoping to watch the Andy Griffith show but having to sit through an episode of Gomer Pyle instead.
Adobe Flash now for iOS
Apple has relaxing restrictions on development tools to create iOS apps making way for Adobe Flash on iOS.
Siggraph 2010 – Day 4
Day four of Siggraph began at the exhibitor’s hall. I I got the chance to look into some motion capturing devices, there are a lot to choose from and I really need to some research as to which device does what. In efforts to get one of the Pixar’s limited edition teapots, I manged to […]
Siggraph 2010 – Day 3
Day 3 started early, we arrived at the convention around 8:00 am to get in line for the exhibit hall, which opened at 9:30 am. Although we were very close to the start of the line everyone went crazy when they opened up the doors. Many attendees including myself made a mad dash to the […]
Siggraph 2010 – Day 2
Okay so day two stared with a speaking session on “Stylized Rendering in Games” this talk discussed why some game developers stray away from photo realistic style and do something out of the box. One example was the new X-box live game “Monday Night Combat”, which puts a whimsical spin on first person shooters. This […]
Siggraph 2010 – Day 1
Day One of Siggraph began at noon when I headed over to the Convention center to pick up my registration badge. The convention center is huge, and despite the fact that only a few exhibits opened today the place was full of people. The main exhibit that opened today was the Studio, which was a […]
The Avatar was destroyed
Acclaimed director M. Night Shyamalan recently brought Avatar The Last Airbender to the big screen and I can honestly say that the movie was the worst money I spent.
AGDC Day 4
Day 4 of AGDC is career day. Today’s sessions are all sponsored by the Game Career Guide magazine and focus on getting into the industry.
The keynote speaker for the day was from Play Fish a company that makes Facebook games. They talked about how they made a free to play game in Facebook, where you create a character, and your own space and the invite your friends into the game to visit your space.
AGDC Day 3
Day three at AGDC started with the keynote speakers, who presented on the Blizzard work flow. The session focused on the team breakdown for the WOW franchise. They broke down how each departments are broken down into different teams. Teams have a narrow focus and typically consist of 5-8 people. After lunch, we attended a […]
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