The ADi Journal
What we think about before, during and after work. And since we believe in freedom of expression, the views expressed in the ADi blog are the opinions of the author and don’t necessarily represent the views of ADi.
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May 14 2013
Keep it Simple
I’m currently working on a short film on the side as well as working with ADi. The biggest thing I’ve learned since touching my last short during school was to keep things manageable. The short I worked on before this one was about five minutes long, and contained a heavy mix of 2d and 3d animation. It also required lots of physical scanning of paper, and painstaking coloring within photoshop. Not to mention compositing everything inside of AfterEffects with multiple layers creating shadows, and trying out effects to bring the…
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April 29 2013
Bring Your Game
I recently found a joystick-based Atari 2600 game console in my basement. I plugged the AV jacks into the TV and was happy to play Centipede, Pong, and Missile Command. It made me think back to the days of playing after school at home with my brother and, especially, going to ZAP video arcade. Zap was located in Iowa State’s Campustown. I would go there with my brother and friends to play on the weekend–it was too far to go on a week night–so it was extra special to be there. Zap,…
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April 24 2013
Paperless: Digital Drawing Tools for Artists on the Go
In 2009, I wrote a post about my search for a digital tablet that I could use as a replacement for my sketchbook and notebook. I’ve been an advocate for tablet devices as artistic tools for many years. Mainstream business culture is waking up to the potential that ultra-portable tablets like iPad and Android tablets have as work devices. We are spoiled for choice of Office-compatible apps and suites, email clients, file sharing… everything you need for a day away from the desktop. For us visual types, there are even…
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April 18 2013
A Different Way to Make Your To-Do List
You know when you have those moments in life where you say to yourself ”Why didn’t I realize this before?” And usually it’s around what could be considered a mundane ho-hum everyday sort of thing. But probably BECAUSE it’s around a mundane ho-hum everyday sort of thing – so, you know, it’s something you touch and interact with everyday – the impact will be significant. I’m talking about the daily To-Do list. In these days when we’re focused on the power of relationships – be it IRL (that’s In Real Time, folks)…
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April 9 2013
Bracketless in Stumptown
March was a little less mad for me this year. I declined the opportunity to fill out a March Madness bracket this year. Not that I ever really know what’s going on in college basketball, but I really don’t know what’s going on this year. I did hear something on the school playground about a “bone sticking all the way out.” I find the institution of office bracket pools an interesting case study. When else is illegal activity so universally accepted in the workplace? Imagine this water cooler chatter: “Hey, gang, anybody…
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