1) If you missed class there is a set of links in the drop off in the WK 6 folder on design proposals. For your midterm you must put in the drop off by tomorrow (Friday) your design proposal for your final audio project. A fully realized game design with emphasis on sound or a game document with emphasis on sound. In either case, the sound files need to exist on cd format for turn in. Other majors than game art will obviously diverge from this format, Talk to me as needed. Two copies of final cd please, and make sure to address your packaging with cover art.
2) The blog: Audio sampling, Napster, etc. Go to Wired.com and find in the magazine archives July, 2005 set of articles under the category of Remix Planet (read all the articles and blog on what jumps out at you. BE PREPARED TO DISCUSS IN CLASS).
3) Homework (due in drop off at top off class):
A. What does the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) say?
B. According to that act, is ‘anon’ in the forum below at risk of breaking the law?
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.479603.7
Type up a paragraph indicating your opinion and what factors you believe would make him safe or not safe under his circumstances. Put your paragraph on the drop off for this class.
4) Watch the movie Nosferatu (1922): Compare it to any dark fantasy game of which you are familiar. With emphasis on the sound components, how could Nosferatu be translated into a game?
5) Bring to class: music that you can take samples from for an original piece as well as sound effects that you can remix to make a second original piece. WE WILL BE USING SOUNDTRACK PRO IN CLASS FOR THIS EXERCISE, IF YOU HAVE NOT HAD A CHANCE TO GET FAMILIAR WITH THAT PROGRAM YET MAKE SURE TO DO SO BEFORE NEXT WEEK.
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I read the articles last night, so I guess the stuff that "jumps out at me" is the stuff I kinda still remember up until now, right? ^___^;;
Basically, all the articles had one thing in common, which is the progression of art through change, and a lot of it by "copying and pasting" other people's stuff. I think they said that the sampling of other artists' works originally started in Music, and eventually started happening in just about everything else, such as shots/scenes in movies, materials sneakers, and even car kits.
I remember in high school seeing some guys with these "insane" shoes (as seen in the article images for the Shoes section), and I would never find them in the shoe stores in the mall when I went into the stores. I mean, I wasn't gonna buy any of those shoes because they would match with, like, nothing that I have. lol, but I did like how one pair looked. Someone "remixed" shoes by "pasting" cut-outs of denim on them, and the result was surprisingly tasteful. Later on in the year, I noticed one of those guys looking at more shoes like the ones he was wearing on a website, and that's when I learned that you could get your sneakers custom-made... for an extremely shiny penny. ^____________^;;
I don't wanna spam this up, especially since we're all posting about the same site, so I'll just throw in one more thought. I remember reading some stuff about that Gorillaz band, and if I interpreted it correctly, there are only Two guys in that band--one a musician, and another a graphic artist--while there are Four band members (or should I say "characters").... Someone correct me if I'm wrong >.<
I confuse them with Daft Punk a lot cuz I suck. ^__^; But anyway, I liked how they said (something like) they thought life was a bit more like a cartoon and how animated bands could be the future of music. I like the idea of animated bands, but it would drive me crazy if I never got to see the true faces behind the music. =P
Since I will not be in town for a few days, but will be at school for this class, I am posting early…
After looking at the articles I found that the Gorillaz article seemed to pop out, possible because I like their music. Although I have not researched them this in depth before.
The Gorillaz are a virtual band and do not really exist. They are animations drawn well enough to produce remixes, songs, and videos. The master mind behind the music is Albarn. The music itself drew from many sources such as rock videos, sci-fi, and even anime. However, the actually melodies sound more along the lines of hip hop, with some other themes thrown in. Grorillaz was the first virtual band to become so successful after releasing its debut album. A DVD was also released with animation, interactive games, and performance videos.
I felt that the music and animation definitely set a new type of “genre” you could say when it comes to music videos. The animation, although cartoon like, is very well done and has a unique stylistic approach like many successful cartoons. The music is a mixture od smooth melodies and hip hop. I personally find this type of music very interesting when it comes to other genres that are usually fast or slow, not combining the two like the Gorillaz do.
This is a sample of their music PLUS animation:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bbu8zvW0i80&feature=related
This is the article that grabbed my attention:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/gorillaz.html
MATT
THIS ONE IS FOR YOU!!!!!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hqsueuXnFfI&feature=related
by: Joseph Kresz
Game Art and Design
The thing that jumps put at me is that all of these articles are about using part of someone else's work to make an original work of your own. In a way it's infringement of the copyright laws we've been talking about or rather a way around them maybe? Either way it all comes down to the different methods people have sampled other people's work.
The first one about Gorillaz talks about how the band and its music is a summation of lots of different and interests. It talked about their first CD some which, in my opinion, was the best. One of the tracks on there obviously sampled the beginning of the original Dawn of the Dead. I wish I hadn't lost the CD, it was so the bomb.
Here's the link to that song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZurS1L3cV48
The next one I thought was boring but I think it was about copying and pasting other people's written work together in like a "collage" manner to make a new work?
The next one was about Quentin Tarantino's movies giving a nod to other really good movies. I've never really been a huge fan of his work but the article made me wanna see more of his movies. Apparently he uses similar camera angles and scenes as some of his favorite movies. I don't really have an example of that but here's some Reservoir dog scenes mentioned!!!
The Ear Scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfORxWsZUY
The Standoff Scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUnDcIISbR0&feature=related
Then there was the fanfiction article which was AWESOME cause I love fanfiction. It was talking about how fans write stories to their favorite show or movie or book, or whatever really to suit what they would like to happen whether it be a character having a romantic relationship, a character not really dying, characters from different universes meeting, and so on. The biggest place to find fanfiction was mentioned in the article and is located here: http://www.fanfiction.net/
I found that basically the articles talked about taking someones ideas and changing them for your own use.
The article that stood out to me was of a show that i find very funny which is Robot Chicken. The article talks about what goes on behind the scenes first starting with four writers coming up with a script and sketches then they all gathering in Seth Greens office with a bunch of attorney's to make sure that their script is enough of a parody so that they can not be sued. Once that step is out of the way they go in search of voice actors. Next they have people that go out and get the action figures of the people they want to use in there show if they can not find the proper action figure since most action figures don't move the way they need them to they build their own action figure body and place the head of the old one on it. Once that is accomplished its up to fourteen animators to make the script come to life. The final step is the post production which is handled by Seth Green and Senreich who edit all the footage into a 15 minute show.
The next article i found pretty interesting basically just mentioned all the different tools that are out there for one to mix things together such as Photoshop for images, garage band for music, and even DAN-MIG 200 for car-hacking.
After reading the article, an article that popped out was the video mod article. Video Mods is ramake of popular music videos by Avenge Sevenfold and evanescense using popular video games characters from games such as Swat 4 and Destroy all humans. After obtaining licencing from the gaming company in question, they create a pre-visualization determining any limitation the charcter may have like not being able to play a guiter fully. To solve this problem they use motion capturing to help give the more flexability and allowing them to move more than the original character model. Next step involves animinating the character to the motion capture data and the pre-visualation data adding lighting and virtural camera angles. And Finally, the current low def video need to be converted to a high def video using a supercomputer at a medical research facility.
I found a pretty good overview on the DMCA act of 1998. So heres what i got.
On October 12, 1998, the U.S. Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, ending many months of turbulent negotiations regarding its provisions. Two weeks later, on October 28th, President Clinton signed the Act into law.
The Act is designed to implement the treaties signed in December 1996 at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Geneva conference, but also contains additional provisions addressing related matters.
As was the case with the 'No Electronic Theft' Act (1997), the bill was originally supported by the software and entertainment industries, and opposed by scientists, librarians, and academics.
Highlights Generally:
· Makes it a crime to circumvent anti-piracy measures built into most commercial software.
· Outlaws the manufacture, sale, or distribution of code-cracking devices used to illegally copy software.
· Does permit the cracking of copyright protection devices, however, to conduct encryption research, assess product interoperability, and test computer security systems.
· Provides exemptions from anti-circumvention provisions for nonprofit libraries, archives, and educational institutions under certain circumstances.
· In general, limits Internet service providers from copyright infringement liability for simply transmitting information over the Internet.
· Service providers, however, are expected to remove material from users' web sites that appears to constitute copyright infringement.
· Limits liability of nonprofit institutions of higher education -- when they serve as online service providers and under certain circumstances -- for copyright infringement by faculty members or graduate students.
· Requires that "webcasters" pay licensing fees to record companies.
· Requires that the Register of Copyrights, after consultation with relevant parties, submit to Congress recommendations regarding how to promote distance education through digital technologies while "maintaining an appropriate balance between the rights of copyright owners and the needs of users."
· States explicitly that "[n]othing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, including fair use..."
To kind of respond to the guy that is trying to start up a quote unquote music uploading slash sharing site that no one really will "Download" from I think he might be very close to being sued or shutdown. Like alot of the other bloggers said most of the people that would download his program would end up trying to download from his sight which he states that it is up to the Server manager or whatever to rid the site of this content but who is going to honestly moderate all the content people would upload. I mean look at youtube they are somewhat doing the same thing with videos but its all original work and things people recorded themselves. If it was a site for all original uncopyrighted work then what would the problem be. It could be a positive thing for the artists but then in turn end up in lawsuits for the site. Meaning that if anyone ends of famous and that particular artist's work is still on there then would that cause the site to be in violation of the copyright laws or would they be entitled to monies from the newly famous artist since it would be a form of free advertising for that artist. im not too sure how it would turn out, but it could work if all the uploads were original works and not copyrighted.
Matthew Garbatini
Game Art & Design
It was very surprising to discover that plans to develop mainstream solar energy went into effect many decades ago. I know it is 2008, however, I just did not think that our present technology would permit us to rely on such a sci-fi way of powering our homes. Bill Gross is a very dedicated man to dedicate his entire life to bettering the planet. I was once told that only one percent of the population or about 30,000 people are actually innovators. People who develop ways to benefit other people’s in society. Even when he was informed that the cost of PV Silicon was too high (the ingredient to make solar energy) he still did not give up and currently he and his team are turning heads by proving there is a cost effective and future on the market for solar energy. It amazes me how many problems can be fixed if you have about ten well educated people in a room shooting back ideas to one another; each of them with an entirely different background and knowledge.
The article can be found at:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.07/solar.html
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it illegal to pirate any kinds of software or steal ideas that have already been thought up by artists. We actually talked about this in our Programming class a few weeks ago. I feel that who steals other people’s ideas id just an idiot. Granted every idea out there has been done to some degree, it really takes the fun away from being an artist when you skip the creation process. That should be the crucial point in any design when you are getting to know your idea and learning from it.
According to the Act I would have to say that Anon is breaking the law, and even if he wasn’t I am sure they would find something else to pin him for. His question is kind of idiotic because he is pretty much asking if he makes a program like the ones who are currently getting sued, will he get sued? Of course he will, and the downside is, he is not a large company with a lot of money to pay for expensive lawyers. I think he considers that sharing music between friends is not illegal, but in my eyes, and according to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it sure is. Think of it this way, you are letting non paying people get the privileges of listening to free music. If that is not stealing then I don’t know what is. Also, if he thinks he is being original by copying a p2p software idea then he is an idiot. I hope he gets sued just for breathing. He is less original than Miley Cyrus and at least she is pretty.
I really don’t care how many people have chosen to relate the World of Warcraft to Nosferatu. I shall do it anyway and I will go into great detail of how these two co-relate. In order to understand the similarities between the two, you must play on the Horde faction as any undead class. The Undead is the race which is surrounded by all the bats and vampires. In terms of audio, WoW’s music tone changes when you are about to fight any end boss to a very fast paced, and drummed filled tune. You almost never hear voices in the WoW environment unless some idiot is spamming the different emote commands. The good town in Nosferatu has the same flute filled music as would be found in any Alliance town, and creepy, slow paced music portrayed in Dracula’s castle, as is played throughout Garren’s Haunt.
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Any piece of Audio can be translated into a game. The combination or audio and video are what strengthens any idea. It just depends on what kind of music is being played that determines what idea our mind would formulate as a result of listening. When I hear the music from Nosferatu, it sounds like it comes from a medieval time so automatically I think role playing game.
This is a better WoW dance sequence.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YcWXL8jpFGs
The collection of articles was fascinating. Sometimes the most original things are those fused together(read: ripped off) from other sources. That collection of articles was published about 3 years ago yet they they are even more relevant now. I wonder if the human culture continues this trend if original ideas will be as appreciated as much as they should be. Will originality be absent completely?
I cannot justify making a Word document to record a few sentences of my opinion on ANON's post, so I'll do it here:
I think ANON's idea is in the clear. So far as he is not giving the users of his service the ability to download songs for personal use it's okay. Just like it wouldn't be illegal to invite your friends over to listen to the new cd you bought with you, it's not illegal to have a playlist online people can listen to. There are several websites that do this legally, Muxtape comes to mind. When users have the ability to download the songs for themselves it becomes illegal.
"Have you noticed? Everywhere you look, pop culture has been digitized, resequenced, and reassembled... ...this is the age of the remix" I thought this was pretty funny because it seems like people are bored with pop culture and they keep trying to recycle it and mix it up to make it "Better" but pop culture is pretty weak in the music category, In the Death Metal genre the only "remixing" that goes on is just digitally remastering the poor quality recordings from the old days. There have been bands like Old Man's Child and Dimmu Borgir who have "remixed" their old songs and added more elements to them like keyboards and vocals. Some people think that these metal songs all sound the same but that is only to the untrained ear. "HEWLETT: Exactly. If you're going to pretend to be somebody you're not - which is the whole point of being a rock star - then why not just invent fake characters and have them do it all for you?" The point of being a rock star for money maby but for me I stand by my lyrics and music because it is a part of me, i dont play in bands that i dont fully back and being a rockstar i am really bellowing and playing bass quite intensely, im not pretending to be a monster and wearing a costume, these vocals are made naturally without any type of vocal synthesizer. But for people like Brendon Small who made Deathklok, he isnt a large guy like the animated singer, and he isnt european like the other musicians and he isnt like the bassist either, he is just a small nerdy guy who is a great guitarist, he has to put his music out like that for people to get into it because he doesnt have the face for the metal crowd.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7W5K1oYFm8
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