resources

books

• Grokking the GIMP
• Blender 2.3 Guide

local wiki pages

• optics and vision

image manipulation

• wikipedia: raster graphics editor
• wikipedia: vector graphics editor
• wikipedia: Category: free graphics software
• GIMP
  • tutorials
  • Grokking the GIMP online book (local copy)
  • A Basic Guide to Using the GIMP
  • Photoshop-ish Keyboard Shortcuts for The Gimp 2.2
  • Pixel2Life Gimp Tutorials (lots of animation and brush tutorials)

• vector graphics
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_vector_graphics_editors

sound and acoustics

• wikipedia: muscial acoustics
• http://www.physicsclassroom.com/Class/sound/soundtoc.html - basic physics of sound
• http://www.mediacollege.com/audio/ - audio technology basics
• wikipedia: sound power level (decibel described)
• wikipedia: frequency and wavelength
• wikipedia: consonance and dissonance
• wikipedia: microphone and wikipedia: loud speaker
• wikipedia: psychoacoustics
• wikipedia: subtractive synthesis - an explanation of oscillators and filters using the human voice as an example

sound editing and computer audio

• Audacity tutorials
• wikipedia: audio file format
  • wikipedia: MP3
  • wikipedia: container format
  • wikipedia: template: MediaCompression
• wikipedia: digital audio workstation
• wikipedia: musical instrument digital interface (MIDI)
• wikipedia: audio and video connector

animation, modeling, and Blender

• Blender Documentation (wiki)
  • user manual
• http://www.blender.org
• "To Those Learning 3D"
• Wikibooks: Blender 3D
  • Noob to Pro
  • list of tutorials
• http://blenderartists.org/
• Tufts OpenCourseWare - 3D Modeling, Animation, and Rendering using Blender - loads of PDF and video (streaming) tutorials
• distributed blender rendering with Mac XGrid
• http://orange.blender.org - open source (even the production .blend files!) detailed description of production of a blender movie 'elephants dream'
• http://www.peerlessproductions.com/films/pages/SuburbanPlight.html - a video + animation done with blender
• http://akbar.marlboro.edu/~steadman/ATPM-1006-screen.pdf

video

• wikipedia: list of video topics
• wikipedia: video
• wikipedia: display resolution and wikipedia:image:video_standards
  • wikipedia: television
  • vocabulary: NTSC, PAL, , SECAM, interlaced, progressive, HD, ..
  • wikipedia:24p
• wikipedia: digital video
  • wikipedia: container format(digital)
  • wikipedia: video codec
• Vocabulary
  • MPEG-1 (video CD), MPEG-2 (DVD's), MPEG-4 (online), H.264 (video iPod), Ogg-Theora (in progress)
  • DVD, MinDV, HD DVD, Blu-ray
  • .avi , .mov , .mp4 , .ogg , .divx , ...
• Compression
  • mpeg-2 video compression explanation

video editing

• wikipedia: video editing
• wikipedia: video editing software
• wikipedia: list of video editing software
• wikibooks:movie_making_manual
• Adobe After Effects (contact me (Dan) about 'obtaining' a copy. Steadman@marlboro.edu)
  • An Energy Ball
  • Directions for Energy Ball
  • Another really cool After Effects project
  • Directions for this Effect