Animation

There are many types of animation techniques. I am mainly interested in modern cartoon animation such as that seen in The Simpsons and Family guy. The technique used in these is computer animation using toon boom and and in earlier examples Adobe flash.
South park was created using cut out animation,
through a rosterum setup. The procedure is extremely  

time consuming but this detail gives it the individuality 

with makes it stand out from the rest.

Further information on interactive multi media screens. 

Possible development and thinking for the future.

We now have the technology to use screen like never before, we have the freedom to use them in anyway we want. Screens that interact with our moods or personalities. screens that move over objects or fill an entire room. Pictures, television, music which could be dropped and dragged from from a small hand held device to huge wall screens with a swipe of the hand. 

Imagine watching TV on your small screen, then your friends come round o watch a film. with a swipe of your hand drop and drag the film on to the wall screen, customize the size of the display with your fingers like an ipod.  Then when your finished you can relax to the full wall showing a sequence of color portraying your mood or a tranquil waterfall. 

flexible screen video

Further exploring in to interactive surfaces

There are many ways in which this technology can branch out in to other areas of our lives. There is a large interest in group usage. Bringing people together to interact with games, pictures and films. I can see some time in the future interactive tables used in casinos with interactive cards and chips, slide dealt from the dealer, with no mess and no cheating.  Siting in a mall in a cafe buying cloths, ordering your food and booking cinema tickets all within a slid of the finger. 

This video shows how they can be used in a restaurant or club.

Interesting posts, Digital Cultures and Technologies

Ubiquity's 

For my Digital Cultures and Technologies unit, i was asked to investigate currently emerging technologies, within digital media. We were asked to look at technologies within ubiquitous informative technologies. this is when information systems are linked, through many different ways, such as wireless networking or RFID tags, so on....

I decided to focus on interactive multi-media touch screen systems. There have been major advances in the way we use this type of technologies, one of the newest ideas to be cultivated are interactive tabletops. leading out front in this technology is Microsoft's product 'Microsoft surface'. Users can interact with the machine by touching or dragging there fingers or objects across the screen. These machines have already been used in some top london restaurants and clubs.