[node-l] Openlab Workshop 9: Graphic Designin' and Processing Animatin'

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~=~ Openlab Workshop #9 ~=~


When: Thursday 19 November, from 6pm-10:00pm

Where: Space Studios, 129 – 131 Mare St, Hackney E8 3RH

Nearest transport: Bethnal Green (tube), London Fields (Overground),  
Buses – see http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/contact/SPACE/

Cost: £15 for the entire night, or per workshop (see below).
How to pay: At the door, or via Paypal to be guaranteed a space  
(limited to 30 people per workshop).  Please email or Paypal

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~=~ SCHEDULE ~=~

6PM - Graphic Design Using Inkscape with Jake Rayson

Graphic design for the masses!  You know that you need to do that  
flow chart, wireframe, presentation, or cute portrait of your cat  
using vector graphics (so you can blow it up to wall size and scare  
the fur off her back), but you don't want to plunk down £1000+ for  
Adobe CS5.  That's where open source vector graphics program Inkscape  
comes in.  Jake will take you through the basics, and was nice enough  
to provide a detailed list of them:

1. Welcome to Inkscape v0.47!
2. Creating images: Bitmap vs. Vector
3. Using images: Print vs. Web
4. Shapes: fill, stroke, transform.
5. The wonder of Bezier Curves.
6. Creating type.
7. Crack Compound Paths.
8. Combining bitmap & vector.
9. Export for Web!

Please download Inkscape from http://inkscape.org/ before the  
workshop, but if you can't, then we'll have some copies laying about.


7:45PM - Animation in Processing with Alias

So you know Processing and/or Flash, now how do you make your pretty  
graphics move around the screen in ways more interesting than left-to- 
right and then right-to-left?  Cue Alias and "Animation in  
Processing."  In this workshop, we will cover the basics of getting  
things moving in Processing, starting with simple 2D sprites, moving  
on to more complex concepts like using tween equations, and finally  
touching on 3D animation using OpenGL.  This is an intermediate level  
workshop - a little knowledge of Processing is advisable, but you  
should be able to pick things up if you are reasonably familiar with  
the basic concepts.


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