Apologies for duplicate postings.
If you are interested in acquiring Machinima, building, and scripting skills for use in Second Life, join HVX Silverstar and Pipsqueak Fiddlesticks in the course:
"Technical skills for the Virtual World of Second Life"
Class starts Tuesday, August 5th so register NOW. (see below)
Audience: Open to anyone interested in improving their SL technical skills. Students should feel comfortable navigating in Second life or have taken Second Life 101.
Dates and times: Tuesdays, August 5, 12, 19, and 26 from 6:00 - 8:00 PM SL (US Pacific) time
Location: Second Life
Cost: $150
Week One: Camera controls - Hands-on session using the camera controls and shortcuts. Activities include taking snapshots, exploring the snapshot menus and taking high resolution images, and capturing colors, depth and object mattes. The camera controls are used for building and viewing objects close-up or off in the distance, for taking more creative snapshots and also for basic camera movement for filming machinima.
Week Two: Introduction to Machinima - What do you need to film in SL? A look at workflow for creating machinima (filming, additional third-party software); displaying machinima on the web (YouTube, Blip.tv or other host sites); streaming video or machinima into SL). No software required for this portion of the class.
Week Three: Basics of Building session: Students will learn about SL primitives (building "blocks"), the build-edit window, manipulating & positioning prims, texturing, linking and setting permissions on their objects. Students will create an object that they will make interactive in the week 4 scripting session. A selection of "DYI kits" will be available to students to choose from for this activity.
Week Four: Basics of Scripting session: Students will learn the basic elements of the LSL scripting language (no coding experience required!) and will focus on using freely available scripting tools, customizing/modifying open source scripts, using the LSL code editor and adding scripts to objects. Troubleshooting script issues will be covered. In-world and web resources will be provided, as well as a open source script package for beginners as a take-away.
Instructors: Bernadette Swanson (HVX Silverstar) and Denise Cote (Pipsqueak Fiddlesticks)
Sponsored by the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois and the Alliance Library System.
For additional information and to register:
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/VW/tech.html
Marianne Steadley
Continuing Professional Development Program Director
501 E. Daniel St. Champaign IL 61820
217/244-2751
Fax: 217/244-3302
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