Biggest thing worth mentioning this week was that we started going over Three.js in my Casual Game Development class. This library is awesome. I can't stress that enough. The library is open source(https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/). It is also logical, easy to understand, quick for demoing things, and it supports so much different stuff. It was also great to finally formally learn about this library from a professor whereas for this whole semester, I was kind of just hacking away at the thing for my Production Studio class.
Right off the bat I learned things that I wish I knew in the beginning of the semester while working on my Production Studio demo. We did an ICE that involved making a little 3D scene in Three js with some different primitive objects thrown together to look like a house and some trees. We also manipulated lighting, fog, and animation using the update function. I have always loved how in javascript you can basically create a game loop function just by calling a RequestAnimationFrame in a method("function" whatever). If you know a bit about programming and want to develop some awesome 3D apps that run right in the browser, check out these examples to get started in three js: http://threejs.org/examples/
I guess I should talk about my other classes now. I had to write a short response to the film we watched last week for my German Film class. Then for my Japanese Film class, I gave film review presentations in a group for 2 films we had to watch. 1 was a samurai flick called Harakiri - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056058/ and the other was a modern film called Taste of Tea - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0413893/
If you like quirky, stylistic, melancholy films, watch Taste of Tea. If you like crazy samurai revenge movies, watch Harakiri. I liked both of them :)
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