eccheung4

Animation Mentor Class 4 Progress Reel

eccheung4 — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:09:28 +0000

Wow time flys, I’m already in Class 5 and I didn’t even post my progress yet. I’ve been quite busy and have been having lots of fun with the facial controls on bishop. I’ll be posting my progress on that very soon, but here is my progress reel for Class 4:

Class 4 Progress Reel from eccheung4 on Vimeo.

CustomEvent TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed

eccheung4 — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:58:14 +0000

TypeError: Error #1034 Type Coercion failed: cannot convert com.events::CustomEvent@###### to com.events.CustomEvent.
at flash.events:EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
….blah,blah,blah,blah

This was an error I was getting and I couldn’t figure out what was causing it. Turns out its a simple fix. I was loading a swf that dispatches a CustomEvent. To get rid of this error I just needed to import the CustomEvent Class in the main class that is loading the other swf.

import com.events.CustomEvent;

Then somewhere in you main class, you add

CustomEvent;

Animation Mentor Progress Reels Class 2-3

eccheung4 — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:19:56 +0000

My first post of 2010. Been quite busy with work and school. I wanted to post this after I had time to polish my shots off some more, but never got a chance to and I’m already through class 3. Anyways here is my progress reel for Class 2 and 3. I’m really excited about Class 4 - Intro to Acting. =)

Animation Mentor Class 3 Progress Reel from eccheung4 on Vimeo.

Animation Mentor Class 2 Progress Reel from eccheung4 on Vimeo.

Unity 2.6 FREE

eccheung4 — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:00:41 +0000

Wow, Unity 2.6 (Unity Indie) is now FREE. Well, the indie version anyways. The Pro version still costs a lot. That is still awesome. I’ve always wanted to try out Unity and now that it’s free I am definitely going to check it out now. Looks like they’ve got a great tutorial up as well.

AdobeMax 2009

eccheung4 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:02:30 +0000

AdobeMax was awesome as usual. Lots of great sessions and of course, the sneak peaks were just amazing….content awareness filter for photoshop. It basically removes stuff out of your photo that you don’t want like magic such as wires, buildings, animals, etc, just by specifying the area with a brush tool.

AdobeMax had a few more stars this year with John Mayer making an appearance and Mark Hamill during the sneak peaks presentation. Overall, it was a great experience and AdobeMax really knows how to throw a party when they basically took over the Nokia Live Center.

AnimationMentor Class 1 Basic Foundations Complete

eccheung4 — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:32:48 +0000

Wow, its been a crazy, busy, fun filled, awesome 12 weeks taking Basic Foundations with Wayne Gilbert at AnimationMentor.com. Its pretty amazing what I’ve learned in so little time, but there is still so much more to be learned. Wayne Gilbert was an awesome mentor with helping and teaching us along the way. You can also get his Simplified Drawing for Planning Animation book from his site here. It really helps keep things simple and I’ve used it as reference many times as I try to improve my drawing skills and planning. Here’s my progress reel from class 1:

Animation Mentor Class 1 Progress Reel from eccheung4 on Vimeo.

Access the protected TextField in TextInput control for Flex

eccheung4 — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:33:19 +0000

The other day, I was struggling trying to get access to the textfield of a TextInput Control, which was protected. I needed it because I was loading an AS3 swf into a flex project and it needed to be passed a reference to a textfield to interact with it, but in flex it was a textinput control which contains a textfield. You can’t ues textInput.getTextField() because its protected.

To make it work you simply add:

import mx.core.mx_internal;
use namespace mx_internal;

I found out about it in this forum thread
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=173666

SIGGRAPH 2009 New Orleans here I come =)

eccheung4 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:43:40 +0000

I’m going to SIGGRAPH 2009 New Orleans! I was lucky enough to get in on a free basic pass to the conference from an awesome mentor at AnimationMentor.com that I didn’t even know. I’m already loving the benefits of being in the AnimationMentor.com community and I just started this Monday. This will be my second SIGGRAPH and I am totally excited because SIGGRAPH was awesome the last time I went. Its going to be even better this year because I’ve never been to New Orleans. Although I don’t remember being able to do much when the conference was going on, because there was always something going on day and nite. Now I just need to find a good deal for a flight and hotel.

www.thearmyexperience.com Redesign

eccheung4 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:02:23 +0000

Just launched a redesign of http://www.thearmyexperience.com/careers/. We were able to use much of the old code and turned the 3D helix into a 3D Wall instead. I worked on converting the 3D helix into the 3D wall and another designer/developer animated the wall.

I also worked on adding interactivity to the Watch Soldier Profiles section. The last 16 or so videos are interactive with 2 info windows per video. A button pops up at a certain time period during the video allowing the user to click on it to open an info window. This capability was also added into the Locate Global Bases which uses Google Earth (Fort Benning, Georgia and Fort Hood, Texas are the only 2 that have this currently. You can check it out by clicking on the Lifestyle button after clicking on the base).

Adobe Max 2009

eccheung4 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:04:02 +0000

I just registered for Adobe Max 2009 as a student. Time to take advantage of my student status. =) This will be my 2nd Adobe Max and if its anything like the last one it should be awesome! Now I just have to decide which sessions I’ll attend. Most of the lab ones were pretty boring I thought last time. You just sit and follow some guidelines so I’ll probably skip those or maybe just pop in and pick up the handout and do the instructions at my own pace at home.

I’m kinda itching to go to SIGGRAPH in New Orleans as well. There student discount is much better, but the first early registration discount expires Friday. Not sure about the housing and stuff, but I’m sure the prices will add up. I’ll have to see if I can afford it. I definitely want to go to SIGGRAPH though.