A Proper Introduction

While the past few weeks have still involved tracking down a few bugs in the system, I wanted to give a proper overview of what this project is, how it came to be, and what I hope it will become. This post will be a bit of personal history, but will seek to explain how my interest in this…

Characterizing a mute character

Something I’ve given a lot of thought over is how to characterize one of the characters in my visual…

Week 6: Is Cosplay Still A Hobby?

Until two weeks ago, I talked about thermoplastics and how they’re used in cosplays. They are very useful, of course; they can help to improve on cosplay costumes or props with details.

Weekly Sprint #1: System Design

In order to effectively manage and develop my senior thesis project, I will be taking advantage of the agile software development process. I have set up a Trello board to organize all of my project’s functionalities, and the senior class has made several Slack channels to…

Weekly Sprint 9

From the 20 messages I sent out to alumni, I have received responses from 4 thus far who are interested in participating in my project. These alumni include Andrew Kolodziej, Jasmine Rodriguez, and Michael Milspaugh, and Alex Zukovich. I believe most of these alumni will be sending in an audio clip…

3/29/2017 Cecil Redesign

Sprint 6

Over the course of these last 2 weeks, I made a lot of progress. Firstly, I worked on inserting a blog within my website, which the band members can use to posts updates on band news. I researched how to implement blogs directly into HTML sites from scratch, but this was pretty complicated and I realized that I…

HueDrive: Sprint 8

I got an opportunity this week that I’m plenty thankful for. First off, some context: Go Fas Racing, a relatively small NASCAR Cup team, can qualify for the yearly all-star race if their driver, Matt DiBenedetto, wins a fan vote held by NASCAR a month or so before the race. The team will be…

4/12/2017 Falling Animation

I am working on a falling animation for the opening cinematic trailer that I’m creating for my visual novel. I…