Multimedia and Digital Culture

I think my best digital story was the one I had the most trouble in being the Web 2.0 hack. It took me quite a while to come up with the idea and some time to craft it into what I wanted. I think this story does achieve digital accessibility in a few ways such as lists and alternative text for instance. The story itself is a poem and that in itself I feel is a type of list. It is quick and easy to read and also looks more visually appealing rather than putting all the text together. A few images are accompanying the poem and are given text to describe what it is as well. The type of media my story was made to entertain and educate a little utilizing the aesthetic of a review on "Trip Advisor". It was a literary work that utilized maps and images. I remember learning about digital accessibility in a digital class which is the other half of this blog. I have kind of forgotten about it until now and how simple alternate text on an image can be very helpful and applying these kin...

Collaboration is a very important part of the career I want to pursue in the terms of concept artists and the media they create. Concept art is made to inspire certain design elements but rarely is it the final product. Through collaboration with other media designers and animators, a final product is then developed. This is also the case with things like D&D rules and books. The concepts are a collective of player responses, reviews, and homebrewed content that if popular enough becomes official and makes its way into the final product. For example, a class for a D&D character was created by a player and was also inspired by "The Witcher" and was called Blood Hunter. This is now an official class for the game now    The use of digital tools allows for more collaboration and actually provokes it as well. Being able to get feedback from anyone or even allowing them to make their own contributions to the whole. The use of the digital medium allows for a much larger pool...