{"id":168,"date":"2011-09-27T22:54:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T04:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2011-09-27T22:54:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T04:54:31","slug":"what-was-i-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wayupnorth.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/27\/what-was-i-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"What Was I Thinking?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somewhere in lurking through #CMC11 I stumbled across Gordon Lockhart’s<\/a> CCK11 blog posting, Man! This MOOC is Something Else!<\/a>\u00a0 It’s the kind of delightfully tongue-in-cheek dialog I enjoy.\u00a0\u00a0 When I asked him via a comment, if he’d considered animating it with Xtranormal<\/a>, he was kind enough to encourage me to go ahead with it.\u00a0 Sure, just copy and paste the lines, I thought.\u00a0 What was I thinking?<\/p>\n

Xtranormal does a pretty fair job of animating characters to speak any dialog you can type.\u00a0 But it also has a half-dozen controls you can creatively drag and drop into the text to tailor it more finely.\u00a0 After looking at Gordon’s previous Xtranormal creation<\/a>, I realized I had a hard act to follow. Xtranormal on automatic wasn’t going to do him justice.\u00a0 So here’s the animated version of Gordon’s blog post, completed at 2:00 AM Monday morning at the point where my creativity and my perfectionism finally reached equilibrium.
\nThank you Gordon.\u00a0 It was fun.<\/p>\n

Man! this Mooc is Something Else<\/a>
\nby: upNorth<\/a><\/p>\n