Updates incoming…
Just a quick blog note here, I’m going through and updating the entire website. I’ll post another update when I’m finished with the site overhaul. You probably already notice the completely new theme! I’m still working on customizing this to perfection. I’m also finally publishing a bunch of blog posts that have been sitting around as drafts for awhile. They’re somewhat incomplete (there was more stuff I wanted to add to them), but I figure this site needs a bit of a content update, so just getting them out for the masses to enjoy. In the meantime, here are some big projects...
Read MoreBack to School: Junior Year
I’m official over the hill. Instead of looking at how long I’ve got to go, it is beginning to feel as if the end is near. And though I look forward to venturing out into the “real world,” I can already tell that the college experience will be missed. This is just a quick recap of where I’m at right now, and where I’m headed with my next two years. Here’s a summary of where I’m at academically: Mass Communications major, Marketing minor (switched from Journalism last year) 3.66 GPA Enrolled in Honors Program (and have satisfied all Honors requirements except Capstone)...
Read MoreI really wish that…
… when professors said they want 10-page research papers with annotated bibliographies, they really meant to say they wanted a 10 page paper (with diagrams and pictures) about your thoughts on how Abe Lincoln is a badass future robot who will time-travel and conquer the world with an army of waffle irons. That would be a lot more fun.
Read MoreUpdated "About" page
I’ve got three sub-sections that I’ve updated on my About Us page. I’ve added a professional page and updated my personal about us page. The gaming about us page has yet to be updated, however. Check it out to learn more about Matt Richards!
Read MoreSemiotic Analysis of the Dark Knight Movie Posters
Normally I won’t post my school projects on my blog, but recently I’ve felt I’ve done some really interesting work, and it’s beyond the spectrum of “just a paper.” I’m really proud of my work, though it’s not masterful work, it definitely is making me happy to see how it turns out. Anyway, I struggled quite a bit on this project, but I really turned it around. We needed to select a certain type of media (an image, advertisement, poster, film, music, whatever) and analyze the “semiotics” of it. It’s a difficult theory to...
Read MoreA Battlefield 2 Graphic Novel: "The Dawn of Battle"
View “The Dawn of Battle,” a Battlefield 2 graphic novel on my website. This is an artistic vision of the popular Battlefield 2 modification, Project Reality. I went in and recorded all the action, in a single-player battle against bots. I then went in with the Battle Recorder, and took a ton of screenshots from a variety of angles. The next step was utilizing Adobe Photoshop to construct a unique theme to the images. I went in, constructed an HDR profile of each image, then applied various lighting and coloring techniques to try to tie everything together. Then I applied the...
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