Proscenia provides the following resources as a service to the media community. Please let us know of additional information so that we can keep these pages active and up-to-date.

Proscenia Newsletter Archives:

• Feature Pages. Beginning with the January, 2003, issue of the Proscenia Newsletter, we added a discussion (changed later to Feature) section to encourage readers to explore a variety of issues related to working in multimedia. This is an archive of those topics.
• Random Links. Each week the Proscenia Newsletter features collections of links related to multimedia. This is an archive collection of the Random Links column.
• Past Issues. We have been publishing the Proscenia Newsletter for over three years and have archived all except the very earliest issues which were e-mail newsletters.

Proscenia Interactive:

Proscenia Interactive was formed in the Fall of 2000 as an association of affiliated independent producers. Our mission is to encourage the design and development of informational, educational, and entertainment products that stimulate curiosity and positive cross-cultural values through intelligent program design.

Tutorials and Articles:

Each tutorial and article is copyrighted by the author and is made available for personal use only. Please do not duplicate or link to a tutorial without the permission of the copyright owner.

• Maya Tutorial:Controlling Venetian Blinds. This tutorial demonstrates a technique using a basic MEL (Maya Embedded Language) script to easily control a number of objects in a Maya scene. An example Maya scene file is included. By Keith Legg
• Maya Tutorial: Animating a Dynamic Tank Tread. Setup a rotating tank tread effect that conforms both to a path animation curve and the ground it rolls over. By Keith Legg
• Director Article: Creating Basic Animation in Macromedia Director. This article describes two of the most common methods used to create basic animation effects. Source Director movie files are included. By Ken Loge

Software and Multimedia Tips:

• AppleScripts for M.E.S.A. (Modular Editing System by AKAI). MESA is a free, cross-platform program AKAI gives away for use with their S-series samplers (i.e., the S2000, S3000XL, S3200XL, CD3000XL samplers, and the DPS12i and DPS16 Digital Personal Studios). MESA gives you near full control of any of the above samplers, and on the Macintosh platform, MESA supports AppleScript. This makes it possible to automate many sampler programming tasks, and greatly speeds up the creative production process. Here are several useful utilities. By Ken Loge.
• Flash ActionScript Tutorials. Includes: Simple Mouse Events; Controlling a Movie Clip; and Creating a Pop-Up Menu. By Ken Loge.
• Macromedia Director Examples. Various Macromedia Director movies and behaviors by Ken Loge. For the curious, the source code is included. Note: The Director files are in an 8.5 format, but you can copy the text versions of the behaviors and paste them into your Cast and use them with an earlier version of Director, if you need to. By Ken Loge.
• Wired QuickTime Examples. A wired movie is a QuickTime movie that has smarts. It may know how to locate the URL of a web page, or it may be a game or slide show. A wired movie can be almost anything that can be concocted with LiveStage Pro by TotallyHip Software. Working with LiveStage Pro is like talking directly to QuickTime and all of it's components and capabilities, but with a slick user interface and an easy to learn programming language called "QScript," which is integrated into the LiveStage environment. By Ken Loge.

Informational Materials:

• Image Search and Database: Online resources provide an extensive library of reference images often needed when drawing. This page has numerous image search engines as well as links to picture library collections. Note that most of the images you find are copyrighted and should only be used only for reference.
• Job Searching for Careers In Multimedia: A special collection of search engines related to media and communication careers. Explore jobs around the world.
• Online Resources: Links to resource sites and publications.
• Reel Action: A web site devoted to young media producers with an emphasis on film, video, and multimedia.

Regional Resources NW:

• Oregon Media Associations.This page identifies current professional organizations within the state involved in media communications and production. Many offer membership opportunities through which individuals can begin their professional networking.
• Eugene Media Production Studios. Proscenia Interactive is located in Eugene, Oregon. We have listed other production activity within the city for benefit of local students and others interested in media development within this region.
• Eugene Indie NW: News, and information about film, video, and multimedia in the Pacific Northwest.
• Reel Action: Teen Media