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Old School Calculus

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6-5-03
Thanks to all those who wrote reviews. For those who haven't seen the movie yet, it really doesn't have any calculus in it, but it's sort of about calculus. I also forgot to mention that I drew most of the pictures, but I sorta ran out of time towards the end and started using MS clipart (ie: the wizard, dragon, lighthouse, bridge). You should be able to tell what I drew.


6-4-03
I made this with my girlfriend, Frances, for our Calculus project. I thought it was funny and we spent a lot of time on it so I decided to share with the world.


You don't need to know calculus, but it might make a little more sense.


I'd appreciate reviews and will even respond to all helpful ones (whether they are positive or not). Give suggestions, criticism (I already know that the sound is sub-par and am sorry), or compliments.


If anyone cares, I started learning flash a month ago or so, but refrained from flooding the portal with CRAP like many artists. Don't worry, I won't make any more almost-educational films.


FYI: Calculus in a nutshell
Derivatives have to do with the slope of a curve.
Integrals have to do with the area under the curve.
Word problems often involve objects being filled by water or shapes being revolved around the x or y-axis.

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Ugh, Calculus, the derivative of all evils.

Okay okay I realise that what I just said above is stupid since Calculus is an important tool for technology and most of the items in our everyday lives, yadda yadda yadda. Also, you do have to use Calculus in Chemistry, I did a stage 1 Chem course once where calculus is used in something like kinetics and rates of reaction, didn't like it much though. Also, I have to do more calculus for my CompSci degree, so hooray for me I guess, NOT. Infact I think anyone can learn it if they put their mind to it, but if you're like me, and you think math is overall quite boring and gives you headache from time to time, it can be tough.

Very Amusing

Haha, I haven't done Calculus in almost 3 years, and this reminded me of why I hated it. I found this to be clever and original, while showing a knowledge of math at the same time. Excellent work.

NeeKnight responds:

Thanks! =)

Hilarious.

Awesome job on this one, all so true. Great example's on everything, laughing the whole time. Fix up a few minor recording issues and it will be perfect.

Overall 10/10
Good job, very original.

NeeKnight responds:

Yeah, our mic was pretty bad. Thanks for the positive review!

'Tis so true.

That basically sums up the worth of calculus, I got quite a few good laughs off this one.

Great work!

NeeKnight responds:

Thanks. Glad you liked it.

lol

I remember Calculus as being very difficult and boring (yep they try to use that stuff in physics too), but if Calculus was really like this flash animation, it might be fun. This looks like something that could've been used in a math project maybe, but made in a simple and understandable way so that the average person can understand it.... well even with this flash, it still is complicated.... just over my head... oh well. Good voices, kind of like an educational film satire or something. Keep up the good work.

NeeKnight responds:

Well, this flash wasn't really meant to teach you a whole lot about calculus. It was the comic relief portion of my project. It was just meant to produce a few laughs. Glad you liked it.

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