Turn Your Phone Into a Scanner With Scanner Pro

Scanner pro at iTunes App store

Researching your project in the library at Bucks just got a lot easier with a new app - Scanner Pro. You can find it at iTunes for $2.99. What does it do? It will scan a document for you using your phone camera, and then automatically size it correctly, and adjust the levels so you don't have to clean it up in Photoshop. What you get is an image which is presentation-ready, perfect to drop into your research document for uni. And the whole process takes just a few seconds.

Academic Citations Made Easy at www.citethemright.com

Academic citations just got much easier with www.citethemright.com. It's a free website which helps students to cite journals, books and other academic sources properly. Part of what our students learn at university is the art of academic writing, and this means proper referencing with inline citations. The advantage of using www.citethemright.com is that it automates the process, and makes sure that you cite your sources correctly, and completely painlessly.

Project Research - And How To Do It

The Library at Bucks - easy to use!

What is research and why do we do it? For animation students, research has a practical as well as an intellectual purpose. It's about figuring out what you are trying to do, by identifying the brief, taking a look at artists whose work inspires you, reading around the subject - and then setting out what your own creative goals are. In short, it's about defining the project, analysing it, thinking about it, and developing your own ideas.

How Do you Research a Project?

The Library at Bucks - a huge resource

What is research and why do we do it? For animation students, working on animation and visual effects projects, research can seem like an exercise you are made to do just for the sake of it, part of the rite of passage to earn those magic letters BA (Hons). But there is much more to it than that. Research has a practical as well as an intellectual purpose. It's about figuring out what you are trying to do, by identifying artists whose work inspires you and then setting out what your own creative goals are. In short, it's about analysing and thinking.