Final Web Project 4

We did it! Amber did a great job putting everything into Marvel, the program we chose to do instead of Invision after checking it out a bit more.

This is for the Website:

http://marvl.in/870j61

This is for the Mobile:

http://marvl.in/4fa73g

Here are snapshots of the final look! Website:

Mobile:

Final Web Project 3

Amber and myself have come pretty far from where we started with our idea. We want to make a website dedicated to telling people the advantages and benefits of drinking water and tea. Originally, we thought about going with this kind of color scheme:

While it as a nice color scheme, we realized that it didn't fit our webpage. I originally started off my half of our project with this kind of layout:

Honestly, this did not work out at all. I hated it haha. After talking with Amber, we both decided that the cream color we would keep. Since she was dealing with water, she would keep the cooler colors, but have them be pastel. Meanwhile, I took hold of warm, and earthy toned colors. 

I decided to go with a desktop layout (shown on the left) that dealt with talking about the benefits of drinking tea, while on the other column would talk about how much you should drink along with how much to brew. 

On the right is the version for mobile, that actually will be fixed. 

these are two icons I created (along with the icons of tea representing the different reasons for drinking it) that go with how much you should drink, as well as what other ingredients you can add in order for tea to taste good. the two icons above are actually transparent, so that's why it's hard to see them with a white background behind them. But rest assured, they are full forms when on the website.

I will be working more on my things tonight for pre critique this Thursday.

Week 13A Overview

I think my days are starting to run together, but I don't really think there's too much to report. We finished our experimental type projects which I am so thankful for, and now we are working on our final web project!

My partner, Amber and I have been working steady, and independently. I don't think that's been a bad thing you know? We plan on working on the homepage together, while tackling our other pages separately. More info will come in the next few posts!

Experimenta Project Final

After finding out the problem with my original upload, I was able to get my video to be crunched more! I went from 4.7 GB to 110 some odd MB! I had to go through some things first. But I'm glad it worked out okay.

Here is the Youtube video!! Enjoy :D I am really happy with how this came out, and I am honestly proud of what I was able to create. I plan to enhance my video with the sall changes that need to be applied to make everything 100% since I had some small errors with the matching. While editting it over I seem to have accidentally moved things over or done the opacity settings weirdly in places I originally had them perfectly.

Here are some snapshots of the video:

I was able to accomplish both the graph and the world by using tutorials I got off of Youtube. The first one was just how to create a Sphere, while the second one was about how to create a moving graph. 

This was where I used GIMP, and combined animal shots that I got off of the internet and incorporated them into a free "fake" photo template that I found. 

This is where my hand drawn experimental type comes into play.

I was able to (with minor timing problems) pretend to create my shirt by over layering my file with a video I took with my phone. I also was able to create a radar, by using another tutorial off of youtube. The tutorial can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTxz8tD2kAI

This was just my combined design of a logo that I may use in the future, as well as my type.

before this last panel, I made sure to incorporate a little blurb about the project again, as well as I gave credit to Kevin MacLeod for all of my music put into the piece. 

Experimental Project Progress 5

This weekend has certainly been a weekend! I decided to tone down my project just a little bit more, by just making it be about the t-shirt. Originally I had a kickstarter idea, but due to time limitations I've turned it into what I originally said I wanted to make- a t shirt that housed the idea of bringing awareness and hopeful chances of change in terms of endangered animals and their extinction. In doing so, my dialogue also changed just a little. 

"For as long as we can remember, humans and animals have co existed with one another. In a perfect world, we can say we have lived alongside these beautiful creatures peacefully and without conflict. This however, is not the case. As of right now, over ten species of animals are already facing possible extinction- and the year is only 2015.


According to a recent study published in Nature, 41 percent of amphibians, 26 percent of mammals, and 13 percent of birds face extinction. Another study shows that in 300 years, 75 percent of mammal species will be gone. It has been stated that humans are creating a mass extinction on the same scale as previous cataclysmic events- with 30 percent of all species facing elimination over the next four decades.

At SilverMoon Studios, we have designed an alphabetical shirt, with each letter representing an animal that is currently facing extinction. Throughout the day, the letters on the shirt disappear. This is done through a computer chip located in the shirt, and is also determined by how many hours have passed. For example, two hours equates to forty years. Depending on the species, the forty years passed represent the animal’s timely demise. As the day passes, you will go from a shirt with all animals on it to none, before it resets itself and the cycle repeats.

The SilverMoon organization is dedicated to promoting saving the endangered species, and bring awareness to how serious the situation is. It should also be noted that while this shirt’s function is to take away its design, this shirt can obtained without the computer chip. If you would like to contribute to this project, we are accepting funds at www.savethespecies.com. By creating this t-shirt, we hope to achieve awareness of this growing dilemma."

The final portions will be all text form, including things like "like us on facebook" and "share video" and so forth. I will also be sure to credit myself and Kevin MacLeod for being responsible for the audio.

Here are some more small snippets and portions of what I added to my piece and how I Went about it.

I put together a folder that housed a lot of mammal species, before using a photo template and incorporating each separate picture as its own "photograph" in GIMP. I then transferred the files into the AE file.

This was just my alphabet elaborated banner style, for purposes in the video to show that I had created letters from animal forms.

This is just an image logo filler I wanted to make for my "Silver Moon Studios" official 'group'. I may use this in the future for other things to be honest.

I have also been able to successfully incorporate video clips and put my alphabet to the test with pretending to be an actual t-shirt. I'm hopeful that my project will be good for tomorrow! 

  

Final Web Project 2

Today has been a work day for us. We decided to go along with the color scheme:

And it works pretty well. So far I talked to Amber about the ideas of the home page. We both agreed that it will be the least informative and detailed compared to the two pages we are separately working on. We also have agreed that we will create a mobile template for our second part of the website final project.

This is the sketch so far that I created.

The top left is the homepage idea, while the top right is my idea for my separate page that will be dedicated to tea talk. The bottom right is for the potential "endless scroll" mobile template. Bottom left is just another continuation of my separate tea page, but it's not complete yet of what I want. I have an outline however of how I want to approach my page.

Week 12A Overview

Tuesday was an in-progress of our final experimental project. I can't say it was the greatest, actually it was pretty embarrassing- but I know I can get it done. I just need more time is all. Things are coming along together which is nice, and the feedback I have gotten so far has been fairly positive. I still have all my ideas in tact, it's just getting things together is all that I plan to dive into. I am no longer afraid of using After Effects, if anything its' actually really fun to use. And the tutorials I've been using have been really helpful.

Thursday was also a work day. Today was focused on both Experimental and our final Web Project. Other than that, nothing to report for the remainder of this week.