♥ Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Whew... where do I start. This second time around in Online Design was an interesting experience.
I was really excited on expanding my knowledge in the software, and I was excited about taking on a new challenge.
The first time I was assigned project B, we were instructed to pick a a well known fairy tale (or nursery rhyme) and give it a modern twist. We got to choose our own songs, and I picked Little Miss Muffet for the story to animate in the end and made it into an anime (and threw in references of Chick-fil-a).
Little Miss Muffet Here. However, this time when I took the class, I came in expecting the same things. Instead, we were each assigned a song and we had to create a motion video to the song's rhythem. It took me a minute to get a story I would enjoy making. Until finally, I came up with the half rabbit-half donkey creature. In this process, I discovered that I really like making storyboards. I don't prefer to put the graphics in motion in Flash, but I do like to computer illustrate the characters and other objects. I always feel that I could do better. I'll probably tweak it in the near future.
For Project C, I was really nervous. We were assigned art movements and had to create a cell phone mini museum experience for people who did not want to leave their homes. When I saw the selections we had to choice from, a few people quickly picked the ones I wanted before I could. So at that point, I just didn't really care what I got. Even though in my head I was praying that I wouldn't get the Arts & Crafts Movement.. and that's exactly the one I ended up getting. I guess it was just destiny lol. This was probably the toughest assignment I've ever had to do, but at the same time, I was up for the challenge... I don't like shunning away anything that will help me grow. Anyway, the Arts & Crafts Movement was so far from my element, I didn't know if I would be able to translate this site well. I went through a good 5 designs on screen for this site, and it wasn't until the 6th one that I finally got it. But that wasn't until after I had already designed the DreamWeaver site ^_^
Project D...
Man, I was like really excited about this at first. I thought we would be able to create our own websites like we did my first time in the class. I stayed up all night writing the design brief about what I wanted to create. When I emailed it to the professor, and I was told that it's supposed to be a sister site for the cell phone site, I wanted to cry TT_TT lol. I thought I had escaped the Arts & Crafts Movement for good... all I could say was "devastation." So after I did the wireframes and the first draft of the layout, I started to worry. I thought the choices I made weren't good at all.. the textures were too busy and they were clashing with text. At that point, I just had to take a break... for about a week lol. I spent that time looking for inspiration (and I made a few other layouts for other people.) Finally, I created something that had a modern style that was pleasing to the eye, and the content strictly focused on the Arts & Crafts Movement. After doing some major tweaking, I was able to just code everything into DreamWeaver and completed the site within 3-4 hours. I don't think I've ever done an entire site the quick before. I was really happy with the outcome.
Overall, I would say I really enjoyed this class. I would definitly take it a thrid time (If I were to still be in school.. or even if that were allowed). I love doing web design, and I hope that I will soon be able to create a Flash-based website.
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