Andrew’s Class: Changes to Portfolio Website

Here are the changes I will be making to the website:

• email & blog links – make them work (Nicole’s feedback)
• change packaging to identity (logos/corporate identity)
• for the MISC section, add one more button – show 4 works instead of 3 (will need to change the window to be like the layout mouseover)
• homepage – instead of ‘welcome to my website’, say ‘welcome to my graphic design portfolio’
• put my name in the top right hand area of the webpage (in the black header) – to make it clear whose site it is!
• follow Craig’s advice about navigation – be able to go to projects within the viewing area, instead of keep having to go back to the main gallery menu.

 

Andrew’s Class: Portfolio Website Prototype

For Andrew’s class, our current assignment is a portfolio website. Like what we did for Craig last semester, but better now we have more experience. 🙂

Each of us have to create a prototype in Fireworks and make it into a pdf. We have to get feedback from classmates on suitability, usability and feasibility.

Here’s my prototype for review:

Judith Tan – prototype pages for classmate critique

Am looking forward to everyone’s comments 🙂 Criticize and pick at it as much as you want, that will help me make it better 🙂

Thanks in advance,

Andrew’s Class: HTML Quizzes!

Today we took some HTML quizzes in class.

Our task was to then post our results. 🙂

Here are mine hehe

Quiz link (the other quizzes continue from this link, but you can only get to each one if you pass the previous one!

teamtreehouse.com/library/websites/html/introduction

Stage 1 – Introduction (forgot to do screen shots of my results from this stage!)

• 1st go – 3 correct, 2 incorrect (you need at least 4 correct answers to pass)
• 2nd go – 5 correct (Andrew helped with one, some were the same as from the previous go) 😀

Stage 2 – Text

• 1st go – 4 correct, 1 wrong

Stage 3 – Lists

• 1st go – 3 correct, 2 incorrect
• 2nd go – 4 correct, 1 incorrect

Lists Challenge

• after various goes and some help from Andrew and Katrina, finally passed it 😀

Semester 2!!

It is now the 3rd week of

Andrew’s Class: Some final notes

Above – all 3 completed characters!

GunGirl 2 interface is done!!!

😀

Things I’m happy about:

• my first experience with Flash!
• learned a LOT
• wasn’t keen on Flash at first, but by the end, I find it is actually really fun!
• like the look of my characters (guys could be more detailed if I had more time, but this has shown me that less detailed still looks ok!)
• good thing I did a bit of AfterEffects last year (else I’d get heaps more stuck)
• the moving robot in the title page hehe
• the weapons page – I think that’s my favourite page! 🙂
• etc 🙂

Some things I’m not happy about:

• Bad Time Management. All in capitals.
• repeating images 😦 didn’t get to draw new artwork for the title page
• just remembered as I was typing above line – forgot artwork for play page OOPS…sadness 😛

What I hope to do differently next time:

• start getting into the assignment much earlier – as soon as I get it!!
• do something each week – don’t let a week pass without doing at least a little of the assignment
• ok to be detailed, but don’t spend too much on stuff that doesn’t matter so much which will leave no time for things that do matter (and if there’s spare time afterwards, then I can go back to polish things up!

Well, I’d better go now. It’s 1:38am and I have 3 more assignments to work on which are due lunchtime and 4:30pm. -_-

See what I mean? The capitals are justified.

LOL

Well, that ended up to be a really fun assignment after all…and challenging and mindboggling! But great all the same 🙂

Andrew’s Class: Successful adventures

Yay! Andrew figured out what the problem was with my scrollpane. It was working already – just that I had added black tint to it so it wasn’t showing up. 🙂

I learned out to do a clipping mask animation for my light strip feature. This is the video I learned from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9292heSSTg

I also want to know how to make the window close when the quit button is clicked. I found this site http://www.gotoandlearnforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=20762

I haven’t tried it yet but I hope to later!

Andrew’s Class: PDF versions – Storyboard and Styleguide

Was looking through the brief to see if I’ve missed anything.

Realized that the style guide and storyboard need to be on the blog as PDFs. That’s not what I did! 😀

Here they are:

Storyboards – pdf version judith

Style Guide for GunGirl2 – judith

 

Andrew’s Class: Weapon Redesign

Great. The GunGirl website is down, so I can’t access the weapon info to redesign the weapons!

So I made up my own. (a mixture of what I recall + some fun ones 🙂 )

I’m pretty pleased with the outcome…considering I did them real quick (not an official requirement of the brief, but needed)

I Google-imaged the different guns to help me come up with the designs.

Here’s my roughs/planning:

Some more research (for writing the specs)

Difference between rifle and shotgun: Rifles are designed for accuracy to hit a precise point. Shotguns are designed to shoot a spread of shot at moving targets. http://homestudy.ihea.com/aboutfirearms/10diffrifleshotg.htm

Pistol – also known as handgun. My conclusion – must be close range 🙂

My final guns done on Illustrator:

Andrew’s Class: Digitized Robots

Btw, I finally digitized my robots.

This is what I want to put in the scrollpane: My robots – digitized at last

(grey stripes won’t be there in the final 🙂 )

Andrew’s Class: ScrollPane + Time Fail

Have been working and working on my GunGirl interface 🙂

(me and my bad time management. Again 😀 …I am looking forward to starting afresh next semester!! Whoo!!)

Anyways, since there’s a lot of robots and robot info to put into one page, I wanted to have a scroll feature so that everything could fit.

So I went about trying to figure out how to do it. On hindsight, this was probably a very unwise thing to do as I’ve spent 2+ hours on this one thing. Current GunGirl status – 1 animation, no sounds, no vectorized GunDude and Scythe, no weapons…due tomorrow noon. Current status for 1970s fashion presentation that’s due tomorrow afternoon? Please don’t ask.

And it’s past midnight. See what I mean? I’ve got laugh at myself again for being so stupid. Getting caught up in a detail which is not even required by the brief and neglecting everything else which NEEDS to be done LOL