Final analysis
SLUGGY PRODUCTIONS
Well it took a long time and was very frustrating at times but i am pleased with the final outcome. I have deffinately learnt alot from this project and looking forward to visiting this subject again next year. My folder i kept everything in could be a little more organized but i should of done that right from the start instead of part way through. Its interactive and i tried new thing than the last one i did and it was good to just do what ever. Learning actionscript was something I was really wanting to do but glad I learnt a bit of it as it helped my site alot. Would definately say its a step up from my last site hope my mark is just as good. So yea that my self promotional website. Peace out looking forward to my holiday and going boarding in Queenstown. peace out
FINAL DESIGN AND LAYOUT
This is the design layout you click on the buttons and it kind of cocks the next picture in a slide show kinda hard to explain this page is all about the animation and what i would like to achieve and the standard im at the moment.
This is my general drawing page just got an image of my drawing and explains what it is all about also has figure drawings and also my silkscreen all treated the same
This is my new addition to my interests and hobbies. This gear I actually went and bought and this season is looking very promising indeed. I have been up heaps of time before just decided it was time to actually buy my own gear. Got a big queenstown boys trip coming up for winter fest. Its gonna be off the chain.
This is my bio page. Pretty much talks about what makes me tick like most bio's on yourself do so yeah. Same design treatment
This intro page that allows you to enter the site. a movie plays up until this point and then you go in and experience the design of this website.
Action scripting
Action script is a pain in the arse if you dont get one thing right it doesnt work. Many of times its because of the smallest thing I have manged to figure it out though mostly through trial and error. But yeah sites coming along good should have been posting every step on this blog but I have done a bit of a work book so i should be alrite for working process.
Meet Mr Sluggy
Just a simple slug Ive made up and turned into a simple attraction to my site. An element I havn't explored before and rather enjoying. Have created him in a flip book sense which meant I had to do a lot of drawing in different poses.
Project two FLASHED BASED WEBSITE Digital4
My proposal for 50% of the second Digital 4 Flashed based website, is to create a fun interactive way of self promotion myself via website design and some of the other Design areas in which I am interested in. It will also have a bit of a bio and maybe a little about one of my interests
Main features
- The intro will have a small animation in which I will create and I was orignally going to take this throughout my intire site but due to time issues this might not actually be possible.
- The design of each page will be interactive as Im using flash and will make the site more interesting than just plane old Dreamweaver. Menu will move or do something Im not sure yet could be just a movie intro.
- Basically have some of my work from some other projects such as general drawing silkscreen and figure drawing along with my interests in animation and other hobbies.
- We pretty much have free range on what we can do and don't really have any limits so it should be fun to see what the end product will be
Behaviours
Behaviours was the one key thing I had forgot to try and do to get my links to other web pages to work. John rocked in and done it in two minutes which was a bit frustrating considering how long I was here last nite trying to get it to work. but its done now and it works so Im glad.
all the different page layouts
This is a small gallery for each of the two books that i scanned pitures out of. They are bothe related to stencils and i wanted to show a little history of what has been done before
This is what happens when your click on one of the pages in the gallery the picture is just shown larger so you can see whats going on a little better
This is a page of work that I have done and a close mate, and some of his work. I like the photos at the top change in photoshop to look like a stencil and the fact that alot of the time when you do some work nobody knows who the artist is. Hense why you cannot see our faces
This is the book review page. The books are Melbourne the stencil capital and street logos. This is my favourite page as I like the design it looks goo its interactive things move, its great.
This page is dedicated to a new series of art work using the stencil form i have recently started so decided to put that in there as most of my site revolves around that bell flower. well thats where it come from. I am a little dissappionted I havent got as much work that i could put on the website as i have given alot of it away and i dont have a digi camera so i havnt been able to record them.
This page is just the main page that links off to all of the rest its simple and is actually slightly different to that on the screen. I managed to get my link bar working so that is also on this page linking to other related sites or just the ones I find interesting
different pages in my site
This is the opening page of my site before you enter it took me along time to learn how to use the masking tools in flaash but i managed to figure it out. im not entirely happy with this page its pretty boring really but it catches the eye that the plant is actually growing on the screen.
more pages
This is my contact page I hope i have got the email address thing working if not i put my email address so people could contact me otherwise. A thankyou for visiting is also there just to thank viewers
The content of this page is all the equipment needed for ths type of art work. If i had more time i would go back and talk to john about making a trolly cart so you could actually buy certian products from the site if you wished. This includes art works and comissioning for art works.
analysis
Overall my site I think is looking and functioning well, its easy to navigate around pages dont load up slowly they are quick as even though i have a bit of flash on most pages. The design is simple. doesnt take up much room on the screen only the standard size 1020px by 600px.
Holly #!$%@*
This has been a bit of a pain this site mainly my own fault for trying to make it interactive but im almost there everything is linking well except for FLASH BUTTONS WHICH I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET TO LINK TO OTHER RELATED SITES BUT I CANNOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME FIGURE IT OUT. I guess Ill talk to john tomorrow and see if he can help me out if not its not that important my site will do without. Just would have liked it to be part of it to show I could do it.
flash tutorial i found on the net for text scrolling
Flash Static Text Scrolling
To create effect of scrolling text we are going to use a Flash Motion Tween of a text symbol. We will take the text at one point in frame 1 to the end of our animation frame 350. Begin with a clean Stage and select the Text Tool from the Tools window. Choose static text, black text color, font size of 15 and a Verdana font from the Properties window.
We are going to be working with a lot of area that isn't on the stage, so it will make your life easier if you change the viewing area to 50% to shrink the Stage and show more of the "imaginary" Flash Stage.
With Frame 1 selected in the Timeline window create a new textbox by click-dragging the Text Tool just below the the viewable stage area. Your box should be about same size as we have.
Copy and paste the following text into this new textbox:
"In a tutorial far, far away there was a lesson that was so incomprehensible that not even the Great One could decipher its meanings and yet people still fussed over its text everyday in hopes of some revelation, but they were to be disappointed because the tutorial was written in jest by the Not So Great One to get back at the Great One for being less than great."
Move Text Field
Now you need to insert a KeyFrame at Frame 250. With frame 250 selected drag the text box above the stage's viewable area like we have:
While still in frame 250, drag the text field above the viewable Stage area.
All you need to do now is just right-click any frame from 2-249 and choose Create Motion Tween and you have finished creating Text Scrolling! Go to Control < Test Movie to view your masterpiece.
You may view our finished Flash project or download our Raw Flash file if you are having trouble doing it on your own.
Flash Textbox Input Scrolling
Creating a Textbox Input that scrolls is very easy in Flash because Macromedia has gone to the trouble to create everything for you. All you need to do is drag and drop the right components in the right place and Macromedia Flash Magic will do the rest.
Creating a Flash Textbox Input
With a clean Stage, select the Text Tool from the Tools window and choose the following from the Properties Window:
Input Text from the Text Type drop down selector
Enable - Show Border Around Text
Multiline from the Line Type drop down selector
Now drag a Text Input Box like we have below. Note: We want to make it large enough so the scrollbar doesn't get squished inside this textbox.
To open up a list of the droppable interface components that Macromedia Flash has go to Window < Components. Inside the Components window, scroll down until you see User Interface and Expand this directory. Scroll to the very bottom of the User Interface directory until you get to UIScrollBar.
Drag and drop this scrollbar to the righthand inside area of the text input box. If you do not place it inside the input box then the ScrollBar will simply float and not function as we want it to. The scrollbar can be seen below, outlined in blue.
Next Control < Test Movie and type in a bunch of text until you need the scroll bar.
Book review page
Alright this is one of my pages that is quiet interactive the flowers grow shooting out the pictures etc its not finished yet i have to work out how to make a text scroll box as I dont have very much room left and I still have to put a gallery along the bottom yet. I am very pleased with this but i think i could have lost the working version as i need to add to it and i can only find the published version. Getting excitied!
Site is under way
Alright I'm on the ball now got my main template for each page its just a matter of pulling things together now. My front page is a flash animation that shows a flowing growing and an enter button popping out of a flower bud which takes you into the site. I have now got all my images sorted and just trying to think of an interesting way of showing them. My site is pretty simple in design as i want it to be easy to navigate around. there will be a couple of galleries or slide shows to show work related to the site and what I like to do out of tech. PEACE
Flash
Today started a more in depth learning of the programme flash, ie shape tweens, onion skining, buttons, movie clips. These are all going to be helpful for the website Im working on as I would like a little bit of flash to help it stay interactive. The bulk of it will be done in dreamweaver but certian buttons and other features I will use flash. I have sorted out my main template which will run through all the pages (as below) Its simple but simple is effective.
Proposal for new website
Logan Newport PROPOSAL
My proposal for 50% of Digital 4 is the designing of the website showing work I’ve done and a bit of tech life. This is where I spend most of my time so I want to show what I have done and what it has to offer. The site will be very simple in design and will flow through all pages.
My site will have four main features
- Homepage will consist of a front picture done in Photoshop. Subtitles of what the site consists and an enter button to enter the site.
- The site will not have a main button menu as I would like to try something different by having simple arrows at the left and right side of the page going to the next page so ultimately goes round in a circle.
- There will be a contact page with an email and contact address if anyone is interested in any work being commissioned or any feedback given.
- Each page will have a simple stencil button leading off to other information or pictures or sites.
- Valid information on history of stencil art and links to other artist with similar work. www.davidkinsey.com etc
- I’m trying to go for a total number of pages of 8 and having a flash movie somewhere in there also
An interesting, interactive simple designed site is what I’m after and to inform people about the stencil art movement.
