Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Finally clicking

After doing all the buttons I started to figure out ways in which I could make them work, but I got stuck several times and when I was about to give it up, Jason taught me how to make the buttons work! Now I just need to add the images of the inside of the places, so it's gonna be possible to have an idea on how the website is going to work and look like. Unfortunately, the time given to do the whole thing is too short and the I lack ability when using flash as I spend a lot of time to do one simple thing. However, as practice leads to perfection I intend to keep working with flash for the rest of my life and soon this project will be finished and ready to be hosted @ the Interenet! Above it is possible to see the most recent advance of my portfolio website! Thanks Jason for sharing your flash experience with me and thanks to all the others for making this course very pleasant to me! See ya!
Adding Buttons

As soon as I finished painting some of the sections I tried to make the buttons work when running the mouse over each element, it took some time, but it finally worked! It is really good when you spend some time trying to do something in flash and it ends up working, but when it doesn't work I get very angry, but little by little I'm adding the buttons and I just need to know how to make them work! I think I will be able to do the basic structure until the end of the course, but the whole website it's gonna be very difficult to finish as I'm thinking about creating little stories in each place of the city when the person clicks and get into them! Above you can see the buttons working!
Enhancing

Until now I have done a lot in terms of enhancements, but I have no idea on how I'm gonna add the buttons, I'm gonna need some guidance from Jason to do this! But I have already started painting each element separetely and it's getting better more and more! Above it is possible to see what is happening to each section of the image!
The Beginning

Well, now I have already started painting the image to bring some life to it. At first I was thinking of painting the whole city, including the buildings and houses and then point out each one by making it bolder or highlighting it, but as Jason suggested that it would more interesting to enjoy the artistic aspect of the traces contained by the handdrawn stuff of buildings and houses I think I will do this way: keep the traces on buldings and houses as weel as other stuffs in the city and when the viewer runs the mouse over it the colour comes! Visually it is going to be better like this!
The Practice
Project Seed
Portfolio Project for Creative Interactivity
Idea 1
The development of a website in which is possible to find various ideas about businesses, campaigns and media plans. It consists in selling ideas to individuals or companies who are looking for alternative ways to increase sales or start successful businesses. Instead of creating one more website where is possible to find relevant information about advertising, products and campaign strategies, it would be more creative and interesting to do an agency of ideas, where it is possible to find various ideas with regard to the development of campaign concepts or new businesses’ concepts. The agency name is going to be ‘Factory of Ideas’ and the customer will be able to find only starting points for their businesses or campaigns. On the other hand, if this customer wishes to take a deeper look into what a certain idea could bring to a current or future business, this customer will find out that is possible to buy the idea with an exclusive personalised plan.
Idea 2
Building a website which contains a certain theme and the navigation through the website happens as the viewer clicks individual objects which compose the whole thing. Some examples could be: aquarium, forest, suburb, house, pub, stadium, building, downtown, park, etc…As the viewer navigates through the website, he finds out new places which contain an issue, a campaign or a simple work as well as information about the producers, their concepts and previous works.
Idea 3
Building a website which is actually an ocean and the viewer can choose between waves or currents he/she can get in order to find relevant information about campaigns, clients, producers and creativity.
In order to develop more the concept of my website I decided that I will combine the three ideas above to do this!
Idea 1
The development of a website in which is possible to find various ideas about businesses, campaigns and media plans. It consists in selling ideas to individuals or companies who are looking for alternative ways to increase sales or start successful businesses. Instead of creating one more website where is possible to find relevant information about advertising, products and campaign strategies, it would be more creative and interesting to do an agency of ideas, where it is possible to find various ideas with regard to the development of campaign concepts or new businesses’ concepts. The agency name is going to be ‘Factory of Ideas’ and the customer will be able to find only starting points for their businesses or campaigns. On the other hand, if this customer wishes to take a deeper look into what a certain idea could bring to a current or future business, this customer will find out that is possible to buy the idea with an exclusive personalised plan.
Idea 2
Building a website which contains a certain theme and the navigation through the website happens as the viewer clicks individual objects which compose the whole thing. Some examples could be: aquarium, forest, suburb, house, pub, stadium, building, downtown, park, etc…As the viewer navigates through the website, he finds out new places which contain an issue, a campaign or a simple work as well as information about the producers, their concepts and previous works.
Idea 3
Building a website which is actually an ocean and the viewer can choose between waves or currents he/she can get in order to find relevant information about campaigns, clients, producers and creativity.
In order to develop more the concept of my website I decided that I will combine the three ideas above to do this!
Good Example of an Agency Website

To have ideas to create my portfolio website I've been looking at heaps of websites and in some of them I can extract ideas to create mine! I don't how it's gonna be in terms of structure or even in terms of creativity, but one thing I'm sure, it needs to be very creative and clean, without lots of information that make the viewer confused! Africa is one of the best Brazilian agencies nowadays and it has some of the clients of the Brazilian market of Advertising and there's one extreme thing that they priorise in the website: simplicity! If I want to have feedback I have to be simple and creative while doing my website and I will inspire myself on this simplicity to make my portfolio website effective!
http://www.africa.com.br/
Animation Websites

Good stuff can be found in the website below! They pick the best ads using animation around the world so people can vote for the best of the best ones! It has a lot of content and it is updated every week! Regarding that I have to do my portfolio website, I am looking at the best stuffs in terms of animation to create it! As far as I am concerned with this, I've been seing a lot of creative things done with a lot of perfection! I don't if I will be able to reach that level, but I try my best to do it! As I am beginner in flash I don't think I will be able to do something so perfect, so I will try to explore more the creativity in my portfolio website than the perfection!
http://www.bestflashanimationsite.com/vote/
Excellent Ad!

There are great ads and excellent ads using animation. This ad entitled 'Fighting for Kisses' made for wilkinson razors is one of them! During the trailer shown it is possible to see a family relationship from the skin softness viewpoint! After seeing an ad on the paper a father finds out why the baby is always with the mom and then he starts to use the product in order to improve his skin softness changing the scenario: now his wife is always with him, making the baby feel jealous, then it is possible to see that the baby becomes angry and he starts a series of training which was perfectly done through animation. The ad finishes with the baby kicking the door down while his dad is shaving. It's worth to check!
http://www.ffk-wilkinson.com/
Drawing with the light

The possibility of drawing with the light is something I have never thought before in terms of creativity. In those pictures, this guy uses a digital camera that has a resource that enabled him to draw with the light on the screen! That's a good way to work the interactivity in animation or even in artistic events! Light tracing is a technique that I would like to use in future assignments or independent works!
That hurts!
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