Capstone Menu

Today I worked on my capstone menu. I finish animating the word 'Graffiti' by making it flash to white and back to its orignal color (gradient fill). Then I put in some info. of my capstone/senior project into the slideshow. I only have page 1 so far done but I made the next and back buttons with a simple black rectangle fill box. Then I put in stop action in the desired places of keyframes. Here's what page 1 looks like.

Work! and more work!

Today I worked on making my eel music player and try putting in the code for that but it didn't work out so well. It is not done being colored but I got the basics down. The buttons are made and I just need to put in the coding for music player audio. I hope it will turn out pretty sweet! Here's what it looks like so far.

Then on my capstone menu, I started making more graffiti letters since it relates to my capstone project. Here's what I got so far.

And that's it for now!

Working on Interactive Resume

Today I actually was very interested in continuing my Interactive Resume.

First, I put in another portfolio piece onto one of the tentacles/arm of the octopus and convert that into a button and put the code in for it to go to another page to show the complete portfolio of piece of it.

Then I asked about how to fix my bubbles and I realize my motion tween of the bubbles were broken so I had to make sure that each bubble was by itself and that I convert them to a graphic symbol. I did that to all the bubbles (I think there were like 20 bubbles). There were lots of keyframes which is showed below.

Afterwards, I took a break from the portfolio menu and went to do a sidework of the capstone button. I made it with graffiti like letters using the pen tool changing the stroke size to 5 so it looks more bubbly. Then I animate each letter to different colors on different key frames so it looks like it is flashing then stops. Here's what the keyframes of it looks like below.

I accomplish a lot today! I'm proud of myself =] but I'm still not close to being done =[

interactive resume!

Worked on the portfolio menu again with the coding. I was trying to find a way to where when the person clicks on one of the portfolio piece, it will pop up and stays there.

I asked my friend Shae for help of how to do it cuz I didnt know exactly where I should put it. But now I know! =]


So I'm doing that now. Kinda frustrating when you mess up.

IRES work

Today I am trying to finish my portfolio menu. Everything is all done w/ the tracing, placement, colorization, and etc. But all I had to do is finish animating it.

I finish putting the bubbles in their different places on each different keyframes that I chose. It looks like this...

It took me a while because I accidently deleted all the keyframes earlier and I had to re-do it :(

Can't wait for Friday..

Oh I misread the assignment for the summary so that's why it is not very how it's supposed to be but oh well.

Anyways, I'm so tired today so I decided to take draw for my portfolio instead of working on my interactive resume (even though I should catch up a bit since I wasn't here yesterday). I get kinda sleepy when working on my Interactive Resume for too long.

I decided to try drawing out the 'Drawing Squirkles Around a Tree' on drawspace thats in the intermediate section. It doesn't look that bad of what I have so far. I just just need to darken certain parts that is the shadow by squirkling over first several squirkling some more.

Summary

Well first off before I start my summary, I would like to tell Mr. Fitzer to get well soon. So get well soon! And I have your money haha.

In the future, I hope to attend a college (such as CCAD, ITT, or Devry) for graphic design and media studies. I like to work on the computer, but not all that geeky stuff (no offence); but more of using it for designing. I just absolutely love art in general and I like to work on the computer. When I heard about graphic designing, I knew it was something I would love to do. And it was true! I never thought there was such a job like it before to be honest and was excited when I found out about it. Although I may not do my best in IMD when designing things in class, but I know I have talent for it =] I may not be the best but I'm sure I am not bad. And I like helping others out so if I do become a sweet graphic designer, then I know I wouldn't mind helping others out when doing my job.
As for media studies, I don't want to be on the computer all the time. I like to move around too (and it helps me stay awake haha). It would be a great opportunity to work with others in a group and working media would be fun for me since I think making/producing media is cool and for it be on tv or other would be cool to see my work and my group's work out in public. I would be proud of myself. (I hope that made sense haha).
Oh and one of my dreams is to own a huge place that's kind of like a dance studio yet a club also at the same time but not exactly club-ish if that made sense. [I love dancing (especially hip hop although I'm not very good at it haha. But I love watching it).] It's like in the movie 'Step Up 2' where dancers of the streets can come in and have a dance off, have fun, and there would be no alcohol and kids can be off the streets so they won't get into trouble. And it's not just for kids from the 'streets', it's for everyone also! Then I can design my own business cards and banners which will be cool =]
Hopefully I'll get all 3 jobs. But it will be a toughie tryna do all 3! But I probably wouldn't mind.