Animation Rotation

     Graphic Design has ended and we have moved on to animation. In animation we were assigned to make a 3D animation, a 2D animation, and start the product website. After collaborating on what to do, we decided that the 3D animation would be a of demonstration showing how the Tele-Pack works. Our 2D animation is a little different, instead of making it full-length, we made a short animation of our team name: FLYLO. We thought that we could insert this at the beginning or end of our commercial from the upcoming video rotation. Below I have added some screenshots of the website-in-progress and our animations.

2D Animation:

3D Animation:

Screenshots From Our Website-In-Progress:

     The end of this year is coming up fast but we are still working hard and I am very happy with what we have accomplished now that I am looking back. I am still considering changing the color scheme of some of our graphics to make the website stand out. We are also looking into adding some sound into the 3D animation. I can't wait to see how our video rotation and presentation will go!

Graphic Design Rotation

This last quarter is off to an eventful start. I am starting off in Mrs. Smith's graphic design class and we have been given five tasks to create in Adobe Illustrator.

~product logo

~company logo

~website banner

~advertisement

~coupon

After a week and a few days of collaborating and hard work at the computers, we have accomplished our five goals:

Overall I am satisfied with our results. We worked to make our logos reflect a theme. Our product logo font was made to look futuristic and reflect our slogan of "Going Beyond" using the arrow in the T. The company logo was made to look professional with the cursive-like font. I think it says that our company and product are reliable. Finally, our website banner, advertisement, and coupon combined these ideas and looked very nice. We have to finish some last bits on our advertisements, but other than that, the last thing we might look at is the background colors. I am really excited to move on and see what our team will create in the animation rotation.

Mini Presentation Blog

     Now that we are back from sprig break, we have begun our final unit in e9.  All of the students in the program were shuffled an then put into groups of four based on our personality types. My group is Nathan, Mason, and Kevin. Our assignment is to create a product and apply our knowledge from graphic design, video, and animation to make logos and advertisements that will make people want to buy our product.
     Every day in class we use the five guarantees; technical skills, communication, leadership, collaboration, and project management to effectively work together as a team and create our company and product. After a week and a half of working, we decided that our company name would be FLYLO with the slogan, "Go beyond". We all agreed that is matched our product: the teleporting backpack (TelePack).
     The TelePack is a product made for people around 13-25 years of age. It includes an app on your phone with a GPS that can sync to the backpack, telling where and when to go. Another option is a voice activation so you can tell the TelePack where to go. We thought that our product would help students save time and prevent backaches from all the books. It will also bring the possibility of traveling and vacationing to the ease of pressing a button.
     Today in class we had a mini presentation of what we had developed so far. We instantly received feedback and got to discuss our strengths and weaknesses as a class and a group. Our group did well receiving a 9/10 score we only missed half a point on explaining why our logo was perfect to represent our project and our slogan.

CSS and CARP Website Design

Overview:

     This week, we finished our house in Sketchup and started another web design project. The purpose of this project was to show how using the principles of CARP could make our websites better. 

Relating to CARP

Contrast

In this project we used contrast in our text fonts and colors. The title fonts were bigger and had more serifs than the poem's fonts. There were also slight contrasts between the colors of the title text, poem text, and page text. The colors were were all different shades of brown and black which created more contrast. We also made the first paragraph of the poem in italics to add a bit of style.

Alignment

Alignment is very important in a website, it is the rule of keeping different texts lined up with each other to produce a cleaner look that is visually appealing and easy to read.   It looks silly to have important text floating in the middle of a page, away from everything else. All of the text should be aligned either to the left or the right under the title.

Repetition

The repetition in this project is found in the colors between the dog and the webpage. We used the eyedropper tool to select colors from the dog and apply it to the texts and backgrounds. Even though they weren't the same color every time, it was easy to see a rising theme knowing that the colors came from somewhere.

Proximity

Proximity is used to group related ideas together, in this project we grouped the poem and the dog close together because they shared the same idea.

What I Learned: 

During this project I learned how to apply the rules of CARP to a website, we renewed our knowledge in Adobe Dreamweaver and made two websites showing what a great difference CARP can make in our work. One trick we learned to use that we didn't last time we used Dreamweaver was editing the code to input text fonts that weren't available in design mode. I will remember to apple the rules next quarter and throughout the rest of my time in the E-Communication program.