Four pages of wordpress

I learned how to install Wordpress on my DotEasy hosted site. Besides that I had a part-time job running a wordpress site and so I pretty much knew how to run a content management system backwards and forwards. So that's neat.

http://contextualsatisfaction.com/wp/index.php/iron-giant/

Zoetrope

Zoetropes are kinda cool. This was a pain in the ass to make. Very finicky, and I probably should have used less frames for the animation, cuz I feel the slats are too wide. All in all it took multiple hours to get something I don't like that much, but now I know how to do it.

I made the assets in illustrator, edited it in AfterEffects, then published it via Premiere. Moseltov.

Who wants to play cards?

 
Heres a whole bunch of card backs for a game. I made everything in Illustrator. I guess I learned a little bit how to work within the template guidelines. The game sounds kinda fun. I'd rather play board games though.

Vector Shapes do animation stuff

Not a huge fan of this assignment. Just threw in some effects, played around with them in Adobe Aftereffects, finished the whole thing off in Premiere Pro, the whole thing was a dull couple hours.

I learned where a couple of the vector animation settings were in After Effects

I drew some wiggly lines in the shape of my favorite alien robot

Anybody love Iron Giant?

I love Iron Giant. Iron is the best. Animation is the best.

In any case, I used my Intuos Wacom tablet. This was probably one of the longest time's I'ves spent on one composition. It would look much better with some of the fills I made, but thats against the assignment rules so OH WELL.

In any case, this was an Illustrator job. I made the paths, then micro-managed the width profiles of each line. It was a massive process of trial and error. But I love it, because I love Iron Giant. I got much more practiced with my pad.

Screw the haters.

SLAM That's me hitting you with design.

Keeping it one hundred, I didn't learn that much this time.

I've designed almost one hundred different pages for newspapers, magazine and pamphlets, so this wasn't super edifying for me. I did play around with 60s style background pattern, so that was fun. I used Illustrator for the background, InDesign for the main cover, and I packaged it all with my fancy font I created in the previous assignment. To be honest, Brian, the whole part about having a separate motif but calling it a folio in the assignment description was really confusing. Boo. But I love ya so it's cool.

Man am I feeling the senioritis.

Jquery is a ball, yo

I've now made two Jquery galleries in my life

This is a text post because the assignment was to make a jquery page in dreamweaver, and Dreamweaver is being a butt and won't connect to Brian's server, but I have to talk about what I learned. I learned that there are many open-source gallery options out there, and now that I have an understanding of HTML and CSS, I am free to use and customize them all! I used Adobe Dreamweaver and my brain to accomplish it.

I made a Twilight Zone riff!

I made another thing!

This was another fun assignment. I felt like I really have a handle on Adobe Aftereffects now. A couple of the comps I used have comps within that comp, and it even goes deeper than that. Comps within comps within comps within comps. I learned that you can make realistic visuals without any video footage. I used Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and Premiere Pro. And Twilight Zone rules.