mission accomplished!

IT IS COMPLETE!!!!

http://people.arch.usyd.edu.au/~clee5026/webart

Hopefully you enjoy the website as much as I do! :) It was a great experience to create and I will expand my knowledge on Adobe Flash and also website designing.

Thank you for teaching us!

The final website - nearly done!

A screenshot of the website: work in progress.

I never knew how much  I can/will learn of Flash within this course. It is amazing. A bit frustrating with the scripting, but nevertheless, exciting to see what you have created in the end.

I didn't have enough time to produce the number of animations/video clips within the flash space for the rollovers and also the images in the external links as I wanted. But hopefully, the layout and its contents makes up for my website.

flash issues >.<

Remind myself to never make anything related or anything near to moving like a pair of doors in Flash EVER. Again.

Actionscripting is a bit of a pain, but making this site has been very enjoyable so far! I have got most of the graphics collected and edited, except for the main page inside pages. I'm trying to keep the serious face on the main index page. (not the enter page with the rabbit)

With a bit of outside help, I needed to go into levels in actionscripting and also the addition of one test for opening and closing the doors with different backgrounds....

Never again... seriously.

(Wow, Kelly Clarkson song hahaha)

Final website - WIP (work in progress)

I finally got the basic skeleton of the website going with flash. I have the visual elements that would be included for the main site and also parts of the secondary pages (internal and external links.)

Will need to reference a few artists for their photographs, works and etc. I needed help with the actionscript step with the doors. So with a bit of outside help, I got the doors to open and close as an action with the navigation bar.

To enhance the artistic touch, I wanted to add more pieces of art in the background like framed paintings.

Now I'm experimenting with an old fashioned font and also traditional background wallpaper textures.

Hopefully this is going alright! >_<

Main project - relation to space

My website would be created in a virtual space, with photographic images used to give it an abstract touch. It's going to relate to space as it is a medium to let the viewers enter into different spaces.

Each space would be represented by a different "level" on the elevator buttons (navigation bar). So the different spaces would be:

1. very cramped space

2. very open space

3. perfect space

4. outer space (for a comical touch)

I want to press on the idea of creating the website with an elevator appearance as it is a MEDIUM for traveling to different spaces. To enhance this medial appearance, I decided to make this into a flash website. So whenever the viewer clicks on a button on the navigation bar, the elevator doors on the right, would open and close like a normal lift. A possible audio sound of  "ding!" will be heard everytime you click.

There will be elevator music in the background to give it a sense of irony and atmosphere. The main page, the elevator doors would open to a welcome page. Then for spaces, there would be a page for "about," "works," and "affiliates/links."

So everything apart from the navigation bar (centre left) and the elevator doors (main text area - which would be centre-right) would be layered with modern/abstract graphics or white space.

It's going to an artistic website designed for photographic space experimentation and artistic identity. This would contain information on what space is, and what art could do to fill up space. So for copyright issues, I shall put in my own artworks and photographs in as the content. This can be somewhat of a portfolio yet a unique website on my own interpretation of "space."

Interesting site

http://www.simonemoreno.com/

I loved how they used the colour black and white here along with the simple touches of vectors on the left to present the artistry of the site.

The use of space is what I'm hoping to accomplish with my website as I'm hoping to create it infront of a large photo, such as this site. I dont want to lose both the text and the background image's impact on the viewers, so hopefully I can use this website as a guidance for designing and creating my site.

I love the rollovers for this website. It's so simple yet so effective as an interactive tool in creating a website. I would like to create the same effect on my navigation bar as it does have similar colours and font already. I would like to keep my design simple and easy to navigate around the site without much confusion, data loading and eye appeal.

I know I won't be able to create the main text area to move as much as it does for simone moreno's site, but I would like to keep this design of space use and the collaboration with text and large images.

Final idea

Okay my website would be based on the idea of being in an elevator. There will be four levels (4 links/pages) on this website.

So I would like to make the navigation bar to be based on the elevator buttons and the main window framed with the elevator doors.


Here is a screenshot of what I have created so far. I'm getting there with the amount of layers most likely needed with flash. I would like to make the doors open and close each time a button is pressed by the user, to make it more relevent to my idea.

So in the main window, each page would have a different photo of me in a different space. I have thought out the different images already:

1. Me cramped into a small space
2. Me standing in a large open space
3. Me in a perfect space (i will have my arm raised to match the space's width)
4. Me flying in space

I want theses images to have a white space in the background, so all of these photos would be taken in a white environment and edited for space exaggeration and focal points. The photos would be taken by a friend of mine and would be posted up very soon! So with these photos this would be my focal point of representing the theme "space."

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I know this is really random but this is a really cool flash website showing alot of cool animations with claymation and drawn-based characters:

https://www.zune-arts.net/