Oh and an actual post regarding course work

Website design is going swimmingly right now thanks to help and guidance, feeling pretty good that it actually looks like it's almost done. Need to edit a text box on dreamweaver and Stuff, I think everything is done, best get my development together for show. it's minimal, but it'll just have to do. Illness, and I guess laziness on this unit are my downfall. i gotta be honest, this isn't my strongest unit (euphemism) completed even considering the 3 weeks off and the surprise brief, I wasn't doing all that much anyway so it's probably a point I acknowledge that.

My main goals (once this unit that hurts my head is over) is to get ready for the new unit coming up with the client initiated project. The fact that people from outside the college are coming in for this one makes this a whole lot more significant and I should heed that. Im thinking about avoiding my own style this time (as it's often experimental or new to me) and try something that i can base on my research and development. I don't even know what Ill be designing, the other class is apparently doing brew dog, but I have a strong suspicion that i will not be doing a beer company.

Let's see if i can predict, with my wish list. This is purely for fun, nothing more. Will post back when i learn what we got.
I think I heard this one focus' on new media solely. An animation would be fun, it's in groups which makes my struggle more so, but whatcha gonna do. I like working in groups, but as the animator, if I do that, i will be doing someone else's drawings. That's not really a problem, but just leave me with 10 cups of coffee, a pack of smokes and I'll be working for hours.

advertisment for: beer!
telephone company (possibilities are endless)
television commercial (like the E4 one)
design studio advert or something

on the more creative side of thinking:
a commercial for television shows
a short art based film, sheerly for expressing an idea, then presenting a product
Anti-labour government (hahah, yeah right)
holiday commerial

or maybe a jokey kind of animation about a music festival.

wHAT if it isn't animation? or if my group declines my choice? too bad for me i suppose. Wouldn't mind trying my animation skills again though.



Oh yes! doing the splash page!
p.s. sorry that was sooooooo long.

This is very cool!

This is the work of John K. The animator and creator of the famously stupid yet daring show, ren and stimpy. The song is tenacious D singing, it's at the start of their movie, quite cool to see them in cartoon form, he also did the animation for the music video **** her gently.

John K is a strange lonely kind of man probably.

The reason this stood out is, well, who the hell would commission something like this?

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

(p.s. SEXUAL THEMES OF A CARTOON NATURE AND CRUDE LANGUAGE, IF YOU ARE OFFENDED BY THIS OR THINK IT'S STUPID, THEN DON'T WATCH!)



George liquor is a big reason why nickelodeon stopped the show. his right wing, self righteous attitude makes fun of the common american veteran. His last name was wrong for kids, his attitude was wrong, and nickelodeon stupidly commissioned an adult television show, which is understandably done due to the stupidity at first glance.

also actual ren and stimpy, stupidly it has taken me 20 years to understand why this is funny, it makes fun of the american dream, and parodies the styles of old 50's cartoons like betty boop and popeye.

update quickly afer the last

I realised my files were all over the place and that the style meant that one would look different from the other so now I have psd files with all the layers and folders needed to make my job easier. here's both the home and products page, both in the same style and file.

Product page intro

this is the bit inbetween the home page and the products available. i THINK i've polished it enough, going to take photos of various clothes and skateboards, slapping the company logo onto them as i GO ALONG. worth while doing this over the next couple of days when Im at home.

just realised

My website says find us twice..... I am an idiot. I kinda mixed up the images in my sketchbook and the instructions for what the site must have therefore having two of the same link. Oops. fixing at moment along with a little more development on the products page, the map, the order form and the feedback and contact and the......... man I've messed up.

The site with cutout effect applied carefully.

had to redo a couple of parts but this really does look quite nice as opposed to the other style of graphics and considering the lines were getting messy anyway, this may be the way to do it. Check out the style, looks like water colours or inks and just brings everything together quite nicely. Simple technique wins again? Dunno, it makes things less clear so some experiments will need to be done before the final site is made. Running out of time but still trying to have fun.

this is an about page, plus will do one similar for the map

yup, the titles says pretty much all I needed to. Seems like the image has blurred but may be able to sharpen up. I know the green may seem sore on the eyes but I wanted to keep with the theme of the hospital and make all the machinery work as it does. With green text for about and red for the map. The map might be made to look digital (red lines and words on the blank screen).

Today I worked at home, because.....

I had the use of photoshop, and scanner and peace nad quiet (or so I thought). Family been getting me to do annoying little tasks, disrupting work, got in trouble when my brother was caught smoking, been shown stupid photo albums, had to walk the dog and when I finally got peace my folks came in to tell me I should be doing something useful like cleaning my room. I'm going to go to college more now. Wacom might mean drawing by hand rather than mouse which is great but my god, even the youtube videos are less distracting.

I needed to get that out, very bad mood. Took me all day to do this. I'm a little freaked by this. One might call out for a case of justifiable homicide.


On topic, been doing this site according to sketches and bref, seen we need to have order form feedback and contact together with these scripting things. Will ask in class. The whole thing looks fun, and different as I had inteded but still, we will see how the final piece looks.