Major Assignment #3 - Finishing Touches

With everything out of the way, all that was left was to decide whether it was enough. Whether or not it needed anything, or if I needed to get rid of anything. In the end, all I decided to do was add text that was sort of like a title for the website. Although Gianni asked me to not use text for the main part of the website, I felt it was necessary to put a title in.



With that done, I feel as though I have completed the website. It sort of finishes it properly.

Major Assignment #3 - Links

With the end of the website nearing, I decided to add image links to represent the emotion I was conveying. The emotions I used were: Love, Peace and Sadness. With these emotions I picked very stereotypical images relating to these emotions:
- love = red heart
- peace = cherry blossom
- sadness = dead tree branch, and also (a link to my blog using the Blogger logo)

I placed them in their spaces not for any particular reason but to hide as little of the Flash animation as possible.

Major Assignment #3 - Images

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Sadness

Major Assignment #3 - Images

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Peace

Major Assignment #3 - Images

This post is dedicated to the pictures I used for the slide show for each emotion. All the images I got were from stock.xchng, a royalty-free stock photography website (none of the photographs were taken by me).

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With these images were used to create a simple slide show movie for each emotion.

note: the rest of the pictures are in different posts, due to the image size limit for each post

Major Assignment Concept #3 - Aesthetics

At the moment the webpage seems really plain. There's not much there to be honest. Hence, I added a few things to be background, plus put up the links I intend to be using. For the background, I used a coding program to generate abstract designs using the curves similar to my main idea. Every time the program is run, the result is different. After running it a few times, I got one that I liked it.



I used different parts of it to frame the lower half of the webpage, and made them move a bit for visual appeal. After getting this working, I moved on to the links I intended to be using. My original idea was to use buttons that represented the emotion I was conveying. I still think this is a good idea, so I do plan to do it. With that being said, I put up a link to this blog.

Major Assignment Concept #3 - Introduction

After having getting my masking working properly, I decided to move on to the next thing - the introduction to the webpage. For this, I needed an image of a person with a big heart (representing me). I found a picture of a toilet sign man through Google, put it into Adobe Illustrator and "pen tooled" my own man. I did the same thing for the heart as well.



The next part was getting it to do what I wanted it to do - transforming the man after I click the heart, which then takes me to the masking part. Ultimately all of these things put together equals the introduction for the webpage. I had a lot of trouble with the Actionscript and making everything link together. However, with the assistance of a university friend (thanks Gordy!) I was able to get everything going. Basically my problem was putting the actionscript on the wrong place, ie if its for buttons, then put it on the buttons.