The Site that should have worked

The final website was my portfolio site. There was a heavy emphasis on containers and that may be the reason it kinda broke down on me. Lost time because I originally made the whole site a mask to make the site appear like it stretched out from itself rather than popped up as blocks. Found masks to be unreliable when it came to text so I had to cut that idea. Made the site flatter but didn't look bad. I wanted the site to look alive so there is a lot of movement. However simple things like buttons didn't work for me for reasons I have yet to find. So unfortunately the site ended up being fairly broken and it appears I will need to start from scratch. Not really a bad thing because I am already brimming with ideas. So, see the site for yourself here.

The Too Far Reaching Site

The second project was our choice so I just wanted to do something weird. I came up with an idea for a game that isn't really a game. The interface was interactive and you would be relayed information depending where you click. I wanted everything to be randomized and I wanted to make a sort of cyberspace robot that made fun of you. So there are tons of moving parts and tons of things happening at once and the coding just got to be too much. I would spend hours figuring something out and then delight at the effect only to find that it would only work in action script 2. So the final product ended up being quite short and bland (for the time being) because I had to cut so much of it out. The whole site moves so here is one picture of it and you can click HERE to look for yourself.

A Last Minute Website

So for this website we were to make a micro-site for a product or a campaign site. I chose the first but my first idea was met with a less than enthusiastic response, a micro site for an antique cocktail shaker. I guess antiques aren't hip enough. The class saw my ideas for my sculpture class where I was going to make political action figures and told me to go with that. So I did that but had limited time so I made one sculpture and then tried to crank out a site for it. The sculpture took a LONG time and the website came down to getting done in about 3 days. The site was supposed to be over the top action style to increase a feeling of irony I guess. It was difficult to get back into flash at this point let alone learning new stuff so the site was built almost entirely on the timeline, which I find I am most comfortable with.