Hi guys !It's been a long long long time !
I've had this post saved as a draft for like MONTHS so there it is, for your eyes only :-)
So, what's new ?
Well there's been 2 new versions of the website online since last time.
Crazy, I KNOW, right !?
V.2.0
The 1st 1 featuring a full visual layout !v.2.0 permalink
So that was alright.
But still far from complete, and is used a mockup for the loading bar also ...
V.2.1
That's the current version so just go the website's homepage.
I don't think I'm gonna post a permalink but next time I post an update it will have a working archive and U'll B able 2 go check out how it used to look in that way ... maybe.
I'll work it out.
V.2.1 has a portfolio !
And that's it ...
Far from complete, work in progress, U kno the drill.
But yet again 1 step closer 2 some kind of finished product, so ... yay !
In the process of creating all that stuff, I used a couple of features in Flash I had never used before ... I did ! For example, I used scenes, which I experimented with in this silly exercise. Also, in the process of creating all that Flash material, I realized that, sometimes, Flash is just ... beautiful ... wooow ...
Lastly, I kinda wrapped my porftolio up in a couple of days but I was gonna do something a bit more in the style of Alex Cherry's website, which is very good so go check it out pplez.
Overshadowed by Gorillaz
I realized just how much Kong influenced not only the Haunted House but even my current website project the other day. I think I got the basic idea of sharing data and having a database-centered website from them, check out these screenshots :
The inventory has a quick link facility that lets you access each band member's personal computer at all times
Within the studio, each one is located in its owner's bedroom ... somewhere
And they let you view & sometimes download stuff ! Imaged-based content monstly but it's still what the basic concept is, it's where I got it from.
Good inspiration in any case, many thanks !
Technology what's your fuckin' problem !?
I've been harassed by technology lately ... Laptop went berserk, I mentioned that, but then I also got some techies to recover data on an old hard drive that I thought I could have used (some of it) for research but it's not gonna happen 'cause it's all around the place (it got sorted by extension ... flippin' gr8). There was that problem with that USB that got wiped by the Macs as well, and that happened again but on my whole hard drive, not like I lost a lot but I don't like wasting my time or doing the same thing twice so FUCK YOU MACS !
There, I said it, I feel better now ...
What's up with the warning pattern ?
Well quite frankly I'm not too sure ! Thou the main idea of my website (aka overall layout of the homepage) has not changed since I drew the 1st concept last summer, it evolved and mutated a bit.
Now each page has a bit of that pattern and is developped around it, not just the homepage !
I think it adds something to it, it does not only denote danger, rather constant evolution and refining in this case, it's a work in progress, being built ... I think it works in this sense too ...
Anyways I've tried to track down the origins of this pattern and I got 2 possibilities :
-It could come from the website I did in Grade 10. It's been taken offline sadly but the homepage used to look like this (that's the French & English homepages put side to side to compare). I mainly built it from cool stuff (*what I used to find cool at the time, in 10th Grade, you all know what that would be :-D ... no you don't ? Ahm, yes you do -you asked for it !-) I found on Google back then and thou I do not know if I included this one pattern for sure, because I did not quite finish the whole website there were still quite a couple of pages left under construction with this dude and that dude on there, so that could be where it all started.
-It could also come from a project I did when I was working at the Nail Bar. They had very very horrid handmade signs, especially one on the front door (pretty bad) with the opening times, but also one on the toilet door that said "staff only". For the one on te front door, there was nothing to do, I redesigned it from scratch and I'm pretty sure it still stands sits there to this day 'cause it was pretty kick ass ! But thou the one on the toilet door was bad (felt tip pen fades over time ... expecially when it's pink) the typography was still quite cool so I just printed the warning pattern around it and then more or less copied the typography by hand inside of it. The idea was to let the customers understand that they should NOT use the loo in a way that makes it clear but that's not too authoritarian. I think it worked rather well. Anyways there's the pattern I came up with. It might just be where the idea originated ... but then it feels as thou I had it in my head way before that (it was in the Frankenpad). So I got no idea really ...
Online applications inventory
"How much Flash crap do I have online ?", you ask ?
Well, "Lots", I answer ...
Like that much:
Haunted House
v.1
v.2
v.3.1
Testers
UI Template
Children Experiment 1
Children Experiment 3
Children Experiment 6
AddChild Loop
Devil & Angel
Gif Tester
BooGhost
Exercises
1-Regular Tree
1-Red Tree
1-Colourful Tree
2-Domo
3-Random
Website
v.1.0 raw
v.1.0 HTML
v.0 raw
v.0 HTML
v.0.0 raw
v.0.0 HTML
v.1.1
v.0.1
v.1.2
v.2.0
v.2.1 (/most up to date)
DJ's roots
DJ right ? The main comic character who represents me back then I was a really frustrated teenager walking around High School with hugh headphones glued to my ears (unlike DJ I didn't have hooves or screenwiper-shaped eyes thou ... just so U kno), the dude in green at the top of this port. I started drawing him in High School in my then Artbook (G11-12). Matter of fact, this is the 1st comic in The Chronicles of DJ. Right anyways, so I started drawing him back then but I was mostly influenced by a blogger called Mad~Monkey. She was really cool, drawing a lot of Gorillaz fan art, and she had a blog but it was taken offline ! And then I lost her trail ... And now incredibly, in the frame of my research, I've found it back ! So behold the true dark (and kinda Emo, sorry in advance for that) origins of DJ : Bad blog 1 Mad blog 2 Mad blog 3 !
Sketchbook update
New sketchbook stuff ... yay ! There's a couple of things there, jsut check them out.
Page 1, Page 2, Page spread
Updated title graphics
Before
Well quite frankly I'm not too sure ! Thou the main idea of my website (aka overall layout of the homepage) has not changed since I drew the 1st concept last summer, it evolved and mutated a bit.
Now each page has a bit of that pattern and is developped around it, not just the homepage !
I think it adds something to it, it does not only denote danger, rather constant evolution and refining in this case, it's a work in progress, being built ... I think it works in this sense too ...
Anyways I've tried to track down the origins of this pattern and I got 2 possibilities :
-It could come from the website I did in Grade 10. It's been taken offline sadly but the homepage used to look like this (that's the French & English homepages put side to side to compare). I mainly built it from cool stuff (*what I used to find cool at the time, in 10th Grade, you all know what that would be :-D ... no you don't ? Ahm, yes you do -you asked for it !-) I found on Google back then and thou I do not know if I included this one pattern for sure, because I did not quite finish the whole website there were still quite a couple of pages left under construction with this dude and that dude on there, so that could be where it all started.
-It could also come from a project I did when I was working at the Nail Bar. They had very very horrid handmade signs, especially one on the front door (pretty bad) with the opening times, but also one on the toilet door that said "staff only". For the one on te front door, there was nothing to do, I redesigned it from scratch and I'm pretty sure it still stands sits there to this day 'cause it was pretty kick ass ! But thou the one on the toilet door was bad (felt tip pen fades over time ... expecially when it's pink) the typography was still quite cool so I just printed the warning pattern around it and then more or less copied the typography by hand inside of it. The idea was to let the customers understand that they should NOT use the loo in a way that makes it clear but that's not too authoritarian. I think it worked rather well. Anyways there's the pattern I came up with. It might just be where the idea originated ... but then it feels as thou I had it in my head way before that (it was in the Frankenpad). So I got no idea really ...
Online applications inventory
"How much Flash crap do I have online ?", you ask ?
Well, "Lots", I answer ...
Like that much:
Haunted House
v.1
v.2
v.3.1
Testers
UI Template
Children Experiment 1
Children Experiment 3
Children Experiment 6
AddChild Loop
Devil & Angel
Gif Tester
BooGhost
Exercises
1-Regular Tree
1-Red Tree
1-Colourful Tree
2-Domo
3-Random
Website
v.1.0 raw
v.1.0 HTML
v.0 raw
v.0 HTML
v.0.0 raw
v.0.0 HTML
v.1.1
v.0.1
v.1.2
v.2.0
v.2.1 (/most up to date)
DJ's roots
DJ right ? The main comic character who represents me back then I was a really frustrated teenager walking around High School with hugh headphones glued to my ears (unlike DJ I didn't have hooves or screenwiper-shaped eyes thou ... just so U kno), the dude in green at the top of this port. I started drawing him in High School in my then Artbook (G11-12). Matter of fact, this is the 1st comic in The Chronicles of DJ. Right anyways, so I started drawing him back then but I was mostly influenced by a blogger called Mad~Monkey. She was really cool, drawing a lot of Gorillaz fan art, and she had a blog but it was taken offline ! And then I lost her trail ... And now incredibly, in the frame of my research, I've found it back ! So behold the true dark (and kinda Emo, sorry in advance for that) origins of DJ : Bad blog 1 Mad blog 2 Mad blog 3 !
Sketchbook update
New sketchbook stuff ... yay ! There's a couple of things there, jsut check them out.
Page 1, Page 2, Page spread
Updated title graphics
Before
After
I KNOW, I wowzered in my trousers when I saw this too !
I'm glad we share the same feeling ... so touching !
Aaaand well that's it for today !
What ? Well why yes indeed, as it turns out, I got other stuff to do I shall get on with too !
Sooo I'll be in touch.
Soon.
... enough.
Take care peoplez :-) !
