Flash and Dreamweaver

BLAH!!! That is how I feel with flash right now and this project, everything I seem to do seems so tinnny tiny. I don't get it. I want to do more then text, but when I put image's in there it looks so small that you can't tell what the image is.

Maybe I will just go with simplistic and see where that takes me. I like simplistic things so why don't I try to incorprate it into design.

Ok, Done with that project so lets learn DREAM WEAVER YEAH!

I am going to design a website for a company called Contemporary Design. Lets see what I can do!

Font's and Articles

Just sitting here watching the cowboy game, wondering thinking about design and the project in my head. My first idea was to re cap the website and make it into a smaller formula that could be sunk into either a cell or a palm useing wireless capability. Then I thought about how does that pertain to design. So I came up with everything from short definitions of design to long definitions of design.

I want to do more then just text.

I want to do something with more in it. I just can't think of anything So I looked through font's and I have looked at some websites and nothing is coming along. So I guess I will keep on thinking and hopefully something will pop up. I am still running in circles trying to figure out Flash and button's.

Is there a way to click on a button and let it take you to another page in flash, or is that just in dream weaver? I want to learn so much and there is just so little time to do it in.

I am going to go with my gut and say that Flash is just like a movie and you can put buttons in it but it won't send you some where else. I will see what happens. hmmm... Let's let the wheels start turning...

marsha

The more I learn the more excited I get and on Design!

I AM SO ECSTATIC THAT I AM LEARNING BUTTONS!!! YEAH!!

OK Now that I got that out, I am so incredibly excited about leaning how to do action script withing Flash! I think it is so cool. This is what I want to do for a living, I want to create really cool flash presentations for the Internet, I know I have a long way to go, but I am ecstatic about learning it. YEAH!!!

I can not wait until Dreamweaver!!!

I have been in the process of designing a website basically from a template website, for a company called Contemporary Design, and I can not wait to really dig into flash and learn Dreamweaver there are just so much you can do when you design it from scratch then when you use a template document. Here is CDP's Website

Now on Design...
What is Design?
How do you define design?

Dictionary.com defines design as, "Click Here"

My first response was "Design is a process, it is a good idea, it is a premeditated plan to achieve a specific goal."

Then I thought about it for a while and here is what I came up with..."Design has to be balanced which is an equality with in a work, it has to have proportion this means having a relationship to elements one to another regarding to size. Design has to do with infesis on one thing that dominates weather it be brighter, bolder, bigger or smaller. Design needs some sort of sequence or order. Lastly Design needs to be united in a way where everything works as one element."

You then asked me can design be function? My answer is yes in actually design is Art and it can be any thing that you create from the mind.

That's my thoughts on Design...

marsha

Written Notes

Very 1st story Board
1. Red Riding Hood getting Ready in Car
2. Walk to the Bar
3. Good Guy and Lil Red
4. GG and Lil Red and Bad Guy
5. GG, LR, BG Talks to LR
6. GG Tell's BG off
7. GG and LR walk into bar holding hands
8. GG buys LR a drink
9. GG and LR in Bar laughing
10. GG gets phone number

(Need to Incorporated wolf or Grandmother some how into it)
(Think in layers and Actor's in Layers)

Back up work, Back up work, Back up work!!!

Area's that need work movement in bar and mountain scene, add cloud movement, work on leg movement work on the end, figure out what Lil red can do to kill wolf.


Process: When I started with the story Board, I had to big and to broad of an idea. Then I went to start by Red driving to her local bar to meet someone. I then changed it yet again and had Little Red go to her local bar by herself and Red was able to attack the wolf whom happened to be her local bartender.
I kept trying to find images that I liked and I just couldn't find anything. SO I ended up creating everything free hand in illustrator and importing it into Flash. I had so many layers.

My biggest problem with this project is every time I went to save a document the computer would absolutely freeze on me. It was so frustrating.

One thing that tremendously helped was watching cartoons. I don't watch much TV but when I was watching the cartoon network, I realized that flash is EVERYWHERE. I then was just watching my local TV show on Thursday night and I counted the number of Ad's that used even just a little bit of flash and I was amazed. Out of 16 ads during Grace Anatomy 12 of them used Flash in some way.

I think it is really cool to be able to look at a flash document and have an idea on how that was created.

Well that's it for now, I need to find a definition for Design. I will talk to you later.

marsha

Flash~Integrating sound
Transfer to an AIF file.
Keep the song with the File ALWAYS!
File Import Library/ Sync to Strain.
Bottom layer sound. More generic the better, drag sound to the stage and then set it as a key frame.

Here's a couple of images

I AM SOOO INCREDIABLY FRUSTRATED WITH FLASH!!!! JUST THOUGHT I WOULD LET YOU KNOW!!! IN the mean time here are some still images I created for my presentation.
Marsha I downloaded most of my images that I used in Red Riding hood and they turned blue. So I guess this is Little red Riding Hood Smurf Style! In the mean time I downloaded most of my images that I used in Red Riding hood and they turned blue. So I guess this is Little red Riding Hood Smurf Style!














Marsha


marsha

BLAH BLAH BLAH NOthing is working out. My People are now all Blue!!!

Driveing

Blah, Blah, Blah, I just got home from Mississippi and it I think is the longest drive in the WORLD!!! Not really but when there isn't anyone with you, it seems like forever.

Back to Little Red Riding hood. I have been looking threw pictures of Bars and I have watched cartoons, I am not used to being assigned to watch cartoons, but it is pretty fun, I have more of an idea on what I am supposed to do, and it makes since that most of the stuff stays still in an cartoon or at least the background does.

So as I create my bar scene, I have noticed that I am having a difficult time with perspective, I thought about just borrowing an illustration from a book or from somewhere else, but my problem with that is that every scene I have looks horrible when I make it larger, so I started to create another bar scene. O get the bar scene in and little red riding hood meets the guy and it looks good and then it is gone, it disappears, my computer has frozen up. That is what I have dealt with over the past 5 hours a frozen computer

It's gone, It's all gone :( :( :(! I can't believe my computer Froze!!!!!

Little Red Riding hood

Outline for next Flash project...

Little Red Riding hood in a red convertiable.

1. Red gets phone call from grandma asking to pick up dinner
   
2. Driving to The Riverbottoms Bar and Grill
3. Walking up to Bar
4. meeting guy in bar
5. talking to guy over beer (waiting for t-go order)
6. holding guys hand
7. gets little reds phone #
8. walks red to her car with 2-go food
9. little red drives off
10. guy turns into wolf

Red gets a text saying I CAN SEE YOU!!!