iWebsite...

I've gotten very carried away with trying ideas out on After Effects, building my website using iWed and generally working, that I've forgotten to put stuff up on this blog about how the website design is going.
Here are some examples of the pages that I have created for the website. The first set shows pages that relate to this current brief, the title sequence. The lower set show the process of making my Silent Movie animation.
The overall website currently contains 49 separate pages, and this will definitely increase by the time I've finished this project. I have found using the iWeb software fairly easy, it's just drag and drop really so it makes it very simple to design and arrange pages. Anyway... here is what I have been designing...

BBC ident...

This is so cute, very clever and must have taken ages to make! Love it!

Navigation Schematic...

These images are diagrams that show the navigation of the pages within the website. These diagrams make it easy to put the website together, and make sure that everything links back to the right pages.

Design my website...

We had our introduction to iWeb today, and I have discovered that it is very easy to use, which is great as After Effects is quite difficult - it feels like the balance has been redressed.

Anyway from here on I am going to be using my blog to document how I build my website. The website is going to display the process of producing my Top 10 animation. We have been instructed to include information regarding research, development, test pieces, finished resolutions and all the work done for the Silent Movie brief completed before Christmas.

These are the initial layout designs for the homepage (the subsequent pages would follow a similar format)

Audi A5 Rhythm of Lines...

I'm considering using line drawing in my title sequence, Sara mentioned that the Audi advert uses lines...so here it is. I quite like it, but don't think there is enough 'car' in it

Animations and Stings...

Here are a few animation things that I've found, and quite like.
Some of them are a bit weird, the content isn't great, but I like the styles of animation, 'illustration' and general design


Interesting, not sure if this is digital animation or stop frame, but I really like the textures and character design


This is funny - clearly digital animation


Hand drawn images mixed with film, possibly stop frame animation


Really clever digital animation of an animation - a little confusing, but cool


Old style stop frame animation, interesting characters and style


The Channel 4 idents that have the weird floating pieces - I've always liked these, and I think they're quite innovative and different to what you usually get from TV channels




Two Channel 4 idents from the 90s, quite simple digital animation, but effective


These are the 2001 - 2007 BBC2 idents, with the number 2 getting up to all sorts of things, digital animation


E4 idents - or E-stings as they like to call them. A lot of these are produced by members of the public who just send them in.

More E4 idents:

Top 10 Research....

I have researched the Top 10 Best-selling authors (of all time, in the world, ever..etc)

1. William Shakespeare
2. Agatha Christie
3. Barbara Cartland
4. Harold Robbins
5. George Simenon
6. Enid Blyton
7. Danielle Steel
8. Dr Seuss
9. Gilbert Patten
10. Leo Tolstoy

Bond...

I've seen these on several blogs now...and each one seems to say the same thing - 'nice on screen type they've used, in keeping with location' etc. On the whole I agree with them, interesting and nicely subtle, if a little cliche. Still, here they are, I'm sure you've seen them already, but what the hell...

Audi Q5 Ad...

I just saw this on tv and I love it! So clever, and simple and...it makes me want a car made from cardboard!