Nostril!

Here's an idea of how the 'nose' mini-game in my box project will look -




And here's the original sketch -


And off I go to craft this nose on Flash!

AV Presentation

Here are the slides for the presentation on a practitioner for the tutorial -





It's felt a little like two steps forward and three steps back with Flash today, as John helped out and showed me some handy hints, like how to make links change colour as you move the mouse over them and add videos, and I've managed to make things look a little better, but now whenever I upload the SWF file and try and play it, it refuses to show the video and says there's some kind of error...Yet the Flash file works perfectly if I preview it in Flash, and if I drag and drop the file into my internet browser....I don't have a clue why it's happening, but until I figure it out, I can't really put it up on the blog...
Here it is anyway, though, just to see if anyone watches it and can figure out what I've done wrong!

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Brained!

Here's an attempt at making the 'Brain' area of my box project -

The Avatar from the last project is in the centre, and then around the sides I'm going to place the other items and pixelation projects.

Mouthing Off...

Here's another idea for how the Mouth mini-game in my Box project will work -


Once you've opened up the head, click on the mouth to go the interactive segment. This one is slightly different than the one in my sketch, as when you click the burger I lunge in and take a bite. At the moment I think this looks a little clumsy, I wanted the image to flash up quickly and then disappear without having to be clicked, but it's a little too fast at the moment. As the 'eat' picture repeats a few times, you can get a reasonable view of it, but the final 'eaten!' picture is way too brief.
If there's any way of putting time lapses on things in Flash that'd be perfect, I think, but I may be getting a little ahead of myself here as I'm still very much in the first early stages of figuring out Flash!

Severe Facial Reconstruction

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Here's another attempt at a vague outline for the face. I still haven't quite figured out how to remove or resize borders, but it's getting there!

Opening Up The Face

Finally, Flash has finished downloading! Only took about 8 hours or so...!

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A very crude first attempt at making my face open it's eye and mouth once clicked. This wasn't too tricky to do after studying the code for the quiz for a little bit, after a few attempts I could actually figure out what mistakes I'd made this time and rectify them.

Hey Ho, Logo!

Here are the results of a nice little logo based pencil storm -


I think this one came out really well, I was trying to make it look like the text you get on the front of Jefferson Airplane albums and in Robert Crumb comics, and I think it looks pretty cool. I really like the idea of using a vaguely psychedelic logo, to fit with the surreal theme of the interactive games.


This one is OK, I'm not entirely pleased with it. I just wanted to try out logos that had more than three letters in them, as unfortunately my name doesn't lend itself enormously well to intricate, crazy lettering.


I tried to make the letters look like rooted, gnarly old trees here, but I don't think the Z is quite clear enough. I like the spindly, aged look it gives the letters however.


This one's kinda cool, I was trying to make it look like the band Carcass' logo -

I like the idea of recognised logos saying something different, as it's a little subversive but at the same time seems to being paying homage to it's source inspiration. Carcass were one of the first death metal bands I ever got into, and as I view my interest in music and especially metal as an extremely major part of my life, it'd be cool to include it here. However, I'm not sure that using someone else's logo as the main one for this project is an enormously good idea, and I also didn't do an enormously good job of the lettering. The E is hard to make out, and it looks like there's a T in there, making it 'Ketz'. Back to the drawing board perhaps?


Like the previous logo, this one was an attempt at spoofing a band logo, this time it's Obituary's -

The big problem here is that the symmetry, a big part of what makes this logo so effective, is totally lost when it's reduced to just three letters....which, I probably should have guessed before I drew it out...ah well!


This one was another attempt at making the logo a little more interesting than just my own name, and seeing how other words would fit around it. I don't think the lettering here is too great at tall, but it'll give me some idea of how it could look!

Once again, any more ideas will be put up on here!