Nadia's Blog

Web Design questions

nadiablog — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:16:54 +0000

General Q:
1. Why do you need web site? What is your goal?
2. Who are your competitors and do they have web sites?
3. Is there something you are known locally?
4. What are your main products and/or services?
5. Should this site affect or modify your company’s current progress?
6. Should this site have donation page?

Technical Q:
1. Is it going to be on Content Managment?
2. What we use to build?
3. Do you have hosting? How much and what’s the server?

Style Q:
1. Show us three sites (or more) that you like.
2. Do you have logo? (Is it workable?)
3. Do you have color scheme?
4. Do you have pictures? Do you need more? Who is going to take pictures?
5. Do you have written content? Who is going to write it?
6. Is anything we need to keep on the site (Our group: ask about Parma)?
7. Who is your target audience? How people learn about your company? Why does your taget audience need this website?
8. Do you have any events? What you do on it?

Money Q:
1. Free.
2. Timeline = semester

wed design client questions

Homework for 8/26

nadiablog — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:12:29 +0000

1. Set up your blog/notebook.
2. Post your blog link in the discussion called “Blog Links”.
3. Find 3 nice, small, historic places of interest sites to share.
4. Have fun!

I don’t know about nice or small, but here are some sites that I found. One of them about Mayak, nuclear complex.
http://archive.greenpeace.org/mayak/index.html
Here are two more sites:
http://www.kunstkamera.ru/en/
http://www.westsidemarket.org/

Import from Blogger

nadiablog — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:10:32 +0000

Ok! There is a problem that I can’t deal with right now:
I can’t embed .swf files in this blog. Although on Blogger it was pretty easy, here on WordPress I need to upload some plugin. To use plugins I need more then just front page blog… My previous swf files can’t be seen in my posts that I imported from Blogger because of that.

Anyway, I’m pretty happy that I can see my posts from blogger here and I don’t need to copy everything!

Hello world!

nadiablog — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:45:49 +0000

Hey all! My name is Nadia and this is my new and hopefully improved blog. I’m enrolled in Web II class right now (fall 2009), so this blog is partly my notebook for this class too. I will create categories, like drawings and Web II notes, for usability later on.

Character Development _ Head Construction

nadiablog — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:34:00 +0000

I started head construction some days ago, and I continue it now through Preston Blair book.

- Circle for head and tilt (guide lines) easier to draw if first draw cross in the circle(head) and then draw another circle (tilt) around it and inside the head… Tilt circles will not look like perfect circles though and more like thin ovals, because of the perspective.

- Flexible features are: mouth and cheeck, eyebrows, ears – little flexible and base of the ears, base of the nose – not flexible.

- Head can be different rounded shapes, it depends on the character.

- Tilt always changes! It depends on the expressions, speech, angle of the head, where is your character looking.

- Tilt will help to see where bases of the nose, mouth, eyes, ears (if any) should be.

Character Development _ Body Skeleton

nadiablog — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:43:00 +0000

The hardest part for me in the skeleton foundation is to figure out length and arrangement of the body parts. Like, for example, on the second picture where the cat is throwing the ball. The leg is up in the air and hand should be behind it, but on the skeleton structure it’s not clear (same where he is crossing his hands). When drawing the structure I should always keep in mind WHAT I want to draw, the finished pose, and trying to produce it on a paper with simple lines. It’s like ripping it appart and leaving only base lines, the skeleton. Also, the head always looks wrong. Probably because head already have some shape to it… It is hard to connect shape and lines together.
I found that I don’t like the skeleton foundation much, thought it is helpful to know it, and probably in some situations it will help me to keep proportions correctly.

Character Development _ Body built from circular and rounded forms

nadiablog — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:27:00 +0000

I got animation book by mail yesterday. I mean I got it today, because lazy post office worker couldn’t bring his ass upstairs. Instead I got message in the mail that he/she missed me (I WAS HOME!) and I needed to drive to post office to take this package. My husband’s package came in a same day, but it was smaller and it fit into the mail box Well, I get angry and upset easily, but can’t really do any harm to people, so I cooled down in a couple of hours and brought myself to the post office today morning.
Here are my new pictures and notes. I started from the begining of the book and really like it so far! Also, as ususal, I added one picture of my own, trying to draw it with new concepts that I’ve learned.
Character development:
- think what type (ex. goofy, cute, screwball) you want to draw
- rough sketches (idea)
- add features and details
1. Cartoon construction:
- proportion is important! (use head measurement o.o)
- keep reference drawing of the character when animating
2. Body built from circular and rounded forms:
- circular, rounded form – general parts of the body, rest is around this parts.
- better on screen, easier to animate

Lesson #3 Body

nadiablog — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:31:00 +0000

This is the third lesson by Preston Blair’s book. WEll, really it’s number four, because I skiped one where I needed to redraw and correct the first one…. I hate to perfect my work doing it over and over again. It’s so boring! Except, of course, if it’s not my job when people pay me for pictures (I wish I have this kind of job though!). I really think that perfection comes with practice, and practice should be different and interesting every day. I draw couple body examples from the book today, and after that I draw my own character. That way I’m not just copying Preston’s great pictures but trying to understand concepts on my own experience.

How to embed swf files into your blog

nadiablog — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:55:00 +0000

First what you need to do is upload your swf file to the internet. I used free hosting like www.hotlinkfiles.com . Then after upload, you will see the html link to your file It will look like: http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/name.swf
Second, use this code in your post:

Done!
Example you can see in my previous post.

test swf embed

nadiablog — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:01:00 +0000