THE END IS NIGH

     Well the end times are here, the day we have been scared about is finally here. Its our last day of animation. But all good things have to come to an end right? Maybe so but I definitely went out with a bang. Everything that I have learned all year in animation is being put into my final animation. Green screen, special effects, Maya, and so many other wonderful tools I have learned.

   

      This final animation project started off with a plan or storyboard if you will. Of course this masterpiece that is better than the Mona lisa has been created by no other than yours truly. But this is not all I did, I also made the credits and helped with general quality assurance. The main idea of this project was too take everything we learned in animation over my sophomore year and put it into a final project. After the storyboard we went to the green screen and filmed the amazing Carter Maass into our project. This was a difficult process because we had to balance the color tone and out him into the scene of a moving New York City background.

      I did not really learn anything new just because this project was about putting everything you know into this this project. But still I polished my skills and got to know the green screen a little better. But all together my team worked great, we finished ahead of schedule everyone had their own job and finished amazingly. Next time if we were not to pressed for time I would have added a couple different sounds but nothing too major. But some things we did were awesome and I would do again. Like having carter act again and I would keep the same animated space ships. This was a very cool project and Im glad I got to show off my animation skills.

Web Design Final BLog:(

What I've learned in Web Design is...

What I've learned in Web Design is...

What I've learned in Web Design is...

What I've learned in Web Design is...

What I've learned in Web Design is...

    Well the time has come, my final blog post for web design. I am actually generally pretty sad about this. I have had a great time and I will definitely miss this class. But I finished the year off with a great project. My index page. (http://www.eravensonline.net/students/366gjv21/) This was a very cool project because I got to create my very own project and every time I made an adjustment to the website I had to upload the website to the server so people can see it on the web!

     One of my favorite projects this year was definitely the halloween website. It taught me how to embed other websites into yours so a lot of information can be read at one time! Also because Halloween is by far my favorite holiday.

     This summer will definitely be a busy one, monday through thursday I will have 6:30 am weights followed by 6:00 pm soccer training. My parents also would like for me to get a job which will be very difficult with how busy I will be with soccer but I may be able to fit it in. We are also taking a vacation to Colorado for an outdoor camping vacation which will be pretty cool, my summer with be filled with lots of hard work which I hope will pay off for soccer season my Junior and Senior year.

     Even though I am not continuing on with E-comm I really wish I could and I would definitely would continue with the web design strand but with E-comm taking up two electives I will not be able to because I have to also fit in weights for soccer and debate but don't get me wrong I had tons of fun in E-comm met some amazing people and even greater teachers I really wish I could continue but I will definitely tell my sisters to become E-comm students!

Animation Final

     Our animation final. I loved helping make this project, because we used everything we have learned the whole year into one project. I was upset because my favorite part was the green screen but I was sick that day so I was not able to help. But I was able to help with storyboard and credits and overall quality assurance.

The explosion

Special FX

     This is my city explosion. I used several tools to make this explosion. I had to use the composition settings to make a mask so the fire would explode in the right place. Now this technique can be used for many different scenes, for example I have made another explosion but in a western scene. 

responsive web page

USMNT

http://www.ussoccer.com

     Responsive web pages are very important in todays world, and here is a very good example of a responsive site.

 

     This is the main homepage of the United States Mens National Team. As you can see we have the main image navigation buttons search bar and an article. Watch what happens as we go down to tablet size.

    As we go down to tablet size the main image and logo are still there but we can see that the search bar and navigation has moved down to the bottom of the page. The articles have moved to the image being on the top and title below the image rather than being side by side. Very responsive. Watch what happens as we go down to mobile device size.

     As we get down to mobile device size the main image and logo, articles, and search bar have stayed the same but the size have shrunk down to accommodate mobile devices needs.

     Here is one more page on the website to show you how responsive the site really is.

Desktop

Tablet

Mobile

Responsive web design

     1. what is responsive web design?
 
  Responsive web design is aimed for an optimal viewing experience on all devices. Such as mobile, tablet, and desktop. Making your website responsive to the needs of all devices will help determine the success of your website.

     2. why has responsive web design become so important?
    
 Smartphones and tablets have changed the approach toward design and user experience. and now more mobile devices are browsing the internet than even desktop users. So responsive design has become very important.

     3. what are media queries?

A media query consists of a media type and at least one expression that limits the style sheets' scope by using media features, such as width, height, and color. Media queries, added in CSS3, let the presentation of content be tailored to a specific range of output devices without having to change the content itself.  (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Media_queries)

     4. what are breakpoints?

Breakpoints are a pause in the program to prevent bugging.

desktop and mobile trends

     Is your website not doing as well as it should? Maybe you're not getting enough page views. Well there may be a simple solution, staying up with the trends. As of January 2014 the time spent on the internet with mobile devices and passed the time spent on desktop devices. Now what this means is that more people are using their mobile devices to use the internet rather than their desktops.

     Now we will be analyzing onwravens.net to help predict the future trends. Over the last three years their website has seen a great increase in the number of mobile device users on their site, in turn has led to the decrease of the percentage of desktop users. The percentage of mobile users is 35% compared to desktops 55% this past year. Even though desktop users have the higher percentage mobile users percentage increases significantly every year by around 10%.

     I have never been on the website using a mobile device only a desktop, so for the future I think desktop percentages will always stay higher than mobile device percentages but that does not mean they have to change their website. Because the percentage for mobile device usage is high and will probably grow onwravens.net has to alter their site to handle the needs of the movie device user.

     Now to really make sure your website can handle the needs of the future, make sure that you accommodate the needs of the mobile device user as well as the needs of the desktop user. Because they both will determine if your website succeeds or not.