JoshG e-Comm Blog

In this project we learned a few new things. One of the more useful things that we learned during this project was about Iframes. Iframes are boxes that can open links in a page instead of opening a new page. We learned that you have to name the iframe and make the link the target of the iframe. We also learned that we can tile a background gradient infinitely and create a solid background gradient, as seen in the website. We also created a jack o' lantern and a "it's halloween" color changing title text that changes between black and purple. It gives a spooky addition to the website.

Multi-plane animation. The premise of this project was to make a multi-plane layer type of animation sort of like some of Walt Disney's various nature scenes. Using multiple layers and adobe after effects we were able to "scroll" through the nature scene kind as if you were walking through it. First we created all of the assets for the animation. I created a moon, stars, trees, leaves, grass, and then found some silhouette of some various animals to use. Then i created the actual ground and colored it and then added the grass to the front layer and not the back layer so it gives an illusion of depth. Then i added the trees to the various ground layers. Now it was time to animate. We made keyframes on each end of the layers and then just simply dragged them through creating motions. Overall i found this to be the most enjoyable animation so far even though we have only done a few. However if feel like this was a large amount of my effort and gave me excitement to se...

These are some screenshots of me working on my story animation This project "story animation" was a combination of everything that we have learned so far in Adobe After Effects. The basic premise of this project was to create a story and then use our knowledge so far to create a animation. I created the story of "Tom" I do not know why i chose the name tom but it was just something simple to use at the time. Tom was sent on a quest by the mayor to take down bartholomew a evil horse that has taken the color away from everything in the land besides the sun. Tom doesn't really face that many challenges on the way and then the encounter with bartholomew appears and doesn't exactly be a problem. Tom wonders why nobody else was able to defeat bartholomew, he didn't even fight back. I feel that this project was a little bit rushed even though we were given about a week to do it. I could make a better if given the time. I would start by making the walk c...

For our first maya project we created a castle using the basic polygon shape tools. With this castle i created a grassy platform for the castle to sit on. I colored the castle black and white. The castles towers were made by taking 2 cylinders one small one and one long one and together made a cylinder with a slightly fatter cylinder above it. I then changed to the face mode and selected every other face then extruded and pulled out to make the port-cutlas type ridges on top. i repeat this with the main walls of the castle.  The doorway was made by taking a cube and putting a sphere on top of it then differencing it with the wall i chose. Then we used blinn/lambert to edit the texture of the walls and add brick/stone brick textures for the walls and the towers. So far maya has been pretty frustrating but I am hoping to get better at it in the future. JPEG Renders: