Project, as mock-up, is complete. Four building buttons are activated and take you through two architecture projects, an art gallery, and a short About Me section.
The full range and dynamic possibilities of the project were abbreviated, given the compatibility of the 3-d program SketchUp, used to make the fly-bys. Because Sketchup's animation tool is low quality, I was forced to take screen shots to transition from the home page to individual stages. The transition stages become very jumpy. This approach limits my ability to add projects, since the already constructed fly-bys would need to be altered for the different cityscape.
I very much like the minimal organization of the project descriptions.
If there were a next step, I would think about charging the transitions with some sort of humor. It was such a task to simply build the city in 3-d and create the fly-bys that introducing people, or explosions, would require unequivocal struggle--at least with my proficiency in the program.
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The concept is really strong and it was a good idea to go with the line drawings it helps to give more emphasis to the content in the buildings I guess you could. But most of the problems you had you already know about so they would be an easy fix. Seeing some birds fly by or plane would be very interesting or maybe a car but those can be added later for a little bit of practice.
ReplyDeleteI really like the fly-bys and the overall design, so much so in fact I have little to add.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the technical issues of having to resort to screen shots there are some tricks you may be able to use to help that out.
Easiest thing would be to render out the footage as a frame by frame animation. Im not at all familiar with the program you are using though and not sure if thats even possible. If not consider exporting the project into a 3d program. If that still isnt an option try setting up the camera in degrees, figuring out how long you want each transition and dividing that by the amount of frames, then use that number to help you set equal points at which to screen shot. Not sure if that makes sense so;
an example would be:
you want the transition to be 12 seconds.
you want the animation to move at 12 frames per second.
12x12 = 144
the transition moves at roughly 80 degrees
80/144 = .55 (repeating)
so every half degree take a screen shot.
Even if theres not a way to directly control the camera other than by panning around in the program directly you should be able to set up points in space using coordinates.