Friday 25 March 2016

Mark 2

Mark 2 Presentation;

The Mark 2 Presentation didn't go as smoothly as the Mark 1, I showed off all my stuff I had prepared but I was starting to have issues with Edge again because everytime I closed Edge or close over my MacBook the app would stop working and I had to rebuild the entire thing.

But apart from this everything went as smoothly as it could of I got some good feedback again and this time I even was given a few suggestions where to go with my project next, which helped because I was struggling to think about what I could do with the next section of the story.  So a suggestion I was given was to only use colours in the next challenge with the reds taken away and let the children colour in using only the colours someone with Protanopia could see, and to do the same with Deutanopia.

These suggestions were good and I decided to have a look into them to see what I could do with the choices.

Friday 18 March 2016

The Story

Working on the Story;

So with my working prototype finished or at least the colouring bit working, and the Mark 2 Presentation only a week away I decided to start working on the story and how everything fitted together so I could go in and be able to show them how it is all going to work.

The Story or at least the start of it;

Welcome to Woogleton,
The town is known for its margical colours, friendly towns people and its marvolous cakes.

Woogleton may seem small, but that adds to its charm.  With its small size everyone in the town knows everyone, and if you ask anyone who has had the chance to visit, they would tell you it was full of friendly people alwyas willing to help.

But sadly not everyone in this town is friendly or happy to be here.  On the far side of town where the colours turn to greys and storms seem to rage, there is a house where one such person lives.

This is the house of Doctor Watzit, the mad doctor was born with the colour missing from his world and the town didn't understand.  His only friend was also from a world of grey.  Badar the Scary Moon, his only friend lighting up the night sky and removing all the colour from the land with its darkness.

This gave Doctor Watzit an idea.

He worked hard to creat a machine that when finished will change woogleton forever.  His machine will not only strip the colour from the land but for some places he will just change it.

"Mwhaha, it's finally finished, for all thos eyears I will finally show Woogleton what it's like to lose all colour."  Doctor Watzit said he pointed the ray at Ella's toy shop, "for you my sweet dear Ella, lets see how santa feels about you when all the red is removed."

He then followed suit by pointing it at Isla's Fruit and Vegatable shop, "Let's see how your shop does without its greens." Doctor Watzit said while laughing.  "And for you little Natalie, who will purchase your world famous cakes when all colour is taken from your bakery."

So with the base line for the story created I think I am ready for the Mark 2 Presentation

Friday 4 March 2016

Start of the Animation

Adobe Edge;

So it has been a week since the Mark 1 Presentation and in that time I have managed to finish the design for the cake shop and I am ready to start the animation process to allow for colouring in.

The first step of this process though starts in Illustrator not Edge.  First of all I had to go in and manually select each part of the cake shop and insert a piece of coding in the svg interactive menu, I had never coded in Illustrator before and even though it was one line it still surprized me that Illustrator had a section had coding but then again for the case of SVGs it did make sense.

Once I had done this, luckily for me I didn't need to save each part seperately I was able to just do a simple copy and past into Adobe Edge.  Now that this was in Edge I needed to go to the edgedocks website to get a link to the edgecommons where the jquerry I needed to get the colouring in working and then the fun part of the coding began.

Although I managed to get it to work I noticed a few issues that were obviously arrising due to the fact that Edge was no longer getting updated or maintained anymore and I sometimes stuggled to get onto the application itself.  I would of switched to animate cc which might of been easier to do but I had never used it before and was worried that it would take too long to learn.