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, 18 March 2016
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.
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.
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Mark 1 Presentation
Mark 1 Presentation;
So yesterday was the Mark 1 presentations and due to the lack of time I had for actual design work I felt I had enough to start but at the same time I felt it was slightly lacking in detail and I could of had alot more done if I didn't have to wait for the Primary School to get back to me.
That said for my Mark 1 I managed to present what I had which was my designs and where I was planning on going with my project where I felt I needed more work and also where I managed to get what I needed to complete my task. With everything I submitted for the Mark 1 I was worried that the lecturers would of thought I hadn't done enough for the submission in hand but they said that I had done more than they were expecting and that where I am to go next is exactly where they think I should be goind and also mentioned how they would like to see a working part done by the Mark 2.
So the feedback I felt was good and now I am ready to get to work on the next part and hopefully have the application working or at least part of it working by the Mark 2.
So yesterday was the Mark 1 presentations and due to the lack of time I had for actual design work I felt I had enough to start but at the same time I felt it was slightly lacking in detail and I could of had alot more done if I didn't have to wait for the Primary School to get back to me.
That said for my Mark 1 I managed to present what I had which was my designs and where I was planning on going with my project where I felt I needed more work and also where I managed to get what I needed to complete my task. With everything I submitted for the Mark 1 I was worried that the lecturers would of thought I hadn't done enough for the submission in hand but they said that I had done more than they were expecting and that where I am to go next is exactly where they think I should be goind and also mentioned how they would like to see a working part done by the Mark 2.
So the feedback I felt was good and now I am ready to get to work on the next part and hopefully have the application working or at least part of it working by the Mark 2.
Friday, 5 February 2016
The Starting point
Application Design;
So now that I finished my workshop got all of the information I need it is time to start work on the actual project itself and to start I need to design the actual application itself. So what I have done is I drew a few scenes in my sketch pad to show how the application is going to look scene to scene, once I had done this and was happy with what I had, I decided to move into adobe Illustrator to start designing the first challenge which I have decided is going to be the cake shop and it will be based on Mono-Chromacy.
So now that I made this decision I was deciding how to do the cake shop and what else I could do for it. So while I was drawing the cake shop in Illustrator I was also thinking how this linked up to the story and how the story affects this place and how it ends up colourless. While also deciding if I was going to use the same colours I had specified earlier on or if I was going to add more to the swatches.
In the end I decided that the colours I had were enough since they were the basic colours and they would still be used to create a nice image. So with colours in mind I also needed to find the hex code for the colours to make it easier for me to find the exact colour I need for my project.
So now that I finished my workshop got all of the information I need it is time to start work on the actual project itself and to start I need to design the actual application itself. So what I have done is I drew a few scenes in my sketch pad to show how the application is going to look scene to scene, once I had done this and was happy with what I had, I decided to move into adobe Illustrator to start designing the first challenge which I have decided is going to be the cake shop and it will be based on Mono-Chromacy.
So now that I made this decision I was deciding how to do the cake shop and what else I could do for it. So while I was drawing the cake shop in Illustrator I was also thinking how this linked up to the story and how the story affects this place and how it ends up colourless. While also deciding if I was going to use the same colours I had specified earlier on or if I was going to add more to the swatches.
In the end I decided that the colours I had were enough since they were the basic colours and they would still be used to create a nice image. So with colours in mind I also needed to find the hex code for the colours to make it easier for me to find the exact colour I need for my project.
Friday, 22 January 2016
The Workshop
Design Process;
So on the 15th of January I had a meeting with the Head Teacher at the Primary School where I am doing my work shop at and explained to her what it is I am wanting to do but also explaining that in my research no names will be published of the school or the children due to safety reason.
So after the meeting they said I could do the workshop on the 22nd of January, today, and said I will be given a slot in the afternoon.
So when I arrived I was shown to the classroom where the children were, and while they were getting a story read to them, they allowed me to set up ready to go when they got back into their seats.
Since time was limited I had to cut some of the taskes I was orginally going to do with them, so I decided to stick with the colourblindness test and the Character design. So first of all I showed the class a series of Ishiara plates and asked them to write down the number they seen. Once this was completed I noticed how difficult it was for some of them to get answers for but this didn't mean they were colourblind it just meant they struggled to see. Once we had collected in the answers and handed out more pieces of paper I asked them to draw a character for the story and while they were doing that also asked them to think of a name for the character and what type of job they would do.
Once this was done it was about time for me to go so I asked the class one last question and that was to help me create the name of the town the story was going to be based on, and after giving them a handful choices they decided on Woogleton.
So on the 15th of January I had a meeting with the Head Teacher at the Primary School where I am doing my work shop at and explained to her what it is I am wanting to do but also explaining that in my research no names will be published of the school or the children due to safety reason.
So after the meeting they said I could do the workshop on the 22nd of January, today, and said I will be given a slot in the afternoon.
So when I arrived I was shown to the classroom where the children were, and while they were getting a story read to them, they allowed me to set up ready to go when they got back into their seats.
Since time was limited I had to cut some of the taskes I was orginally going to do with them, so I decided to stick with the colourblindness test and the Character design. So first of all I showed the class a series of Ishiara plates and asked them to write down the number they seen. Once this was completed I noticed how difficult it was for some of them to get answers for but this didn't mean they were colourblind it just meant they struggled to see. Once we had collected in the answers and handed out more pieces of paper I asked them to draw a character for the story and while they were doing that also asked them to think of a name for the character and what type of job they would do.
Once this was done it was about time for me to go so I asked the class one last question and that was to help me create the name of the town the story was going to be based on, and after giving them a handful choices they decided on Woogleton.
Friday, 11 December 2015
Co-Design Preporation continued
Design Stage;
So since Christmas Break is coming up I decided to get the final stages of the preperation completed by trying to design a flowchart, so that I can show the children how the story is ment to go scene to scene. This was mainly to help me when it comes to my actual design stage so that when I get everything from the children I can start working on the final designs and get everything ready to start animating.
The way I think this will be done is by first of digitizing all of the drawings that I feel I can use for the application and then from there work on how the first challenge is going to work or if not the first challenge on of them. So that if I am able to get at least one challenge working I will know that I am on the right track for my project.
So far I have been looking into creating a colouring game using SVGs in Adobe Edge Animate, the only issue with using this method is that if there are any problems with Edge I won't get much support on it anymore due to the fact that Adobe have stopped working on Edge.
I have been following a video guide from edgedocks on youtube to help me test some ways to create this and I have managed to figure it out, only issue is since Adobe decided to remove jQuerry from Edge you have to go through an external source to get ahold of everything needed to make the project work. So with this factor it could become a problem in the future but at the current moment it works.
So since Christmas Break is coming up I decided to get the final stages of the preperation completed by trying to design a flowchart, so that I can show the children how the story is ment to go scene to scene. This was mainly to help me when it comes to my actual design stage so that when I get everything from the children I can start working on the final designs and get everything ready to start animating.
The way I think this will be done is by first of digitizing all of the drawings that I feel I can use for the application and then from there work on how the first challenge is going to work or if not the first challenge on of them. So that if I am able to get at least one challenge working I will know that I am on the right track for my project.
So far I have been looking into creating a colouring game using SVGs in Adobe Edge Animate, the only issue with using this method is that if there are any problems with Edge I won't get much support on it anymore due to the fact that Adobe have stopped working on Edge.
I have been following a video guide from edgedocks on youtube to help me test some ways to create this and I have managed to figure it out, only issue is since Adobe decided to remove jQuerry from Edge you have to go through an external source to get ahold of everything needed to make the project work. So with this factor it could become a problem in the future but at the current moment it works.
Friday, 4 December 2015
Co-design Preperation
Design Stage;
So since I now have a date for my workshop I decided that I should probably get prepared for what it is I am going to do with the children so that I have everything planned in advance.
So for the first task I think I will do something along the lines of a simple colourblind test to show them what the tests look like and how they work, also this gives me a chance to maybe see if there are any children that are colourblind in the class. The issue with this task is that I will need the schools permission to do this and they will probably need to get parental consent for this type of task, but if this is allowed then that means it would be good for statisical research.
The second task I think will be allowing the children to create the characters that may make appearances in the story so that they can have their creations in the story. This will be a good chance to show them the process that designers go through when it comes to creating applications for them and allows them to be apart of the story book more than just playing with it as a game.
For the final task I will be probably trying to get the children to help me create the story by choosing things like the name of the town, how the evil Doctor takes away the colours and why. By doing this it helps me create a story from a childs point of view and then the application will be something created by children for children.
So since I now have a date for my workshop I decided that I should probably get prepared for what it is I am going to do with the children so that I have everything planned in advance.
So for the first task I think I will do something along the lines of a simple colourblind test to show them what the tests look like and how they work, also this gives me a chance to maybe see if there are any children that are colourblind in the class. The issue with this task is that I will need the schools permission to do this and they will probably need to get parental consent for this type of task, but if this is allowed then that means it would be good for statisical research.
The second task I think will be allowing the children to create the characters that may make appearances in the story so that they can have their creations in the story. This will be a good chance to show them the process that designers go through when it comes to creating applications for them and allows them to be apart of the story book more than just playing with it as a game.
For the final task I will be probably trying to get the children to help me create the story by choosing things like the name of the town, how the evil Doctor takes away the colours and why. By doing this it helps me create a story from a childs point of view and then the application will be something created by children for children.
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