Hello! Welcome to week2.
DUE
- Post your URL on Openlabs discussion page:
http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups/adv3662-interactive-animation/forum/topic/post-your-domain-name-your-url-here/
Agenda
- Watch short video: Grant Skinner – Interactive Developer
- Project1: ADV3662_Project1Overview
- Finish frame-by-frame animation
- Photoshop gif animation experiment (I will ask you to save to my dropbox end of class)
- Begin to work on homework
Lesson
- Frame-by-frame animation
- File optimization, save for web: PNG, SVG, GIF & JPEG, (www.kraken.io/)
- Photoshop animation exercises and experiments: Lessons-week2
- Setting up a web hosting plan. You will need to have a host and a domain name for the class. Here are two options: Kionic.com or Aplus.net. If you already have you do not need to set up a new one for this class.
Example of interactive ‘mini-sites’:
- http://static.businessinsider.com/image/4bbf5bcc7f8b9a4107340600/ipad-infographic-large.jpg
- http://columnfivemedia.com/ (Design agency that specializes in Info-Graphics)
- http://jessandruss.us/
- http://html5readiness.com/
- http://www.evanshalshaw.com/more/effects-of-drug-driving/
- http://www.dangersoffracking.com/
- http://www.breakitdown.ie/
- http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek
Student examples form previous semesters:
Homework:
- Find one inspirational website from www.commarts.com. Post to Openlab class blog
http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/groups/adv3662-interactive-animation/forum/topic/interactive-websites-examples/ - Read: DAMASCUS handouts: DAMSCUS-Survey and DAMSCUS-AboutSurvey
- Study these two links:
