Donna Massam

Due to having to get an extention on the identities project because of personal problems, i havent really had a minute to update my blog with all my updates. So here it is.

First of all my last two website analysis's

Web analysis two

Web analysis three

As you would have read in my previous my latest idea was the book, we'll i have kept with this idea as i felt that with this as my showcase i could express myself more of who i am, when you look at a toolbax ou more think electricial or plumber not Private as i was hoping it would, instead this feature would be kept as one of my object. Now with the book i was more free to express me as a person, i wanted it as a diary though more than a book as it seems quite personal to a single person.

I also changed my mind to the type of objects that i wanted to include as i felt the ones i had talked about in one of my posts (http://dmassam.blogspot.com/2008/04/project-two.html). I changed my mind about those ideas because i found that it was too difficult to tell that particular story as it was too private to me. Instead though, i came up with five ideas that would skim along my personality and who i am. These were my ideas:

• An about me page so that when using the program, they could identify how i look etc.. i gave a short synopsis on who i was but not givin a lot as i wanted the other 4 objects to tell my story too.
  
• A design of my business card that when clicked on would go to my online portfolio.
  
• A collage of my family's photogaphs
  
• My pixelation movie
  
• Treasure chest with avatar cat inside.

Drawing diagrams that should have been uploaded a long ime before now :S. Unortuantly ive had things stopping me.

(These are the drawings of my ideas before i changed the idea of the toolbox)
(This diagram shows the process of my book opening and closing)

(Another diagram showing what my book would do)

(This diagram shows how my final idea of m objects being shown would be)
Originally my plan for my book was to create a 3D book in 3DS Max and import the video produced from that into Flash and work from there, but that way proved to have too many problems with it, my main one being the fact that the quality of the video changed even thought i was very please with the outcome of my 3D book. Below is a preview of the avi video from 3DS Max.

After coming across these problems i decided that my project would look more effective using an image of a book open and a book closed and giving the illusion of it opening once the closed book is switched open, this would look more effective than the video as i wouldnt be losing as much quality in my final piece.

The images of the book open and closed (before editing in Photoshop) These were photographs i took with my camera:

The images after being edited in Photoshop:

Before our lecure with Shaun Belcher i was planning on using my nickname Leoni for my logo, but instead i got thinking, and in college we had to create our own 'business' for a business studies brief and my company name i chose was PixelNoodle so i decided to use this instead because it was something that i created which relates to my Multimedia career.

This is the logo i designed: My interpretation for the logo is the finger type things coming off the noodle side of the logo, give off the curves of what noodles naturally do, this interpretes 'flexibility' and i have placed the several red squares underneith the pixel text to represent pixels.