Critique

After the critique on Wednesday, I really liked how we had a round robin approach of looking at different net art pieces online on different computers. I liked this much more than having everyone present their piece in a presentation. Here we could experience their piece as a user instead of listening to them talk about their project. From this we could click on the buttons and could read and critique at our own time and pace. It was good to get anonymous comments because some of the feedback was really helpful. This also made it easier for people to give constructive critisizm instead of telling them to their face and possibly offending the artist. I also liked how there was a wide variety of different projects. I felt like this made the critique much more interesting as people would experiment with different types of software – either Flash to Processing, etc. There were also a variety of different kinds of designs and graphics that people used which was nice to see. Some people would have graphics of grass to tattoo art. Overall I found it to be a worthy experience as you could see so many different types of personal work.

Final Project

When I was trying to upload my Flash project to the web, I had some problems fixing out the bugs. The professor helped me by moving my .swf file into the www/ file of my cyberduck ftp program. We also had to make the flash project into an html file by opening it up in Dreamweaver. I had to put a title on my work with my name on it. Afterwards I found out that I also need my video files in my ftp cyberduck www/ file. The page wouldn’t load without all of the content which in this case were the extra video files.

Here is the final product.

Links

For the animation – instead of using Javascript for the other links that I wanted to use at the bottom, I used a link feature by adding the url to my Flash project. I probably need to work more on the interface graphics with the Yakuza Koala and clean it up a bit if I can. There is still a bunch of red fuzzy looking lines around the character.

Bottom Links

I need to get some Javascript for my extra content links at the bottom my interface page. I want to let the user be able to click on the link for Yakuza at the bottom so the page can be redirected to a website about the history of the Yakuza Japanese Gang. I also want to put a link at the bottom of my interface called Gummi History which is a link to see a website on the complicated process of how Gummi Bear candy are manufactured and processed. At the moment I’m trying to put in a second video clip that shows the sticky consistency of what Gummi Bears look like after they are microwaved. I want to put this at the bottom linked called microwaved Gummis. Afterwards I need to upload it to the web. I also learned that it was better to make the French rap clip into a movieclip and then drag it to the stage.

Microwaved Gummi Bears

I microwaved a few Gummi Bears and I started using my hand to move it around. I want to use this as a link to another page of content. This is very sticky and has a strange texture.

Microwaved Gummi Bears

Ideas for other pages to navigate from

I have my interface which is a picture of a Yakuza Koala Bear. I have links for part of the story with the text – such as Sugar Coating is part 1 of the webcomic, chocolate center is the middle comic part, the crunch part has the animation clip where I filmed the chocolate koala bears versus the gummi bear candies. The aftertaste has the conclusion of the story. I need to figure out a way to have some text or some way of explaining the storyline. Maybe add some text or something? I also need to figure out how to put that French song and segment sections of it or something. I also want to put some gunshot noises with the stop motion animation clip. For the other pages I need to figure out other links to different types of content. Perhaps I can make little icons to click on to like information about how the candy is made, background information on Yakuzas and gangs, and a link to some random videos such as the exploding candy or microwaved gummi bears.

Interface first page.