Turns out i'm becoming really bad at keeping everyone updated!
I have been pretty busy working on my capstone as of late. The good news is I got a ton of it done. I mean a TON. A couple weeks ago I was freaking out that I wouldn't be able to finish it. That's not an issue anymore.
So I know this space usually isn't about whats going on in school but I need to talk about it just a little bit! Although I'm not done I'm already regretting some things.
Firstly I wish I had more time to work on the look and feel of it. This would have came if I knew the language I was building the site in. This is affected by my process or lack of one. Now maybe I should have had a plan from the very beginning but I didn't. I knew what features I wanted and went all out trying to get them to work. How the site looked was really an afterthought at a certain point when I realized I do not have the time. That is disappointing, sure someone could probably make what I did in a week or less, but it has taken me forever. I feel it is owed a lot more in the visual department than what I can give it.
I have been pretty busy working on my capstone as of late. The good news is I got a ton of it done. I mean a TON. A couple weeks ago I was freaking out that I wouldn't be able to finish it. That's not an issue anymore.
So I know this space usually isn't about whats going on in school but I need to talk about it just a little bit! Although I'm not done I'm already regretting some things.
Firstly I wish I had more time to work on the look and feel of it. This would have came if I knew the language I was building the site in. This is affected by my process or lack of one. Now maybe I should have had a plan from the very beginning but I didn't. I knew what features I wanted and went all out trying to get them to work. How the site looked was really an afterthought at a certain point when I realized I do not have the time. That is disappointing, sure someone could probably make what I did in a week or less, but it has taken me forever. I feel it is owed a lot more in the visual department than what I can give it.
Second is, boy is this incomplete. So far it does everything it is supposed to so that so plus. If this were for a class I would pass with flying colors. However since I involved the study abroad office in this I'm put into a corner. This site works fine for a classroom example basically. My concern is that i'm not comfortable shipping it as it stands now. Nor am I likely to feel comfortable shipping it in two weeks. There needs to be a lot more work done specifically in security which I really don't know how to do. I just have this voice in the back of my head telling me "don't ship it, its not ready" and its right. I don't want to give the office something that frankly sucks, but I promised them something. I would feel a lot better about it if I could somehow pass this project down to someone after I leave so that it is finished to an appropriate standard.
I also think I had my first experience with a bad client! Looking back I realize I could have avoided some of this, but still. Let me complain.
Firstly they were very vague on what they wanted. They already had an existing logo, all they wanted me to do was change it a bit. What does that mean I don't know. Eventually I was told, just to put the world behind it. "OK this is going to look terrible" I said to myself. I should have asked for when they wanted this done by. Turns out they wanted it "like yesterday", but if your'e going to be like that, at least tell me the stupid date you wanted it! Adding "just a picture of the world" behind something isn't hard but it wont be a slam dunk, or even a layup if I don't have anytime to think of something. So it did end up looking like a turd and nothing I would try to show off, it's upsetting because it could have been a little interesting. So i'm not going to fault them for editing what I did, more power to them. I will fault them though for distorting the hell out of the earth and making it almost unrecognizable. If you were going to do that why waste my time?
Firstly they were very vague on what they wanted. They already had an existing logo, all they wanted me to do was change it a bit. What does that mean I don't know. Eventually I was told, just to put the world behind it. "OK this is going to look terrible" I said to myself. I should have asked for when they wanted this done by. Turns out they wanted it "like yesterday", but if your'e going to be like that, at least tell me the stupid date you wanted it! Adding "just a picture of the world" behind something isn't hard but it wont be a slam dunk, or even a layup if I don't have anytime to think of something. So it did end up looking like a turd and nothing I would try to show off, it's upsetting because it could have been a little interesting. So i'm not going to fault them for editing what I did, more power to them. I will fault them though for distorting the hell out of the earth and making it almost unrecognizable. If you were going to do that why waste my time?
So I drew that robot and he was kinda cute. It had me thinking of ice cream. For several days now though I can't get an idea out of my mind so I think I will work on it for my final project this year.
The concept is to recreate a kid dropping ice cream, but in an old time comic feel.
The concept is to recreate a kid dropping ice cream, but in an old time comic feel.
The idea is to have the kid pointing and crying at his fallen treat in the bottom left corner. While the rest of the space is blank. I want to use this as a test to draw more, but also use it to mimic the comic book style as well as playing around with solitary figures.
That is pretty much it!
Although i'll end by being a whiny teenager.
That is pretty much it!
Although i'll end by being a whiny teenager.