First Animation Test

Here's a quick shot from my upcoming short "Time Out". Critiques welcome!

New Business Cards

Finally made some business cards for myself. Time to start adopting the new look.

Demo Reel

Getting up to speed....again

Been a while since my last post so I thought I'd share some of the projects i've been working on
These are the main characters for an animated short I'm working on. Really close to animating. Due date is in December.....I have time.

What makes a good web design?

Not sure.......yet, but what i do know is what makes a not-so-good design. I think that any person with any hint of artistic ability can label certain components of a site to be "bad". Huge text, random colors, "boring", mismatching items, the list could go on forever. But what it all boils down to is one thing: Items that do not have any purpose in the design.

Like I said, anyone with a hint of artistic ability (like me) can match colors and create blocks of text and ultimately create a nice layout, but does the layout have a "why" to it? What's the importance of aligning text a certain way, why is item 1 this color, but item 2 that color? Why is this content divided the way it is? I've been interning now for a little over a month now and I realize how much of an amateur I really am......a horribly, designed-challenged amateur.

But recently, an unexpected source helped put it into perspective. It was actually a sales man who was having a talk with my boss. As my boss was talking the salesman would ask well why did you do that? Who is it for? Who's gonna use it? Who's your target? And I think these points describe exactly what a web designer should be thinking, along with how do I make this eye apealling and effective. And once you answer all of those questions, everything in the design has a purpose and it's not just....there.

New job!

Well, I finally landed an internship! I'm currently working for Squish Designs, a website development company located here in Indy. The company itself is run by two people, George Roots, a Purdue graduate, and Nicki Laycoax, to which I still don't know where she came from....but that's okay!

I wasn't in the office for too long today, but I was immediately thrown into the fire, acquiring an entire dry-erase board's worth of task to complete. Challenging.....yes, but work would never be fun if there weren't any challenges.

This internship is just what I needed to get a taste of the design world...I'll do my best to keep it.

Finished Site Design

After some long thought and head scratching I finally finished this thing. I decided to stray away from the black just because it seem a little too extreme for what I wanted to do. I couldn't finish the cartoon of myself either, but I still put the sketch in there just to offset that massive amount of blank space.