Tuesday 25 January 2011

link bar

this is what you would use to go to different pages for example if you click on the first character then it would go to the characters info page.
i had thought of this idea when i was researching websites and i saw that most links are either text or a button so i thought to make the page more atractive i could use pictures instead

Wednesday 19 January 2011

Tuesday 18 January 2011

wordle

today we captured with words what represented us. and then we did one for another person with the website called wordle. then we printed them out and put them together as a poaster

Tuesday 11 January 2011

website proposal 2

                                       
change of my website




After a lot of thought I have decided to change the focus of my website from cosplay to a website about the manga artist Yana Toboso and her art work and her books called kuroshitsuji and Rust Blaster. I have chosen Yana Toboso because she is my favourite manga artist and I have more interest in manga then I do in cosplay.

There are already existing website which has created the same thing I want to create for my website. Some examples are the Wikipedia about her as I want to have pages that tell you about her and her life and how she became an artist, 
Another website would be the official wiki for one of her mangas called kuroshitsuji. This website is good for information as it tells you everything about her book for example the characters, the plot ECT. And it has a nice layout because of all the pictures, which I find good as the books she creates are just pages of pictures so the website kind of represents a manga in one way. But although it has a lot of picture the page isn't really very attractive as the pictures are on a plain white background. I can’t say much about the logo for this website as this website is a website for lots of other information about different things but I think that they could have incorporated the manga into the logo somehow. Like changing the font to an old England font because the setting for this manga is in old England    

Another website like one I want to create would be the wiki about rust blaster this one has allot of information about the manga but unfortunately it doesn’t have any pictures and the whole page looks bland and unattractive so this page doesn’t really portray the manga or anything about Yana Toboso in the logo or page design.

In my website I want to create a home page with allot of illustrations of her books to make it attractive. Then I would make a separate page about Yana Toboso and how she became a manga artist, a page dedicated to kuroshitsuji and another page about her second book rust blaster then I would have pages about what new stuff she is working on and fan artwork that has been created by others.
I will create a logo that has some aspects of her books in it and the website background will have elements of the mangas incorporated

My research has proven to be use full as before I had done any research I had no idea that she had created another manga. Also it has helped me see that there isn’t an already existing website that is like the one I want to create.
Research has also helped me come up with ideas for the design of the backgrounds for each page   

My method of capture will be the use of drawing using tablets into Photoshop for backgrounds and to draw her characters in my style. I will use scanning to scan in some pages of  one of her mangas
I will use flash for some vector drawings for example the buttons
I will also be using fonts as a form of capture
And I will use sounds for the button clicks 

my capture method history

The very first drawings were from cavemen in prehistoric times. They were very limited in detail and were made from very simple shapes. There were only ever two colours used; black and brown. But they were noticeable as to what they were. Their drawings were made to tell stories as they didn't have an alphabet yet.
And they were always found on walls.
Later drawing developed and there were more colours used. Their drawing style changed and they had more
detailed pictures. Also they had developed a type of paper called papyrus this made it easier to pass on the information because it could be stored and looked after. They started to develop their own type of alphabet so pictures weren't use as much as the prehistoric times to tell story as they could just Wright it.
Then when we get to the roman times the drawings obtained allot of detail and tones of different colours. In this ERA they also started to use shading and lighting in their pictures. The people were very detailed and were realistically drawn. This was drawn on a canvas as they developed something better that papyrus. There are no words on this drawing as they no longer used drawings to tell story's or information because they had a fully developed alphabet that was used in allot of places  
Soon people started to just draw for work or hobby. And because the drawings were no longer needed for telling stories they could be made to look as strange as they like to capture people’s attention for selling purposes. Or the artist could just let their imagination flow and because of this many drawing styles were created e.g. abstract, surrealism, cartoon, fantasy and many more

Then when technology developed we were able to draw on the computer. As the technology got better and better, people were able to create detailed realistic images of people but because of the technology then they were able to add things to the people that would not normally be there e.g. wings and because ad the high quality technology it looks so real that it could be a photo

digital drawing 

In the mid 1960's the only individuals that were involved in digital art were scientists or engineers because they were the only ones that had access to the equipment.
Then artists started to explore the uses of computing technology as a means of creating art. In 1962 DR. A. Michael Noll programmed a digital computer to create visual patterns only for artistic uses.
Some of his late computer generated patterns helped create other artists work like Piet Mondrian and Bridget Riley and theses paintings later became classics. the first devices that allowed us to create digital art was the 'Henry Drawing Machine' that was created by Desmond Paul Henry. Because of the invention of his machine he was granted the privilege of a one man show so then his work was shown in the Ried gallery in London in 1962,
later in 1963 Joan Shogren created a computer program that was based on artistic principles. The first two digital art exhibitions were held in 1965. The first was held in April 1965 at the Howard Wise Gallery in New York, and Generative Computergrafik. The second was held in February 1965, at the Technische Hochschule in Stuttgart, Germany.  The names of theses exhibitions don't contain the word 'art' as this was not yet acknowledged as art
in 1968 the institute of contemporary arts hosted one of the most influential exhibitions of computer art. This exhibition featured many of people which were often seen as the first true digital artists. A year later the Computer Arts Society was founded in London

The first computer art program was created in 1970 by Katherine Nash and Richard Williams and was called ' ART 1'



Anime art 

Anime began at the beginning of the 20th century. The Japanese film makers started experimenting with techniques of animation that were being used in the west. In the 1970’s anime was developed further and separated completely from its western roots, and started developing distinct genres such as ‘mecha’. Some of the shows from this period are Lupin III and Mazinger Z. Also during this period a couple film makers became famous especially Hayao Miyazaki and Mamoru Oshii. In the 1980’s was accepted into the mainstream in Japan and became more popular in production. Because of the rise of some films including a film called ‘Akira’ this set records in 1988 in the production costs of film production. And the film 'Akira' soon after became a success world wide. In the 1990's and 2000's



Because of the development of technology we have been able to create more complex drawing whether it is digital or traditional. For example with the creation of Photoshop in 1990 you were then able to do more affects in digital drawing as Photoshop filters were then introduced.