I've been working on my Personal Logo animation and also developed a sketch of a brief storyboard for it. I will post that after i scan it in. But here is the final logo animation I have developed.

kyle vs. Flash: Round 2

So we are now embarking on our flash projects. We are going to be making time based animations from what i'm understanding. My last try in flash was a learning experience. Many problems came up when going through different versions of it as well as using a tower and laptop simultaneously. not smart. Since then I feel a lot more comfortable in flash though so i'm pretty excited for this new project.

I'm having a hard time thinking of what i might want to show. So far, two thoughts are a safety animation based off of all the stupid ways ive hurt myself throughout my life. 2nd idea aims at my incredible awsome cellular service provider AT&T. For those of you not living in the Kalamazoo area and using AT&T, consider yourselves lucky. Those of you who are feel my pain. This seems to be the only city that it stops working without reason. one minute u have full service and the next you don't. I have to walk out onto my front lawn to make phone calls for the most part so its kind of pathetic/ histerical that it's that bad.

weird outlines on images and text

I've been getting a weird white outline on a lot of my image files that I made in illustrator. I found out that png files are working better than gif files in cs4. When saving for web, there's two options of png, the png 8 and 24. For some reason it's being inconsistent with which one is working better. Im working on saving new files for my text info so that I can get rid of anything that has that outline. Im having some problems with fitting things into my tables. I'm wondering if there's a way to add padding in an individual cell or if i just need to re-slice my image?

finally some progress

So i've been having a love/hate relationship with dreamweaver all weekend. One minute everything is working fine, the next nothing is right. I spent some time working with Leon on friday to put in a vertical-scroll image gallery. I don't know what it's actually called but we finally got it to work after over an hour and it worked perfectly and fit nice. Than I come home and of course it doesn't. I didn't do anything except open the file and i broke it. So that idea has now been abandoned and i have a series of rollover images in my left sidebar. I have gotten all of the thumbs formatted and put into dreamweaver so i just have to figure out how to link it to the image in the middle so when you click the thumb, the big image opens without changing pages.

Site Layouts

Some layouts I've been working with. About page and Home page shown.

http://www.layersmagazine.com/category/tutorials/dreamweaver

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/

I've been having a lot of trouble with dreamweaver and these sites have been somewhat helpful. I still can't get anything to work though...

other sketches of logo

Personal Logo Sketches

When sketching ideas for my personal logo, I kept coming back to two ideas. One being my close relationship with my family and family history, and the other being my love for traveling. I combined the two influences using the north star to reference the travel aspect, and the symbol of Florence, known as the Giglio. My Grandmother was born in Florence and lived there until she moved to America. I also had the opportunity to live there for part of the summer during my study abroad.