The idea for my web site is quite random but I am happy with it. As I have been looking into internships and Pixar was a strong candidate so, with some advice given to me it came to the conclusion that creating a Pixar website would be the ideal project. However I will not be redesigning the actual website, I have decided to create a website of my animations and how I would interpret pixar animations if I had not seen pixars designs.
Below are some of my initial designs that I have experimented with. I found it quite hard because I was trying to be more open minded about my designs and be more experimented.
I started off by mind mapping ideas or things to consider when thinking of pixar. Most of these ideas were based around the pixar website (I will be blogging about my findings) from these I was able to pick up ideas that I felt could be enhanced further.
One of my first ideas was from the the pixar website, well the theme and layout. I have kept to the theme of the film reel however pixar did not use the reel to frame the work. I also decided to design Polaroid photos the idea behind this would be for potential new animators be able to upload their work in the frames for the public to view. I thought that this would be a good idea because I feel that there needs to be more sites that promote new animators, get people to actually see their work.
For this design it was more trying to promote my work. The intended idea would be for my sketches to be the interaction when the character is clicked on it could either show a pop up or be a link to another page, so now thinking about it it could potentially be an idea for my main page, however the only thing I worry about this design is that it maybe to 'in your face' so I could tone it down a little.
I'm going to be honest, this was not my best idea but I thought it so I may as well show it. Keeping to the theme above about trying to enhance/promote potential new animators I thought why not create a forum/faq page, somewhere where people can ask questions about the subject animation. If I had to describe it I would say like facebook but for the arty people. However after talking to people I get the feeling that this could be very difficult and time consuming and with the skills that I have I may not have enough time.
Now that I have started making ideas I thought I would attempt the minimal look, but not too minimal I don't want it to look plain so these next four sketches are pretty similar but I like them. What I am starting to think is what would look good throughout the whole project site, because the first ideas I felt were good but where would they lead on to? how would they link to the other pages? Looking at these designs I feel that these ones could be the ones that I could improve and make further designs for.
Each image would fall out into a drop down menu, could be one of my widgets.
The main imagery on either side of the main content. This would keep the users focused on the main piece however it looks quite overcrowed with all of the imagery. And so thats why I decided to reverse it.
I prefer this idea, having the animation peak from behind the main content, keeps the audiences eyes to the center of the page and also I feel would give a 3D look to it. But like I said I am going to redesign these or try and improve the idea.
These last two images are not my best but as I was told to blog everything I thought that I would show them, they are only quick sketches sticking to my ideas above so I don't really need to explain them again but I've done the work so I may as well show it.
I am going to carry on sketching because this is how I get my better ideas, I have also done some research into different websitea, mainly focusing on the animation theme so I could compare my ideas to others. So until next time enjoy the work.
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