Week 15A

11/30/15

Still working on the website. Today I made a background with clouds from the wall in Toy Story which I thought was very fitting for Lasseter's design. I used photoshop to separate the clouds and put them in a pattern that would repeat. I realize it's pretty busy but I was just happy it worked. I will change it later. Then I made small plaques in illustrator of the pixar movies that received academy awards. Then I copied them to photoshop as vector objects and saved them all as the same size. Then I put them on the banner, which sort of works, but the pictures that come next appear at the bottom and the are animated. Next time I will change the fonts and the background and maybe the cropping of images.

Event 2

11/23/15

I went to Getting Away With Shit: Real Talk with Timothy Goodman on 11/23/15. This event was about designer Timothy Goodman talking about his life's work. He told us that he was from New York, he was not around his father much, and he used to be quite the little trouble maker. He told us some things that he liked like dick jokes, swearing, stand up comedy, hip hop music, and of course design. He used to work for Apple but then he saw a design that just looked like a scribble and he thought that it was incredible that someone got payed just to paint shit on a wall. He asked someone once what do they do with their job and they replied, "whatever I can get away with." That was incredibly inspiring to him and to the audience of the event including me. The 6 rules to this were to know the rules, have some audacity, don't ask for permission but ask for forgiveness, listen to yourself, get into your work, be curious and stay young. Then he showed off his work. He showed us a CNNpolitics.com bar sign that clearly looked like a penis that he designed and got away with. He designed a room in Los Vegas that has Tupac lyrics written on the walls as tribute to him. Then he attempted to write the most valentines in one day using social media which Guinness had to deny as a world record. Then he talked about his famous experiment were he dated a close friend for 40 days. He and his date were complete opposites when it came to dating. The notes that they took from the experiment were turned into a book and apparently they sold the movie rights to Warner Brothers which is currently trying to make a screen play. Then he ended with some Instagram poetry that he wrote. I really like how he talked about his inspiration of his designs.

Event 1

11/19/15

I attended Pens and Pints on 11/19/15. It was held at a bar in Lancaster named Tellus360. It mostly involved socializing with other students interested in design. At each table there were large sheets of paper to draw on and for the most part everyone drew at least one thing but others drew a lot. I personally noticed a lot of writing rather than drawing which I was a little disappointed in because I was hoping to see a larger quantity of interesting designs. I'm not saying the designs that I saw were bad, there just wasn't as many as I was hoping to see. Of course I did not check every table so maybe more designs were found at the end of the night. I think the point of the event was for students, also known as: the future generation, to discuss among themselves with little to no restrictions about what they dissatisfied with and how they would like to change it. In other words they are sort of planing for the future an how to change it. Of course with all he alcohol  some people said some crazy stuff but maybe that stuff is just crazy enough to work, and maybe that was the plan all along; to get young people thinking about the future no matter how ambitious their crazy plans maybe as well as criticizing parts of the current generation.

Week 14A

11/23/15

I added most the images to the website. I had some trouble resizing them to my needs.

Week 13B

11/18/15

Today we continued to work on our websites. I was able to but most of my information into blocks in the approximate position I want them. The problem I was having was from the fact that My blocks were not in containers and I needed to have them float in the direction I wanted them. I also decided to do an animated banner that I found code from
http://designshack.net/articles/css/infinitephotobanner/.
I used the object I made in illustrator to test if the banner was working, it worked a little bit but it was still a little broken.
Here is what I have now:

Week 13A

11/16/15

Today we were to continue to work on the website. This time we were actually starting to use code to layout the website in blocks. First I got the title parts to work fine and They were sort of where I wanted them without content. Then I tried to place on area were I wanted to add an image later as a pink box. Now I just need to put every thing into position. I've got this so far:

Week 12C

11/12/15

I made a graphic for the website. It is 2 capital D's from the Disney logo turned on their sides with the line that goes through the D's stretches in one large line. I was thinking of using it for a line brake in between sections of the website.

Week 12B

11/11/15

Today we did more sketches for the website project. I decided to have the box office section of the website be moved into the awards section forming the final section of the website as awards and more. Originally I had some of the sections looking the same but then I thought they could all be different. I also had trouble deciding weather the last section should be small blocks or horizontal columns, I then thought that the columns idea could work for the section right before the end. I asked the instructor what he thought and he thought the changes were for the better.

Week 12A

11/9/15

Today we learned about the box model and how it was a simple way of designing websites. This is too simple of a design because it is for beginners.Our projects should try to avoid this at all cost. So we were then instructed to look at gallery websites to find other, simple but well designed websites. One website we looked at was http://www.awwwards.com/.  This site's layout itself was good enough to be used for my project. Here is my draft of a website based on awwwards.com: (sorry it's hard to see)

Week 11C

11/05/15

Today I made a mode board for my John Lasseter website. It shows off the jobs he has done like writer, director, animator, executive producer. It also show companies he has worked for like Disney, Pixar, and Lucasfilms. It shows his educational rotes. It also shows money and awards his work has won as well as some poster's from some of his most important work. Some color swatches were used because I'm thinking of using them as the color scheme for the website.

Week 11B

11/4/15

Today we did 2 tutorials while our professor was away.
The first one looked like this at the end:

The second one looked like this:

Week 11A

11/2/15

Today we were assigned to research a designer from a list of designer and design a web page around the chosen artist. Then we were to create a content sheet of what we want on our chosen person. I chose John Lasseter.

John Lasseter

·      Oversees all films and associated projects from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios and Disneytoon Studios, 

·       Made his feature directorial debut in 1995 with Toy Story, the first-ever feature-length computer-animated film,

·      Also directed " Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Cars (2006) and Cars 2 (2011).

·       He received a Special Achievement Oscar® recognizing his inspired leadership of the Toy Story team.

·      He and the rest of the screenwriting team earned an Academy Award® nomination for best original screenplay, 

·      executive producer for Walt Disney Animation Studios' Oscar®-winning feature Frozen (2013), which also won an Oscar for best original song ("Let It Go"). The film is the No. 1 animated feature of all time, crossing the $1 billion mark in March 2014.

·      Since assuming creative oversight of both animation studios in 2006, Lasseter has served as executive producer on all Walt Disney Animation Studios features

·      has executive produced all Pixar features since Monsters, Inc. (2001)

·      the studio's seven Academy Award®-winners Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Ratatouille (2007), WALL•E (2008) Up(2009), Toy Story 3 (2010) and Brave (2012),

·      To date, Pixar's films have earned more than $8.5 billion in gross box-office receipts, with all 14 features opening at No. 1.

·      directed and animated Pixar's first short films, including Luxo Jr., Red's Dream, Tin Toy andKnick Knack. Luxo Jr. 

·      Tin Toy was the first three-dimensional computer-animated film ever to win an Academy Award when it was named best animated short film in 1988.

·      has executive-produced all of the studio's subsequent shorts, including the Academy Award-winning shorts Geri's Game (1997) and For the Birds (2000), recent shorts La Luna (2011) and The Blue Umbrella (2013)

·      He also serves as executive producer for Walt Disney Animation Studios shorts, including the Oscar®-winning Paperman (2012),Get A Horse! (2013)

·      his role as principal creative advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering

·      In 2009, Lasseter was honored at the 66th Venice International Film Festival with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.

·      The following year, he became the first producer of animated films to receive the Producers Guild of America's David O. Selznick Achievement

·      Award in Motion Pictures. Lasseter's other recognitions include the 2004 outstanding contribution to cinematic imagery award from the Art Directors Guild, an honorary degree from the American Film Institute, and the 2008 Winsor McCay Award from ASIFA-Hollywood for career achievement and contribution to the art of animation.

·      Prior to the formation of Pixar in 1986, Lasseter was a member of the computer division of Lucasfilm Ltd.,

·      Lasseter was part of He is the only two-time winner of the Student Academy Award for Animation, for his CalArts student films Lady and the Lamp (1979) and Nitemare (1980). 

·       the inaugural class of the character animation program at California Institute of the Arts and received his B.F.A. in film in 1979.

·      From  http://waltdisneystudios.com/corp/unit/6/bio/245

Education

Early career

Director

Producer

Awards

Box Office

Week 10C

11/1/15

I made minor changes to the resume. I found out what was wrong with the color of my name, it just needed to be color not fount-color. I also made some spacing changes.