My Own Website Online!

Well it's finally here! The first upload to my own website!
www.kidinacandystore.co.uk went online today with my Uni project to front the website.

Eventually the website will be re-designed and actually be relevent to me. At the moment, it's just a holding place until I know exactly the design I want.

Take a look and let me know what you think!

The Audio Visual Object

Here it is! The first version of my audio/visual.

The video represents an ideal view of what New York could be like. The voice over helps to create an atmosphere of the heat, the fun, activities and the friendly citizens.

The song I've backed to the video is Alphabeat's Fascination as the song works really well with the theme as I'm trying to portray New York as being an incredible place to be.. or you could say, a fascinating place to be!

Showcase - Flash

Showcase by ~sammarshall20 on deviantART

Here's the Showcase as it stands at the moment. The buttons will become clickable once all the content has been assigned to them.

Audio maybe edited to sound a bit more New Yorky, but this is the idea at the moment.

Showcase - New York - Render

Here's the latest render of my showcase, as you can see I've added some signs, cars, lampposts and widened the street a bit.

This is finally becoming a reality!!!

This is what I've been aiming for ever since the beginning of the project. You can finally see my little avatar walking down the street. Watch the video and focus at the end of the street and you'll see him bobbing along.

I'm thinking of adding in some lampposts, cars and other people walking along... not sure yet tho!

My concept for the Identities project.

I’m using the New York City street as an idealistic world I would love to live in and my elements will reflect this in one way or another.


Each element will directly link to the idealistic dream and identity I’m trying to create.

Showcase – New York, where I’d love to live.

Avatar – Me, now.

Website – Shows a history of what I’ve done, taking experience with me.

Audio/Visual – Up-tempo music video, showing best bits of New York, creates an ideal image of what New York should be like, which may not be true in reality.

Logo – Speech bubble emphasises the friends and family I’ll be leaving behind.

Latest Showcase Render

The video shows my latest render of my New York City street.

The camera zooms down right to the end of the street and looks up slightly. My avatar will walk down the street and wave, until a user clicks on him or clicks on a window to load another interactive object.

Interactive Showcase

Here's a render of my city scape. As you can see, I've removed most of the reflective surfaces so they look more industrial now. Not only does this speed up the rendering time by about 4 times, I can also render it at a bigger file size, better quality and it's still an hour faster to compile. Also, the more "solid" feel to the buildings gives it a more realistic feel, at the end of the day, not all buildings are made of full glass are they?

Interactive Showcase - Hiccup!

Here is the video I produced of my New York city scape.

The quality is very low and it only lasts a couple of seconds, however it took over 2 hours to render.

Having rendered this small file, I'm having second thoughts about how exactly I will go about this project. I'm going to have to create a less dynamic city scape to be able to render the images quicker. This is quite anoying as I'm really proud of the work I've done.

I'll try and keep my original idea, that you're presented with the first image and then you click a window or something and then it zooms onto that window, however it's going to be quite difficult to reduce the quality.

Interactive Showcase

After attempting the tutorial to create the building, I then applied the same techniques to create my own New York street with the same textures, which I think i'll keep if this is the idea i'm sticking to.

I love the way the light shines through between the buildings, looks beautiful. Only issue is, it will take so long to render when creating it for flash!

City Scape 3Ds Max

Here is the 3D render of my basic world so far. It's very soft at the moment due to the lack of textures. But you can see the idea so far.

City Scape idea

Following last weeks seminar with Roma, we spoke about what I am like, what makes me who I am, what I enjoy and my future aspirations. What seemed quite prominant was the organisational skills and New York. Therefore I've drawn up a sketch of a possible design for a box. It's a view down a street in new York. It will be created in 3D S Max and then exported and put into Flash so that the windows etc are clickable. Click the picture to see the full design.