Finished Identities Interactive

I almost forgot to talk about my finished identities project. I had been so caught up in it's creation and getting it completed for the deadline, I completely forgot about writing up a finished post.

Overall I'll say firstly that I'm very happy with the outcome of this project. I took previous techniques that I had already used in other multimedia work and Incorporated them into this project. Techniques such as stop motion and a go-to-and-stop type of storyline for the flash. I was able to create an interface based on the guitar hero fret board. The 5 buttons each represented a different part of my identity that collectively makes up a picture about myself. These included: my avatar, multimedia / stopmotion, Music, Games and Juggling.

Being able to pick up software quickly, I was able to use flash to my liking. Not to say that it was easy at all, many times just one piece of code out of place took me ages to fix! Flash worked well for the task at hand.

By choosing to make my interactive more like stopmotion, flash could run the pictures smoothly in a coherent fashion to give what seems like animation. Although animation was not required for this part of the project, I did include previous work such as my avatar and its environment to prove I could used 3D studio max. That said, i didn't feel it neccecary to create animation for the movement of the fingers. By animation fingers it would have taken much longer and the finished effect wouldn't have been as good, personaly. This would have been due to me having to create the whole hand and fret board. Not a simple task.

On the downside, the only major problem I had was choosing where I should put the logo. It just didn't seem to fit in anywhere, user testing also confirmed this. So I decided to put it at the end. This seemed to work best.

I will try upload the complete intereactive, however I did not embed the video (instead a progressive download) because if I did the framerate would have been all wrong. But enough about excuses, the screenshots should give an idea for now. The upload will come soon, when I can work out where my server space is at the uni. It's really hard to find arg! But it will be up soon enough ^_^