Remaining slots for homepage

Hey all,

For those of you who haven't seen the class homepage or chosen a character yet, the following are Gothamites still up for grabs:

• Killer Croc
• Hush
• Scarface
• Commissioner Gordon
• The Batmobile
  
• Man Bat
• Ra's al Ghul
• Clayface

Please make your choice by tomorrow, December 1, 2009. If you want to give me your selection in person, I'm the bald, Asian guy sitting near the classroom door. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Tim Nguyen

The end of semester!!!

It is getting to be a final week of this semester. I am getting nervous of all final projects for my classes. I still have many things to work on the final project of this class, too (>_<) It is the time that you JUST have to keep working on without thinking anything. Just Do It!

Guys, I hope that you had a great thanksgiving holiday and now you get back to school,  just work hard, and get over this semester!!!;) 

----Mai, Shiiyama

3 more weeks left.

Wow! I cannot believe how fast this semester passed us by...It was just yesterday when Professor Anderson gave us our first project. Time flies when you're having fun folks! I have so much to do in so little time. I dislike finals weeks...wish everyone the best!

-Araz Kuvakian, Art 201

Tablets

Ever notice how professor Anderson doesn't use a mouse to control the curser on her computer. If you look closely you will notice that she is using a pen with a large pad. This thing is called a tablet and it is amazing. It is especially good for artists who use a computer because it is like virtually drawing onto the computer screen when you use photoshop and illustrator programs. These tablets are very high tech and can sure cost you a pretty penny. The leading maker of these tablets is wacom, check out their website to find out more

http://www.wacom.com/index.html

these tablets are so much fun to use and you will surely be amazed at what you can do with this technology it is amazing!

Danielle Sylos

Cyberspaces Black Monday Today!

We all know that the biggest shopping day of the year is the day after Thanksgiving and is referred to as Black Friday. While did you know there is a cyberspace ultimate shopping day, BLACK MONDAY. That's right peps, today is the best day to the best deals online. Join in the fun and you could win a new macbook pro worth over a grand! It is as easy as making a tweet, how sweet is that!

http://www.cybermonday.fm/giveaway/

Danielle Sylos

FInally last exercise =]

The last exercise was a little confusing, but then again, i always get lost =/
I still managaed to pull it through of course with the help of the professor and my classmate.
Now starting on project 3 is a little tough, I still don't really know what I am going to do, but i have my ideas set up. I can't wait tio see how our class website looks in then, I'm excited to see how that come out =]
-Melissa Flores art 201

Class Homepage

Hey all,

Thanks for selecting my concept for the class home page. I'm horribly green to Web design, but under Professor Anderson's guidance, the following is the progress I've made so far:

• Converted the main image and word balloon into a PNG.
• Divided the main image into six sections.
• Created an AP element on the page.
• Placed a 3x3 table inside.
• Inserted each section of the main image into the table.
• Created a word balloon template for names.
• Created hot spots over each character's face.

So much work to do, so little time. I can't wait to get back to work on Tuesday.

Tim Nguyen

Quizzes

Okay so I thought I had my quizzes all sorted out and then I realized that I needed to take some more because they became available now. It is nice taking online quizzes because you can take them whenever you want to and when you feel you're ready. For the very first quiz, I like studied for three hours thinking it was going to be extremely hard, only to realize it was only five questions. I suppose that was the nice part of it because it was stress free. As much as I like taking them online, I don't want to take any more quizzes at the moment! However, I have to so now I'm off to take the quizzes.

Yasmin Chowdhury

I can't wait to get our grades for project 2 so I will know where to improve on for project 3. I know that there were a couple of places where I screwed up in terms of alignment etc. so I have to be more careful on that. Again that was for time purposes so hopefully this time I get it right.

Yasmin Chowdhury

Ok so while working on this project, it really got me thinking about majors. I've always been interested in art but for some reason I did not ever think about majoring in it. I took nearly 10 art classes in my four years of high school and I did think about it then but I never pursued. Taking this class has really been a lot of fun for me and I completely enjoyed every project and exercise we've had no matter how hard they have been. It's got be thinking about at least minoring in some type of art major. I need to research the jobs but I think I may want to go into something with graphic design. I'm excited to find out more.

Yasmin Chowdhury

Project 3 is coming along

Well the Thanksgiving Weekend was not exactly my ideal vision. I ended up with hives for nearly 3 days and lost 2 days of sleep because of my swollen arms, which prevented me from typing or working on our project. However, I'm back now and better so hopefully I can get this project done! So far I'm having a blast working on this story because it really allows me to open up my creativity pipes in my brain. I'm excited to see everyone else's projects so hopefully everyone else finishes on time!

Yasmin Chowdhury

I don’t want to erase

Many people have a broken heart story. They try many way erase someone from their mind and getting them out of their heart. And me too, until one day I find out I am sick of memory lost. Than I want to have every memories back and no matter how bad was. But I can't. So, what is your choose.

Ming Ying Lee Art 201

Smile with Ming

Smile though your heart is miracle

Smile even though it's breaking when the sky are clouds

If you smile through your fear and sorrow

Smile today and tomorrow

You'll see the sun come through for you

Light up your face with gladness

Hide every trace of sadness

Although a tear may be ever so near

That's the time you must keep on trying

Smile, You'll find that life is miracle.

Happy thanksgiving! Ming Ying Lee

Logan's 10th blog

This is my first Thanksgiving as a vegetarian. This should be interesting. Thoughts?

Logan's 9th blog

My PC keeps freezing while I'm doing Flash. What PC do you recommend?

Logan's 8th blog

Zombieland was the best film of all time. Yea or Nay?

NOTE: Saying Nay will result in an automatic Fail in the course as well as a sound spanking.

Logan's 8th blog

Rocky III was a racist film. Thoughts?

Logan's 7th blog

What are your favorite websites design-wise? What about content-wise?

Logan's 5th blog

So what was project 14 like? I missed it.

Logan's 4th blog

How's everyone's 3rd project coming along? I haven't been able to start mine yet :(

Logan's 3rd Blog

So what's everyone doing for thanksgiving?

project 3

I really liked the idea of us being able to create our own story i have a feeling we all our going to have fun with this one. I can't wait to see the imagination behind this
-Ashley Dvorak

class website

ya our class website is going to look really cooolll. Its a fun idea
I have always dreamed of being bat girl :0.

-Ashley Dvorak

Interesting Website

Hey Everyone,

I came across this website and just wanted to share it with the class. It is a flash website, not what we are doing in class but I still thought it might be great inspiration. I love how interactive it is...

http://www.mono-1.com/monoface/main.html


~Tara Collins

YAY for online quizzes

Whoever invented online quizzes is a GENIUS, GOD, MY HOMIE!!!! Whenever i take an online quiz (5mins ago) it's literally like an open book quiz. I have the internet at palm of my hands. Not only that, I have friends that can aid me during the quiz. Whenever I feel uneasy about a question i can simply search for it online or ask a friend. YAY FOR ONLINE QUIZZESSSS.

-Kevin Ben LEE

YAY for online quizzes

Whoever invented online quizzes is a GENIUS, GOD, MY HOMIE!!!! Whenever i take an online quiz (5mins ago) it's literally like an open book quiz. I have the internet at palm of my hands. Not only that, I have friends that can aid me during the quiz. Whenever I feel uneasy about a question i can simply search for it online or ask a friend. YAY FOR ONLINE QUIZZESSSS.

-Kevin Ben LEE

Class Website

Congratulations to all the students who submitted their own design artworks for our class website. I thought everyone did a wonderful job. It was cool to see everyone's concepts! I LOVED the batman theme, I like that we can all pick our own characters...can't wait to see the end result.

-Araz Kuvakian
Art 201

Server maintenance check

I was wondering what happens during a server check for websites and any online programs. I was just on Chase banking online and they were on a maintenance check so i couldnt pay my bills >=O. Then i went to youtube, above it stated that they too, was undergoing a server check as well. Yet when i view videos everything seems just fine. So im wondering whats going how can some sites work and others don't... I should worry about my bills first though.

- Kevin Ben Lee

project 2

I really liked project 2 and the concept behind telling each of our individual stories. I found it very interesting to see how everybody viewed themselves. I really thought their was alot of creativity in this class along with some pretty deep thought behind the project. I can't wait to do project 3.

-Ashley Dvorak

Animated Gifs

I was wondering if anyone had any idea how to put hotspots on animated gif images. I know the professor said it might not be possible to do it that way but during project 2 I saw someone else using an animated image and being able to click on them to another page. So if anyone has other alternatives to make a moving picture on a different type of file and create hotspots please let me know because it would help my project come along nicely.

Yasmin Chowdhury

research paper

I thought the research project was interesting I really liked the site that I got to check out. It was called 18th street and it was interesting because I never knew about this place. Along with that it was fun to analyze the site design as well for the first time. I really liked the basic lay out of the site but this time instead of just looking at it to gather information , I noticed the poor organization of the site. Interesting place I would like to visit it some time!

- Ashley Dvorak

Class Designs

I really wanted to submit the ideas for the class design very badly but my first semester of University caught up with me. I had a few ideas for a design but since it had to be developed in photoshop etc. I did not have the time to create it. I had so many research papers all due on top of one another and my nose was buried in books for most of the last two weeks that coming near the computer to do anything other than typing my papers would be such a penalty. However, I am really excited to see everyone else's designs because I did hear the professor praising a few!

Hopefully, my project three can be stunning enough to impress everyone, though I am struggling to make the design match the one I drew on paper. Computer art can be so difficult sometimes but I would rather do that than spend time doing research projects...ewwww!

Yasmin Chowdhury

Enjoy a song with Ming and learn...........

Get litter relex and go to the Starbucks website http://www.starbucksloveproject.com/ to see new Webpage they just create maybe you will get a idea from there. Also you could hear few new song for FREE. One song call " All You need is Love" You must listen, this song paying by the group name call "Play for change" they start in 2004, Playing for change is a music project that seeks to inspire, connect and bring peace to the world through music.

Don't forget to click around to learn some design. you will love it

Art 201 Ming Ying Lee

Free photoshop downloads!

As with all the blogs I post, I offer Photoshop freebies! PSD TUTS recently posted a Miscellaneous Objects Vector Pack on their twitter. Enjoy!

P.S. if you scroll down, there are even more Photoshop freebies under "related posts"

Click Here!

-Courtney Custodio

Ming Ying Lee ebook story

I am Art 201 Student and the final project is a ebook. So this is my first time to tell story in my life. This is my real story, the name is" Finding my Paradise" It will be have 8 chapter page and Chapter one begin with " I bring my broken heart to travel. Try to forget many things and found my paradise to start the new chapter of my life. On the way I find out that I am sick and lost my memory day by day. I still travel though many country but I didn't found my paradise. And at the end, I recognize I am at home in my paradise."

1. New World 2. Need to change 3. Solutionis 4. A gorious day 5. Love make my world

6. The past is over 7. Cleanse and Heal 8. In the paradise.

Ming Ying Lee

Dreamweave Behaviours

http://www.entheosweb.com/website_design/dreamweaver_behaviors.asp

In case anyone cares for a step-by-step

Thomas Getzoyan

Research Paper

Anyone else notice that the due date says Tuesday November 19th? Anyone else notice Tuesday will be the 17th? Which one is it? :-D

Thomas Getzoyan

Research paper

I am sure most students in the class feel tuesday is little early for the paper to be turned in, but any how there were manny great site to choose from. I actually enjoyed doin a paper for the first time in my life. Hopefully everyone feels the same and if you dont try to make it fun. Good luck everyone and find a site that you are interested in.


Narak Mirzaie

Get help !!!

Get help !!!

I am first time making website in my life, At moment I have to due with many things but there are not enough time to understand in class. So, I found out that I could go to youtube to get help. But important is you need to found the right videos to learn. I had have try a few time and than I knew that if you look for people who have more than few thousand people watch and have 5 star on it, that is the videos you need. Also, they are alway there to help you.

Art 201 Ming ying Lee

project three

I'm getting excited for project three now :)

I'm going to do something different from my previous stuff. It's a really dark and morbid concept. I hope people don't see me differently after haha I just thought I'd do something fun and creepy. I was inspired by the example website prof. anderson showed us (the one with the large baby and small couple). Mine is darker though. I'll give you two words: insane asylum. :)

have a good weekend everyone and be safe!
-Vicki Almanza
Art201

Brian Eno - 77 Million Paintings

Brian Eno presents an exhibition of digital wall works that evolve and change with an accompanying soundtrack based on parameters programmed by Eno. It ends up december 13th and if you want to check out for more information visit http://losangeles.metromix.com/events/gallery_exhibit/brian-eno-77-million-la/1137726/content.

-Narak Mirzaie

Action Sports Industry Job Listings

Even in the declining economy there are still jobs to be found. For any of you who are ready to start looking for a career or even a serious internship, and are interested in working in and around the action sports industry, (i.e. snowboarding, wakeboarding, and surfing) check out Malakeye. It's a weekly newsletter designed to network people within the action sports industry. Every week there is a listing of positions available within a variety of different companies, career highlights of people excelling in their specific field, and up and coming companies that show a promising potential for growth.

Check it out at, http://www.malakye.com/default.asp

-Corey Thompson

Karma Ghost

While researching for Project 3, I came across an awesome website! Make sure to check out all aspects of the site especially the "buzz" tab on the circle color palette look alike navigation bar.
Enjoy! http://billyblob.com/cartoons/karma-ghost.html

-Araz Kuvakian, Art 201

flash in dreamweaver

sickkk using flash in dreamweaver is so much better than using gifs. Gifs cerves its purpose but its boring sometimes, so i perfer flash animations. In excercise 12 we learned how to import flash into websites, in the process i got a better understandinf of ap elements. In project 2 i feared using ap elements because i had little to no knowledge about it, but for project 3 it'll bbe diferent. PEACE OUT.

-Kevin Ben Lee

Exercise 12

So exercise 12 actually gave my brain a jump start for some ideas to Project 3. The idea of pop up windows got me started on a string of other ideas for this project and for the first time, I do not have to wait until the last minute for an effective idea to stick. In addition, the pop-up windows were really easy to do, so I don't have to think hard about how to do it. I've got a clear image...however, I my problem at the moment is picking my favorite idea!

Yasmin Chowdhury

Logan's Awesome Adventures Choose Your Own Adventure Idea

Gimme some ideas, folks!

Also this is Logan. Just to avoid confusion.

so im in english, and im ready to leave this class and it just started at 2:00, i had a rough draft due and didnt even know. smh, i wish i was in intro to web art right now, way better than this class right now, lol . but um check out Primitive, its a shoe boutique that i work at, its owned by p-rod, (skates for nike sb) all the shoes and clothes, galore ! lol, www.primitiveshoes.com check me out, ill throw you some discount.
-thomas torres

ex 12

ex 12 was really easy and fun :) and cute. I still haven't done my sketch for project three. since there's no boundaries, it's really hard to figure out what you want to do.

For project two, I felt like everyone put mine to shame. Everyone in this class is too damn good haha no joke. It's just that I have such an awful memory so I completely forgot about AP elements, roll overs, etc. I'm going to try and incorporate all of that into my next project.

I cant wait to use the sound wavs too :) I hope we can use them. I was wondering if there was a way where the sound didn't start automatically once you open the web page. I'll ask prof. anderson about that next class.

Ohhh and pop-up windows! I always wondered how people did that. Anyway, hope everyone has a great veteran's day tomorrow :)

-Vicki Almanza,
art 201

NEW HOT SPOT AT NORTHRIDGE!!!!

Hello everyone if you guys are big fan of smoking hookah and hengin out with friends a new hookah bar opened up at Northridge. The address is 18161 1/2 Parthenia Street Northrdge, CA 91325 and it is called the Red Velvet Lounge. They have a pre cool site and i tought the colors were great. These is the site http://www.sunsetnightlife.com/nightlife/clubs/ check it out.


- Narak Mirzaie

Uh Oh!!!

I just realized I made a mistake at the bottom of some of my posts and comments and put Art 402 as my class instead of Art 201. Incidentally I am in Art 402, but it's not a web design class. All posts and comments by me are for this class, Art 201, not 402.

I'll get it right this time.
Art 201: Edward Perkins

Free Illustrator Brushes

While searching on the web, I came across a site which provided free brushes for Illustrator. Since we recently delved in this program, I thought it might be useful for further projects. Have a great weekend. http://designm.ag/resources/adobe-illustrator-brushes/

-Araz Kuvakian, Art 201

Program Interfaces

Working last week in Illustrator and Flash gave me an idea about the design and interface of the two programs. Illustrator is to Flash as Photoshop is to After Effects.
Illustrator and Flash are primarily vector and have a hard interface. What I mean by hard in this case is you can only get to certain effects if certain conditions are met. You have difficulty finding effects unless you know where they are. Many commands are grayed out in these programs. This is like a programmer’s interface. Illustrator and Flash have a high learning curve.
Photoshop and After Effects are primarily raster and have an easy interface. In these softwares you can access most commands and effects all the time, there are multiple ways to access a command, and the interface is intuitive.
An advantage of Flash is that it can produce scalable compact online files. After Effects files are much larger. After Effects can produce movie and effects content wonderfully and can be learned faster than Flash, but it can’t produce interactive content.
An advantage of Illustrator is that it can produce and edit scalable vector files which can be imported to Flash or After Effects. The color settings also used to be better for printing than Photoshop I think. This is my opinion of the softwares.

Art 402: Edward Perkins

Free Stock Multimedia

Trying to find images, photos, and/or sounds for your website or Flash animation is one of the most tedious, annoying, and troublesome parts of the creative process.

Fortunately, the folks over at CNET have complied some of the best free stock multimedia sites, ranging from photos to sounds to even movie clips. Click here to check out the article.


-Vince Ginsburg

Hire or Be Hired

For anyone looking to pursue a job as a website developer, or simply needs one (hiring one to do your work in class might be just a bit questionable, but that's on you--not me!), can look no further than here: Haystack.com

There you can find web designers by price or geographic location. Web designers can also place bids on projects you present there.

Good luck/happy hunting!

-Vince Ginsburg

New at Photoshop?

Photoshop is easy and fun once you know all the keyboard shortcuts. They are quick, and reduces your work time in half! Here is a great site with some keyboard shortcuts to assist you in Photoshop. Keep in mind Apple users: When it says CTRL, use the apple key instead.

http://www.decentweblog.com/50-ultimate-photoshop-tips/

-Courtney Custodio

Project 3

Project 3 sounds really interesting but I'm having artist's block once again trying to think of an effective design that appeals to me. I am mostly drawn to bright colors and anything that really opens my eyes to something new. However, it just is not coming. My ideas always come like 2 days before its due and then I'm trying to vomit out everything as fast as I can before the due date. Its stressful but that's how my brain works.

And i was wondering if I should attempt to do the class design for the project but...I have limited experience compared to the other students who are much higher up than I am. I could just give it a try, since there is no harm but still...

Overall though, I'm extremely excited to see other people's designs for Project 3 because everyone has such creative ideas. Mostly everyone's work on Project 2 was stunning to me and when the Professor said that Project 3 must be "stunning" I don't know how everyone is going to beat that! However, I know everyone will come up with great ideas....and they will all go above and beyond what the professor requires so it will be nice to see students' artwork at its greatest. Hope I can achieve that. Wishing everyone good luck on it!

Yasmin Chowdhury

Project 3

I think it is awesome that Professor Anderson is giving us a chance to create a page instead of writing a paper! I think our class is very capable of coming up with a creative page. Please do not use stars, it seems over done. Think of a building block or something that needs all parts to work, I am thinking something to do with latters or stairs. I am certainly brainstorming, but I am worried how I would execute my idea. I am not that good with illustrator, I wish I had a pen tool that would make it alot easier. Can we use photoshop to make a page?

It is also very exciting to know that this project will be published online for friends and family to see what we have been working on. Anyone who knows me would never think I could create a website, so I am looking forward to showing them all I actually can. That creates a little bit of pressure but I want to deliever my best work for the final project!!

Danielle Sylos

Free Vector Art

I found this great site, Vector Junky, where you can download a bunch of vector images to help who with project 3. I know I will utilize this site for the final project. If you are not advanced enough to use illustrator and create your own art this is a great alternative. It is also a great site to get some ideas if you do know how to use illustrator. Everyone check it out!

http://www.vectorjunky.com/

Danielle Sylos

Image size is everything!

I didn't realize how important it is to have a small image or .gif on your website until project #2. I assumed that since my opening .gif file opened and played normally when i would preview it while working on it in dreamweaver that it would also work when i entered the site. I wish dreamweaver would have some how let me me know that my file would be to big or recommend i use a smaller size. Hopefully i can use a smaller version of this .gif file for project #3.
Tara Collins

DJ TIESTO IS COMING TO LA

For all the house music fans the greatest dj of all time is performing in Los Angeles November 27th. Tickets are pre cheap starting at 60 dollars and he only performs in LA once a year. House music takes you to a different dimension, and makes you feel different about the world. These is the link for the web http://eventful.com/losangeles/events/tiesto-/E0-001-025508685-4 check it out.

By: Narak Mirzaie

I can't believe I missed it...

I was looking forward to see all the projects on Thursday, but I had a really bad case of a swollen throat. It seems like there were some really good projects, from what I've read. I be it was fun to see what everyone came up with. I had done one that was like a fish tank. It was not that complicated or fancy, but I thought it was a bit cute.

I felt that I was able to design more using Dreamweaver than using HTML, but Dreamweaver gave me some good headaches. Over all, the project was fun.

I’m looking forward the next project.

This class is making me think of minoring in web design…..

Martha J. Corona

Project 2

What a success! I was excited to see everybody's design last week. Knowing that majority of us have never worked with these programs before...I think everyone did awesome! Each showed a little bit inside everyone's personalities and lives. It can only go uphill from here...Project 3 here we come!

-Araz Kuvakian, Art 201

Project 2

Project 2 was a little hard for me. Not knowing what to do, I had so many ideas I just didn't know where to start. After seeing all the webpages from classmates I was really impressed! I still don't think I did that much of a good job as much as the others. I was really interested how everyone used a lot of imagination and the structures they had were amazing. Overall, I think everyone did great! =]

Melissa Flores, art 201