Another Website

www.thescienceofsleep-movie.com
Another interesting website I discovered recently is the website for Michel Gondry's movie, Science of Sleep. The website features lots of interactive elements and even features a stop frame animator with which you can make your own animations and send them as e-cards.

Initial Ideas

Our group has decided to work on simple line based environments as the main interactive pages of the website. I have been working on a few computerized examples after sketching down some perspective drawings. To the left is an idea of what the print room might look like. The environment will have interactive elements inside it such as roll over functions, music, integrated gif animations, clocks etc. The next stage is to add colour to the environment to add ambience.

GIF Animation

Following initial research my group and i have decided to investigate producing some form of simple, line based interactive environment. We discussed trying to integrate some simple gif animations into the environment, I experimented with this idea and have produced a very basic animation. To create it I made some outline drawings in Illustrator, put those frames into an open source animation program (pixen) and finally uploaded the final animation to photobucket to produce an html code and to loop it.

Interactive Website Links

The two main interactive websites i have been investigating for the interactive guide project are as follows;

1) http://www.booth-clibborn.com/
The website is designed by James Goggin for the book publishing company Booth Clibborn. It features some extremely simple yet conceptually interesting interactive features, especially the roll over feature in the books section pictured above. As a group we are very interested in this low-fi approach to web design.

2) http://www.lessrain.com/
Less Rain are a creative digital design agency. Their website is beautifully presented with all the information being displayed on three main background environments. Although it would be unfeasible to try and recreate something like this visually, the concept of the background environment is something i would like to explore further.

Nom de Guerre

Vaughn Toulouse is Nicholas Baskerville Smith's Nom De Guerre