Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Usability Testing – Little Soldiers
Did you find is easy to navigate around the website?
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : yes
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : yes
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : not at first but eventually got the hand of it
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : yes it was ok
Do you like the colours/pictures?
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : they were very cool
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : the were well done, strong vibrant colours
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : nice colours, pictures came out really well
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : artwork was brilliant
Do you like the style?
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : yes I like graphic novels
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : its different nice style to used
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : the style suited the story
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : yes I liked the characters and pictures
Did you find it easy to follow the story?
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : yes it was straight forward
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : not at first I scanned through quick it was after I realised what was happening
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : yes I found it easy to follow
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : it was ok to follow, I managed
Was the website laid out clearly?
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : yes simple enough
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : it was ok
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : I thought it was grand
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : yes I liked it
What did you like most about the website?
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : the characters
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : the landscapes and characters
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : statistics at end and characters
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : the different colours
What did you like the least?
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : having no sound
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : could have more animations
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : wanted to see more text to tell the story
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : nothing it was all really good
If you could change something what would it be?
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : add sound maybe
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : more animations
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : add some more text
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : I wouldn’t change anything
Would you recommend the website to a friend?
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : yes
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : yes I would recommend it to a friend
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : yes I would
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : yes I would
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : yes
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : yes
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : not at first but eventually got the hand of it
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : yes it was ok
Do you like the colours/pictures?
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : they were very cool
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : the were well done, strong vibrant colours
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : nice colours, pictures came out really well
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : artwork was brilliant
Do you like the style?
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : yes I like graphic novels
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : its different nice style to used
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : the style suited the story
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : yes I liked the characters and pictures
Did you find it easy to follow the story?
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : yes it was straight forward
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : not at first I scanned through quick it was after I realised what was happening
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : yes I found it easy to follow
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : it was ok to follow, I managed
Was the website laid out clearly?
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : yes simple enough
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : it was ok
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : I thought it was grand
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : yes I liked it
What did you like most about the website?
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : the characters
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : the landscapes and characters
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : statistics at end and characters
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : the different colours
What did you like the least?
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : having no sound
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : could have more animations
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : wanted to see more text to tell the story
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : nothing it was all really good
If you could change something what would it be?
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : add sound maybe
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : more animations
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : add some more text
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : I wouldn’t change anything
Would you recommend the website to a friend?
User 1 aged 16 – 20 : yes
User 2 aged 20 – 30 : yes I would recommend it to a friend
User 3 aged 20 – 30 : yes I would
User 4 aged 30 – 40 : yes I would
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Website Development
The graphic novel will be online. We decided from the begining that the artwork displayed on the website would take up most of the screen. To achieve this I used CSS to scale the images to the full size of the window. To change from page to page in the story I used Jquery. I used the anything slider Jquery plugin to create a slider that could contain any type of html/flash/images so on. http://css-tricks.com/anythingslider-jquery-plugin/ this allows the user to view each page full screen and change to the next page using the keyboard arrows or the arrows on screen.
In the introduction page the logo appears in the sky with clouds the move when the mouse is moved creating a motion parrallax. This was created using Jquery.
As part of the website an extra hidden infographic which can only be seen if the user finds all the hidden objects throughout the story. This was done using variables and click counters.
The infographic shows LRA activity since the date of the last day in the story, the 20/1/2012. The infographic involves a custom twitter feed that collects all tweets from @CrisisTracker only since the 20/1/2012. This was difficult to do as twitter only allows you to retrieve 20 most recent tweets. An array, Jquery and looping through each batch of tweets, getting the id of the last one and getting the next batch using that id and displaying all tweets since the id.
The lracrisistracker.com became a useful resource for getting information and numbers of abductions and more. A visual representation of the number of abductions since the 20/1/2012 and since 2009 is also included in the infographic using Umapper and self made visuals.
In the introduction page the logo appears in the sky with clouds the move when the mouse is moved creating a motion parrallax. This was created using Jquery.
As part of the website an extra hidden infographic which can only be seen if the user finds all the hidden objects throughout the story. This was done using variables and click counters.
The infographic shows LRA activity since the date of the last day in the story, the 20/1/2012. The infographic involves a custom twitter feed that collects all tweets from @CrisisTracker only since the 20/1/2012. This was difficult to do as twitter only allows you to retrieve 20 most recent tweets. An array, Jquery and looping through each batch of tweets, getting the id of the last one and getting the next batch using that id and displaying all tweets since the id.
The lracrisistracker.com became a useful resource for getting information and numbers of abductions and more. A visual representation of the number of abductions since the 20/1/2012 and since 2009 is also included in the infographic using Umapper and self made visuals.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
photoshop stock brushes
In creating background imagery where soldiers were present these photoshop brushes came in really useful thanks to BacklashCBD on deviant art. http://backlashcbd.deviantart.com/art/Soldier-Brushes-27312152
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Character creation
For the past two weeks i have been creating, drawing and colouring all the characters for Small Soldiers. I have created them in photoshop using a graphics tablet. Each body part is on a seprate layer for animation ability.
* All the below images are copyrighted *
The main characters:
Kato
Kato when young
Kato's Sister
Bale
Other School boy's
Other School girl's
Julien
Amari
Olive
Security Forces
Weapons
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