Huzzah! I've done most of my work for the Ariel before Crimbo time! RATS 2 is pretty much complete (which is actually quite cool!), and I now await for amendments to flood in after some testing!
I have some style sheets to produce before my next meeting about the new project I'm working on (which is to do with domestic violence), but they'll only be simple...cause they're just initial ideas!
So I now have my Super Secret Crimbo Business to attend to! And I shall be posting photos of this project after xmas day, so as not to ruin the surprise! Woo! I'm quite intrigued/excited to see how it will look all together and whether that special someone will like it! I hope they will! Oooh!
I also have time to plan out my new mini portfolio, which is now going to be a CD-ROM rather than something print-based (as print isn't really my forte). I think I'm being too much of a stickler when it comes to how I present myself as a business, I'm finding it slightly difficult to think of a simple logo; as it seems quite constricting to define my business with one small piece of imagery...which is silly of me...I guess I think if I make something that looks too simple, it doesn't look finished, as I prefer my work to be quite busy. Which is odd because I really enjoy other peoples work that is very subtle and effective...I just can't seem to bring that into my own work!
Anyway! Enough yammering! Crimbo preparations underway!
Friday, December 17
Tuesday, December 7
Wednesday, November 24
Lunchie Munchie, mm?
I'm trying to be better at updating this thing (although I'm thinking of soon converting to WordPress, ssshhh, don't tell anyone. But I'll be sad about losing all the posts I've made...I know nobody reads them, but they were nice just for me to look over! I like looking back over the year and seeing what I was up to a few months ago and stuff...then I get to re-live the feeling of joy/terror/exhaustion!)
Work for the Ariel has exploded all over the place, but I'm somehow getting on top of it. Just having trouble adding videos to pages now. Cause if you go Full Screen, the whole FLV is like 'I don't care about any other info on the page, I'm the ***STAR*** and blocks everything out. And yes yes, invisible Actionscript gremlin I have tried using FullScreenTakeOver = false, but to no avail! So thats my job after lunch! Wa-hoo! I hate the little problems (that actually turn out to be pretty BIG problems if you're as dense as I am), cause you think 'righto, I'll just do this, this, and ...WHAT? WHY WON'T YOU WORK, YOU BLOODY B-, NOTHINGS EVER SIMPLE IS IT?!' And then ensues Claire's angry meltdown and she has to go sit in another room incase she throws her computer out of the window.
Anyway, lots to do, but there is sort of an end in sight, which is nice!
Tatty Bye!
(Fable 3 is sort of addictive, but I find if I play it for a big chunk of time, I can cease from playing it for a few days, which is quite good! I read the Edge review, and I do have to agree with it really...but the little side quests in the game keep you playing (as Edge said!), so its all okay!)
Work for the Ariel has exploded all over the place, but I'm somehow getting on top of it. Just having trouble adding videos to pages now. Cause if you go Full Screen, the whole FLV is like 'I don't care about any other info on the page, I'm the ***STAR*** and blocks everything out. And yes yes, invisible Actionscript gremlin I have tried using FullScreenTakeOver = false, but to no avail! So thats my job after lunch! Wa-hoo! I hate the little problems (that actually turn out to be pretty BIG problems if you're as dense as I am), cause you think 'righto, I'll just do this, this, and ...WHAT? WHY WON'T YOU WORK, YOU BLOODY B-, NOTHINGS EVER SIMPLE IS IT?!' And then ensues Claire's angry meltdown and she has to go sit in another room incase she throws her computer out of the window.
Anyway, lots to do, but there is sort of an end in sight, which is nice!
Tatty Bye!
(Fable 3 is sort of addictive, but I find if I play it for a big chunk of time, I can cease from playing it for a few days, which is quite good! I read the Edge review, and I do have to agree with it really...but the little side quests in the game keep you playing (as Edge said!), so its all okay!)
Monday, November 15
And its hit the fan!
Arrrrgggghhhhhhheeeelllllooooooo!!
Yes. Hello. I have come back briefly. A lot of work has come along in the past couple of months so I haven't been able to update as much, I'm afraid... (sorry to the imaginary people out there...)
So have been very busy, which is good and bad, as I haven't had much time to work on my business plan and I've got a meeting with my business advisor in little over a week. She gonna be mad. (Actually shes very nice, so I think I'll be okay!)
Lots of work for the Ariel Trust, feels like I'm chugging out games constantly, but its satisfying to see a greater selection of games in a short space of time (although it would be nice to spend longer on them to tweak and perfect, but thats a deadline for you!) So here are a couple of shots of what I've been working on!
Sorry about the bombardment there. But yeah, its been busy.
Theres all sorts in there about drugs, fire extinguishers, alcohol, and fractional distillation (which sounds rather dry, but it was an animation, so it was quite nice to just make a simple animation for a change rather than programming things and such! Although having said that, I have learnt a lot more about Actionscript 3 since last we met, and I am getting used to it a bit more, plus I generally have learnt abit more about stuff to use just in Flash! So its all good! I'm hoping over Crimbo to blitz a load of my instruction book just to teach me a few new things! And this has turned into the longest chunk of text in a set of brackets ever. I wonder if theres a World Record for that? Stopping now.)
And apart from that I'm trying to get my Christmas shopping polished off (as I have a big project I wanna work on for Christmas...I'm quite excited about it!)
And I need to get my Christmas cards printed off so I can cut them down and send them this year. (Note: I was talking about making and sending my own xmas cards this time LAST year...so I really want to do it this year!) I bought dinky envelopes for my cards about a month ago, and it was shocking about how much those envelopes arriving perked up my day! Plus I found some really cool websites were you can buy lots of different stationary/paper. It was rather awesome!
And lets not forget my business plan, which is telling me to create a mini portfolio, a website and re-do my proper big portfolio. Wow. No wonder I feel slightly stressed. Oh well!
I saw Scott Pilgrim a while back (can't remember if I mentioned this before!) and it was AWESOME. (I think I have mentioned this before...sorry!)
Um. I went to see Back to the Future at the cinema. I've had a little go at Fable 3 (and hope to have many more little gos of it!). I went to a talk about Arabic Maths and got lost after 10 minutes as I realised I have a short attention span when it comes to smart things. I went to the Liverpool Film Night at FACT and saw the animator Chris Shephard speak. It was uncomfortable. Saw the Biennial exhibition at the Tate but can't remember much of it so it mustn't of been that good. I went to see my friend Emily in Cambridge and got to see the super cool place where she works! Which was super! I made a cottage pie...then tried to make a variation by mixing a can of haggis in with mince...it tasted good...but once it went cold it smelt like dog food, which was not pleasant. I made my first ever English breakfast and it was GOOD! Aaaand, I've seen the films: Uncle Buck, Forbidden Planet, Logans Run, Reign over Me, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Nutty Professor 2, Addams Family Values, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Brother Bear, Julie & Julia, Bride Wars, Dragonball Evolution (on fast forward because it was so BAD), Coraline, The Others and thats that. Yes.
(I also replayed some old SNES and Mega Drive games the other week...Quackshot was still AWESOME. For shame to anyone who has never heard of it...which is probably a lot of people...so maybe not so much shame...but its totally worth playing!)
(Why do retro games have creepy music..theres just something about it...Not the music from the clip up above...thats great music...but take a look at the intro music and you'll see what I mean!)
Good luck and God Speed, party people!
Yes. Hello. I have come back briefly. A lot of work has come along in the past couple of months so I haven't been able to update as much, I'm afraid... (sorry to the imaginary people out there...)
So have been very busy, which is good and bad, as I haven't had much time to work on my business plan and I've got a meeting with my business advisor in little over a week. She gonna be mad. (Actually shes very nice, so I think I'll be okay!)
Lots of work for the Ariel Trust, feels like I'm chugging out games constantly, but its satisfying to see a greater selection of games in a short space of time (although it would be nice to spend longer on them to tweak and perfect, but thats a deadline for you!) So here are a couple of shots of what I've been working on!
Sorry about the bombardment there. But yeah, its been busy.
Theres all sorts in there about drugs, fire extinguishers, alcohol, and fractional distillation (which sounds rather dry, but it was an animation, so it was quite nice to just make a simple animation for a change rather than programming things and such! Although having said that, I have learnt a lot more about Actionscript 3 since last we met, and I am getting used to it a bit more, plus I generally have learnt abit more about stuff to use just in Flash! So its all good! I'm hoping over Crimbo to blitz a load of my instruction book just to teach me a few new things! And this has turned into the longest chunk of text in a set of brackets ever. I wonder if theres a World Record for that? Stopping now.)
And apart from that I'm trying to get my Christmas shopping polished off (as I have a big project I wanna work on for Christmas...I'm quite excited about it!)
And I need to get my Christmas cards printed off so I can cut them down and send them this year. (Note: I was talking about making and sending my own xmas cards this time LAST year...so I really want to do it this year!) I bought dinky envelopes for my cards about a month ago, and it was shocking about how much those envelopes arriving perked up my day! Plus I found some really cool websites were you can buy lots of different stationary/paper. It was rather awesome!
And lets not forget my business plan, which is telling me to create a mini portfolio, a website and re-do my proper big portfolio. Wow. No wonder I feel slightly stressed. Oh well!
I saw Scott Pilgrim a while back (can't remember if I mentioned this before!) and it was AWESOME. (I think I have mentioned this before...sorry!)
Um. I went to see Back to the Future at the cinema. I've had a little go at Fable 3 (and hope to have many more little gos of it!). I went to a talk about Arabic Maths and got lost after 10 minutes as I realised I have a short attention span when it comes to smart things. I went to the Liverpool Film Night at FACT and saw the animator Chris Shephard speak. It was uncomfortable. Saw the Biennial exhibition at the Tate but can't remember much of it so it mustn't of been that good. I went to see my friend Emily in Cambridge and got to see the super cool place where she works! Which was super! I made a cottage pie...then tried to make a variation by mixing a can of haggis in with mince...it tasted good...but once it went cold it smelt like dog food, which was not pleasant. I made my first ever English breakfast and it was GOOD! Aaaand, I've seen the films: Uncle Buck, Forbidden Planet, Logans Run, Reign over Me, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Nutty Professor 2, Addams Family Values, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Brother Bear, Julie & Julia, Bride Wars, Dragonball Evolution (on fast forward because it was so BAD), Coraline, The Others and thats that. Yes.
(I also replayed some old SNES and Mega Drive games the other week...Quackshot was still AWESOME. For shame to anyone who has never heard of it...which is probably a lot of people...so maybe not so much shame...but its totally worth playing!)
(Why do retro games have creepy music..theres just something about it...Not the music from the clip up above...thats great music...but take a look at the intro music and you'll see what I mean!)
Good luck and God Speed, party people!
Wednesday, September 29
Road Safety
Hello, hello, hello!
I've been a reasonably busy bee the last few weeks. Although I don't have much to show for it!
Firstly, I've gor work from the Ariel, so I've been creating new games and then tinkering with the games to make them better. Its quite cool to have the games shown to other people and then get feedback from them...because they're not involved in the development stage, its nice to get some new ideas thrown in later on (unless I can't code it...which hasn't happened so far which is good!) So here are a mere few of the things I've been working on.
The middle pic is an exercise called the Talking Fireman, and its simply an animated fireman talking through some tasks that the pupils can do, but I really like the animation style on it, as its going to be a wriggly/wobbly line, and I think it looks quite cool.
The Ariel has asked me to design the look of the main framework of the CD-ROM, which I feel sort of honoured/chuffed to do, cause it means I get to put my own little stamp on it, which is pretty damn groovy. I presented them with my one (and only) idea (I only drafted one just because I liked it so much, and anything else I thought of just look as nice in my head as the original idea!)
I liked the idea of the talking fireman so much that I wanted to make the whole CD-ROM in that sort of stylio, so thats what I did. I now need to work on developing the idea so it looks a lot better (as I whipped these up fairly quickly incase the idea didn't go down too well!) I'd say this style was influenced by alot of adverts I've seen for shows targeted at a teenage audience, so the likes of skins and hollyoaks...very much channel 4-based; cause I figured thats what the kids would be into! A sort of grungy/graffiti style. REBELLION should be the name of the style of something...or SOFTCORE REBELLION. I'm trying to make it sound like a font name or something. Okay. Stop waffling, Claire.
I've also been working on a NEW and BETTER mini portfolio...which I don't have screenshots for, but I will do soon! Don't you invisible people worry!
So, yes, keeping busy, but not TOO busy (as I neared a mental breakdown by forcing myself to be TOO busy, so now I'm pacing myself!) So, whoop!
(Have seen Scott Pilgrim TWICE now, because it is AWESOME. I wish I could have fights like that in real life. But that would be wrong. And I also played Heavy Rain over the weekend which was AWESOME. Norman Jayden is my hero. WE wuvs him, precious. But man oh man, I really want to play Lego Harry Potter, because....it looks AWESOME....or it sounds it at least, I've not actually seen any gameplay. And I'm done!)
I've been a reasonably busy bee the last few weeks. Although I don't have much to show for it!
Firstly, I've gor work from the Ariel, so I've been creating new games and then tinkering with the games to make them better. Its quite cool to have the games shown to other people and then get feedback from them...because they're not involved in the development stage, its nice to get some new ideas thrown in later on (unless I can't code it...which hasn't happened so far which is good!) So here are a mere few of the things I've been working on.
The middle pic is an exercise called the Talking Fireman, and its simply an animated fireman talking through some tasks that the pupils can do, but I really like the animation style on it, as its going to be a wriggly/wobbly line, and I think it looks quite cool.
The Ariel has asked me to design the look of the main framework of the CD-ROM, which I feel sort of honoured/chuffed to do, cause it means I get to put my own little stamp on it, which is pretty damn groovy. I presented them with my one (and only) idea (I only drafted one just because I liked it so much, and anything else I thought of just look as nice in my head as the original idea!)
I liked the idea of the talking fireman so much that I wanted to make the whole CD-ROM in that sort of stylio, so thats what I did. I now need to work on developing the idea so it looks a lot better (as I whipped these up fairly quickly incase the idea didn't go down too well!) I'd say this style was influenced by alot of adverts I've seen for shows targeted at a teenage audience, so the likes of skins and hollyoaks...very much channel 4-based; cause I figured thats what the kids would be into! A sort of grungy/graffiti style. REBELLION should be the name of the style of something...or SOFTCORE REBELLION. I'm trying to make it sound like a font name or something. Okay. Stop waffling, Claire.
I've also been working on a NEW and BETTER mini portfolio...which I don't have screenshots for, but I will do soon! Don't you invisible people worry!
So, yes, keeping busy, but not TOO busy (as I neared a mental breakdown by forcing myself to be TOO busy, so now I'm pacing myself!) So, whoop!
(Have seen Scott Pilgrim TWICE now, because it is AWESOME. I wish I could have fights like that in real life. But that would be wrong. And I also played Heavy Rain over the weekend which was AWESOME. Norman Jayden is my hero. WE wuvs him, precious. But man oh man, I really want to play Lego Harry Potter, because....it looks AWESOME....or it sounds it at least, I've not actually seen any gameplay. And I'm done!)
Friday, September 10
Tuesday, September 7
Sheeeeiiilllllaaa
I finally visited Sheila outside the Guildhall on Watergate Street in Chester. She was faring okay-ish apart from having horrible black scuff marks all over her from people climbing on her, and some of her paint got a bit chipped off too...but I like to think these are signs of popularity...!
I finished my internship with Ilsa a couple of weeks ago now, and I'm now concentrating on freelance work for the Ariel and also working on getting myself up and running as a business type thing. Theres a lot to do! Who knew?
I've also been in been to Budapest in Hungary a couple of weeks ago, it was a beautiful place and recommend it to anyone! I shall upload photos of pretty vacation soon!
And zat is zat for now! Good day!
Friday, August 13
Haggis!
Well I've made some strawberry muffins this morning. I feel very proud of myself because they smell quite nice and I usually snub my nose at any cake that doesn't involve chocolate (which is wrong & hideous of me, and I've been converted so put the pitchforks down). So yes. Thats nice.
And here is a few more things I made last/this week for my boyfriend, as hes off cycling around Scotland for a couple of weeks. How adventurous!
The pics have been made into some stickers for him to spread around Scotland, if he so chooses! If you want to see the origins of this strange "SAY NO TO BAD...", you can find it here...Bad Chicken Campaign
But yes, they're some other things I've been doing. The keyrings were fun to make for a change! Just wish I had better sewing skills because I really enjoy it! I really should get me some craft books or what not showing different stitches!
I'm hungry...I may make a cheese toastie....or a GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH....as the professionals call it...
And here is a few more things I made last/this week for my boyfriend, as hes off cycling around Scotland for a couple of weeks. How adventurous!
The pics have been made into some stickers for him to spread around Scotland, if he so chooses! If you want to see the origins of this strange "SAY NO TO BAD...", you can find it here...Bad Chicken Campaign
But yes, they're some other things I've been doing. The keyrings were fun to make for a change! Just wish I had better sewing skills because I really enjoy it! I really should get me some craft books or what not showing different stitches!
I'm hungry...I may make a cheese toastie....or a GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH....as the professionals call it...
Thursday, August 12
cardy cards
Some cards I've been working on. The Crimbo cards have been seen before, but I've made some changes and I'm actuallu thinking of getting somebody to professionally print them for Christmas!
Other designs are for Valentines Day which I'm having slightly more trouble with cause I've decided to put it in a more complicated format, so need to iron out those kinks...then maybe the same people who print my crimbo cards can print these ones too. I shall have to inquire. Also thinking of designing something Halloween-y...not sure about cards though...us Brits don't celebrate it as much as big America...maybe I'll think of stickers...or work on some other ideas for the time...
But yes. Just a snap of what I did yesterday!
Sunday, August 8
Sunday, July 25
Brian Blessed
Oh yes, and here is a pic of my boyfriend about to be whisked away by Brian Blessed as that guy from Flash Gordon who I should probably know the name of but I don't.
That Brian Blessed.
That Brian Blessed.
Admin
Hi! This made me laugh and cheered me, so it goes up on the blog! You can find other works by this lady at this place:
Rhumbaba
I love this whole company's work, its so lovely, I'm pretty sure they used to be sweetworld but I think they've changed their name or what not...anyway I LIKE THEM, so yes.
I haven't disappeared, just been busy. Have recently started doing some work experience with a product designer lady named Ilsa Parry, just getting some experience of admin and such, its interesting to be behind the scenes of a business and to see how its run!
But yes, thats what I've been doing as well as figuring out business plan and starting to do market research and such. We'll see how that goes in the next coming months. Whoop-di-doo!
Monday, July 12
Fame at last!
Heeey, I'm on the BBC slideshow website doo-dad type thing! Wahoo!
BBC Liverpool
So there ya go! Look at her, snug as a bug next to a building...aww!
BBC Liverpool
So there ya go! Look at her, snug as a bug next to a building...aww!
Wednesday, July 7
Strawberry Cake
I forgot to mention I made a yummy strawberry cake t'other day! It went down a treat (which makes a change considering my last attempt at baking was the GIANT WHOOPIE PIES that looked like elephant dung...but they tasted quite good!)
Tuesday, July 6
Preview Party
Hey hey hey, the rhinos are finally out and about in Chester! And I'm itching to get out there and take a picture of Sheila before she gets a bit grubby! Up there is a strange photo of me at the Rhino Preview Party last Thursday! It was very nice, with Pimms and canapes (I only wish I hadn't had a massive meal beforehand!)
All the rhinos looked amazing in their splendor and a spot of rain did not ruin the event.
So if anyone would like to see photos of the event they can find that link
HERE HERE HERE HERE HERE HERE HERE HERE!!!1!and it will also be in my side bar slideshow for a SHORT TIME ONLY!!! (That was me trying to sound like a furniture salesman for a second there!)
So yes. Thats that. Sheila (Or 'Rhino Banana-Split' as she is officially called) looks well and I'm made up with how she looks!
Tuesday, June 29
Sheila COMPLETE
Hurray! I finished my rhino Thursday last week, and here is a finished photo of her:
I want to eat her but I love her too much to do that. You can find a slideshow of the painting of Sheila from Start to Finish HERE
I want to eat her but I love her too much to do that. You can find a slideshow of the painting of Sheila from Start to Finish HERE
Sunday, June 13
Rhino Mania
Heeey! Good news! I entered a design into the Rhino Mania event that happening in Chester pretty soon (I entered this design about 6 months ago now!) and I've just been contacted to say I have a late sponsor who would like my design on a rhino! Which is cool! So there is my design up there! Its just a big old banana split! So I'm hoping it'll look somewhat bright & colourful somewhere!
Now the bad news is its a massive long 2 hour journey for me to get to the place to paint it, and I've only got 12 days to paint and varnish the mother-trucker...so yes, its a bit stressful, but I'll give it my best shot! I'm all prepped with paints and what not! (Not sure if I've got enough!)
I've also been down to Nottingham in the last few days to see the degree show of the Fine Art students, for my good friend Jen was in it! (The lady I did a tea logo for!) Her work was very clever and smart (which my poor old brain just couldn't comprehend cause I'm an idiot) But yes, theres photos of that show on the side there!
I always enjoy degree shows, especially Fine Art ones cause they're always quite fun and the work is certainly eye catching! Like, one of the pieces in the show was a dead turtle.... Yeah. That was odd. I didn't take a photo of that one out of respect. But my point is, that theres many a talking point in a Fine Art degree show and this one was no exception! I enjoyed it, it was fun!
And you can also look at my friend Jen's work at her website HEEEEEERRRRRREEEEEEEEE
And in other news I am currently obsessed with the Westside Story soundtrack aaaaand I'm reading Little Women. Woo hoo! And thats that!
Tuesday, June 1
Yamsterdam
Good day and good boo.
Have completed amendments to work for the Ariel Trust, and I'm rather chuffed that they didn't take me forever or make me shout in anguish too much (although I've officially jinxed it now). So yes. Completed that for my meeting tomorrow when I'll hopefully get a new game to start work on, oh the excitement!
Had a trip to Amsterdam at the end of last week, and I gotta say...it was AWESOME! How cool is Amsterdam? They're so laid back and nice (even though the city is like full of tourists all the time!). And the canals are so cooool. I liked it all. Not to mention that there was a Wagamama located literally 3 minutes down the road from us. Kick Ass.
Anyway. Yes. Not much else to report on the work front yet.
Watched 'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past' yesterday and I have to say I wasn't as disappointed as I thought I would be by it. Cause I'm sure Jennifer Garner was in 27 Dresses, and 27 Dresses was an abysmal movie. Woo mama that was a stinker.
And on that note! Doei!
Have completed amendments to work for the Ariel Trust, and I'm rather chuffed that they didn't take me forever or make me shout in anguish too much (although I've officially jinxed it now). So yes. Completed that for my meeting tomorrow when I'll hopefully get a new game to start work on, oh the excitement!
Had a trip to Amsterdam at the end of last week, and I gotta say...it was AWESOME! How cool is Amsterdam? They're so laid back and nice (even though the city is like full of tourists all the time!). And the canals are so cooool. I liked it all. Not to mention that there was a Wagamama located literally 3 minutes down the road from us. Kick Ass.
Anyway. Yes. Not much else to report on the work front yet.
Watched 'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past' yesterday and I have to say I wasn't as disappointed as I thought I would be by it. Cause I'm sure Jennifer Garner was in 27 Dresses, and 27 Dresses was an abysmal movie. Woo mama that was a stinker.
And on that note! Doei!
Tuesday, May 25
Drafty Draft
Hellllooo, the following are pics of everything I've been working ooonnnn...
Now some of it, is earlier work from a whileo ago, but I've been working on a main menu where you can navigate all these crazy things! It has the speed camera game & distance/time graph; and the newly corrected Top Trumps & Who Wants to be a Millionaire game. It has been a learning curve, as it always is with me. Actionscript 3 can make you very happy and very angry in a very short space from one another...oh THE ANGST!1!
But yaaaar, thats what I've been working on. as well as making whoopie pies and cooking barbeques. Man I love food.
Now some of it, is earlier work from a whileo ago, but I've been working on a main menu where you can navigate all these crazy things! It has the speed camera game & distance/time graph; and the newly corrected Top Trumps & Who Wants to be a Millionaire game. It has been a learning curve, as it always is with me. Actionscript 3 can make you very happy and very angry in a very short space from one another...oh THE ANGST!1!
But yaaaar, thats what I've been working on. as well as making whoopie pies and cooking barbeques. Man I love food.
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