One of our projects is to design our own portfolio website to help to both get our name into the world and if we are continuing with the course the website is to help our progression. I haven't ever made or tried to make a website before so this is a new area of study and design for me personally. In my last post i wrote about different areas of jobs in the games industry now before i can start on making the website i need to choose what area i fit and what i want to go into in the games industry so i have something to work towards and show myself as on the website.
Because i am more 2d based in my artwork and designs this means that i can rule out 3d areas, and look at more drawn based areas like concept artist and pre-visualization. Other areas like sound and engine design and programming don't overally take my intreats and i don't want to work towards an area that i don't like doing. Pre-visualization is the art of storyboarding and the first amount of concept. The Previsual artist is the one that takes the story and makes it into a visual story, it starts giving a game a style and sets the beginning of the visual game. My work is usually similar to the work of pre-visualization and i quite like storyboarding and drawing rough versions of characters and ideas rather than a fully developed version like if you are a concept artist. With this in mind i now can continue with designing my website as i can show what i am and what i want to become in the games industry so that potential employers might hire me, also it would give an idea of what i will be focusing on in the 3rd year of the course.
We had a basic tutorial in how to create a website using Iweb a apple software for websites. There are many other websites that are available to design websites like Adobe's Dreamweaver but our focus is to use this software. Iweb is a simple software that allows images designed on Photoshop then imported to iweb to be turned into backgrounds, links and more. I had a look at Kim Pace's website to get an idea of what we are expected to make. http://www.kimpace.co.uk/ the website itself is simple but straight to the point as you see her art and then lead into a link that follows on into her work. The layout is simple and it keeps the links together as a banner which lays out the website. There is more on her website than we need. From our tutorial i understand that keeping the site clear, easy to follow and it having the information up to help promote myself is the key of the project.
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