HTML5 Game Animation Intro Built in Adobe After Effects – Preview Mock Up

I wanted to give an update on the HTML5 game I’m building. I’m so excited about this project because it’s putting a lot of moving pieces together, from heavy Photoshop and Illustrator work with a lot of layers and effects to Building the intro in After Effects and then working with Adobe Edge to create the simple touch game.

Here is a link to the past Blog Posts:
https://darkriderdesign.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/prequel-to-html5-mothra-game-idea-character-development/

HERE IS THE INTRO:

I just completed the Mock up for the Intro, the music behind the track is from:

The Last Unicorn soundtrack – 1982 by Virgin Records.
“Forrest Awakens”
written by Jimmy Webb – producer, arranger, composer
played by The London Symphony Orchestra – orchestra

Here is some of my process work going from Moleskin to Illustrator for the logo, and a few screen grabs of After Effects

UX UI Presentation app Idea – Show Off Your User Interaction From Different View Points

I had a great app idea today while looking at Pinterest. First off a quick shout out to Pinterest… Pinterest is such an amazing way to get a graphical and visual experience for just about any flavor of life. I am a magazine junkie and so to have something digital that finally takes the place of the pure visual inspiration of a Design magazine is wonderful.

OK back to the topic of apps… When you look at Design Magazines and Visual Design from places like Pinterest you not only get a sense of the design but more often times than not the design is being put into context in layout like this:
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/212091463675815662/

or like this:

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/212091463675304574/

While this is great, it doesn’t help for actually interacting with the design UI itself. Wouldn’t it be great to have an app that you could upload your ipa, or .app, .xap, etc.

The app would take the user interface uploaded and put it into an environment in perspective on a device in the wild and then could display it moving while you interacted with close up layer of the UI.

The problems this app would solve could be:

– A Sense of up close and personal with the navigation.
– Seeing the UI from far away. I think this is something that classic UI and UX people leave out. What does the UI look like from the other side of the room? It sounds silly but in comparison to a good Logo designer, a good logo looks good if you shrink it down to postage stamp size, or if you blow it up to the size of a building.
– This could help the application fit into many to many scenarios during a single viewing (hospital, manufacturing, business, etc.)
– Great Presentation, tool.