Reece Elder second blog

my second blog is on this site pixelcase.com.au/vr/2009/newyork/ It pretty amazing. The idea of the site is an virtual ariel tour of NYC. im guessing that they used some kind of insane process peice thousands of pictures together or something like that. the site puts you in control of the tour letting you decide where to direct your vision you can zoom in on all the land scape. you can see every angle of every building pretty much or atlest that was my experience. of coarse they designer doesnt leave you completely alone to navigate the city by yourself. they have poupular locations listed along the bottom of the screen as thumbnails. however their background music really blows. i couldnt find a way of turning it off. in addition to all the other features it has it allows you to easily take screen shots and share with friends. no messy print screen/croping stuff annoying. other than the music its pretty damn cool

Wilkinson- Resources Blog

So it is the end of the semester, and for my last blog I though I would share with the rest of the class some helpful sites I found among all the late-night, last minute, google scrambling to figure out how to fix that last bit of scripting or animating.
The first is a collection of tutorials on how to use the Wacom tablets the school provides for us: the collection is through a magazine and provides some very intriguing lessons.

http://designm.ag/tutorials/wacom-tutorials/
The tutorials for the most part have nothing to do with flash, but knowing how to animate with one of these tablets can lead to interesting creations in illustrator which in turn can provide you with great symbols to animate in flash. If you are interested in creating animated films or games with flash this is a site you should definitely check out.
The second site is a user-generated tutorial site that only deals with flash called: www.tutorialized.com.

If there are any questions you have pertaining to scripting or animating, chances are that within the over 3,500 tutorials you will find you answer. And best of all, you will find it explained to you in normal lingo. A great website that provides not only insight but also has a lot of great ideas to build upon.
The Third site is a website called www.Kibashare.com

KibaShare is a great website, although incredibly hard to understand. People post their work on there so you may take it, change the content and keep the awesome animation and scripting. It is incredibly difficult to understand everything once you have the files open, but if you find something worth having, it might be worth all the effort to decipher the scripting.
My fourth site is one I have been going to all semester for all my classes and that is the tutorial section of www.SmashingMagazine.com

A magazine that mainly deals with design issues, they offer a gigantic section of tutorials for Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash. Once again, a very nice way to figure out how to make items to use in your Flash project. If Flash is point C than this provides guides on how to make Point A and B kick ass. It also provides very well written tutorials on Flash from experts and students alike.
My final site is an added bonus, one I enjoy checking out before entering a project and getting ideas from. www.thebestdesigns.com

The Best Designs is a website that merely offers their choices in the current best designed sites, not like the FWA where flash is the main concentration, this website showcases the incredible uses of fonts, layouts and pictures, not animation. If you need a base to start a website design on, start here, then figure out how you can add some animation to the site to make it more interactive, and therefore better.
I hope you enjoy these sites and I really hope that they can help you in your further classes.

Becca Patterson: Resource Exploration

http://forums.creativecow.net/adobeflash

Creative Cow is a "Creative Community" which allows people to post ideas, questions, and answers.  This forum allows for a person to discover everything from new tricks, to fixing problems.  I really like the interactivity of the site, and it is very easy to navigate.  Not only does this site have a message board portion, but there are also links to different tutorials and podcasts for more information.

http://www.webdesign.org/flash-swish/flash-tutorials/page-1.html

Web Design Library is really helpful in the tutorial aspect.  The instructions are so clearly laid out.  There are many different topics discussed so it covers just about everything you might want to know.

http://www.designyourway.net/blog/inspiration/website-showcase/weekly-30-inspirational-websites-43/

Design Your Way gives multiple sites of inspiration for web designers.  There is such a myriad of artwork on here, whatever your taste/style may be, you can find something that catches your eye.  This site also has a bunch of tutorials, information and downloads.

http://www.csscake.com/

CSS Cake is a blog that compiles extraordinary websites.  They are sent in by viewers and are sorted into 7 different categories: Company, E-commerce, Lifestyle, Other, Portfolio, Resource, and Showcase.  I think this is my favorite website that I've stumbled across because the design is so crisp and inviting.

Third Blog: Silenzio

www.silenzio.fr

I did my third blog exploration on a website called Silenzio. This site was created for the Silenzio Communications company which works with graphic designers to create movie posters.I liked the simplicity of the site and it's easy navigation. Basically it allows the user to look through a portfolio of different posters this company has produced throughout the years. Once the site has loading it displays all of the posters and allows the user to scroll through and choose which they would like to see. When one is selected you can view a larger picture of it. This site also allows you to organize these posters to view them in order of A-Z and date.