Re Skinned App

I have re-skinned my html5 app - tested and it works quite nicely on phones and PC alike - I have constrained it to phone-like proportions even on PC (as it isn't intended for pc and doesn't work as well due to ip-based location being terrible!)
So here is the current re-skinned version complete with much more smooth and curvy looking logo!

Final submissions for design contest

Spent most of the afternoon/evening doing work for college, set aside an hour to finish these designs for the design competition I entered on 99designs - so here are my two submissions (the only difference is text positioning)

Star Test Render

A further design I've been working on for the design competition - the brief given was very vague but thankly my first submission prompted some comments and they uploaded so more images for me to look at - this is a test render of something I've spent an hour or so working on for that this evening.
Turns out that they may be looking for something more towards tribal art - something which I've been doing for years!
Now I really should go to bed - still feeling quite ill with this bloody cold ¬.¬

Competition Entry :)

I entered a competition on 99Designs today - it was to create designs for the front and back of cheerleading contests in america (admittedly not my usual sort of subject matter, but I found myself browsing the competitions with few or no entries and the brief jumped out at me*).
Here's the entry:

 

Here's the link to my 99designs page - unfortunately as this entry was for a closed competition, this design won't be in there, but a previous entry from a competition is!  (Unfortunately not a winning entry)

My 99Designs Profile Folio

Right!  Back to work on essays and projects!

Edit:  I almost forgot, I have also applied for this freelance job, which was advertised on the freelance.net website:  http://www.freelancers.net/freelance-jobs-creative/201104/34257.html (so fingers crossed!)

*not literally that would break the laws of physics....gah...stuff jumping out of computer screens...what do you take me for!!

Pretty much finished! :)

"IT LIVES!  MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Well that's what I'd be saying if I was Victor Frankenstein, but I'm not, so I'm not.
I have, however, pretty much finished my app!  I've called it "Take Me Home!" and it's now live on my site here:

http://fruitfulcreations.co.uk/takemehome/ 

There are a couple of things that need tweaking - I need to save the logo in a web-safe format and colour set for one thing...and need to test it on more smartphones! (in theory it should work on anything that can parse html5...but knowing how web design usually pans out I don't really want to chance it without testing first!!)

While I'm at it, there is altogether too much text in this blog right now and far too few images!  So here are some photoshop jobbies I've done in the last week or so to offset things a little :P (anything to take my mind off javascript to be honest!)

Woop Woop!

I think I'm starting to get the hang of this now!
I've been trying to learn from the google API examples/recommended code while keeping it my own (obviously a lot of the rendering and direction finding code is largely google tutorial based though) and now it sort of works!
Need to finish the little bits of code that need doing, then I'm going to sit here with a smartphone next to me for an hour or two and try and get the formatting right so it looks nice and sexy!
Without further ado:
http://fruitfulcreations.co.uk/geoloc_2/AddDirections3.html

It now resolves your position, geocodes your typed destination and then renders the map - I placed the call for the route calculator function in the first part of the map rendering code because it seemed more logical than attaching it to another button.  Unfortunately two are required - if there is an issue with the geocoding or geolocation queries they may return slowly or not at all - if they returned slowly and everything was on one button the map/route calculator (which relies on variables populated with that data) would not fire and would possibly produce an error.
I will be linking up the second one so it will only display if the geolocator/geocode works if this turns out to be possible though! :)

Happy times!!

Quick morning edit!

Here's that map app (ha that rhymes) with a map showing - currently will be centered on the position resolved as your current location (which if you're on a PC is almost definitely incorrect, but it's made for smartphones!).
Now that I've gone quite delightfully mad, hopefully by the end of today I can have the directions working! :D

http://fruitfulcreations.co.uk/geoloc_2/AddMap3.html

Geolocation and Geocoding

This week I have mostly been working on...the joys of geolocation, geocoding and geomyheadisexploding.
It's so research and coding intensive!  So far I've had to learn the basics of parsing json data, a wee introduction into XML parsing (before I abandoned that line of enquiry) and all sorts of fun things involving the google maps api (and associated stuffs).
On the bright side, check out my working prototype! (No map yet, just your positioning data!)

http://fruitfulcreations.co.uk/html5_geo/WorkingTextPrototype.html

Right, now I've gone insane...off to go lick the wallpaper now!  BYE!

Freelance work - Party Flyer(s)

Today I have created some fliers for a local party later this month, parodying a well known psy-trance evening in bristol called "tribe of frog".
In order to fulfill this request, the parody logo had to be very close to the original - this took quite some time experimenting with fine details (I had to render each letter individually and then rasterise them and edit small parts where letters joined etc).
The client was present through much of the process and was quite happy with the finished product!
The first image is the main print, and the second is the front for the double sided copies (the back for double-sided being the first image!)
Here are the images:

Game Design Render from Blender

These are renders of my orange brights style character, I rendered images from a few different angles, and then rendered a video - which rendered at around a frame a minute...for eighty frames!  Not good!!
May still need a little work though!