Log/Activity on 30-04-2012

          Today, Christine gave us a task which is help her to trace a picture which given by her. The image below is the result of the tracing by using AI.

          After I finished the work told by Christine, I continued with my flash project. Based on this book, the first step of creating a flash project is to plan unless there may a huge expenditure of time. Then, mapping out the project or create storyboard to facsimile each keyframe or scene in animation if we are creating a complex animation or game. Now, we finished these two steps and came out with the scene of the game by using AI.  After that is creating the flash document and the coding part.

Log/Activity on 27-04-2012

          Today, I continued with flash. I read a book about flash and the book title is Flash CS4 All-In-One For Dummies. This book taught us how to use flash to create web banners, animation, flash game and other delights. This book is suitable for those who are not familiar with flash or a new user in flash. From this book, I knew the interactive flash designs and games rely heavily on ActionScript and we can create a flashy game by using flash with the ActionScript 3.0. 

Flash Book

I read through the explanation and exploring the flash workspaces and flash tools. I learnt new knowledge like the meaning of symbols in flash which are reusable graphics. Besides that, I followed the tutorial in this book about how to place ActionScript on the Timeline. For examples, working with the Timeline and creating Timeline functions with ActionScript code. When click on the Win button the words "You won! You can program in ActionScript 3.0".

Tutorial in book

Log/Activity on 26-04-2012

          Today I completed the map of the game by inserting the last design marshmallow land. Finally, I had finished all the borders for total of 10 levels and the Jelly land in this map. These borders are important as a navigation for the user so they will know that which levels they are in now.

The map of the "Jelly The Guard"

          After I finished the graphic part, I proceed to the flash coding to develop this game. At first, I installed the Adobe Flash CS5 in my laptop before starting the exploration with flash. It is quite challenging for me because I am never use this software before. My friends told me that creating a game by using flash coding is not a easy task. Since my coursemates had started with flash coding while I am doing the AI for design part, so they are more understand with the flash than me now. After installed this software successfully,  I started to explore the flash and I asked Li San for a help when I am facing problem in flash. I learnt how to import the Illustrator artwork into flash.

Log/Activity on 25-04-2012

          Today I finished drew all the bridges for the map of the "Jelly The Guard". From the Christine's suggestion yesterday, I started to drew the border of all the lands in the map for each level while I am waiting for Li San to complete her work on marshmallow land and the cookies land. My progress was a bit slow because the AI software was always no responding while I am doing this map. 

Log/Activity on 24-04-2012

          I was continued with the developing of mobile game. There are total of ten levels and two levels for each land. Today, I was completed the second level of cupcakes land in the afternoon. The image below was my work for today by using AI. Now, we had completed the background image of ice cream land, candy land, cupcake land and marshmallow and cotton candy land. The last land which is cookies land still in process.          

Cupcake Land

          Today we had a meeting to report to Christine about what we had done for the mobile game. She had gave us some precious opinions and comments to our work including the aspect of design and colours. There are total of ten main characters and the motion of these characters are jumping, sliding, stick and swing and sliding. After the meeting, I proceed to do the map of the game since most of the background image was be completed. I have to combine all the background image and design the bridges to connect each land. I spent more time in design than the drawing by AI.

Map of the game

Log/Activity on 23-04-2012

           Today I started to design the second part of the cupcakes land. After I done the drawing, I started to draw it by using AI. I have to finish all the land so I can continue with the map of the game.

Log/Activity on 20-04-2012

           I continued with AI to draw the cupcakes land based on what I had designed yesterday. There are two levels for each land and now I had finished one of the level for the cupcakes land. I will continue to design another level for this land next week. The image below is my work for today.

Log/Activity on 19-04-2012

          Today, my coursemate, Li San was designing the marshmallow land and I designed a Cupcakes Land for the background of the mobile game. At first, I sketched up my design on a paper and then I started to draw it by using the AI. 

One of the level of cupcake land

Log/Activity on 18-04-2012

          Same as yesterday, I continued to draw the map for the "Jelly The Guard". I drew three bridges for the candy land, ice cream land and cookies land to connect each land with the jelly land. There are still have three lands to go which are cookies land, marshmallow land and cupcakes land.

Log/Activity on 17-04-2012

           Today, I continued with the AI to draw the map of the game. I continued to draw some flowers and trees for the Jelly land. After that, I started to design a bridge to connect the Jelly land with the other surrounding lands.

Log/Activity on 16-04-2012

          Since Li San still has a lot of scenes not yet finish drew for the menu part, so I continued her work on the map of the game. Today, I finished the candy land and the ice cream land and part of the cookies land and jelly land.

Map of the game

Log/Activity on 13-04-2012

          Today, I had done designing the story of the mobile game.

           After that, I proceed to draw them by using AI. We need to spend time to draw them and then choose the suitable colour for them. 

Log/Activity on 12-04-2012

          Today I continued on the candy land that I had drawn yesterday. I removed the black colour outlines because we want to standardise all the design of the background. I also added some shadows for each items in the drawing so they looked like 3D although in a 2D form image.

          After I done my candy land design, I proceed to draw my story of the game. Since I not yet finish my drawing for the game's story, I will continued it tomorrow.  

Log/Activity on 10-04-2012

          Since I had done my ice cream land for the mobile game, so I started to draw another scene- candy land according to Yukii's drawing. I had spent a whole day to draw the black colour outlines and add some colours for all the items by using the AI. I will continue it so that it looked like 3D. The image below was the candy land that I drew.

Log/Activity on 09-04-2012

          Today, my coursemate and I are temporary suspended the Belt Equipment website because waiting for Mr Low to arrange and give us the information which should be put in this website. So, we proceed to draw the background of the mobile game called "Jelly The Guard" by using AI. The image below is what I had been done today. This is one of the background scene for this game- Ice Cream Land.  

Ice Cream Land

Log/Activity on 06-04-2012

          Same as yesterday, we continued on developing and designing the website. Christine had created a facebook page for Belt Equipment. So, I found and installed a joomla extension called Anything Tabs for the user to link and view this page at facebook. After I done this tab, I had searched the drop down menu extension since the HXDMOOMENU which  I had installed previously was not good enough. At last, I found a drop down menu module called ARI EXT MENU and I installed it in this website. I had changed the colour of background and fonts of this menu so that this menu can been matched with the theme of this website.  Then I started to look for the suitable extension for Product and Supplier List.

Front page

Log/Activity on 05-04-2012

          Today, my coursemate and I continued on developing the website for Belt Equipment. I had done inserting and arranging the information for Company Profile. After that, I had installed the Google Map plugin and done the Contact Us part. I had uploaded the Belt Equipment logo and front page images that give by Christine. Since this template did not had the coding for us to put the image at the top, so I tried to add some coding in the php file of this template. Finally, the company logo had been displayed successfully

Log/Activity on 04-04-2012

          In the morning, we continued on AI to design the background image for mobile game. 

Ice Cream Mountain

          After that, we started to develop and design the website for the Belt Equipment company. We had uploaded the joomla folder to the server through the CPanel. Therefore, we installed a white colour template and I had adjusted the layout of the articles. I had installed a ARI image slider and a dropdown menu which called HXDMOOMENU. Then, we started to insert the information to this website.

Log/Activity on 03-04-2012

          Today, I continued on exploring the AI. Yukii had sketched up an image for the background of the mobile game. This image is a sketch of the background image of the ice cream land. Based on that sketch, I continued to create the icre cream image by using the AI.

          We are going to develop a website for another company-Belt Equipment Supplies Sdn Bhd. So, we searched for the suitable joomla template for this company.

Log/Activity on 02-04-2012

          Today, I explored the Adobe Illustrator CS5 (AI) for whole day. Christine had gave us some tutorials and she guided us patiently when we met some problems on AI. I learnt another new thing within this internship period. I am going to do the background image for the ice cream land of the mobile game. The image below is my work today by using the AI software and the ice cream was made up by a lots of different shape.

Ice cream by using AI

Log/Activity on 30-03-2012

          Christine had told us the website had to be launched on today. So, we tried our best to finished all parts of this website. We had finished the Home page, About Us and Contact Us parts. There are three menu which are Services, Gallery, News and Jobs that still had some small parts need to complete. For the Services, we needed a plugin to allow the user to view and download the Digital Brochure.PDF from this website. We had searched the plugin from internet and finally I found a plugin called Edocs to embed the pdf format file in content article. 

Services

After that, I had arranged the information of the article in the Internship submenu under the Jobs menu. I had used the photoshop to create a button image for the Alumni Page and linked it to the Alumni page of Backbone company in facebook so the user can request to join the group now. 

Jobs

Finally, our first project- Backbone Website was completed.           

          After that, Boon Tek taught us how to use the Adobe Illustrator to draw the background of the game because today was the last day he having the internship at this company. So, we must learn how to create background of the game and continue his work for the mobile game.

Log/Activity on 29-03-2012

          Same as yesterday, my coursemates and I continued on designing the website. After discussing with Christine, we had to found a plugin to display the photos according to their albums. So, we had searched and found a plugin called Dione Magic Slider to display the photos for Events under the News Menu. There are three albums and this plugin allow us to these photos were been displayed according to their albums which are Collaboration with KDU, Internship Programme and Internship Programme-Presentation.

Events