Originally, when thinking about my project I wanted to follow a similar route to Semester B’s assignment where we created a website for a concept or product. As I really enjoyed creating the website on Adobe Muse, I thought it would be a good idea to further develop my technical skill within this area as the software allows for very aesthetically pleasing and modern websites to be created with interesting features. The website itself would be very dependant on the product it was based around in-terms of its style and the scale/size, due to copyright issues I was thinking about creating a website for a product on Kickstarter or Go Fund Me sites to hopefully avoid this.
Although I was building my ideas quickly for the project, it didn’t feel like I was pushing my abilities far enough into technical area’s that were unknown – as I had already created a product with this software, I though that would only be building upon prior knowledge. Additionally, after having some exposure to the industry, it had some come to my attention that companies wouldn’t create websites using Adobe Muse, they would have specialists who would create them from scratch using code – this finalised my decision to change idea’s as I want to experiment with softwares/technologies that will be used within the industry in the future, making this project more valuable.
After making my decision to change idea’s, I have been thinking about different technologies and softwares which I could potentially use. Over the summer I had the opportunity to go to a media company – Red Bee Media – to see what their environment was like. After talking to some of the employee’s there I started to experiment with a software called Cinema 4D – created by Maxon. Cinema 4D is a 3D software that is used within the industry today and used within several disciplines of media. Below is some examples of work that I have produced using it:
The software is very exciting as it allows me to create work which looks realistic, the images above are examples of this (even though they are very abstract). In order for myself to use this softwares to create a product I will need to research heavily into the software as my understanding of it is very low – prior to this I have used YouTube tutorials to help create work.