The weeks are just flying by! It’s hard to believe I’m a little halfway through my practicum. Monday makes it seem like the week will drag on, but then you blink and all of the sudden it’s Friday and you’re trying to get everything done before the weekend starts. Don’t even get me started about how short weekends feel now!
I honestly can’t remember much of this week since it started busy and ended busy! On Friday I wasn’t feeling all that well and toward the end of the day, so I decided to retreat to my bed and continue the rest of my work on an iPad as shown above. I started creating rough layouts for one of the two websites I’ve been tasked with designing.
Rough wireframes for the website
I’m a bit rusty creating wireframes for a website, so this was a welcome change of pace as well as a challenge! I think the extra real estate on website interface is nice, but I also find it difficult how to use the space efficiently without making the layout look too busy or empty. Although I do enjoy thinking about more creative ways of how to implement motion and gestures, as it’s not as limited as mobile in that respect.
As for other things I was working on this week. I mostly helped with fixing layouts for an animatic for FireSmart Canada. I can’t show the entirety of the scenes I worked on just yet, but maybe this sneak peek of cows will suffice.
Working on this project was interesting since I had to match the existing style that the team established. I thought it would be a lot more difficult, but it was actually relatively easy. The most difficult part was making sure that my layers were organized and in the right folders. There were so. Many. Layers. Well over five hundred for some scenes! I’ve worked with lots of layers, but never that many. I was really grateful that my computer managed to handle working with such big files.
I’m hoping in the next few weeks I’ll be able to share more work as some of the projects start to wrap up and go public. All in all though, I’m having a great time being able to lend a hand with all the work that’s been thrown at me.