slice n dice portfolio review
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- bigtrick0
ok, i will bite. here is an honest site critique.
it looks bad.
i see you're not a web designer. but you can design stuff. that's good. for your website, if you want to make it your own, design it on a piece of paper, or whatever you use. then get a web designer to turn it into a page for you. because trying to put a web page together with just some elements here and there and putting slideshowpro in the middle is like me trying to build a robot.
so. try again, once more, with feeling. concept first, then refined design, then sent off to a web magician to make it look right.
- i agree.. oh hey bigtrick you seem to have web knowledge.. want to make me a site?? -ee-pill
- the site design is basically a QBN in joke********
- its worse than a joke, because if i can do it, then i expect none of you to do it..e-pill
- but i see lots of you doing it.
not knocking off but template hell. where is originality?e-pill - i don't want to make you a site. sorry ):bigtrick
- s'okedd-e
- e-pill0
how do i make the art sizable? what is the drop dead largest size a laptop can view? i mean what is the largest size i can make the art to fit for laptop users being the smallest screen size.. i have imac 27" i wish to make it as big as my screen as the original art is at least 7 feet tall.. i lose a ton of quality when shrunk to this size.. i want it to be the best it can be.. i have no knowledge of flash outside of making a crappy knock off site with a slide show slapped inside for some effects.. what can i do?
i ask you guys because for the last what 10 years i been coming to this site to see that the majority of you are web based.. so to fully interact with you at your level i try to make my own site.. i treid for years and failed..
now i want to shine.. i want your help i want a site that is your identity with my art .. combined we can form VOLTRON!!!
or something like that.. right?? im sick of seeing garbage talk and non design related anything up here.. so i try to shake it up with this in your face knock off.. seems to have shaken some of you slightly.. i want to rattle your minds to create nightmares..
how about we create the scariest nightmare for all?!?! not some template garbage.. i did a template.. and you or most of you called it out saying its garbage with saying its garbage.. but i say its garbage.. so show me you got something to break the barrier of design that we all see.. what can you bring to the table.. id love to be shown.. be ripped and live to see your new site.
:)
- ********0
any pro 3d people here? how long would it take you to model one of epill's more complicated illustrations ?
- oh fune-pill
- but expect a lawsuit.. hehe-pill
- i want to know now. I'll ask the ones i know if I remember. I think you should hire someone and learn from the model/process********
- i wish, i met the factories that make transformers toys and takara model kits in chinae-pill
- i been waiting to make toys my whole life but price of concept sample is too expensive 4 mee-pill
- but with 3D printers i can do it myself and go into production directly. which is what i want,e-pill
- i downloaded a ton of tutorials but they are all at intermediate to advanced levels..e-pill
- i could barely keep up.. but i managed what you see in you tube.. but its basic..e-pill
- i want to have the parts move not be still.. its just a 3d render of my 2d art same thing..e-pill
- if it can walk battle move fight cry all of it.. thats what i want.. also maybe transform..e-pill
- seems like a fun creative challenge to try out for some free time learning..e-pill
- im always down to learn new tricks..e-pill
- its a big learning curve for something to do in your spare time but you're making progress. I think they'd be really cool 3d********
- ...cool in 3d.********
- omg me too, but i learnt that not all shapes look good when revolved on axis..e-pill
- are there any less complicated designs there? just wondering..e-pill
- yes some are pretty6 basic compared to others that have a zillion little parts and details********
- jaylarson0
Maybe something like this, but with parallax parts of your mechs? forming like voltron at the bottom?
http://benthebodyguard.com/- that was different.. but im not wanting to make comics.. or a story.. i want to hire a writer..e-pill
- e-pill0
Horp bump.. please come and rant.. or push some ideas..
kthnxbye
- ********0
start over.
- scarabin0
first thing i would do is ditch the "i'm ripping B.B." thing. his look is outdated, ripping a ripper out of revenge doesn't even make sense, and you're not doing it very well in the first place.
if i were you i would go back to what you do best- that robot style. make your site look robotic, maybe put your content on a display screen or something. make it you, not someone else.
start by deciding what content you are going to feature, figure out a cool navigation/menu system (rather than just some words in a bar across the top) and make it integral to the layout instead of looking like an afterthought.
never put a "whatever is coming soon" message on your site.
don't fuck with full-screening or resizing. whenever that happens i close the window immediately.
make your music controls easy to find so people who are listening to their own music don't have to fight with yours.
also, the music you have sounds like some valerie/80s french electro driving music, not giant fighting robot music.
- good points. i agree to all of it.
but i have no clue how the web really works to make it happen.e-pill - also i do need better music..
ill take down the music now..e-pill - music is gone..e-pill
- what do you mean "put on display screen" ??e-pill
- i dunno, like a command center for the robot or somethingscarabin
- just an ideascarabin
- command center like
TELE-TRAN-1 .. thats what came to mind first..e-pill
- good points. i agree to all of it.
- scarabin0
stop looking at templates.
start your site design in illustrator like you do your robots (where you work naturally), then hire someone here to make it a website with a CMS so you can update it with new shit by yourself.
- ********0
I'll make you a site, e. What's your budget?
- FREE!!!!!!!!!!e-pill
- ill make you a robot for a websitee-pill
- thats a fair trade..e-pill
- *will do the robot for a websitee-pill
- Sorry, can't work for free.********
- yeh me either..e-pill
- actually dmullins.. why not suggest a price, this is your world.. make me think about it..typical
- 10k********
- 10K for a website that doesnt generate any cash? no thanks.
ill figure it out myself.edd-e
- e-pill0
took down my site for the posting of the real one which is a work in progress..
thanks for the fun today!!!
- jaylarson0
your robots have some very tryphophobic.
prolly just the kush—but some of them are really cool. too bad they're down though. as for resizing, you could upload them as jpgs to a facebook fanpage, or flickr or something, and either save them as lower resolution files from there. follow?i'd love to have a 3d print of one of my choosing.
just saw this on oatmeal and thought it might help
- can't writejaylarson
- choose away.. which one do you want? for a print? perhaps ill make you a new one..edd-e
- i already have my work on deviantart. but it want to have the work on my site, not others.edd-e
- facebook isnt the forum realm i want to be involved with my art. flickr is more photos than vectoredd-e
- i want my site to be the forum of my artistic view. thats my goal.. but how its viewed..edd-e
- thats the battle i am facing..edd-e
- in terms of tryphophobic visuals, i get my inspiration from insects, specifically the eyes..edd-e
- i find that a super close up of a fly or spider gives me the inspiration to make somethingedd-e
- i like to take that inspiration and solve something that is visually crazy, since insect are that 2meedd-e
- in terms of the flash part, i understand what you mean, but for me its all new..edd-e
- as an outsider looking in to the web world i like flash, it animates vector..edd-e
- but i understand the copy paste part on the contact info.. it was also annoying for me..edd-e
- i still dont follow about the jpg resize. the files are jpgs and the files are tiny already..edd-e
- nvrmnd about eh image resizing. you should be able to resize the images in illy to a smsller sizejaylarson
- just have the strokes and stuff change proportionally when resizing. maybe 11"x17"?jaylarson
- some sites include flash elements with html—but flash is finally getting better in mobile.jaylarson
- the original sizes of the art is over 7 feet tall.. they are already sized proportionally.edd-e
- this is inspiring:
http://img.izismile.…
edd-e - cooljaylarson
- jaylarson0
the fonts on the previous site looked a little dated too. love to see better treatment of type. something more like a control center like the matrix web site. looks like it's finally down.
here's an archive of it
http://web.archive.org/web/20021…- fonts.. the real only time i use them is on my invoices and its usually the myraid standard..edd-e
- i am more clueless on fonts than i am of web.. this is why i ask for help.. thanks for the linkedd-e
- clarity with a sense of place should fit the bill. complete the illusion. and to be able to work on mobile would be sweetjaylarson
- but isnt mobile defeating the purpose.. that size is tooo small for any clarity.. its a waste..edd-e
- outside of it being portable its a waste for me.. considering i draw them larger than life..edd-e
- i imagine a real life human to be inside, so the exterior structure has to be largeredd-e
- going the idea of smaller to me is just for the idea that there is a device that can view it.edd-e
- that device is not the intended area again, not where i want to showcase my work..edd-e
- when i myself show people my art off my phone i hate it, the visual is tiny and loses all form.edd-e
- solid point. if you don't like it, how can you share it?jaylarson
- its usually just in random conversation.. oh i design robots.. oh yeh let me see..edd-e
- Haggerty0
like jay suggested, i would go for an abnormal behaviour child style collection of your looped animations. make them glitchy and low fi to mask what they are lacking in finesse.
put your handbags on another site.
- jaylarson0
maybe some moar inspiration
http://tronsoundtrack.com/- i kept clicking and got to dead links.. what is this supposed to inspire? im not a tron fan btw.edd-e
