week 6- concept and group discussion

Concept

space: virtual checker board

my interpretation of SPACE: space can come in any form, it is like an environment that is composed of different elements. I chose a chess board, because it consists of simple components (the board and chess pieces) and the space can be manipulated freely.

creation method: 

model chess board in maya or other 3D modelling program( this may be to hard, i am still deciding what other ways i can develop it). save an ground perspective image of my modeled chess board and import it into photoshop for further editing. i plan either use the black and white squares on the board or the pawns as navigation bars, then allowing an internal window open once they are clicked on.

i formerlly planned to have my favourite holiday locations to be placed on the chess board, and utilise flash to make the black and white boxes flicker to the image once the cursor is placed over it. i still might hold on to this idea, but will decide later on. 

i also plan to have flash input on my final site

group discussion:

interesting idea, however may take a while to create, so group members have suggested to come up with a simple 2D image drawn or scanned into the computer inorder to reduce the work load.

one of my group member had a very interesting site, where images of different spaces were created to become alive. flash and perhaps photopshop was used in the creation process. it is simple, interactive and delivers its purpose to its viewers. these are the things i should keep in mind.