Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Interactive PDF

The goal of this assignment was to create an interactive pdf that would advertise yourself or some company that you are aware of. I decided to do one for myself. An interactive PDF links all important websites that the person wants to be shown to the public kind of like an online business card except this can actually take you to the shown websites.

The most challenging part of doing this assignment was the timing of the pictures coming in and the animation I wanted when things were having the mouse hovering over them. I wanted to add something to happen when one would hover their mouse over the "button" which would take one to the specific link. I kinda had trouble placing it so it would look like it moved and then I placed the movement in the wrong "layer" so I had to fix that. The other issue of the timing of the images coming in after a couple seconds was actually a product of keeping an oversized version of the image file. Without the advice from my teacher, I would have never known that my file was too big and that was the reason why It took way too on for the images to load in. I definitely learned something very valuable and will implement it into every one of my pieces. All I had to do was cut the original image size and everything was fixed. It took a little time but it was super fun.

I feel like I was definitely successful but one thing that was definitely on my mind was the fact that I wished I could have made a more advanced piece. Personally, lately, I've been feeling like my pieces are too simple and I play it too safe when I could be trying something more visually interesting. I'll do my best to improve and try some more interesting techniques.




Comic Post

 Hello! This time my fellow classmates and I were tasked with making a short comic. Similar to the ones we would see in newspapers and such,...