Shadow Graphics

My first year in college is now over and done with.
It was definitely a learning experience, and I was definitely out of my comfort zone sometimes.

However now summer is here and I’m back in Chicago.

Right after the tests were done I finally got to actually trying to learn HTML, CSS and PHP for real and put together a preliminary website and Portfolio.

Thanks to that Portfolio I was able to get a job at a media and advertisement company called ‘Either Way Works’ where I am now working hard on designing parts of their new website.

Specifically I am using the 3D engine ‘Papervision‘ for flash to make the elements of the site that will be in full interactive 3D.

This is very challenging for me, never having done 3D work with flash before, and i’m absolutely loving it.

You can see a preliminary test I finished today of a spinning gear at the top of this post.
You can move around by using the AWSD or arrow keys, and dragging the view with the mouse

I will be adding more interactivity to this soon and many other cool elements, like Augmented reality that uses your webcam.

Among all that Geoffrey and I plan to keep working on our game, more news on that soon as well.

Cheers,

-Johannes

Well, I’ve finally gone and laid the foundation for my website, Jo-shadow.com, which this blog will only be a small part of.

I’ve been working hard to catch up on my HTML, CSS, PHP and javascript, and so far have a working system that reads image gallery data from an xml file via simplexml and some custom-made functions. nothing fancy, but good practice and it works.

The current theme/look is only temporary, i’ll be sure to polish it up in the future, maybe even have switchable CSS styles.

For anyone that is interested in learning, or getting up-to-date on the latest web standards visit www.w3schools.com

Special Thanks to Wolfire’s Jeff Rosen who graciously helped me work out some bugs.

My appologies for not having update in a long time.

Enless Skies is currently on temporary hiatus for a few reasons:
• On the third day of our work week, something very unfortunate came up in in Geoffrey’s family, and he had to leave on very short notice. This made our close one-on-one collaboration that had helped us be so productive before impossible.
• Soon afterwards, Geoffrey’s computer died, and he is currently in the process of getting a new one.
• School has picked up again, so progress can be a bit slow.

I myself have spent a good bit of time on other projects, for example helping work on Wolfire’s new future game Overgrowth. Much of what I learn in my work for them will be of great use later on when we get further with Endless skies.

I will post about some of the stuff I have done there specifically soon.

Happy Easter!
-Johannes

I’m Johannes, and this is my blog of various artistic ventures, interests and otherwise musings that I embark on every once in a while.

The subject matter will range from computer based art and graphics, such as in games, movies and websites, to interesting things on traditional art, sculpture, costumes and just basically stuff I find cool and (being completely selfish here) a way for me to help organize my thoughts while at the same time enabling me to show them to people easier.

Pardon the dust, and please do enjoy your stay!