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March 31st - Interview went well (almost missed it though lol). Anywayssss got the graphics for idle animation, idle click (the face) animation, and all four social button scroolover links animations done :) A good amount for a half day! Anyways ill get more done tomorrow likely yessirrrr OH BABEYYY ITS SO CLOSE TO COMPLETION FOR DAY ONE YESSSSSSS - A BIT MORE CODING, PAGE NOT FOUND ANIMATION AND WERE GOOOODDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!! {{{{PS: CLICKING THE INTRO FACE GIF IS HELLA JANKY DUE TO TIMING ISSUE - SAME WITH THE SCISSORS. MIGHT HAVE TO FIND A DIFFERENT METHOD TO DO THIS.....UGH. THE GIF JUST DOESNT CONSISTENTLY START AND END DESPITE BEING EXACTLY 1.75 SECONDS. I NEED A WAY TO RESTART THE GIF EVERY TIME INSTEAD OF REPEATING......}}}}}
March 30th - redid and recoloured the home graphic (looks awesome!). Got the midnight snack clip up and running (finally geez). Put in some code so there is no longer a white screen flash shwen loading a background on each page. Concept page has been updated to be 'COMING SOON'. Im going to wait until after intial site to actually work on pages for this. Got some simple js (that i actually understand this time) for when the face is clicked. Im astarting to udnerstand js in general which is exciting! Ive finally been properly messing around mixing js code together - although writing it from scracth will take me some more time to learn. Ive got some base animation frames for most of the rest of the intro gifs (as well as a slightlyyyy revamped default animation for when nothing is going on) to add - just need to finish em up to upload. Probably gonna take a breather tomorrow as I have a sweet interview to ace :))))!!!!!!!!!!
March 29th - back and forth fast and slow progress today. Lots of messing around with stuff to see what I liked. Got some DOPEEEE graphics done - notably the banger of a background in all colour variations :))))) ***STILL NEED TO SLIGHTLYYYY CLEAN IT UP AT A LATER TIME TO MAKIE THE LINE UP **P E R F E C T** **** made the stupid scissor graphic for the outline (LOL). button order (and colours) were swapped between Animatiosn and illustartiosn section so that it goes animation, ill, then sketches (isnetad of Ill > Ani > sketch [sketches+ill toegtehr makes sense]. made the cocnepts temporary mmouse over gif for intro page. Started working on a cool idea of an animation of Jimmy running up the 'stairs' that for from the moving of the JUS background. Got th 8831 button location figured out (bottom of the about page). buttons are all up and macthign itht he headers on all pages. Almost ready to take off the annoying yellow banner for good - the satisfaction of seeing the clean intro page will be B L I S S. Anyways crucnh through the last few things with graphics and some final tweaking, run through some friends and then share the site for real! Worry about concept later. YO GOT MY FIRST NATURAL FOLLOWER (after FileTo!) TOO WHICH IS SIIIIIIIIIICK, (animator and illustrator as well - his site is DOPEEEEEE)
March 28th - got some good work done - buttons have been recut, and colours have been retouched to make a nice rainbow when scrolling through the navbar (animations adjusted accordignly as well). Comign up with the perfect colour took a while, but i essentially just iterated through like a million variants then went right back to the original colours that I love to use lol. Made a cool background graphic for this page, not really sure why. But YO NAVBAR LOOKS SO PERFECT NOW AFTER THE FINAL ADJUSTMENTS!!!!! Had an idea for a sleeping gif if you idle for over a minute or two on the main page - then itll return to normal if you hover over any button hehe. I have the code all written up but its jaavascript and i dont really feel that great using code that i couldnt really write myself (aside from the get date code thats whatever). idk its got me hitting a weird roaad block: spend the next week or so actually learning js to code a few small things, or just rip the code straight from the web and throw it in for a few quick jobs. It freaks me out to know that there might be important code for the site that I cant tweak cause i dont understand = and WAY more so knowing i could tie myself into a knot with code that is CRUCIAL and that i dont understand. Knowing my track record ill spend a ton of time learning it to get that little bit of satisfaction that o did it myself mostly lol.....we shall seeeee. got focused again and set the buttons for title - looks good but ima crop em down just a bit and upload a new set just for title pics so there is no big mass. Might end up redrawing them from scrath later. tweaked the gallery a litttle more (strugggled for a while trynna figure some stupid stuff out ahaha) but looks good now yessirrr
WEBSITE BACKED UP (3RD BACKUP SINCE REVAMP)
March 27th - 6 title card exports done (all completed now! looking FANTASTICCCCC :). Midnight snack preview still causing issues (to worry about that laterrrr). Got hella sidetracked making 8831 buttons (made my own as well as some 'mock' ones for the social media section at the bottom of the intro page). It might be a little excessive with all the motion on page one but ill keep it for now and see how it jives. Got the gallery CSS a littttle better with images centered in their respective column boxes. Gonna work on it some more later. Me think itll look much better with the buttons as titles (if i keep with idea - I will try it out at least)
******SHOULD DO THIS TOMORROW: To work on the buttonresizing and colouring.****** Also sidenote for personal reference - Updated all profile picture accross other social media to reflect the inner 'dog' (lol): let my new creative era begin and let the artistic endeavors be focussed and COMPLETEABLE!!!! (Its time to start finish ur animations that have been cooking for literally a year now lets goooooooooooooo get that shit done and move on to new projects babeyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
March 26th - WOW I thought I got lots done yesterday but ill be damned today was jam packed with work ahahah! I spent almost the entire day just clipping all the animations Ive made into little preview gifs, as well as making title cards for the mouseovers on the animation page. [Its been a weirdly nostalgic trip down memory lane going through the last 5 years of animations and accidentally coming accross old files and stupid jokes ;~] Anyways - Ive coded it all in and its all working pretty solid now :) Just need to finish 6 title cards (the words only) and then find a way to properly export the midnight snack preview gif. Not sure why its not working - Im using Swivel and its been so good to date but just wont do this one gif ripppp. Still not sure if I want to include the 'cheese tapes vol.1' clip as its so short. *something to think about for the future in case Im feelin it.* Still need to cut out buttons that are actually rectangular as well as colour the buttons and pages accordignly. Im going to put a "coming soon/in work" tag on the concepts page as well. To finish the 'concept' 'page not found' gifs as well as recolour the gifs already done accordignly with the buttons on the intro page. Besides that honestly its so close to being ready for an 'official unveiling' (to like all of the 10 people that actually intearct with my posts or whatever lolllll). ANIMATION PAGE LOOKS SO DAMN GOOOOOD!!!! Im not sure what exactly is bothering me about the way the image gallery is setup for the sketches and illustration, but it feels weird idk....something to show and receiove feedback in the medium term future I guess. I gotta sleep lol fuck eh ahaa
ALSOOOOO: gotta add some more illustrations and sketches (tons of sketches to add geeeeez) and figure out how to set the alternate digital pictures for illustrations section while still retaining the zoom in feature (will probably be a bunch of work and bit of research. ******Make a site tag button too so i can send it to FileTo (and whoever else :)**********
March 25th - LOTS done today. Bunch of cleanup stuff and lots of changes with the animation page. Made the sidebar buttons no longer scale up 1.1 on hover (i found it kindof annoying while browsing pages). Removed the animated background (the moving squares were cool but very distracting....). For the illustration and sketches page I remade the stacking effect from the stylesheet so that i understand it a bit better and its a bit cleaner - also made so that the images pop out when clicked on to see more details. *I will have to figure out later how to make the alternate version better - might have to scrap it in the meantime and just put them side by side (boring but not sure what to do atm* For the animation pages i remade almost the whole thing so that it is also a stacked gallery with two columns and an image for each video - which is clicked to show the video on youtube. The plan is to have each box show an animation and upon hovering over it will show the name of the animation and a dimmed image for the background. The long term goal would be to have a short blurb about the animation pop up under the image when moused over as well (not sure if its feasible space wise). Might instead opt for having a specific page for each animation although this is not ideal as I think it would feel a bit messy. Still not sure what to do with the categorization of different sub themes on every page (ex animation then split into full animations, reanimated clips, short gifs etc.) Anyways lots of thinking to do, I am really trying to make the website easy to navigate and actually useful to show off my stuff. I will worry about concepts and stuff like that later because it will take a super long time to code all that info and put in the artworks and whatnot. SIDENOTE: I want to cut out buttons that are actually rectangular instead of square for the site so that I can use them all over without the unused space getting in the way. So ya :) Looking good so far though!!!!
also gotta recolour the buttons so that they work together - I think that would be cool and pleasing to scroll through instead of the current disjointed colour mix :))) Correspond the animation on the intro page to the button colours would be cool as well
March 24th - IM BACK BABEYYY! Did some somewhat minor work. A little bit of cleanup here and there on the illustration and intro page. Also started working on the about me page and wrote in a blurb that I might change later. Gonna work on getting the remaining graphics this week, as well as find a proper system for viewing the illustrations. Next I will work on the preview gifs and videos for the animation page. ALSOOOOO made a DOPEEEE animation for the about me section, as well as the call now graphic for the screen. Fixed the tvstatic loop to make it a tad bit smoother (weirdly might have liked the badly animated one a bit more....hunh. Its looking sooooooooo good so far!!!
March 15th - started working on the intro graphics for concept (3x graphics for this one), the about page, and the page not found. Not much done besides some minor things. Gonna probably take a breather and return to the site in a week as I'll be a bit busy until next weekend
March 14th - made the sidebar permanent, coded it all up and updaated the stylesheet to make things a bit easier to code. Coding was hella nice today - started feeling really independent today! Gonna work on getting the current pages a little more setup. Started the graphics for the concept page (its gonna be cool) and also have a great idea for the about me page graphics too! gotta make my 83x43 button or whatever its called and share with FileTO :) Next im going to work a bit on a system for viewing the images I have well because right now its hard to see anything past a thumbnail. Ive got some huge ideas for the concept pages, but those are going to be really long and difficult to setup me thinks... theyre gonna be long trm projects anyways. Super happy with the site, probably gonna slow down a bit and focus on art/real life stuff for a bit so yaaaaaaaaaaa. But I would like to get it up to snuff enough that its presentable without any caviats, then ill have a construction tag for the concepts page.
March 13th - got a sidebar working: stylish, but not quite the most user intuitive design. I think im gonna keep the sidebar open instead of making it collapsible, then ill put the home button at the topleft, and the topbar I am thinking will be for the page specific stuff (collapsible? - not sure yet...). Struggled a bit with coding today RIP - I would really like to get the code for the sidebar in the stylesheet instead of having to change every page but its oddly annoying ughhhh. I will figure it out in time! I might low down a bit and go back to the basics as I am still pretty new to this....In the meantime I have a great idea for the concept button. Also uplaoded a ton of sketches and stuff - with many more to come in time!
Sidenote - thinking of maybe changing the website name to match the instagram page of 'glassojus'. Idk i kinda like it more. we'll seeeee
March 12th - made the sketch graphic for the intro page, might change it later but anyways. Got some of my figure drawings up under illustrations. Decided tht I would add an 'About Me' section with contacts and all that jazzzzzzz. Also think im going to put the button bar on the left hand side to make everything fit a bit better, but most importaantly because I am planning to have a the sidebar on all pages for easy navigation :) - AND then if there are page secific areas or selections to be made I can have a secondary top tab with any page specific stuff > like jumping to a section or further pages. EXCITINGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!
March 11th - made some graphics for the illustration and animation selection that Im hella proud of, also made some sweet buttons as well :) Gonna get the graphics for the sketches and concepts - as well as add a little more life to the default animation. Soemthing about the new TV static animation doesnt quite sit right so Im gonna make the loop smoother in the future too. thinking of adding a toggle switch for a set of different styles.... maybe once Ive got the first down (and the rest of the actual site built lol
March 10th 2025 - Website revamp is under way :) progress is going really well - have been working on it extensively the past few days:
recreated the main page to make it mucho interactive and generally cooler. Most of the graphics I have up are placeholders for now until I can get some proper animations and cleaner drawings up. Happy with how the illustration and animation pages are looking (although improvement still needed. I have yet to do the 'page not found', sketches and concepts section. > planning to add some more sections like a notebook for updates and whatnot - also some contact stuff etc etc bla blaaaaaa
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Website created ~ December 1st 2022