main page - finished site

I've finished the main page which links to all the digital art works i've made to represent identity. I was inspired by a flash site which was of this point of view on a wooden table. moving the mouse would scroll around the table to various images that you could click on to enlarge. I've used a similar layout, albeit not with flash since I don't have those skills so I made it with photoshop images sliced up. Each picture on the desk is of a friend of mine. My site basically examines their identities as i try to represent them artistically. There's the fun and crazy friend, the downer, the wise and helpful one and the one thats just a bit too difficult to understand. I thort it would be easier to use real life people rather than imaginary characters because i knew more about them and thus more to work with. In terms of narrative style I am the character and the narrative vehicle as you can tell from the first page which zooms into my eye and shows the colours it's seeing as well as some black and white flickering ones showing confusion or the perception of some sadness and unsettled nature in what i'm viewing. The top view of the desk is my point of view and the images are how i perceived these peoples identities and the components the make up their identities.

home page

This is my home page, it has clear links to some of my previously displayed inspirational images. It shows what I think identity is made up of... lots of parts. their difference is shown by contrast. Overly happy and joyous on the right, transitioning to through calmer blue to a mixed confused panel and onto a dark grungy on with flat pale faces obscured by grungy black (which is actually an image of matted wet hair) This page represents what i think my identity is made of as I experience all these moods and states. This page is a timed animation that re-loads the next next page when complete. to return home and view this image once again 'home' can be clicked on the parchment in the bottom left of the next page.

visual divisions

Visual divisions, I made that term up but I thought it was a suitably cool description for something I think is very cool to look at. I think the style of this picture would go very well with my concept of people having multiple identities as you can split the subject of the image up in to several sections each with their own unique look. the combination of these mixed colours, lines and opacities really shows that people are complex and layered out of many different... identities.

site plan

so this is the final plan of my site. The top most image is the home page. It's not too clear from the plan but it's an image of a face split into 2 with differing visual styles according to whats on either side of the pictre. I may split it into four different sections that transition from one side to the other as at one end i plan to have over the top colours with joyous neat vector illustrations made in illustrator. And on the opposite side I'm going for a grungy look much like the dark imagery I've posted on the blog. These are the most extremes of our identities and extremes that everyone has. The transitions strips show the middle ground that we mostly find our selves in. This page will be a timed animation (using javascript i found on the net) and after 10 seconds or so will zoom into the persons eye at which point an animation of a B/W eye comes up which cycles through different colours of the retina before ending in an eerie flickering manner. This is too suggest that some one is witnessing the various identities that we all have.

On the next page, we become the owner of the eye as they look down at a desk scattered with photographs. From here users have control over the site and can view each image which will represent the multifaceted nature people identities. I haven't yet decided if i will use the one character only or Have photographs that each show a different person and their changing identity. From this page there is also a home button to view the home page again.

Theses are the other examples I've found that interested me. Not exactly any contrast here, but very dark and clourless. I want to represent a side of a characters identity that doesn't have any joy and i think this style would be great for that. The Body without the head is a good example of this, showing a disconnection from the world and entrapment of the mind, as the head is spinning round in the washer

So in terms of contrasting identities I was thinking of using contrast as my main tool of representation. This image is my inspiration of this choice, where not only the colours contrast but also the visual style. There is only a slight colour contrast here but the added grain and lines as well as deep contrast within the darker side of the image, all add to the overall effect. I'm thinking of using black and white and contrasting it with vibrant colours while maybe throwing in some grungy darkness as in this image and some others that i've found. It's an interesting visual style and will be especially in contrast to some vibrant colour.

A combination of both

I should probably get off the text and image idea already, and i was trying to, but i came across this. It's creating text with text but also a combination using text to create a picture and creating a picture using text. I can't really dream of recreating anything like this tho without getting allot better at using Maya and UV mapping. A shame...