Finished Product

My finished work can be found here:

http://webspace.ocad.ca/~yk11gn/

Please look at this. :)

final google doodle

http://webspace.ocad.ca/~dw11ko/

Click on the flag to replay :)

-Dawnice

The link to my web space; the video is added from the image simply because the video would not upload onto the space.  Pity. 

http://webspace.ocad.ca/~jv11se/

- Joelle

Dawnice

webspace.ocad.ca/~dw11ko

Lauren's Google Doodle

Lauren's Ball Point Pen Day!

This project really challenged my computer skills which are quite sub par, but that's what makes me so happy to have taken the project this far.

My only regret is not being able to add my music, which would have been the intro to "Travlin' All Alone" (just the intro) by Billie Holiday. This was my initial intention and I feel it works well even with the "old'timey" feel I had to adopt due to my video uncontrollably bouncing around.

This was a good, but sometimes painful, learning experience for sure :)

-Lauren

My Process for the Google Doodle.

 I scanned my image using the scanner that I have at home. I then put that file into Illustrator to vector it and create my 4 scenes. 

This is the vector that I got from live trace. I will create a layer underneath and create "color shapes".

I colored the image using the blob tool so that I can then replace colors using panels as the colored areas turn into shapes that are easier to edit.

After hours of coloring I finally created the first frame of my animation. I played around with the colors and I think this coloring is really good. It is dark, but it is not muddy or dirty. The colors here also have a very nice contrast that makes the eyes and the open door glow.

The four frames now complete. I am satisfied with the way that they look and I just need to put it into flash to create a sort of movie. Then I just need to create the web page.

E3

http://webspace.ocad.ca/~db11lm/

I decided to do my google doodle on the gaming event E3.

The Electronic Entertainment Expo, commonly known as E3, is an annual trade fare for the  computer and video games industry presented by the Entertainment software association (ESA). It is used by many video game developers to show off their upcoming games and game-related hardware. 

PD-googl doodle.mov

This is my final Pillsbury Dough Boy Google Doodle.

I had a lot of fun making this. Originally it was going to be a stop-motion animation video, but I changed it to a flash video. I did work with both flash and stop-motion animation before, but I still had to go back and review how to do it because I forgot most of it. I actually took a lot more photos than I used and needed, which is alright. This version uploaded on the blog is not as good as my final copy on my computer and I don't know why. But I had to get it up, I'll play the on my computer for others to see during class.

I fixed it! this is the ultra good copy http://webspace.ocad.ca/%7Emt11hj/ (thanks Polina)

Google Doodle - Final

http://webspace.ocad.ca/~hn11nj/gdes1b09/

My Google doodle is by no means near perfection, nor is it animated like I had intended it to be, but with time constraints on my part this is the best I can do. In any case, it would appear that you have to zoom in to see things properly, otherwise the image slices make the entire thing look odd. Most of it has been image mapped so it'll take you to a new link. All of my process work can be found by clicking on Google.

So here's the final! Not quite done to perfection... in my mind at least.  Didn't end up doing anything remotely spectacular with it, music or animation wise, but I did add a few things.  The party hats, first of all, but I also lengthened the canvas as to allow for the tail of Jabba to be seen, and not cut off :) Here's my webspace -http://webspace.ocad.ca/~nr11gf/googledoodle.html

Ok so I shall upload my recent process work.

I demonstrated the first part of what I was doing in class, it was where I

was showing you guys the ink and water. I took screen shots of the video I am

working on and that is taking me ages.

I put it on the ground in the learning zone and put the camera above it and started working.

I added water first.

I tried using 3 different materials. Normal paper didn't work for sure because it obsorbed the water really quick.

The second one was a Bristol board, and it was too watery so that did not work as well.

Lastlty, I tried the same board I used in class when I was showing you guys.

I tried adding colours to each and different watery colour but that did not end up doing much and it ended up being a chaos.

As I mentioned when in class, it shall be google day about Art!

So my plan is to put the video backwards.

I ended up ruining the piece with my hands and adding different google colours and splash it on the word.

Here are some Screen-shots:

Wilfred's Google Doodle Final

http://webspace.ocad.ca/~wc11kh/

heres the link! now for the description!!
this is the google doodle for Japan's girls day celebration. I have chose to use the cherry blossom flowers with a girl in the kimono to represent this. This is because this day is usually happen when the cherry blossom blooms and the girls will dress in kimono for this celebration. As a improvement from my roughs, i have made the girl smaller, now just showing the head and making the hair L shaped so it is easier to define as the letter L. enjoy
info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinamatsuri

Angry Google

WOOOO OOOOOOOOO OO O O O

no more spams of useless process work!

i am finished :)

Okay okay sooo

here's whutchew do

you click ...play

and then u watch :O

and then u roll over the toucan and yellow guy because it's fun (non abusable)

roll over the red dude

click him when ur ready :) -and finished playing with the suuuuper cute toucan

laugh at the slow motion birdy farting to propel himself further

wtach the rest yaaa

hover over the red birdy -ABUSABLEEEEE SO FUN. and annoying

click him (hold to c him get squashed) to restart the vid thing

-google works

-wiki works

-view in full screen opens a new tab...so close the other one if you're not interested in the google functions

im done :)

http://webspace.ocad.ca/~nl11th/

There really is supposed to be a picture on my webspace, heres some photographic evidence.

For all of you cat lovers out there

For FINAL click here

I'm sooo happy to be done. :-) This project took the longest time to finish but YAY I got to practice Flash and now I can draw a cat in my sleep. :-)

Here is the last of process

Fini

Pour Liberté, égalité, et fraternité

This project gave me the opportunity to learn things, that to someone like me, I believed to be beyond my abilities; and while they still largely are, I've still learned something the I can be proud of knowing. As I stated in my last post, my chosen day is La Fête Nationale in France, what is known in English speaking countries as Bastille Day. The day officially marks the day when the commoners of France stormed the Bastille, a prison in which the nobility detained those of unfavourable political opinion. The French Revolution is one of, if not the most, important event in western history, but I love it as a subject the way I do mostly because of how the people of France totally forgot what the word overkill meant. This project also let me mess with what had always felt untouchable; the Google homepage. It felt like I was reworking the bible.

If my link that I attempted to make on the page doesn't work, and you want to get a better sense on the holiday; Wikipedia knows way more about it than me.

done.....

...the actual doodle.
SO I TOOK THE ADVICE on making the type more nicer looking. So..I made the words have the equalizer beat instead.
So the anniversary / doodle that it is : celebrating Electronic Music Day. Yes. The discovery of electronic music.

YAY the music goes with the equalizer.

finally :')

this has been one of those projects where I loved doing the planning/rough work but dreaded having to do the actual final product. well here I am, after struggling with flash/deamweaver for the afternoon I have actually managed to come up with something that sort of resembles a google doodle. having very limited previous experiences in flash and dreamweaver I was terrified to do this but I managed to finish with the animation and the link :)

(you have to zoom out to see all of it...don't know how that happened, ps: the link is the google search button)

so here it is: 88th anniversary of the royal winter fair

Alex B

Vintage Film Day Google Doodle

Super link!!!

Okay, so the link isn't all that super. For some reason the Flash file will not show up within the webspace page although it recognizes that there is something there if you bring the mouse over to the blank area where it should be. I've fought for hours with Dreamweaver, Fetch and even the animation itself to no avail. It shows up and runs perfectly within the Dreamweaver file and I am highly irritated with this. Clearly I must be missing something within the ungodly amount of coding which I cannot decipher. I suppose it can be viewed in class from my computer? For a first shot at Flash and Dreamweaver I think it's okay... I tried and stuff.

-Tim-

Coded... in Morse!

Morse Code Google Anniversary

Here is my final post! finally after a couple of stressful hours trying to actually get my google up on the site. I made a few small but important changes that ended up making my project that much better, including the white background that kept the consistency between the animation and background, as well as changing the colours of each letter phrase to make it more convincing. The added button animation is a nice touch and maybe took me a little longer than expected to figure out with all the coding XD but it all works out! so "HEAR" you go!... haha

http://webspace.ocad.ca/~pb11sk/

(the URL to post if the link fails)

DONE

The Walking Dead

These are some links related to the show:
- discussion on hb
- wiki tv and comic

final post for burton

ok... so i did a bunch of small changes since my previous post that annoyed me:

• making the guy at the "G" blink faster
• longer gaps between each movement (so its not too busy)
  
• its looped forever (so people don't go "i blinked..wtf just happened?")

:)
here is the link to my webspace: Google celebrates Burton

Final Post for Project 3!

Here is my Final Christmas Google Doodle!

- trish

In case the link above doesn't work: [ http://webspace.ocad.ca/~tp11rh/ ]

Earth Day!

Final Post

As one of my preliminary sketches; this concept worked out quite well and I am pleased with the result. I was just sketching away for my rough work and this was just one of those ideas that just hits you in the face, and you say 'Genius!’ . Also when the class thought the idea was also strong it convinced me that this idea was the one. Working through it I had problems here and there with the coding and tweening, but I compromised in places and worked through. Basically within the doodle it is a smoggy, dirty world, which then transformed into a beautiful nature scene. The fun thing is that the smokestack turns into the trunk of the tree, showing that everything is connected. In a whole this piece shows that it is not too late keep the earth clean and anyone can make a difference. The interactive portion of the animation comes in when you mouse over the leaves they will rustle in the wind and if you click on them they will fall, to make them grow again just mouse over the fallen leaf. From the last time everyone has seen it I added another type of leaf and fixed the falling animations. Also, I took out the smaller smokestack and faded the background to white. In the end I like how it came out and am pleased with my first stab at interactivity, I find myself just sitting in my room clicking the leafs when I was testing it. Haha

So here is the link to my DOODLE

-Alex G

tired

http://swfup.com/view/bawm

manually applying physics... :'(

soooooooooo

i made a birthday cake

so it's like....anniversary.

im stingy for marks :)

http://swfup.com/view/zyr5

i made the structure somewhat look like google...

good? no? okay i'll change it...

Google Doodle Puzzle

I hope this video is decent quality.  Please, please let me know what you think.  

 

- Joelle 

so far

what it is so far..
might / might not stick to it...we'll see

angry process grrrr

http://swfup.com/view/kqkw

angrygame

http://swfup.com/view/ge3u

play play play!

unfinished

So I changed the "g"s hat into an almost-grey blue to stand out from the floor and blend in with the colour scheme. The eyes of the first "o" have red gradients on to separate from the white body. And there's more things going on :D More blinking eyes, the other "o" slightly rolling and the "e" goes lalala with its tongues.

The image links to Tim Burton's official site which I used as reference for the characters, drawing style and background. Hope you guys like it! ^^

CHECKITOUT

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1322233727

almost final

The walking dead google doodle, forgot eyelashes on a frame

Wilfred's google doodle

i have used pink cherry blossoms to do the animation and i have CG rendered the google doodle itself.

Bastille Day near finish

For my final idea, I essentially settled on an idea I actually haven't showed yet. The event my doodle is based on is July 14th, Bastille Day in France. Bastille Day is the equivalent of the Canadian holiday of Canada Day, or the American Independence Day, in which it celebrates the birth of the nation. The subject matter of my picture is based on a Eugene Delacroix's "Liberty leading the people", with the letters of the word substituting the main figures of the painting. At this point, I have work yet to do on the background, in which I have placed a faded crowd of rowdy people toting guns and swords, but it has faded through both the scan process and because the colours used should be a darker shade. Also the final E is in dire need of correction, as i attempted to clothe it but it however appears to be wielding an axe or something that I definitely did not intend it to look like.

Almost Done

So for the last little while i have been animating the features in my google doodle and i have also been doing some coding so i opted for a simpler design to balance my time between the two. Most of the animations are done now but i will probably go back and refine them next week because they are a little choppy. Also i will work out some interactivity glitches like floating leaves. So, all in all, i think it is looking pretty decent and for the interactive part: if you run you mouse over the leaves they will blow in the wind and if you click on it, it will fall to the ground, then mouse over it to make it grow again. By next week i will have the animations polished and the trees and leaves moving smoother.

Check it out at my web space: http://webspace.ocad.ca/~ag11kd/

-Alex G

So sorry I couldn't come close to finishing up this piece. I've drawn in the four musician guys at least.  I will probably just end up doing an illustration because of time restraints.

First Test

For BallPoint pen day this was a short test I did where I took a bunch of photos which will ultimately be the animation. If I flip through them in my camera they look pretty nice for a test but this computerized element is totally killing me I'm not gonna lie.

Here are some of the photos beginning with the shadow outline of google and then my hand drawing the letter G.

-Lauren

Not done but sooooo close

I don't think I can look at cats anymore. Drawing the same cat over 17 times got kindda repetitive and boring. Now I have to color all of them in and then I'm going to be done!!!! YAY! I'm thinking of coloring the cat in with gray stripes because it would look nice with the color of the yarn ball.

This is the beginning of my animation before the cat runs in

process

still a work in progress. but it actually moves now so..I am pretty happy :)

now I just have to change it so the google letters are all there and the horse jumps over them all in a row instead. Should be easy enough to change and I am tired so I'm just going to leave that until tomorrow. overall, happy with my progress seeing as I managed to forget everything I knew about flash once upon a time.

Alex B

Process..

So I have officially chosen the equilzer music bass for my googledoodle.

I will first start off as just the plain equilzer, then the words google will comes up.

It's only if you HOVER over the image, will the image start to move and the equilzer will start to move.

The green "beat" will start to rise up and down, likewise to the the music equalizer when music plays. 
I'm not that good with technical animation stuff, but I would have loved it if the image beat would go to ANY music your computer plays. That would be cool.
Bu anyways that is my final google doodle idea, and now the stop motion will be in process.

The whole point of the music equalizer is to show what's behind the making of music and how much high technology can create different music. I just wanted to create a google doodle that played with the idea of music, so why not incoprate it into the doodle itself? Music is universal and it never sleeps. The music bars that keep moving will show the constant sound that music makes and how music is so alive. 

Vanessas Google Doodle

google doodle by vanessamichiels, made at DoInk.com

so this is one of the peices i have going on so far, at the end i have a few ideas of how it will finish and how i will clean it up a bit. still, going with my birthday theme for googles thirteenth birthday anniversairy this year i played around with some drawings of cakes and things like that. I still may develop some of the drawings and do a linked page depending if it turns out more effective than this one and cleaner. i am stil thinking of putting the letters google onto the balloons but i am not sure if the colours are iconic enough that i could just place them in at the end or not at all.

Week 3! Christmas Google Doodle

Hey,

Needless to say when I'm excited about a project I devote a lot of time to it! I'm not sure what else to say except how happy I am about my animation turning out the way I saw it in my head. It was hard to stop working on it once I got it finally going. Therefore, below is a screen cap of how my page will look. Because my animation is about 18 seconds long, please wait a a few seconds before pressing play in order to keep things smooth.

As well, this is important:

Put the volume (marked in RED) to the maximum.

Here is the link to my Christmas Google Doodle animation:

http://webspace.ocad.ca/~tp11rh/

move burton move!

Unfortunately, I think I overdid the details on the illustration that my expected animation is just impossible.

So far, colour is done on the illustration (and yes I added a background). The floor and wall is copied from Tim Burton's official site.
I also wanted the "g" to interact the search box. I thought that could somehow make up for being static.
The only animation I could think of would be moving facial features. Like blinking eyes, opening/closing mouths, etc. So I tried that in gif.

I'm still learning how to animate this (freakishly sophisticated!!) image with flash. Or should I just stop with the animation and stay with static illustration?

Week 3 process work

This week I continued to work on my stop motion animation. I finally have all the right pictures that I need. Here are a few other picture I could get up on the blogger. I started on my flash work. Also I have an ongoing website update and layout changes.

Morse Code

http://webspace.ocad.ca/~pb11sk/

Heres my concept for my Google morse code. Its celebrating the first telegraph sent on May 24th, 1844 by Samuel Morse. His first message sent was "What hath God wroght"? sent from Washington to Baltimore. Its pretty much complete, the only thing that I would like to see happen is a button to start and finish the whole stop motion so it doesnt become repetitive so quickly...

and we'll call it Puzzles...

Week Three calls for "Revisions"...

     And yes, I have pretty much completely changed topics and ideas. I will be doing Puzzle Day instead; using simple puzzle pieces and the original Google logo.

I will be making a stop-motion clip with the puzzle being assembled.

- Joelle

processagain

angrybirdsareangry

I SEE CATS

So there is the video I used to draw my frames

And here are the drawing. I wish I could have put it together so you guys can actually see it

walk.

Still in a rough form

Probably should have drawn it a little bigger for more detail, thinking about possible animation in the eyes

Week 2

So for week 2 I have vectored most of my images required for my stop motion. I am missing just the structures itself as well as the background and other doodads. I have also finalized my thoughts for the ending which will help me towards the creation of my stop motion.

There will be a title screen with a 'play' button, made exactly like the app, which will start the video. The first scene shows the structure and pigs and will pan to the left to show the birds. It will then zoom in slightly and the first bird, red, will go onto the slingshot. It will pull back and fire the bird. 1-2 seconds into firing, it will zoom into the bird and he will look at you. Then it will zoom back out as it hits the structure. Everything breaks, and dust clouds will form everywhere. There will then be enough dust to cover the entire structure and as it disperses into the air, the word 'Google' appears. It will stand on the Angry Birds background, and the red angry birds will be where the red 'o' is.

Week 2

Rather than do two versions of this image I have decided to invest all my time into one good one. I have gone through a lot redrawing on this one page and I feel it is my strongest idea so far. 

A. This banner features a stylized G which resonates with the folksy and "woody" village feel of the Hobbit town. A Hobbit dwelling, Bilbo's house, takes up the O space. Gandalf watches the door from a distance, either waiting or approaching, a pipe in his mouth. A G and L are stylized in a wooden/country way to resonate with the village in the book. A sleeping dragon adds interest to the image and an aesthetically pleasing pattern that arises in the smoke that comes from his nose. I decided not to color this picture because it will interfere with scanning, tracing and referencing (encase I change my mind about the color). Earth toned colors are a second choice, will first see how the image looks in illustrator with the Google colors shown under the picture in the square. Will use very washed out colors to show off line work.

B. The door pictured here will appear over the other door image at 5s, giving the illusion of door opening with Bilbo's silhouette at the entrance.

C. Two seconds later the eye here will overlap the closed eye on the dragon showing that the opening of the door has awoken him.

Week 1

I am posting week one here, because I had not had the chance to share my ideas last week. The descriptions of the ideas and other important information is written below the images and correlates with the letter described. 

This first image is my beginning process work. Step 1: I measured the Google logo on my screen to get an idea of the ratio between height and width. I also looked at other Google doodles. Step 2: I made a list of themes I want to do, or find interesting. Step 3.5: I drew these themes out on a piece of paper and I decided which one I wanted. I chose to do mine on "Lord of the Rings" and then "The Hobbit."

A. Salvador Dali's Birthday: A portrait of Salvador Dali takes the position of the O's. Other letters are either supported by "Dali crotches" or carry melting clocks.

B. Halloween theme: Two Pumpkins look at each other in the place of the O's. Bats hang from the G, the L is a hanging platform and the E is a monster. Potential for animation: The lights in the pumpkin's eyes flickers on in off.

C. Rocky Horror Picture Shoe Anniversary: The classic lips take the place of the O's, the rest of the letters are rendered with lipstick which is illustrated beside the E. 

D. Lord of the Rings Anniversary: Gandalf walks towards the Baggin's home which takes the place of the O's.

E. Treasure Island Anniversary: Skull with map in background takes place of O's. Pirate ship takes place of L.

F. Edward Scissorhands Anniversary: Eduard Scissorhands stands in L space, trimmed hedges take space of Os. Spiders on the other letters, girl wrapped around the G. Potential for animation: Hedges turn from squares to dog and cat kissing. 

G. Mario Anniversary: Mario takes place of Os. Letters rendered in Mario font. Potential for animation: the letters change color.

H. John Lennon: Eyes take place of Os. Peace symbolism in other objects. Potential for animation: The eyes blink and flower rotates.

Google Doodle ~ Process work

For whatever reason, my images decided to upload in a reverse order, so the numbers do not correspond with what idea I like best, but simply what order I made them in. In any case, my original idea last week was to make a Google doodle for the First Day of Summer, however I decided to do more sketches of different events to give myself more choice. In the end, I decided to make my Google doodle centered around constellations. I intend on doing an animation for mine, although it will be fairly simple animations.

Idea #5
In place of the Os in Google, I decided to place a constellation there. The idea for this one is to have the constellations transition from one to the other so that the Google doodle doesn't focus on just one constellation, but many. I also intend on making it twinkle, simulating a night sky.

Idea #4
Again, in place of the Os, I decided to put an illustration there instead. What I had in mind for this one is to make a Google doodle featuring a different constellation per day, making it a mini series of Google doodles. It won't be a static image though so there will be some animation involved.

Idea #3

Continuing with the idea of replacing the Os, this time I have the iconic representation of an astrological sign; in this case, Cancer because it's my own astrological sign, haha. I'm not too keen on this particular idea as I'm not entirely sure what I could do with it in terms of animation or even making it more interesting.

Idea #2
Similar to idea #5 with the twinkling stars, but this time I used different constellations in place of every letter that forms Google. Again, simple animation featuring a night sky.

Idea #1
This is my first idea, which was to have the standard typeface used for Google, but also make it a constellation as well. Again, night sky featuring a simple animation with twinkling stars.

Wilfred's google doodle refined rough

i have decided that my favourite design is the Japanese Girl's Day Celebration Design for Google doodles. I have chosen the colors for the doodle, and i think if i do a animation, i will make the cherry blossoms fly and flowing in the background.

So I have decided to illustrate the 35th anniversary of the making of Star Wars--or the release of the "first" movie ( A New Hope ) , for my Google doodle.  I have not produced to revisions because I think this version will better represent the 35th anniversary.  I will have Jabba the Hut, that orange green  guy we all know and love, blink his eyes, and when they open, one at a time, they will have a three and a five in them, respectively. My other idea was to have r2d2 and c3po stand in as the letters o and l, yet I could not think of a way to incorporate the 35 into that concept.  Although the robot one was well liked, I feel this choice is more original and less stilted in appearance... I am undecided as to whether I should continue in digital media, or traditional.  I am also at a loss as to how to animate the eyes. Any suggestions would be very welcome! Should I digitally render each frame of him blinking on photoshop, and then put them all together in movie maker or something?