12.09.2008
Me designing a website in time lapse
This was an interesting little experiment for me. It was an idea I got from filming myself take a motorcycle apart and playing it at 3x normal speed.
I found CamStudio which very effectively recorded all my on-screen movements, and in Movie Maker (I’m a web designer, not a video guru), I stitched it to some video from my Sony Handycam. Threw in some nice music and put some titles and credits in.
Here’s the result.
kivo 14/11/2008 at 6:55 pm
what program are you using to mind map?
Bobby Marko 14/11/2008 at 7:40 pm
Nice video. What mind mapping application did you use?
Leif Miltenberger 14/11/2008 at 9:16 pm
This is great!
What’s that 1st piece of software you’re using? (for the IA)
Josiah Jost | Siah Design 14/11/2008 at 9:56 pm
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Ross Allchorn 15/11/2008 at 9:19 am
Hey everyone, thanks for the nice comments.
The mindmapping software is called Freemind - http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Brad C 15/11/2008 at 2:46 pm
This is awesome. What I really want to know is did you have to cut out a lot of parts when capturing all your movements? Like when I’m working I will do a little, check an email, do a little more, answer an IM. Do some more, check Twitter. Did you do that or were you totally focused when working on this?
Ross Allchorn 15/11/2008 at 8:03 pm
Hey Brad, yeah I normally operate like you mention. For this exercise however I did it in one bash. It was really done balls to the wall. Otherwise the file size of the video is huge!
Looking at the design (I did this a while ago and only published recently) it’s also a bit unrefined and hastily done. Embarrasing really
Regardless I still follow a similar process. Sometimes the paper doesn’t get involved, but most of the time it does.
PC 16/11/2008 at 6:18 pm
Its great to see how you work the magic. Amazing.
Max Weir 17/11/2008 at 5:24 am
Great work, is there a link to the final comp you produced?
Thanks.
Ross Allchorn 17/11/2008 at 9:23 am
Hi Max, not at present. No reason for me not to I guess. Expect an edit some time soon.
Mikko 19/11/2008 at 11:15 pm
Excellent workflow in Fireworks, i didnt notice layers-menu
Ross Allchorn 20/11/2008 at 10:17 am
Thanks Mikko. Yeah, oddly enough, in Fireworks I tend to work blind to a degree. I’ll always clean it up when passing it on to a slicer dicer, but while designing, I tend to use CTRL+UP and CTRL+DOWN to arrange layers. SHIFT+CTRL+UP brings to front, and SHIFT+CTRL+DOWN sends to the back. I can work hella faster that way.