Community Challenge #1 -I nspiration
May 15, 2013
Since this challenge is meant to inspire, I thought it would be a great idea for our first topic. I want you to find a piece of artwork, artist, album cover, game art, or anything that inspires you artistically and create a navigation menu around it. Example: If the work of MC Escher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher) inspires you, try to create a navigation menu that would match his works.
Just a few rules:
The menu must work, meaning if you click on a menu item it must present/take you to new content.
You must a have 5 total slides. 1 Menu, 4 content slides. The content slides don’t need to flow. They are just there so when you click on a menu button, you are presented with new info.
The main focus is on the navigation slide. The content slides are just extra fluff. The content slides can contain some info about the artist, the artwork, why it inspires you, or anything else that is relevant. They don’t have to be spruced up, but if you have time, go for it.
Have Fun!
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This challenge ends on the 15th of June. I will be putting up another post on the 5th of June where you can post your entries. Use this post to place pictures, sketches, questions, comments, and ideas of your WIPs (work in progress).
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I only thought about this one yesterday, I have an idea but little time, maybe
Rachel - that's beautiful!
What a lovely idea. I have 2 Klimt prints at home - a wonderful artist.
Bruce
...and just for giggles:
Dali and Picasso painting an egg.
Once you posted the links people could just add their name under each one if it was the one they wanted to vote for. Then in each subsequent post people would cut and paste the previous post and add their name below the link they wanted etc. You'd still need to keep an eye on it in case anyone cut and pasted wrongly, but it would be easier than you having to tally it all up (I think).
I have just finished up with my current employer so won't have access to Storyline anymore (sob) until I buy the software for myself. I am intending to buy it before the end of the financial year, but it will have to wait a couple more weeks 'til I accumulate the funds!
I like that, Bruce. Cute.
Hey Fiona, you could download the trial version - it will give you 30 days to play. Plenty of time to get your entry in.
I had not planned to do a meni as I was stuck for time (originally planned joint entry with Bruce but he was inspired and wnet off on his own) . Then I thought of Piet Mondian whilst driving home yesterday. By the time I walked through the door this was mapped out in my head.
Then I saw Nicoles post and thought I had better build it.
Here it is
Not much, but I like its simplicity
Rachel love your tree of life idea...
Phil - I'd say great minds think alike but it's so cliché .... veryyy nice. Simple, modern! I love the visited/black and white touch.
Phil! I love that!
I took the artist thing a different direction and am trying to bring back the whole Rush as a great band debate as they were recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after only 45 years of playing together.
Rush
Tim
Phil;
I am with Natalia. I love that.
Tim
Thanks, Just enjoying Rush, love the hover state idea.
Bruce is seeing Rush tonight sure he will love that
Wow an explosion of creativity! And all so diverse...love it!
- Rachel - fabulous painting to start with! You go girl!
- Bruce, you mad thing - love the added humor and the egg ..where did you find the time man?
- Phil, very neat and great atmospheric music.
- Nancy - I just love Banksy..bring it on!
...may have to do another one..hmmm thinking, thinking...
Thank-you for the suggestion, Nancy, but I already had the trial version when I was deciding which authoring software I would get my work to buy. (And I've actually already had it on two different computers at home, my desktop and my laptop, which I probably shouldn't admit...)
I do still have the work one for the weekend so should be able to finish, although I am a bit daunted by the standard posted already.
Love it! Simple and elegant works every time
Oh wow, this is great I am new to Articulate Storyboard and this mini project is a great way to familiarize myself with the software. Thanks for the inspirational challenge and keep them coming!
I'm ready to post mine, but it doesn't seem to be working? Do I post the published file, or the .story file? Can somebody tell me how you're posting these?
@ Gina
Some people are hosting the HTML file on their website or loading them up on a cloud based service like Dropbox and then linking the .html file.
@Fayola
Guild Wars?
Hi Gina, it looks like both Phil and Bruce published their menus and then uploaded them to their web sites. Tim used dropbox . If you don't have dropbox, you could try using aws. here is the link http://aws.amazon.com/s3/ or tempshare. here is the link to tempshare. http://tempshare.articulate.com/
note articulate only keeps your files on tempshare for 5 days.
Now if you can wait I think Jerson said he was going to set something up.
If none of this works for you then try using the paperclip icon to upload your .story file.
Awesome, thanks for all the help, everybody! Here is mine (temporarily).
Since it seemed most people went the Modern/Contemporary art route, I decided to go a different direction and make something "old-timey". This one is inspired by Thomas Jefferson's Library:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/tempshare-stage.storyline.articulate.com/stp17rbtdahu1vjs9mo1i6313t1jig1/story.html
This is really nice Gina. I'm thinking that you might want to turn off the player menu on the side so that your cool menu stands out.
I'm new to Storyline, so didn't realize you could to this! Great suggestion Nancy! Here's the revision:
http://s3.amazonaws.com/tempshare-stage.storyline.articulate.com/stp17rbv284t1jr63md14j51prs1mf1/story.html
Gina, I really like it! The narration is a nice bonus.
Yep I have a sub domain set up for sharing and just FTP the files up to a new folder.
Yup, that rocks Gina. Great job.
Here is version one of the Diego Rivera inspired menu! If I get some time this weekend, it will be updated - I am having some trouble getting some aspects to work right, and Atsumi does not like this...
Click HERE to view.
-Eric
**Updated 5/25 - This has been updated for your viewing pleasure** The file is kind of large and goes a little slow on DropBox, click HERE to download the Storyline file so that you can see how the magic works!
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