Subway Commercial Inspiration

Doug you're rocking these designs! The layered approach really works AND great job with the gradients.

I haven't done many farm-based training (FBT), but I did use a similar design in a tutorial a while back: https://player.vimeo.com/video/149188827

Oh, that's right!  I loved that one!

Thanks David.  I like the new acronym FBT.

Doug

Thanks for sharing! I am working a on secret project that includes this kind of layering design. I really think that it is fun and quirky.

Love it !

Thanks!

Here is a link to another design I shared the other day in case it was burried in the shuffle:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/853904/DirtyJobs/player.html

Doug

Doug, that is such a cool design! You really did a great job of taking the Subway inspiration and making it work in PowerPoint and Articulate. I bet the community (myself included) would love a quick Screenr post explaining how you did it!

I'm curious... did you use clip art for the graphics, or are those some you made yourself/had made? Also, how long did it take you to create this screen? I commented earlier today on another user's post about estimating design and development time, and I think this screen is a great example of one that probably wouldn't fit into a development time equation (like they every really do!). I bet it took a while to figure out how to put everything together to get the right effect, but then again you might be able to give us tips on how to save time when creating a cool screen like this one!

Thanks Sarah!

I'm sorry it has taken me so long to respond.  I was gone for a week to DC with my daughter on her 8th grade class trip.

I made about 50% of it in PowerPoint by drawing shapes (clouds, hills, sun, sun rays).  The rest were images I used from an online stockphoto library and then did a little work in Photoshop.  You are correct in that it took me a while to get the shadows and movement just right.  Sometimes, if I'm working with an image I like I can enlarge the image and then begin drawing and adding images right on top of it (sort of like onion skinning)...but this was a video clip and I had to keep playing the video over and over, etc. in order to get all of the elements working similarly to how they were in the video.  I didn't keep close tabs on how long it took me from start to finish, but I think it probably took around 8hrs.  Some of that time was spent doing a little trouble shooting because something in PPT went haywire for a while...but I got it back again.