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personal website redesign

Posted by Tropicana - November 5th, 2013


A strong website can do great things for you, my last one landed me my day job.
Ive made 3 redesigns to my website and this time this is the best most astetically pleasing one i've made

tropzilla.com

let me know what you think, I plan on expanding it at some point as you might notice some sections are wip
but the design and concept are pretty tight.

Other than employment websites dont serve a good purpose, I find at best they are ignored unless they have some great backing, or major site/celebrity endorsement

I digress, as expected I had to shelve my halloween animation, schedule is far too crazy in addition the clockcrew is deader than its been in a long ass time.

I have ambitions ; however I Want to keep my steady flow of awesome material. For now i'll spectate on you newgrounds dudes.

I have a good project in mind in the future that is actually feasibly reachable, I have a script writer and actor ready. This actor is fucking awesome. He's a martial artist who specializes in swords, in particular katanas, and japanese steel. He also does fencing and a insane variety of weapon practice.

The script writer is one of my best friends , the little he has written drastically puts my writing to shame. Consider this my announcement, you may have noticed a bird like guy in my gallery, robot guy, has a black samurai sword. Well im going to make a live action rotoscoped movie starring him and my concept art.

Ive tried a few attempts at this for animation, and to accomplish the quality I desire it has to be done with real live action actors and green screens. meaning im going to have to construct props and get equipment.

The first atempts I tried to just flat out draw it with my imagitnation, and the second time I tried I used actors without green screens, needless to say I found these methods cumbersome and time consuming.

using my new method of filming I should just have to apply effects, layer up video files, and illustrate back grounds and effects. id imagine scenes like this, my lead actor swings a blade around a green screen with a reference point, the other actor steps in and preforms his actions and acts like hes being cut down. I can layer up the frames to look like my main actor is cleaving through the baddie actor.

I can simply filter this footage with layer effects in after effects, or sony vegas to get the live action film footage to look animated, and considering their in costume I wont have to deal with pesky frame by frame animation.

so thats whats up with me, I have some ambitious ideas but lack capitol and time.
2014 is going to be fucking rad.

I can do this fairly low budget and still get a solid animation


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Pretty nice dude! When did you actually launch the site?

Thanks! I launched tropzilla.com in the summer and before that I had a free hosting.
speaking of nice you got some great art on your newgrounds profile.

I can think of plenty of other purposes for a website than employment, like eh... like hmm... like they're fun to make. :P Anyway, it's a nice site design! Graphically I have no complaints, but you could improve functionality a bit. Maybe get rid of the white background image and just use a div with white fill to cut down loading time, and compress layout images? That logo for example really doesn't need to go above 100KB. Would also be cool with the entire site built on the WP framework so the blog doesn't differ from the other design, would also make it easier to update content... but that's a minor thing. Looking forward to 2014!

Great critique ! just the advice I needed.

I can change all the graphics to jpgs, that should load the site a little quicker without too much quality loss.

Id like to implement wordpress for the entire site; however im too in love with my page design to try and to code it from the back end to make it look like the main page.

soon im gonna code the wordpress blog to match the style of the main page and if it works great, Ill see about using wordpress for the entire thing.

Damn thanks guys, I feel special when people comment and check out my shit.

Yeah, that'd do the trick. Or if you really need the transparency there's usually an 'export for web' option that really brings down filesize. Good plan, a TwentyTwelve child theme for that'll be just perfect!

Btw, it's possible to embed custom fonts instead of using images, via CSS, might be worth looking up if you add a lot of headers! Same could be applied for a menu completely in CSS, which would make it easy to use the same for both site/WP and manage menu items through admin panel. Only thing that really differs otherwise is width and padding. :)

Too few people post about site design nowadays, stuff like this is fun to find. :)