The IT Desk A small website with a gallery of simple tech and gaming related comics. Consisting of a Home Page, a Gallery Page, and an About page. Spring 2025 Software Used Aseprite: Used for designing the small favicon that appears in the title and tab bar of the web browser for the site. Adobe Photoshop: Used for drawing the comics themselves. Notepad++: Used to write HTML/CSS for page layout and design. Github: Used for code repository and site hosting.
A series of short form comic strips centered on the dumb situations IT Help Desk techs deal with.
Media
Four images, two of which being comic strips, one being the website banner, and the final image being the sites favicon.
Style
Overall simplistic style similar to the likes of XKCD mostly B&W with minimal use of color. With a basic landing page, and navigation links to Navigate through the comics.
Software
Notepad++ for editing the markup and CSS for the website, Github for file hosting and publishing. Aseprite and Photoshop for creation of the comics, banner, and favicon.
Updated version of the choose your own adventure site. Overall content remains mostly the same, now stylized with CSS with the idea of an older computer terminal using VT323 font. Content moved into a div to design the terminal window itself.
This animation represents my view on anger, and how it is ultimately short lived, having an event that sets it off like a fuse leading to the ultimate explosion that releases the emotion.
I used a combination of motion tweens, symbols and frame by frame animations alongside one another to compile this somewhat short representation of the emotion.
I was unable to correct the strange desync from my draft so to work around it I used the motion tween of the pencil to rewrite the word along its path. This kept the majority of my drafts work intact to complete the animation as a whole.
I chose to go with the emotion of anger, this is a draft of the opening to the animation I had in mind. Not entirely sure how it got out of sync. I thought the Pencil writing the word would be fun to animate.
So, this week was hectic. The workload across all of my classes was quite heavy. This week’s start into Adobe Animate ended up low on the priority list as I am familiar with Flash, the software that Animate evolved from. I wouldn’t boast of being any good with it, but I did play with it a lot in the past.
I decided to go with a very simple sequence. Blue rectangle falls over into the shot, inchworms its way across the canvass and tips back up. It’s not as cleanly done as I would like, but it’s almost midnight.
Portrait of a Place – Napping at the campsite. Spring 2025 Edited in Audacity
Using audacity to mix a collection of samples together to create a short scene of camping. Layering the sounds of nature with cicadas, frogs, and a crackling fire to set the ambiance. With some feedback I added a few things to bring this from more of an ambiance focused track to an actual scene of events.
I used a few minor effects, mainly sound gate to clean up some of the audio. Fading to ease in some of the sounds and adjusting volume of individual clips. As well as clipping and spacing some of the sounds to space them out along the runtime of the project.
Sources: “Fire Crackles.WAV” by ID_23 CC0 Freesound.org. March 27th, 2023 https://freesound.org/people/ID_23/sounds/680634/
“Cicada 2.aif” by le_abbaye_Noirlac CC BY 3.0 Freesound.org. September 27th, 2011 https://freesound.org/people/le_abbaye_Noirlac/sounds/129474/
“Frog Croaking.wav” by Benboncan CC BY 4.0 Freesound.org. February 13th, 2009 https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/67261/
“Lighting Matches.wave” by GM180259 CC BY 3.0 Freesound.org. November 4th, 2019 https://freesound.org/people/GM180259/sounds/491254/
“snore_okm2_t3.flac” by ermine CC CC BY NC Freesound.org. December 19th, 2006 https://freesound.org/people/ermine/sounds/27405/
“thunder1.wave” by nednednerb CC0 Freesound.org. July 31st, 2007 https://freesound.org/people/nednednerb/sounds/38244/
“Startled, Tortured, and Terrified (Man)” by ericnorcross01 CC0 Freesound.org. June 13th, 2021 https://freesound.org/people/ericnorcross81/sounds/575674/
I added and adjusted to the positions of some of the audio samples. Added some fade in/out. Generally, the same premise as before. Not entirely sure what you mean by complicate it? So now there’s a snoring man, you’re not alone… it’s complicated?
Sources: “Fire Crackles.WAV” by ID_23 CC0 Freesound.org. March 27th, 2023 https://freesound.org/people/ID_23/sounds/680634/
“Cicada 2.aif” by le_abbaye_Noirlac CC BY 3.0 Freesound.org. September 27th, 2011 https://freesound.org/people/le_abbaye_Noirlac/sounds/129474/
“Frog Croaking.wav” by Benboncan CC BY 4.0 Freesound.org. February 13th, 2009 https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/67261/
“Lighting Matches.wave” by GM180259 CC BY 3.0 Freesound.org. November 4th, 2019 https://freesound.org/people/GM180259/sounds/491254/
“snore_okm2_t3.flac” by ermine CC CC BY NC Freesound.org. December 19th, 2006 https://freesound.org/people/ermine/sounds/27405/
