Project 2: Favorite Cartoon Character Reflection Journal

            For this project I created a website based on my favorite cartoon character, Mandy, using Fireworks. I first drew a wireframe planning out how the final product will look like. I made a few adjustments to them, like adding another process page while creating it. Looking at the wireframe, I made my project according to it. Using Fireworks I created the banners and buttons. I created the homepage button, the process button, the bio button, and the more information button. I also created the banners by using the rectangle tool and text tool. I made a Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Biography, Process, Process (Part 2), and More Information banners. I made the background of this project using PhotoShopCS6.

           For the process of the images, first I drew a picture of Mandy on a white sheet of paper. Then I scanned the image and saved it on my flash drive. I opened it up on Photoshop and used the brush tool to color it in. Since I was coloring the picture I drew in layers, I made a new layer each time and then in that layer I colored in a specific part of the drawing. I erased the white part surrounding the image so that when I imported it in Fireworks only the image would be there so it would fit well with the background. Then I added effects to the image so it would look realistic, more 3D than 2D. A few effects I used were shadow drop, inner glow, and outer glow. Since I drew 3 pictures, I did the same thing for each of them.

          Then when I had all of my images, I imported them in a Fireworks document which is 700 by 700. I have 5 pages: the homepage, the biography page, the process page, the second process page, and the more information page. Then I used the slice tool to slice the buttons and I linked them to the page according to what it was labeled. When I finished I uploaded it using Dreamweaver and submitted it on Jupiter grades.