Desk Crit #2: HueiHsien

Designer: HueiHsien Liu
Project: Epidemics and Pandemics
Project URL: http://lhh0418.myweb.uga.edu/6200project/direction.htm
Reviewer: Emily Pitts
Review date: 3/29/07

On March 29, HueiHsien and I went through a few of her animations in-progress. I talked to her about improving the quality of graphics for her animations and showed her how to make edits in Fireworks. The primary crit at the time was that her graphics were becoming very bit-mapped when she zoomed in on them. This could be fixed by downloading higher-quality images. She also was working on modifying an existing graphic to animate virus encapsulation (something like that). We talked about editing her graphics to be flat consistent colors so she could add modifications to them without having to worry about matching gradients and other special effects. We also ran through the movies a number of times to look at sequencing and transitions. Instead of zooming in on the person's stomach and cutting to the viral cell view, I suggested that she zoom in on the person's hand and then transistion to the cell view. This would make a much smoother transition both visually and mentally. Since the cell is pink, it would blend in well with the skin color. As it was, it seemed like the virus had to be transmitted to the person's stomach! We also talked about other transitions and various ways to present her content.