: ( | ) Brief 2 - Screen: Brief 2 | Storyboard / Alternative design + evaluation

So back to the brief, I was working parallel to the mini project on the actual interactive portfolio. I went back to my initial brainstorm session and broke down what I liked about certain ideas and why.

I reflected on my sketchboards from week one. What was most appealing to me was the simplicity of the circles and the idea of the floating circles. I went back to my online research about yugop.com and analyzed the key elements of this web layout:

The simplicity of the colour choice and the interplay of the circles themselves was astonishing. This webart being very 'coding' based, my intention here was to make it as simple as possible and appealing to the viewer.

My storyboard (probably adding more and more

I reduced it to two simple colours (#333333 and #99CC00) regarding the loading time as well and vectorized images to save on space. The circles are positioned in a 3d space and layered independently.
I started creating my idea in Flash with the FlashHelp function and various actionscript books, since the coding for 3d spacing and layers is demanding: