Posts Tagged ‘design’

A New Look

Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011

So, Kaiern.com has been re-designed. Again. And I, for one, am not surprised. I have been playing around with this idea for quite a while now, because I wanted a site that was focused more on showing off my demo reel, and not just be a strict weblog. Which is the reason that the first thing you see when you go to my site now is my demo reel. There are still a few things with this new design that needs work, and I promise that I will get around to fixing them, but right now I am bored to death with mucking about in the wordpress HTML and CSS files. It’s probably good that I am the only person that needs to look at those files, because I tend to make quite a mess. But, somehow, I manage. I hope to have the site completely finished by the end of the week, but I’m not making any promises.

But, what’s with the demo reel? As it stands now it’s rather short, and lacks any kind of music. It’s a first draft, if you will. I threw together some of the best work I had lying around, for various reasons that I don’t feel like talking about yet, because I don’t know if anything will come of it. But that’s beside the point. The demo reel will most likely be updated many times in the next few months, because I am trying my best to constantly be working on something new to add to it. So I am hoping that eventually the reel it self will look a bit more respectable that it is in it’s curren state.

So what else is there to say? Well, I really want to be better at updating this blog. And I have been playing around with a few ideas on how to do so. A blog post once a month dosen’t feel like enough, and I want to try to get more interesting content in here eventually. I’ll let you know if that ever happens.

New Blog is Finally Up

Friday, March 26th, 2010

After a long and painfull process of designing and coding my new blog I finally think I’m done. A few small tweaks might be needed here and there, but all in all it’s done. There are still some minor things I haven’t implemented yet for various reasons, but they will come eventually. Now this might not be the most original blog design ever, but I think it serves it purpouse good enough.

In addition to the new design I bough a new domain and switched to a different host. Not a huge change but I’m glad I did it Everything seems to be working perfectly.

So now that all this is done I think I’m gonna go and enjoy my weekend and realax a bit before starting my next and final class at Animation Mentor. Really looking forward to that. I was hoping we would get a week extra off before starting again, but I’ll manage somehow.

Oh, and by the way, if you’re trying to view this site using Internet Explorer, don’t. First of all you shouldn’t use IE in the first place, and I don’t really care about making this site work in your messed up browser. So either download Google Chrome or Firefox, or just use an RSS reader.

Please tell me what you think about the new design by adding a comment!

End of Class 5 and Some Other Stuff

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

So week 11 of class 5 at Animation Mentor is now over. We still have week 12 left, so we’re not technically done, but there is no work that needs to be done that week, so I consider it done. It’s been a great term thanks to our fantastic mentor Mario Pochat. Personally I didn’t do anywhere near as good of a job as I could have, and should have, and that is something I definitely have to make up for in class 6 which is right around the corner now.

So I’m really not sure if I’ll bother with uploading my final assignment to my blog as I really don’t think it turned out well at all. Actually, that putting it nicely, it looks like crap. And seeing as class 6 at AM consists of cleaning up all of the old shots that we have done, I would much more like to show it on the blog once I’ve gone through it again, and actually made it look relatively good. Because it is a really funny dialogue piece to animate to, but I just couldn’t get the preformance to work, and I just need a second look at it. Maybe I’ll upload it, maybe I won’t. I’ll think about it.

Anyway! I am also planning on re-designing my blog now in my brief time away from AM. Been thinking about it for some time now, because, frankly, I’m bored to death with the current design and I need something new to look at. In addition to that I have what you might call a mini announcement to make that I’m very excited about. But for reasons I can’t explain I don’t want to talk about it before the new design is up, hopefully some time next week.

Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going fire up Photoshop and play around a little and see what happens. And for some reason, after having watched (and re-watched) way to many episodes of The Kevin Pollak Chat Show recently, I have a strange urge to watch The Usual Suspects again. A movie I literally haven’t seen in years, so I’ll probably put that in the DVD-player later.

So, there you go. I really hope anything I wrote here made sense.

Last Time, I Promise!

Friday, August 7th, 2009

I just couldn’t help myself. You see, I had this one little Photoshop file laying around with and old design idea that I had been playing around with, so I decided to have another look at it, and it ended up with a new design for my blog. But this is the last time I’m doing a new desing. I promise! After a little while I really wasn’t happy with the old white one, but I’ve been using this one for a while with the Theme Test Drive plugin so that only I could see it, just to make sure I would get tired of looking at it.

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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes!

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Yes, I changed my design, just days after putting up my blog. I really wasn’t happy with the design I had at the beginning. Not quite sure why I didn’t like it, but now it’s gone (well, not really, I still have it, but you know). Anyways, I really didn’t have anything useful to do today, so I figured screw it, let’s see if we can make this better!

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