2018 – Present:
Project:
I worked on updating Allee Willis’ original flash website while contracting for 5D Spectrum. This project was to re-create her original 90’s Flash-based website (a huge project – current). I have re-created all original flash animations into animated .gifs to preserve original artwork and to decrease load speeds as well as to be visible on mobile devices. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame in 2018, Willis is a Grammy, Emmy, Tony and Webby award-winning and nominated songwriter, performer, director, collector, social artist, and visual and multimedia artist!
To get the best resolution and keeping the file size down my process was to capture each original Flash animation using Adobe Captivate. Once I have an .mp4 of the original animation. I use Adobe After Effects to create sequenced .pngs. Then I choose the best possible .pngs that re-creates the animation in the least amount of frames which keeps the file size down. Then I load the .png stacks into Photoshop to produce the final animated .gifs. All recreated animations can be found here: Allee Willis.comMy Process:
I also provided a re-design of Allee’s Music Page using her video to stream in the background and using circles as links. Allee’s music page can be found here: Allee’s Music Page
Other sites that I recreated all Flash content for Allee Willis is her Bubbles the Artist site here: Bubbles the Artist
One of my favorite Allee sections, The Classic Lily Tomlin section ~ I was ecstatic to recreate all the original Flash content and reproduced one of Allee Willis’ first websites as well as making it mobile friendly. The Classic Lily Tomlin section can be viewed here: Classic Lily Tomlin Programs used:
Adobe Captivate
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Photoshop