Welcome to the on-line portfolio site of London based animator & 'newly' web designer Marianne McCarney. With a professional background in traditional 2d 'pen and paper' character animation and fine art, my recent pursuit of creative challenges has been new ventures into the world of web design, the beauty of hand coded xhtml/CSS. Thank you for taking the time to visit my site, I hope you will enjoy your stay.
Designing with web standards
Compliant with current web standards set by the
the World Wide Web consortium (WC3) and modern web design principles in xhtml/CSS
coding practices, a web designers aim in design is to create an appealing, attractive
website to a clients
web design course: -design for the web
specifications and needs, with attention to accessibility & usability. The advantages of coding with CSS, is the smaller files, faster download, resulting in a user friendly website experience.
Web design projects
All college website projects displayed in the image column to your right,
are hand coded xhtml/css2. More information about the different layout styles for each website can
be viewed in my gallery/portfolio section. Projects are displayed with most recent projects at top.
It has been a fun year learning and designing for the web, - a few moments of frustration and
ie 6 tears, it's coding after all. - A a very big thank you to Prisca (see links), for her teaching skills & encouragement.
Within the concept of animation, from the very first inspirational sketches to final project, it's vital to understand the principle of classical traditional animation techniques. Animation is giving life to a character or object, implementing the rules of reality, shadow and light, making your animation believable within a universe of gravity.
Character animation
In my career as a classical trained traditional animator, I've been
fortunate to work on feature length animated productions
as well as tv productions, learning the industry from within.
It's been even more so a challenge to learn new skills in digital
format and 3d. In my gallery section you can see some of my recent work - character modeling in
maya and project stills from my final project at Tower Hamlet's college course, digital animation - year 05/06. Software used is Maya, Flash, After effects, illustrator and photoshop.
With thanks to all the tutors, - Prisca, Nick, Roger and Elroy.
