Portfolio on a CD

[bilish]

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Get me out of here....
I am applying as a trainee in a 3d graphics House, which require some basic skill in Graphics Design, which i guess i have.
I have to send a CD of my work alongwith a resume, so What's the best way to put all my work on a CD? ...i have only 2 days... C:-) :hair:

I mean, what method i should adopt to place all my work on a CD...?

Thanks in Advance

[billystar]

the best way is to do a flash photo gallery and publish it as an executable...

the other way would be to use the automate> web gallery option in photoshop and copy it to a cd

the easiest way is to copy your images to a cd

[mlk]

Depends man, if the company you want to be working in is very neat, corporate-like, do something very straightforward (maybe just putting your images in neat, orderly folders), if it's artsy, try to do a fully working flash/director projector and blow them to shreds with the presentation itself...

[pixelisfun]

if you have only 2 days, maybe you should try to work on a neat interface, and load your images into flash via xml... then as somebody suggested, make a projector and burn.

btw, good luck!

[bilish]

Love this place...Thanks for the help.....

[gpdesigner]

Flash is good but use Director, that's what it was made for..
I did a cd-rom resume' a few years back, I used Director because of the authoring features it has. Flash is good but Director was first..
gp

[3rdeye]

:puzzle: :puzzle: :puzzle:
Get me out of here....
I am applying as a trainee in a 3d graphics House, which require some basic skill in Graphics Design, which i guess i have.
I have to send a CD of my work alongwith a resume, so What's the best way to put all my work on a CD? ...i have only 2 days... C:-) :hair:

I mean, what method i should adopt to place all my work on a CD...?

Thanks in Advance

do you have to use flash? I'd say the quickest, most stable, cross platform delivery is a simple HTML site with CSS and a repackaged PS photo gallery (as mentioned before) with only two days this is probably the most expedient means of conveying your art/design in a easy to use, understandable format, plus you know it will work on any machine :)

[dreeft]

Be careful using flash. Make sure you include the flash installer, and perhaps a non flash version as well.

Assume the person it's for has a crappy computer with hardly any software/plugins.

I agree with 3rdeye.

[lunatic]

If you publish your flash file as an executable you don't need to make sure of anything - that's what an executable does, it contains a flash player. Also you can create an autorun file. It's super super easy - do a search for exe or executable or autorun and you'll find it in the forums - and looks nice when your gallery launches by itself as soon as you put the cd in.

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[3rdeye]

If you publish your flash file as an executable you don't need to make sure of anything - that's what an executable does, it contains a flash player. Also you can create an autorun file. It's super super easy - do a search for exe or executable or autorun and you'll find it in the forums - and looks nice when your gallery launches by itself as soon as you put the cd in.

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"super easy" isn't how I would describe it... there are a ton of little things (especially cross platform) that need to be addressed when throwing a projector file on a CD... 8.3 naming standard on all files, correct paths, frame rates etc. If it's a single file then maybe... but something to hold a dozen or more high resolution Images of previous work? maybe a couple flash intros?... I dunno I've done both before and I still would go HTML; for now...

[lunatic]

How is it different than putting it on the web? If your swf works online then it works on a cd. All you have to do is include the fscommand and create a 3 line autorun.inf file. Not too hard, though you are right - I think its only an exe on a PC right? Different for a Mac?

Just saying that if you can create it in flash then you can publish as an exe and put it on a CD and you don't have to worry about flash players or plug ins or software or internet connection speed - it'll run.

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[zacus]

you could call them and ask what pc's they are using.

that might make it easier to know what to make ur presentation with