Something I have been working on recently is improving the composition of the videos I create. Due to the fact I work on animation and live-action videos almost equally this has presented a unique learning opportunity, and also a challenge. For animation, keeping scene composition in mind has to be maintained from the point of view of raw implementation. What...
User Experience is a topic I have covered in other blogs but I recently read the book “The Elements of User Experience” by Jesse James Garrett and found out that I was really only scratching the surface. Garrett breaks down the overall process of designing for user experience into 6 pieces that flow together. Using these 6 checkpoints can ensure...
What Is “Hummingbird”? Google has a new algorithm, the system they use to return results for queries and searches you enter into Google. This new algorithm is called “Hummingbird“, because it is “quick and precise” according to Google. The announcement was made on September 26, in the garage that Sergey and Larry rented when Google first started taking off. Not...
What Is “Hummingbird”? Google has a new algorithm, the system they use to return results for queries and searches you enter into Google. This new algorithm is called “Hummingbird“, because it is “quick and precise” according to Google. The announcement was made on September 26, in the garage that Sergey and Larry rented when Google first started taking off. Not...
At Blueprint, we are always finding ingenious ways to take care of our client’s needs, give them great service and a quality product. One of the most difficult operations we perform, and the one requiring a lot of ingenuity, is Media Conversion. Media Conversion takes many different shapes and forms. Many of our clients that need Media Conversion bring in...
Blender 3D is a fantastic tool available for everything in your 3D production pipeline. It has grown by leaps and bounds in the past couple of years, with the introduction of the cycles rendering engine taking point as arguably its most exciting development. Achieving photorealism is one of the most sought after goals of any 3D production studio. It can...
301 redirects are a search engine friendly way to redirect an old or un-used page to a new page, file or domain. 301’s are a vital part of search engine optimization because they allow you to pass page rank from an old page or domain without losing the page rank of the current url. This is very important when redirecting...
Since Google announced that page speed is a factor that will influence your website ranking, here at Blueprint we tried to pay more attention to websites optimization. Even though optimization should be done anyway sometimes somebody have to push you harder. Now, we always keep an eye how the website is performing and adjust it if something doesn’t go well....
Being a front end web developer, I use a lot of CSS to make websites look the way they do. Last week, I wrote about semantics in front end web development. Today, I will write about CSS concepts, specificity and inheritance. CSS Specificity Specificity in CSS refers to how specific a CSS selector is. The list below shows the levels...
There are many concepts in front end web development. One that seems to be thrown around everywhere is semantics. In today’s article, I will examine the semantics of front end development and what it means. So what are semantics? Personally, I think semantics is hard to define. Merriam-Webster defines semantics as “the study of meanings.” In front end web development,...
