Scribbit Virtual Pen 1.0by Vanessa Roa

Spring 2012Major Studio 2

BRAINSTORMING PROCESSWhen I first started brainstorming the ideas for this, I wanted to link together the walls bathroom stalls with technology somehow. Since bathroom stalls are still a way we creatively communicate with people using pictures and graphic drawings as a means to express ourselves ironically (or not), I wanted to explore how to bring that means of communication to the internet in the means of a social network.

To elaborate, there are already websites like this, that use sketch software to bring anonymous users together.

BRAINSTORMING PROCESS

BRAINSTORMING PROCESS

WEBSITE WIREFRAMES

WEBSITE WIREFRAMES

WEBSITE WIREFRAMES

WEBSITE WIREFRAMES

SCRIBBIT VIRTUAL PENNow that I've elaborated on how I imagined my social network working, How would my pen fall into this?

Utilizing some scanning software that would work over a wireless network, the pen would connect over the internet via computer and scan each stroke I make on paper. It would calculate and measure the length and thickness of the stroke and transcribe it to create one seamless image. Utilizing a broken antennae, a pen, a key hook and a bead, I created a dummy prototype.

SCRIBBIT VIRTUAL PENWhat I'm hoping to accomplish, once the pen is done loading the strokes, is to save the image it creates to the Scribbit profile. From there, other users can see your drawing and you can toggle the ability to allow them to add onto it or not. So it combines the means of communicating through technology as well as through another surface.

I've created a mock up of how I imagined the software working. While the video wouldn't be the most accurate presentation of how the pen would work, this is the end result of what I envision for Scribbit Virtual Pen, on a grander scale.

VIDEO MOCKUP

CoNCLUSION- The graphics in my video aren't what I finally image for how the graphics should be animated/move, I would possibly tweak this a little more in After Effects.

- I plan on building a protoype website. I'm hoping that come next weekend, I can explore the graphics I created in Illustrator to make the full transition to HTML.

- Not sure how I would create the pen. But I would explore my options.

THANKS FOR WATCHINGThe End

Spring 2012Major Studio 2