Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Had totally forgot this blog...

Sorry blog!

OK so the Project will be due on the 2nd of November at around 4-5pm

And to recap what I've been doing and the progress:

Recently I planned out my pages, it's going to be around 43 pages. With a game overview and details about the drawings. Like captions.

The binding will be hand crafted. (to save cost and time) because it's the time where all the graphic people start panicking and get their stuff printed so it's pretty much all booked out. and not to mention takes 5 working days to get a leather bind. and 2 working days for a perfect bind.

But the perfect binding is too modern. And i wanted a more old or rather weathered look. SO now I went paper stock shopping and came across a couple of book making tutorials on instructable.com and figured it doesn't look too hard. So i'm going to try out the hand sewing bind. I bought parchment paper for the inside, and a cardboard type paper for the outside.

So now it's just finishing up colouring and get it printed. And then bind it.

That's a good thing right? I'm almost finished. =D

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Moving.
Hectic. =_=

Thursday, June 4, 2009

random blog assessment ._. freaks out.

ehehehehehehe

wonders if i have enough stuff . . . . . . here... i mean enough content? ......guh

heres another entry focused too much on my lack of self confidence. this sucks =[


Thursday, May 28, 2009

water test?

so i had problems with my water looking like water and movement. And the animations of water and text.
But then created something in flash and yep now im wondering if it'll work properly within AE if i import it...
or should i just do the letter animations within flash.
And theres still the need to sort out the text. Might keep with lorem ipsum for now. Until mine gets chosen? or is that not allowed =_= ....................


Sunday, May 17, 2009

Tangent

Had more thoughts about project 3 and these are just some thought processes that i've gone through. AND pretty much finalized on. Just need MMDA class for feedback.

Thought about the layout of the space. We really have a square block and a rectangular block. I'd like to split it into two spaces, with difference in layout. No continuous flow. But common theme.

Thought about what multimedia and digital arts is really about. Multimedia is
media and content that uses a combination of different content forms.
Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms. So sticking to that, most of us will have a range of different kinds of media. To suit that i came up with something more minimal and clean (in layout anyway). The rectangular shaped space, will have storage box type feel. Where everything is catalogued (a way of labelling the title of the work and the artist). with stick on labels. Thinking that with it we can just paint the boxes white. Or a flat colour.
With the square space. if we have alot of projected work i think creating a 'space' within the space. Where people can sit/lounge (like a cinematic experience but more relaxed) so the atmosphere is more relaxing but still have the same storage type feel.
Materials most likely needed:
Carboard boxes (lots of them?)
Paint (flat colour)
some kind of tough adhesive.
small Tv+dvd player (prefferably built in) to put into the smaller storage boxed shapes/or projection into these 'boxed' areas.
Light sources(planned placements of led lights or even light bulb lighting(white light not yellow)


Starting OVER

OK you know what?
I've neglected my own work and ideas enough.

Let the battle begin.

NEW ideas for project 3.
Hush hush for now

Monday, May 11, 2009

Doubt

Deeply starting to doubt whether im suited for this field. hmmm....

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Random words for P.3

Interactive, glow-in-the-dark stuff?, Lights.
Colour.
some thing cool.
abstract
freaky creatures with cool effects?




Project 3 - research





http://www.instructables.com/id/Electronic-organism-diverts-attention-with-pretty-/

http://www.instructables.com/id/Tealed-Led-Battery-Box-not-glue-nor-solder/

http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-Ping-Pong-Ball-Improved/




http://www.instructables.com/id/How_to_Build_a_Wiremap/

Concept for the protagonist.
Named: Paeion
costume prototype/concept 1.


Just some photographic environment references.
One is by zemotion (jing na) from her recent trip to japan.
and the other is sourced from another blog i forgot the name of (im so sorry) If anyone knows the photographer's blog please remind me.
Um but he did some long exposures of tokyo cityscape.




Update

Fantasy/action role playing game

Named: Opus Ignis

Based on: steam punk, old ancient, run down civilization, technology based.

Specific characters:
Choice of (male or female character)

Main character (player):
Protagonist female- complete/successful experiment within the corp. Because she was successful many tests were done, and she was used as a sample. But the scientists didn’t know that she was made predominately more powerful that they thought. Then her consciousness ‘awoken’ and she was to find a way out-> where the game starts.
Profile-
Name: Paeion (experiment XE-2384)
Age:20
Dark, kind, everything is new, follows instinct, very likable, mysterious

Protagonist male -
(Background the same as female. Successful experiment.)
Profile:
Name: Deuter (experiment DN-2198)
Age: 20
Kind of same as female ver.

Side characters (able to be in party) Max party of 4

Name: Vaal Cointreau
Age: 22
Joins the party after seeing them and helping them out in the city of Muyuuka (the starting city). When the secret division of Mosato corp. Comes after them.

Name: Wade (partial human)
Age: unknown
Female
Joins with main character first, because Wade helps Paeion escape. Kind figure, young looking.

Name: Mocha Yquem
Age: 17

Name:
* need more side characters

Enemy:
Special agents of Mosato, they are a secret group to the corporation that specially deals with confidential matters relating to Project M.T.

The Head of the Special agents is:
Name: Lahr Boches
Age: 46
Only a dog for the corporation because of a cecret blackmail. He was one the people who ‘bred’ with the partial humans in secret within the base of the development of Project M.T, He fell in love with one of them while working together with them to build the heat core collector towers. This incident lead to the birth of the first hybrid, but because of the low posibility of survival he begged scientists to research and allow his daughter to live, the mother died in childbirth. Because this was considered a great oppotunity by the corporation they accepted his plea. In return for keeping his dauughter alive, he has to work and deal with the jobs handed to the special agents. This job of finding the protagonist has gave him new hope that she could help his daughter to be like protagonist. So he makes sure he doesn’t harm the escapee but the others in the group doesn’t know his intentions in doing so.

7 Special agents make up the group called Nyx.

The ultimate enemy is the Mosato corporation. And all its divisions that do evil.

Class/Types:
Human (superior class)
Human (magical force harnessed)
Partial human (failed experiments that can still live)
Partial human (M.T worker/slave/people who keep the cities running on earth core’s power.)

Note: within in type of human/partial human there is also different skills to be learnt dependent on weapon or armour or accessory equipped.

Fighting system:
Active/live
ie, FFVII Crisis core, Soma bringer?, sangoku musou, sangoku basara.
You can freely move about the stage(set area) using what ever you wish, when accessing a menu for healing items it will pause.

Level up:
Normal point based, obtained after successfully defeating opponent in battle. Experience points (exp) is determined by type of monster and level. able to choose attributes:
HP - Health
MP - magic
ATK - attack
DEF - defence
INT - intelligence
RES -resistance
HIT - Hit
SPD - speed
LUK - luck

unlock bonus/predetermined skill sets:
Preset for each specific character

Weapon level up:
Item find/get based
Made via synthesizing (need new name)
Composing together materials
can be blessed by certain gods (type of god determines elemental property) ie, Odin, lightning attribute.

Items:
can be bought from shops or can be randomly obtained from battles. Or you can choose to grow your own food items (aka ingredients for potions and such.) Once you have obtained a transport ship. This ‘creating’ skill can be leveled up so that the success rate is higher. (Yes there are levels for the type of item made). It will be set into different types of conversions.

Alchemy: This is the section for creation of potions, MP heal, re-birth, etc

Wielding work: this allows to make weapons and armour + small accessories

Jewelry: this allows the inset of precious stones into items or weapon or accessory it allows status attributes to be added. (ie, poison from emerald cast into a sword, or Spd up from peridot case into a armour).

Equip able items:
Weapon
Armour - 2 parts top and bottom
Arm
Head
Feet
Neck - 1
Rings - 2
1 carry item

Setting/plot:
It is the year 5687o.p (orbital period), and 10years has past since the Project M.T incident which killed over half of the population. Many places where destroyed or left in ruin. But now everyone is striving to live again and put it all behind them. But the problem has really just begun. The original reason behind creating Project M.T was because there were research by astrologists claiming the sun in this solar system has reached the end of it’s life. And if we could just move out of the orbit and survive somehow through travelling on the planet we could overcome the impact of the death of the star. Many do not know this fact, and the Mosato corporation has not decided to alarm the civilians and let them run amok. So the continuation of the project continues in secret while time is fast running out.

Project M.T:
‘mobilize terra’ - the aim was to build into the earth, close to the core and find pockets of air underneath. These air pockets within the earth gets utilized by the humans to create machines that harness the earth core’s own heat to allow for the process of generating power. It was also in-theory that if the power is utilized we would be able to propel the earth through the universe, creating a new moving planet, also be able to dispose of rubbish/organic matter back into the earth to save it.
Pro MT allowed the use of heat from the core to activate steam from water surrounding the land, fog & mist. Allowing steam powered flying ships plus other uses and steam engines and heat core engine.
To harness the power of heat, a sphere thats made up of high heat conductors gets stored. named ‘ heat core sphere’ used, the fuel is water. But what is contained within the heat core spheres to harness the energy is unknown to most people but Mosato.corp who were the ones who created the technology.

environment:
desolate, in ruin, some parts are very new - rebuilt, rubble environment. There are still many cities and towns around. Though not as many as before, many have taken refuge where there are ruins of old buildings or have re-build parts of a existing town/city. There are some regrowth of new types of plant life, and bugs tend to be of a large size.

Mosato.corp (aka HaXe.inc)is the giant government type organisation that takes charge of what has happened after project MT even though they’re the ones who were responsible. But they changed they’re name and identity. So to normal people it’s 2 different organisations but it is actually one big organisation that has several different divisions.

Monsters spawn from the experiments previously conducted by the Mosato.corp and released during the collase of the project, eventually it lead to breeding and mutations. Which lead to the monsters now roaming the outer lands/regions. Cities and small towns are protected with the technology of heat shields. It activates once it can sense a high concentrate of heat waves. Which only seems to occur in the experiments as they were subjected to high temperatures under the heat core sphere, while trying to insert or find a way to place the energy orb inside a organic body.


Concept is only just a draft. More to come :3

(GOT to remember to keep blogging.)


Sunday, April 12, 2009

Character design - (found images)






belongs to the respective artists who did these.
I'm simply referencing and finding these images inspirational. (not to mention it's so pretty :3) lol

Figure drawings - WARNING: contains nude drawings

I did some figure studies, just to practise drawing again. Since not drawing for awhile tends to make your skills rusty. So here goes.

Note: sketchy - no shading - pose/gesture sketch ups
The lighting is really bad in the photos...um taken with mobile camera..and a blue tinted torch because my lamp died.

References:
http://characterdesigns.com - really good site for photo reference and artists to look at
Also some references were from old masters works (forgot to save the images)





Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Quote to continue to be inspired

“One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.” - Alexander A. Bogomoletz

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Research dump

stuff i researched that i didn't put up.

mass dump:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventions
- Inventions that went to chronological order
- ideas spawned - old/new

http://www.mk12.com/
- motion gfx

-suggestion for transitions (although it looks nice it might not fit well into my animation)

http://inventors.about.com/od/famousinventions/tp/topteninvention.htm
-more inventions
- lead to narrowing down of types of inventions to follow

http://www.ndc.co.jp/hara/home_e/
-minimalist style - less is more :3

Flash kit
for sound files, - ambient sounds

http://idnworld.com/
-more inspirational motion graphics + random

Clear skies in May - A.N.N.Y

http://www.anny.ne.jp/ukiyoe/index.html






Project 2 - 5 Ideas

Need idea for project 2 - self directed brief
So once we have our own concept we need to wrote up our own brief. - need to be approved before production

- develop personal style/approach
- expand on existing skills
- creative experimentation

OK so quick 5 ideas that may or may not come to fruition.

1. Concept design/art/illustration of a world from my imagination
2. abstract graphics that sync with sound
3. Random short clip/animation/interaction ->
4. 2D handdrawn short animation
5. Horror/gore/twist/freaky -> mythological creatures (short animation?)

notes to self: vector landscapes

RADWIMPS PV

Sunday, March 15, 2009

16th March - Animatic

okay this is a really really really really crappy preview of the animatic in .gif form.Just pretty much slightly animated version of my storyboard.
added the extra ending, the last 2 frames, you can tell is in pencil. Because decided on it today. I had a couple of suggestions:
"add more mechanical parts to the posthuman body"
"make it look more like a cyborg/machine"
so in the end decided on making it into a zoom pan of the eye and have the pupil do a camera shutter action.
can start on more detailed and vectored version now.

self -reminder: Don't forget to update blog !

9th March - discussion in class about storyboard

(cough) kept forgetting to update the blog. My bad.

Today*(really last week) we talked and discussion our storyboards.
With my storyboard I presented the idea, and the kind of colours I would like to use. Which was decided to be limited to two colours,that would include highlights and shades.

ie the image above. first frame of my storyboard.


The feedback:

"yea, it's a good idea."

"maybe add a little something to the end, like a bit of a twist?"


Thoughts:

I thought the ending was lacking something as well. Troy suggested that i should show how the 'human' could be more mechanical.
So i would try to develop a ending that has something a bit more eerie feel about it.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

2nd March `09 - Brief

Project 1: Animating the Post-human

Brief: Create a 1 min animation in response to Post-human

Concept development:

- Style: draw?photo manipulated composite images? illustration?vector?
- Story board idea. > need to define idea first.

- Brainstorm

Stuff to think about:
'A Cyborg manifesto' by Donna Haraway
Posthumans could be a symbiosis of human and artificial intelligence or uploaded consciousness
apocalyptic scenario appears
Humans + posthumans co-existing
posthumans 'god-like' - or having superior physical and mental capabilities.
Exceeding the foundation/base/world - ie, networking, internet, virtual space.
embodied medium through which critical consciousness is manifested.
Anti-aging, AI, augmented reality, biotech, cloning, designer baby, GM engineering, human enhancement, human machine interface, mind uploading, mind transfer, nanotech, neurohacking, organ transplants, rejuvenation, robotics, space colonization, virtual retinal display.

Ideas/inspirations:
Abstract sound based aesthetic >melodic trance> mechanical/electronical sound>geometrical
Shape based forms? >visual kei/rock sounds?
Punk/steampunk>'city of ember'>city>environmental issues?
-Victorian era tech.
Landscape change>manipulate photographic images of landscapes/views/settings/scenes
Photo+digital images + effects/sfx
Technology being apart of the body/extension of the body. Items we carry>mobile,laptop,ipod (we incorporate it on to our body)
Black+White? +splash of colour? - or ' the propsed,flower,wolf' Styled /colour scheme?



'Dark Angel' - Genetically modified - engineered
- abstract lighting effects
Human/organism with outlines of incorporated technology.
Barcode eyeball - 'MPD psycho' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPD_Psycho

weak fragile, mine state>body as a cage
'mind game'

Small organism>journey>each technological item it encounters gets added onto itself>incorporated morphs.