Minor Project - Week 5 recap video

Queen Vye UV layout Development

This is how I originally did my UV layout, which was time consuming and extremely tedious as I was moving UVs one at a time....

....Once I had spoken to Jordan Buckner about this, he taught me a new method which involved unwrapping UVs, cutting corners edges and sowing edges together which proved a lot fast and more accurate:

The Masks of Maths Pre-Vis

Pre-vis models

Minor Project Week 4 Summary

Accopmlishments: Change of Style. Extra research. KS3 Brainstorming Session. New character Design. Models for Previs.

This is an image of when I realised everything looked wrong in Maya!!

Minor Project Rainham Mark Grammar School session

To aid my research for my minor project, I arranged a visit to Rainham Mark Grammar School, and carried out a session with some Year 8 students. The video also contains a discussion on Higher Education, which isn't a part of my Minor Project.

Queen Vye Development

Colour Scheme Designer

I used the Colour Scheme Designer to produce these. The origin of the first two swatches, is the sky in an episode of Scooby Doo. The last swatch, is the contrast colour that was created from the Scooby Doo sky, it will most likely be used to design the Water Tiki Boss Mask.

What am I doing?

I wanted to create a Maths game, set in Hawaii, for the iPad. However, stylistically, I had no idea where I was taking it. Until now! After feedback from Tutor Phil, I've been reassured that my 'Spiky Water Level' concept, is stylistically the strongest of my designs. Now I had to identify what influences went into this design experiment. I've come to the conclusion that it is combination of German expressionistic, supernatural, gamified, horror.

Minor Project - Week 3 recap video

New title screens and further revised concept art

So after receiving feedback from Tutor Phil, I decided to revisit my concept and title screens so as to produce a more smooth, saturated look that is coherent with the fun, upbeat nature of the game.

Title Screens and Revised Concept Art

Water Tiki Mask development

Water Land final concept art

I reckon this will be the final concept art for my Water Land area as I need to also finish designing my Water Tiki Mask. Man, never has something so simple been so hard to make :(

Minor Project Week 2

This is really just the last post, but in video form. Only really making these videos, because I hope to create a Making Of video at the end of the project.

Concept Art development

After finishing my first three quick concepts for my area, I decided to revisit them to create a more game-ified look, inspired by the work of Charley Harper and De'Von Stubblefield. I believe this look is more suited to the animations I intend on using them for in my iPhone game.

Earth Land speed painting

Concept for the Earth Land area in my iPhone game idea!!

Fire land concept speed painting

A concept for the Fire land area in my recreation of an iPhone game.

Water Land concept speed painting

This is a quick potential concept for the Water Land area in my iPod/iPhone/handheld device game thingy.

Minor Project - Week 1

WARNING: EXTREMELY BORING!!!! I've created this vlog to summarise my Week 1, which consisted of Research.