Poster

For this task my team-Team Yaoi were given the task from another group to create a poster for the new Reptar toy.

Concept designs

For this task we had to make horror concept designs and had to include a sunflower and baby rattle. 

Hypertext

For this, my class had to make a cursed object and a steampunk object. The first image is my cursed object. It is a cursed/possessed demon glove. Once the person/player puts it on they will immediately be cursed with a demon arm. The glove forma a bond with the owner and work with the owner but sometimes has a mind of its own. The curse cannot be broken and the only way to get rid of it is for the owner of it to die and then the glove waits for its next owner to come around so the curse goes on and on.

Attack: 40

Defence: 30

Speed: 30

This is my steampunk object. I said before in my earlier blog post that I incorporated this with my tome. The giant speaker looking things are made to listen into enemies conversations from and VERY far distance. It has little gadgets and and buttons to adjust the volume and levels. The goggles help to see things from a VERY far distance and also has night vision. The tinier glasses are for extra zooming in. And of course, the helmet is just for protection. I wanted to make this as goofy looking as possible as well just to add a little humour in contrast to the tome I made just to make it more lighthearted. This device is used against enemies to scope out where they are and to listen in to their plans.

Tome

My class was tasked to make a tome for a video game. We had to think about who is writing it? What era is the message from? Is the person writing this dead or alive? And so on and so on. The first thing I thought was to make the message based in a really old era. I actually incorporated this with another task we had to do which was to make a steampunk invention so a really old steampunk era is what I was aiming for. The idea for this is that a deceased mother wrote her daughter (or player) a letter a explaining the decisions she made to protect her. I hope it's not TOO corny/cheesy/cliche but I just wanted to make something sweet and sad. Sorry about the writing, I tried to make it look like the mother was in a rush to write it as if the enemies were close to getting her. It also helped that I have really horrible hand writing XD.

If you can't read it, it says "My  dearest  Bell, it  breaks  my  heart  for  you  to  find  out  this  way  but  please  understand  I  did  this  to  protect  you.  It  is true  that  I did  abandoned  you  but I knew  that  I would  be  followed  and  that  we  both  would  be killed  once  I  was captured.  To  give  up  was  the  was  the  hardest  decision  I  had  to  make  and  I  only  pray  that  you  can  forgive  me.  I  know  that  when  each  day  goes  by  that  you  will  grow  and  become  wiser  and  stronger  just  like  your  father.  Please  know  that  I  will  always  love  you  and I  hope  you  can  forgive  me." 

Trans-disciplinary Exercise- Perceiving

Today Dane gave us the task of eating "unusual" foods and then to animate that taste. But not just taste it. We had to really think about it like how does it feel? What do you immediately think when it hits your tongue.....or something like that. This was a very funny and interesting exercise and I tried to get my brain and taste buds going. I tried a dried up Mandarin skin. In my animation, it starts off with a blob spinning around. I'm trying to show that the smell already is very strong and kinda had my head buzzing because of its overwhelming aroma. Once it touched my tongue immediately a powerful taste just bursted out like.......POW!!! I tried to make it kinda abstract.......did I succeed in that? 

I do think I should have added more colours to this but all I could think of at the moment was orange. Maybe I even could have some swirls or waves going around the blob so it was a bit more interesting but oh well I'll try and do a better job for the next one.

Anyways I hope this makes sense. XD

Shot 10 clean up final

I have finally finished the shot and I hope my team likes it and I hopefully our animation all comes together. Still don't know how to make a quicktime or swf file but here is just a little look of the final shot......

I'M SO TIRED!

Shot 10 clean up finishing touches

So I'm almost done and I'm extremely tired but anyways I went through the shot more closely and realised there are quite a few messy lines so I just went back and cleaned those up. It has been a bit of a challenge these past few days because for some reason my flash is acting very weird and playing up so using the brush tool has been quite difficult. The pencil tool is not my favourite but I tried to get looking as good as possible.

Here are just some errors and some of the things I cleaned up and tried to place in the correct position.