- 500 tris or less character
- Mass amount of game design and virtual worlds reading
- 3D model and animation for the Cheese Monger character
- Imagery for the menu system in the Monger game
- 5 pages of tree drawings
- Logo for an outside company
The 500 tri character wasn't too hard of a challenge. It was fun for me to dive in and work through the character quickly. I knew that I didn't want a copy so I tried characterizing Darth Maul to a more lanky toonish character. My professor gave me some good feedback after I did the texture to try and embed highlights/shading to make the texture less flat so I used a little photoshop to paint in highlights and shading - then put in some directional lights and glow effect on the saber for the final render.
The reading was very interesting - most of it was based on the structure of a game. Both my Virtual Worlds, and Game Design class reading discussed how the rules, barriers, and tools are what help make the game fun, as well as, are what define games apart from experiences. There of course are the difficulties of making interesting narrative, challenge, character, and other things that make a good game, but the meat of the discussion was making sure the base functions and goals of the game are great.
In Fat Knight we made a lot of work for ourselves in using 3D objects in a side scrolling game. It created more work in trying to optimize character to function on a mobile device instead of focusing more on character design. In Cheese Monger we are still using a 3D for the level but for the character I rendered out a sprite sheet to save processing time and space. I have only done a simple animation for the run, jump, and a getting ready to run animation. These should be more than enough for a rapid prototype.
The Menu System for 'Cheese Monger' isn't really in depth - it is only a basis to show how things would be laid out and not how they would be as a finished product. I'm happy with some elements of what is laid out but the main screen seems elementary to me and could do with more research in to what make UIs appealing.
Drawing is again what made me thing I could do this job. The 5 pages of trees was simple enough for me since the only focus for this week was to make sure I focused on the lines while drawing trees - as apposed to my habits of trying to shade things. After the 2nd or 3rd tree it felt very natural to create random twigs and branches that could pass for a trees true silhouette. Speed was a self proclaimed roll for me in this assignment. Habitually I will take a deal of time to ensure accuracy across my image, since much of our work needs to be done quickly I made sure that I didn't spend too much time on details no one would be able to pick out and focus more on the big picture. I don't have my final page but I will post most of my work.
Rogue Corps is a company owned by my brother. Most of it's function is to keep injured veterans (mostly those whom now function with prosthetics) in an active lifestyle. I have done other projects for my brother and his company including weapons spec model and concept gear to be sold to the military. To advertise the company more he asked me to create a logo to go on t-shirts and other items to be sold at functions and sponsored in athletic events. His request was to include a Crow design from another company, a soldier with rifle and ball cap, his style of prosthetic (since he is a double amputee himself), and the american flag not to bold on the character. It took a few days of back and forth to match what he had envisioned but it is finished and already doing very well generated attention and sales to the company. There are already over 200 orders for the t_shirts in the first couple of days and it is going to be present and the upcoming Tough Mudder comp, and the Marine Corps marathon in Washington, DC.
There is a lot more work for this next week but I'll save it for the next post.
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