Stone Rage is a prehistoric indie game, that has a lot of aspects that I should've included in my work.
http://www.stoneragegame.com/
There are YouTube videos showing the scenery of the place.
BMET Games Connor Gouldney
Monday, 6 June 2016
Project Proposal sheet.
The audience for this game would be more or less 12+ due to a bit of violence but a cartoonish nature to it.
More sources:
http://10steps.sg/tutorials/photoshop/a-realistic-water-reflections-photoshop-tutorial/
The tutorial where I tested out some water effects ect, and took the pictures from.
https://www.artstation.com/artist/alberto_vangelista
An artstaion of one of the artist reasearched
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
Evaluation
FMP Prehistoric Scenery, Evaluation:
My project theme is Prehistoric Scenery, which was developed
by thinking of an Anubis, and developing it as it’s partly what I did for my
last project. I have developed my ideas by making a mood board and pushing myself
to not keep the image the same, always looking for improvements. My development
started as a form of just ideas, making something new in each developing idea,
but keeping one main aspect. Which in this case, is the tree, as each idea was
being developed; a small aspect of each was being put into the final design. As
the water flowing and the rock on the first idea to the “world cut in half”
feature that it looks like on the second, more developed idea.
More development was made on the final project with the trees
and the rock being first made as a 2’d flat brush over it. As I got a little
bit of help and developed my drawing with little tweaks, I was then told how to
make an easy circle with it, shaded, I then used the liquify tool to move and
sculpt the object in Photoshop. After
sculpting the objects, I began to move them into place and merge them
into the work itself. After that I had to change around the water testing out
different types of water, making sure it looked as it was supposed to, getting
tips and tricks from my tutor.
A few reference images were found. But more so in real life
as a tutor sent me pictures of a lake near them. That helped to give me a light
understanding of what I was going to do. References from a person called Jeff
Le Bars who really helped me out, they gave me a few ideas and a great art
style, they really helped me develop my idea with their simplistic but
effective and great art. The water pictures were extremely helpful as it made
me look at my work differently and helped me progress with the picture as a
whole. This affected my project by making me change my work for the better and
inspiring me to improve and develop my drawing with a few different ideas and
small tweaks to my work and way I do things. By testing GIFs ect I could easily
make my own from now on, maybe make full animations overtime with (hopefully)
some help from a professional as I did get a bit of help from a professional for
my Maya work and a bit of Photoshop.
The only artists that really stood out to me, are the tutor’s
that I am lucky to have and the Jeff Le Bars, who has a very clean and
interesting style, even if it’s animation it really does help with seeing how
to draw things ect. All of the inspiring artists that I had mentioned use
traditional, Photoshop and 3D softwares respectively. I only used colours and
brushes with the technique of following the lines without going different ways
unless it’s a layer over to make detail or is to create a pattern. I also used
a technique of making a circle and liquefying it, which helped me a bunch. This
really influenced my end design as it made sure that the grass ect wasn’t
everywhere and had odd sticking up bits out of nowhere.
As I started out my idea was just a simple small rock with a
tree that was extremely bad, but as these computer crash a lot some of my work
from that has gone but I did redo, making a little bit of a better start. This
ended up being my first design idea, and then I developed that into a slightly
more developed idea. After everyone did the peer assessment they gave me ideas
to make the clouds better and soon develop it into what it is now. I wish I did
more research into even more artists, but not liking that much art lead me to
just research into a few, but the artists I have seen most have been very good,
style wise I’m not a fan, and that’s what I search for.
I wanted to convey the prehistoric feeling across, or at
least partly pre-historic, having the bones pretty close to land as if they
recently died 100-200 years ago. I feel as I did get the meaning out pretty
well, because of the preserved grass, tree’s and rocks, as well as untouched
soil (Which might not be as obvious) as this was supposed to be when dinosaurs
were there/dead for a couple years.
I am relatively happy with my final piece as I made it, I
figured it was good, for art made by me, my other art doesn’t compare to what I
had done. I’m proud of my rock, as it had the biggest development process and
the development that was told by my peers and a bit of researched showed
development of how they improved by the start to the finish by testing out
different, more difficult or easier ideas to make their work better, testing
out different ideas, making improvements and overlooking what they have done,
then trying to develop more and more.
I would change my idea all together. Not because I don’t like
it or anything, generally because I’d have more fun designing a character. But
that’s how I think, changing my mind on what I want to do, unless I’m set on
something as I was with this project.
But I want to do more, doing a character, a biker etc. Would be so fun to just
relax and sketch out many different designs, I could maybe get 100 in a week if
I was given no time limit, and did it when I felt like it.
I learned how to make different objects out of a circle, how
to use Unreal engine and would like to use it more in the future. I also
learned how to create grass, make more realistic looking trees and develop a
bunch on my small knowledge on how to make waterfalls and water. Which judging
by how it turned out, I did a great job for a first time drawing waterfalls etc.
I think this is important to get layouts correct, to create a
scenery for the world that is going to be created in the game, it gives
everyone a base to build from. When you have something to build from it can
expand, become a world on a game, or even the whole game together.
I did give this assignment my best effort, up to a standard
of what I could and couldn’t do. As I had a few trips to the hospital I say I
did try my best with the time I had, but I should’ve spent more time at home
doing things for this project as I made it too hard on myself.
I feel as I made my ideas very decently, making sure that
there was one distinct asset in each idea and final design, as you would be
told to make something with a certain asset in or to have a certain theme,
genre etc. to the world around it.
The mistakes I made were that I didn’t use my time too productively.
I spent a lot of time trying to do one thing (The rock) that wasn’t working out
too well, so I hadn’t progressed too much. After figuring out about the circle
technique I really enjoyed making the rock again it definitely turned out
better than its original design.
I would have made a better plan, having a reminder on my
phone or something like that to remind me of what I’m doing that day/week until
I have everything done. I should’ve set a limit every day of what I should have
completed, that would’ve helped a lot.
The most helpful activity in the class was the one on Unreal,
helping me get into new software that I enjoyed testing in as it seemed a lot
simpler, easier and more professional than any other programs I’ve used for
game design.
I had not used the circle technique before, not knowing you
could even do that to begin with, making life a bit easier. This could be used
in most if not all of my work from now on for how easy and good looking this is
to creatue.
I had very few problems in my work, but one main problem was
that the computers are a little slow; the brush would take time to get to where
it would normally be as I would create my own brushes that might have been more
complicated for the computers (Somehow). I fixed this by simplifying the
brushes and making sure that the computer I was using could handle it by
testing it out on a different file so I didn’t do anything I’d regret.
I had one other problem that was the water I was trying to
create never looked right, the patterns, the techniques I used just weren’t
working. I made a gif of one of my water experiments that didn’t work very well
for my project, so I had a little help to make the water that is on there now.
It does look a whole lot better.
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Monday, 23 May 2016
New water/Final piece.
After adding new effects and making sure that I had made the water as correctly as I can I improved the water and it took a while to try and get it right, with a little bit of help on the side. But nothing on my actual work.
Developing the tree and rock
I had made the tree and rock not very well to begin with, so I had a little help with it. I made a ball with shading and then pulled it out with the liquify tool to make different objects. That is what I did to the trees as well as the rock. I used colour correction and changing the hue to make the colour look as it does as it makes for a better effect.
Monday, 16 May 2016
Start to finish
At the start my first initial idea was
and it has become a lot better than this since the beginning.
After a couple of different attempts that is what I ended up with, the water going through a few minor changes and a few tests to get a better look on the water itself, having changed not just that the clouds were bad and also the cave was very amateurish.
You can tell from the assets of the first idea.
I should have named the layers, but that would take a bit too long and when I drew the items sometimes it was just shading so I could move things and change it easier.
Artist Reply
Having an artists email to be able to reach out and ask them questions is helpful, I did email a favourite artist of mine. He does animations and told me about how he started.
Jeff Le bars he has a website of his own with an amazing showreel at his own website jefflebars.com/ .
After making contact with him he told me about the programs he used and how he started off.
I started the conversation by sending an email to him, this was when I was 17 and I'm not anymore,
He responded saying that he used paper to start with, sculpting and animating traditionally, he said the
programs he uses,
"Photoshop, 3DsMax, TVPaint, After Effects and Premiere respectively for : backgrounds, characters,
traditional animation, compositing and editing." He also said that he used a Wacom tablet. Which is the
same of the one I bought at home.
He went on to explain that it takes a very long time to traditionally animate and it's a lot faster on the
computer. He went on to explain that "Photoshop is good for making backgrounds or assets for After Effects
animation".
Then he explained that he uses TVPaint and that he's happy with it, which is what I want to now look into,
if you see the quality of his work, it's very very good, I recommend looking at his showreel.
Jeff Le bars he has a website of his own with an amazing showreel at his own website jefflebars.com/ .
After making contact with him he told me about the programs he used and how he started off.
I started the conversation by sending an email to him, this was when I was 17 and I'm not anymore,
He responded saying that he used paper to start with, sculpting and animating traditionally, he said the
programs he uses,
"Photoshop, 3DsMax, TVPaint, After Effects and Premiere respectively for : backgrounds, characters,
traditional animation, compositing and editing." He also said that he used a Wacom tablet. Which is the
same of the one I bought at home.
He went on to explain that it takes a very long time to traditionally animate and it's a lot faster on the
computer. He went on to explain that "Photoshop is good for making backgrounds or assets for After Effects
animation".
Then he explained that he uses TVPaint and that he's happy with it, which is what I want to now look into,
if you see the quality of his work, it's very very good, I recommend looking at his showreel.
Proof of the conversation. I'd rather not show the emails themselves because of privacy. But he did say that
I could show the college the conversation, but I'd rather not just show the emails sent to me.
(3rd artist)
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