NC: Character: Crit presentation/Design Bible.

Design Bible.

NC: Character: Branding

The opening animation of the game will bring the player to a splash screen before the menu.

The Logo. 

NC: Character: Character Pose Sets.

NC: Character: ''Splic'' Facial expressions

As Splic is more of a brute with the lack of brains, well enough to drive a car, but he really doesn't do emotions well.

NC: Character: Roxette Face Expressions.

As Roxette is the only humanistic character I made more facial expressions for. 

NC: Character : Sir Cogswort expression sheet.

As he generally always wears his suit there really isn't much of a expression set he can do.

NC: Character - Creature Turn-Discord

This is the third character of my set. 

NC: Character: Roxette Turnaround and Bio

The second character is complete.

NC: Character: Male Character - Sir Cogswort Turnaround.

I have completed the turn around for my first character Sir Cogswort and the Biography to match.

NC: Character: Male Turn-around In-progress

So I am working on the turn-around for the male character. With a walking pose which will be inked and coloured.

NC: Character - Male Racer idea continue

So I have coloured the male racer and will probably go through some colour schemes to see which fits, this one is in reference to gears and cogs being silver, copper or gold. Then adding the black for the gentlemanly scientific theme.

NC: Narrative and Character: Film Review tasks - Documentary.

The Rules of Documentary

What we do in the Shadows.

Personally I am not a big fan of documentaries. Therefore I simple wish to review the only one that I actually enjoyed watching, which happened to be the one we watched for this lecture section. ‘’What we do in the shadows’’ is a mockumentary documentary about a group of vampires who share a house/flat in New Zealand. This mockumentary takes comedy and fiction to a whole new level. Bringing these out-of-time vampires and throwing them into the real world where they squabble over the dishes and pathetically quarrel with a rival gang of werewolves. This barely seems like a documentary, only when they explain that the camera men have crosses and stakes and practically almost get eaten by a werewolf. The vampires bite a faintly annoying guy, who duly turns into a vampire and wants to hang out with them, and he brings along his best mate, a really nice non-vampire human bloke called Stu. The concept of the whole thing is just out of the world and completely stupid but still very entertaining. It simply is just a film about everything we know about vampires, then about modern day affinities with vampires. 

NC: Character: In progress.

So after going back over my notes I've begun constructing a new design for one of the male character for my game. This specific design is to show the theme of a gentleman of the period, but also involving the aspect of steam punk, of the mechanics.

NC: Narrative: Enviroment Finished

Environment Finished.  Rendered saved files come out darker for some reason. 

NC: Narrative: Modelling for group project.

Circus interior current design for group project.

NC: Character : Further Discussions about my Characters.

Further discussions came up today about the approach to my characters, I am going in the right direction however my character's themes need to be pushed further. They are defined as Romance, Science and Industry . On top of the Gothic, Robotic and over-all steam punk theme. Today after the workshop task I worked on another female piece, some HUD's for my game as well. After showing these to Justin I need to now work on pushing the said themes. Looking at my male and creature I made the other day is the same thing they are in the right direction. 

This first one I made the neck too long so I basically cut her head out but her body is what I wanted to point out, as her cloths are very Gothic like.

This second one is the one I did today I really like her but she's still to generic and I need to revisit the dress. Justin was saying that there should be more frills.

With the HUD task in mind we were asked to apply it to our games as well. With the racing theme in mind I constructed the left piece is inspired by a typical racing monitor that shows you the position, the lap, the speed and the amount of Nitros you have left. The piece on the right is an example of how the customization for the cars would look like. 

As I will not be featuring a car in my work any more I drew this before this and wanted to include it here as it gives an example of the type of vehicle a character could drive. 

NC: Character: Workshop work.

With Justin today we explored the ideas around game HUD (Head's Up Display's) and other windows that may feature in a game. I was given a card with an Alien card and here are some yu-gi-oh inspired cards. 

NC: Character: Post Tutorial.

After receiving my OGR feedback and tutorial I discussed with Justin about removing the car as a character entirely and keeping it as some concept as it would proof to be a difficult challenge, and not one I would be able to complete successfully. In its place there will be another character figure as my anatomy and figure drawings have improved and are my stronger suit rather than drawing cars. There will be a male, and female and some form of creature in my final designs.

We also talked about improving on the designs in terms of the themes and how I need to push the distinguished themes more so that they stand out. As I have previously mentioned, the female is going to follow a Gothic Steam-punk theme, the male is going to adopt a form of cybernetic features that integrate with my steam-punk world. The creature will also adopt this theme but will need to be something that is not completely human but at the same time be logically able to drive a car.

I did some research into some things and set about sketching some ideas. These are so far some of my examples of how the male and creature could look.

Male.

Creature.

NC: Character: OGR

Ogr Character

Concept work for background created by myself :

NC: OGR Link

I completly forgot to add a link to the OGR for the group project as we have posted it only on the group blog.

Here is the link: NC: Narrative - OGR Presentation.