Smester 2 Blog Ten
So today I basically just worked on a bunch of stuff that needed finishing and designing. I have almost got one background for my level done aswell as some boss art. For the previous skeletons they have been small but I wanted to make this guy the big bad, so I made an evil skeleton hulk pretty much. I am pleased with the outcome and now all I have to do is finish it off in Harmony and then animate him.
Semester 2 Blog Thirteen
Over the past few days I have re-drawn my current animation so it follows the storyboard better. I realized my mistake and I am quite pleased with the current design outcome. What I did was change the style a bit to make it seem less childish and the overall look is visually pleasing to the eye.
Semester 2 Blog Thirteen
What Is It?
How did I do it?
Why Did I do it?
These are the questions I need to ask myself for my artist statement. So today in class I am focusing on my artist statement for the exhibition in 4 weeks, Yikes. Lucky I'm only in a slight panic but I better get my ass into gear asap. so I guess here is a draft of my artist statement.
(e.g. there are meant to be my posters around this)
Hello, My name is Seth Nops and I designed the poster pieces you can see here.
These posters are meant to represent possible ideas for a future book cover in the current series I am writing called Heir to the King. I have always enjoyed fantasy stories and adventures and I have wanted to write a book myself so this year I finally began my goal. The first thing I had done for this is began planning and writing and then came up with the cover designs for people to see. You might see me floating around with a tally chart and pamphlets so your welcome to come up and help me decide on the look, aswell as a friendly chat and a free draft of the first two chapters.
I probally need to work on this a bit more but it is fine for my first draft.
Semester 2 Blog Nine
So today I ended up arriving to class a bit late, but I still ended up doing a decent amount of work. What I had done today was learnt how to export my animations from toonboom harmony to photoshop to make some spritesheets to export then to unity. I have done a basic walk, a sword drawn walk and an attack animation aswell as a death. I am very pleased with the current outcome of Gallus, since I have had quite a challenge getting the design I like. This is quite simple and looks appealing to the eye, plus looks fun. The next task I need to do is a Magic attack, enemy animations and finish the Boss design.
Semester 2 Blog Seven
So Today we had our programming class and I thought it went quite well in my opinion. What I followed is a simple 2D player side scroller tutorial which took most of the 4 hours to do, but I enjoyed it none the less. Here is some screenshots from it...
What I need to prepare for next week is having all my animations for my character and enemies.
Semester 2 Blog Twelve
Progress Review.
So today in class we started off with our tutor to reassess and re-evaluate our work so far. Personally I believe I am slightly behind from where I would like to be, but I am still on track for the due date. So far I have successfully completed all of my written work, besides a little touch up on the Author (AKA Me) at the end of the pamphlet. I am currently still drawing my three posters and a simple backdrop for the background of the pamphlet.
So What have I specifically been doing recently?
Well I have been trying to improve my drawing skill and look of my book cover/posters. I have looked at several other YouTube video's for inspiration for my drawing, and I have been looking at different book covers suck as Game of Thrones, Percy Jackson and The Witcher book series.
One of the Ideas is a snowy scene that takes place in the prologue with a silver metallic border. Some of the youtube links to the videos I have seen are below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqQlw2v7JC0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McX4bPpE9GI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSW1uxnDwxs
Where did I get my inspiration for this.
I have always love Arthurian legends ever since I was a young kid, and that eventually mixed with one of my genre of Manga, high fantasy. When I was thinking of my creative writing in year 11 I thought about what I would enjoy writing, and the idea that Arthur had an heir 100 years later who would save the world. I had this idea since I was 15 so I wanted to re-create this now and finish a full book in the near future.
What do I want to accomplish
I want to try and set a step for me to try and get my book out into the world similar to how movies and trailers and books have online advertisements. I want to see if I can make people wonder and become intrigued with the new world that I have created. Using Trans-media I want to see how far I can go with my own will and capabilities before asking for help.
