Year 2 - Week 6 - November 7th - 11th

The war of the Worlds is the subject of this week’s visual design project. It’s a good way to get us ready for existing game series and companies that make them. It’s something that’s got me thinking a bit more, even if you went into an existing company as a game designer, programmer etc I think it would be important to know quite a bit about the game you are helping develop. For example I go into industry and I’m asked to work on a new Mario title for Nintendo would they expect me to know a lot about Mario already? Or would they brief me in if I didn’t already know anything about it? I’m pretty sure they would say what the game is about, what previous games in the series were about and how it worked. As an Artist, it (I’m assuming) would be about knowing the Art style and look and feel of a typical Mario game, though for a programmer I’m sure they would maybe have to know a little about how previous games were coded and as a game designer again look at past titles in the series and go from there.

Besides all that, we are looking at the Martian tripod design and listening to the 1938 radio broadcast. I’ve never watched any War of the Worlds film nor the most recent 2005 film though I have seen parts of it; it’s one of those things I’d never personally want to watch. There are really not that many images from the 1930’s to look at so that’s why we were listening to the 1938 broadcast, it’s hard trying to design something that looks like it’s from the 1930’s however, from what I’ve seen everyone is drawing things that look more modern, though upon researching you can render things to make them look more 1930’s. I’ve got orthographic views on each of my designs, I want to make a perspective image of one as the final concept and then I’ll be already for sculpting the thing itself. It’s the same process for the vehicle, (Imagineering) planning and concepting again.

In 3D I finally finished the trash project, I wanted to improve all my stuff so I may come back to it or do another project based on trash, I may even do another treasure chest. I got the project done early, I set myself 2 weeks instead of the 3 given for it so I could spend time on other work and make tweaks and improvements. I’m managing my time, I've started to keep a sketch book on perspective for example I’m taking still life objects and placing my in different positions angles and drawing them, I’m also stating to draw a lot more places out and around like what we did for 1 and 2 point perspective last year. I believe anything including the human figure and trees can be drawn in perspective, why I say humans and trees in particular is because some people believe organic shapes can’t be drawn in perspective but the truth is anything can. I like to draw things in perspective all the time now, just doing simple line work, I can draw anything you would want me to, though one thing I need to get better at is my rendering however.