External Project

We have all done our slides and they are all looking very good. Lee, bless him has volunteered to do the Power Point writing out all the information for our presentation.  I hate presentations and i really am not looking forward to it.  We have to talk for 2 minutes each so that's 8 minutes in total.  Think a part of my soul will die but once it's done it's done and it will be all okay! Here's hoping it all goes okay!

External Project

Here is my idea for the Graphic Communications mapping.  There are speech bubbles in the NUCA colours with words in that describes NUCA and the course.  Then theres an animation of bubbles with a white text box that describes the course.

External Project

Here are some slides for the Fine Art projection mapping.  It starts off with the building looking like a giant canvas with the colour and texture.  Then an animation of red lines being painted on the building.  Then the different sections have different paintings/mediums in them to show the diversity of the mediums used in Fine Art.  The white box at the end holds the text.

External Project

Here are images of the projection for Illustration. It is meant to look rough, this is only for a general idea of what the projection would look like in terms of context and theme.  The main background fades on and is a clear night sky with starts and the milky way.  And then gold fish in helmets swim on.  The whole thing gets sucked into a vortex that is the door which then starts to fill up with water and more goldfish swim about while the text containing information about the course is displayed.

External Project

So our group now known as L.E.D.D (Lee, Elie, Dom, David [you can probably guess who made that up!]) had another meeting and we finalised our ideas and allocated some roles in the group.  Our idea is to showcase all of the NUCA courses each having a description and some sort of related animation e.g. for Fashion the building would turn into cloth and would be sewn together with a needle and thread whilst having information about the course.  We have split up the courses for us to design.  I am designing Fine Art, Graphic Communication and Illustration.  I am still thinking about ideas for each one as to how to design them but i will put up posts on how they are all coming along.

External Project

So we have been given a new project until we break up for the holidays.  We have been shown some videos of projection mapping on buildings ( links below) some of which are amazing and so well thought out and executed.  After seeing them we were told we had to design a projection to be used on one of the NUCA buildings promoting NUCA and its courses and that we had to try and make it interactive in some way for an audience.  We are allowed to be in teams and in the end we have to pitch our ideas to the class.  I am working with Dom, David and Lee; i have worked with Dom and Lee before and i enjoyed working with them! Lets hope this projects goes well too!  

Points to keep in mind for his project are:

• to promote NUCA and its courses
• to creatively use the buildings architecture to enhance the effectiveness of the projection
• to make it somehow interactive for an audience

We have had a group meeting and we have taken some day time pictures of possible choices for the building we are going to use to put the projection on.  We then took some night time photos and are currently deciding which building we like the best to use for this project.  We ran thorugh some ideas but decided not to settle on anything untill we have decided on a building to use.  We also thought about how to make it interactive.  I suggested that we make a flash game projected onto the building where behind windows there would be different animations and you could interact with them via an iPad e.g. behind one window could be giant flowers and you touch the flowers on the iPad to make them bloom.  Dom wasn't sold on this idea so we are still thinking of new ideas.

http://mashable.com/2011/04/24/3d-projection-mapping/

http://videomapping.tumblr.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IICGkOtJ9E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrJCSJudmEg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hNoLgPtYLU&feature=related

BA1 - CONCEPT

Life energy concepts! not amazing but they are fairly simple things.

BA1 - RESEARCH

Here are some images of games that give an idea of that my game is going to look like.  The first is an app for the iPad called Metal Storm.  Mine isnt a shooter type game but the way you navigate and the way its set out is similar to mine.  The other is Flower with its easy going beautiful and tranquil gameplay and experience.

BA1 - RESEARCH

I went to the Apple shop here in Norwich to do some research.  I don't own an iPad so i wanted to pick up and use one and play with one so i had a better understanding of the handling when you play games.  When using the iPad i saw that they had a game called Metal Storm where the gameplay is similar to mine.  So i played it for a while and found that it was a great help.   I then got my friend to play it and to tell me what the positive features were with that type game that i should keep in mind for my game.  She said she quickly understood how to play the game and what the objective was without looking at the help/instructions and it had the "pick up and play" idea where if she wanted to kill time this would be ideal for that.  The bad points were that it got bring doing the same thing over and over again.

BA1 - Because i forgot to post it

This is the back design of the cards for the board game! i forgot to post this up before so here it is now!  Not amazing but its colourful...