personal project overview

this is the online video charlie the unicorn 2 wich is where i got the idea for my personal project from. this is the second scharlie the unicorn video that was created by jason steele of filmcow.com in 2006. there are currently 3 different charlie the unicorn videos but i got most of my ideas from this one

this screenshot shows the part of the video that i got my idea for where the unicorns are placed, as you can see they are set out in the same way as they are on my box art.

the reason that i used adobe photoshop to create my box art is beacause there alot of different ways of compiling different pictures together to make a new one, also i used it because i have experience with it so i would be able to get straight into the work without looking and learning how to do different things. i created the background of grass and sky from creating a new brush pattern from one of the screenshots and used that to draw on the grass and the sky. after editing different screenshots from the video i cut different parts out from each screenshot and put them all together to create my box art

this is the first draft idea of what the game box art was going to look like, i created this by watching the videos and then took my favourite pictures and scenes from them and drew them out to look like a game box art. as you can see i have altered a few things from my draft to the finished peice as there were a few things that i thought looked better wen i was editing on photoshop.

i enjoyed alot of different aspects of creating the box art such as when i had everything that i needed and tried different things to see what looked the best, also was creating the screenshots on the back cover of what the game would look like what i did for this part was just get some screen shots of the video and add a health bar and score bar to make it look more like a game i am very happy with the way that this turned out it looks alot better than what i thought it would look like. the parts that i did not enjoy about this was trying to find all of the small legal print at the bottom of the back cover that printed out at a decent quality so that it was readable, i could not find any off the internet so i scanned one of my own games and took the writing from there. i would like to do something like this again as i had alot of fun creating this.

finished personal project

this is the finished peice for my personal project, what i have don ei s created a ps3 box art for a made up game called charlie the unicorn which is an online animation. i created this by using different parts of a ps3 box art and then just added some different screen shots from the online animation and put them all together in photoshop and created this. i found this to be very fun to do although there were some parts that were annoying to do such as getting the right size images so that the writing would be clear enough to read.

this is basically the finished version of my charlie the unicorn box art. all that is left to do now is to tweak the copyright writing at the bottom of the page so that it is sharper and can be read.

personal project

this is what i have done so far for my charlie the unicorn box art. all that is left to do now is to add some more information about the game onto the back and the pegi info and then do the final tweaks.

today i will be working on the back cover of my box art, first i will find a template of a ps3 back cover and add some images and information about the game. i will be designing this on adobe photoshop

this is the front of my charlie the unicorn game box art that i am creating for my personal project. there are still a few things that need to be done to this and then i can get started on the back of the cover.

personal project

today i have drawn a rough idea of what i will be doing on photoshop. i have created a design for a charlie and the unicorn game box art. my next step will be to start planning it out on photoshop for my final design.

project

today i have started on my personel project by drawing out a rough sketch of what it will look like.

project presentation

this is a powerpoint presentation that i made to show what i am going to be doing for my personel project. here is the link to a video of my presentation http://www.mediafire.com/?yv2tmwmzi2w

finished iron man

this is the finished piece for my iron man project, since the last post i have added a black background with a black hole, lightning, fire and a body. all of the background images did not take as long as the iron man drawing.

product design

product design is and idea generation, concept development, testing and development of an object or service.

these are my top 5 products

playstation 3: is a great console with blu-ray player wirless gaming and high def with a sleek design

ipod touch: i like this because of it can play music, high quality video's and 3d games it also has a touch screen and great design

hdtv: with slim and stylish design and great picture and sound quality

nintendo ds: with its 2 screens 1 being touch and 3d games the ds is a great handheld gaming device.
3dtv: this is the next step in home cinema with the capabilities to output in 3d.

banksy

banksy is an unknown street artist beleived to be from south gloucestershire, in his work he shows messages ofAnti-Totalitarianism
Anti-capitalism
Pacifism
Anti-War
Anarchism
Atheism
Anti-Fascism.

this is my favourite peice by banksy.

iron man

this is what i have done for my iron man illustration so far, all that is left to do to this is add the background images and the song lyrics to it.

metallica poster

i dont think that this is a good poster as there is mostly black background but i do like the style and texture of the writing

kiss poster

i think that this is a good poster as there is alot going on around the band and the name, and it almost looks like a comic book cover.

hatebreed poster

i think that this is a great poster as there is the band name at the top with fire from it, a dark picture in the middle and the band at the bottom

korn poster

i think that this is a bad poster there is nothing going on with the band name above them, it does not show what type of music they play

ac/dc poster

i think that this is a good poster as everything seems to come from the man in the middle and it is all the same kind of colour

star trek poster

i think that this is a great poster with the way that the photo of the cast fades into a shot from the movie using the same colours, the bad thing is that the guy on the left has half his face blocked

twilight poster

i think that this is a bad movie poster as there is nothing happening in it and it is really dark in some places of the faces

transformers poster

i think that this is a good movie poster as you have tha main tranformer in the middle coming from embers and with the city under sunset behind, the bad thing is that compared to everything else the main cast seems too small.

avatar poster

i think that this is a bed poster as it gives you nothing about the movie it just shows a world at the top of the poster, the good thing is how the light comes from the planet.

matrix poster

i think that this is a good poster as there is the main cast in the middle with dark storms behind them, the bad thing is that in some places it is a bit too dark to see some things.

the scream

this is a painting by edvard munch called the scream. the mood in this picture i think is frear, this is shown with the mix of dark and red coloursand the man in the painting his face shows the expression of fear.

alice in wonderland

this is a page from the book alice in wonderland, in the illustration alice is talking to the cat in the tree. the cat in the tree i saying that he wants to teach alice a lesson.

pictures that say something

this is the aftermath of the recent haiti earthquake, this picture shows alot of people huddled together taking shelter while 2 men and a woman carry in an injured person from the devastation

http://media.nj.com/ledgerupdates_impact/photo/displaced-haiti-earthquakejpg-4011700fea16988d_large.jpg

iron man

since my last post of iron man my computer crashed and lost everything that i had done since my last post. ps.

iron man

this is my iron man up to now i have scanned it into photoshop and went over the lines to darken it out.

plan for finishing iron mam

week one
thursday: talked about how to plan for assignment.
friday: update checklist of work produced for assignment, update drawing of iron man.

week two
thursday: finish drawing of iron man.
friday: scan drawing onto photoshop and edit

week three
thursday: edit picture further and add song lyrics
friday: finish editing of picture

week four
thursday:print out finished picture
friday: make sure everything is up to date and in sketchbook

this is the finished version of the animation that i have been working on for the last couple of weeks. i have now added a title scene, credits and a background soundtrack, the video is approximately 16 seconds long. with the soundtrack i edited it with garageband to fit in with my animation this was quite straight forward with a bit of trial and error. i thought that the making of this animation went well and turned out as i planned it to be.

bbc quiz

i have just completed an online quiz by bbc and got the result ostrich i do not know at the moment what this entitles and i thought that the quiz was not very good .

fight animation

here i have been putting a starting title and ending credits into my animation, after this i will be adding backround music and sound effects.

tees valley giants

this is the tees valley giants that is currently in development at the dock in middlesbrough, this was created by Anish Kapoor and cost £2.7m. i am undecided what i think of this until it has been completed.

angel of the north.

this is the angel of the north that is situated in gateshead and was created by antony gormley and cost £800,000. i do not like this because it looks old and rusted.

bottle of notes

this is the bottle of notes that is situated in middlesbrough town, the artist's behind this are Claes Oldenberg and Coosje van Bruggen. this project cost 135,000 pounds. i like this art work because when i think of middlesbrough town this is one of the first things that come into my head.

assignment

today i have been printing out all the pictures and writing that i have done so far this year.

iron man..

this picture is of my idea for iron man based on the black sabbath song (iron man). this photo has texture, pattern and colour, the texture is on the legs its a jagged metal legs and on the rusted metal bodywork. there is also pattern on the head, i created this pattern myself using the colour from the body. colour is shown in the metal work with different shades of it. i think that a character like this would appeal to older teenagers because it looks like a dark character.

iron man

this is another design of the iron man that i am creating i have used the original iron man costume and added the terminator's head with a iron pattern stamp on and the legs are from megatron from the tranformers movies

iron man

today i have drew a first design of my iron man character it is not completed yet and still need some work done but it is most of the way there.

animation model

this is the start of my model that i am creating for my animation

drawings

today i was looking at different drawing styles like freehand were the pencil never leaves the papaer and drawings from shapes.

i think that this is a exellent drawing and was probably made using shapes.

cd cover

this is the final version of the cd cover that i have been working on for the last few weeks. i got the background and added the fire, guitars and the band name and album name of the band bullet for my valentine.

iron man

this is an image that i got from culture-buzz.com that i am going to use as the base of my iron man that i am creating from the black sabbath song iron man, i will be editing this picture in photoshop and adding other things to it.

new animation

today i have been thinking of ideas for a new animation that i am going to make. my idea is that i am going to have a guy fighting person after person in a big fight scene, this will last between 30 and 60 seconds, there will be between 20 and 30 models getting beaten up and decapitated. the background music will be kung fu fighting

cd cover

this is a cd cover that i am working on for a rock album. i am creating this using photoshop by placing the guitars and flames on a background

image types

i got this image from http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/9871/call_of_duty_4_modern_warfare_2.jpg

this image shows texture and colour, the texture comes from the grain and dirt that is seen in the image, it shows that if it had texture it would be quite rough to the touch. the colours in this image are mostly neutral to go along with the grain texture to make it all fit together.

i got this image from http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/ga/buzz/feature/vg17/cod2_600x463.jpg

this picture has depth to it as there is the main foreground with the soldier and the background with the burning car and the building.

i got this image from http://shinra.gamezine.se/photos/article/a1a1f826f77df773c0292aefe648db6d.jpg

this image shows depth, perspective and movement. there is depth to this image as there is the gun in the foreground then the player and vehicle then the buildings and mountain. the perspective comes from the buildings as this is a 2 point perspective they go off into 2 different directions. the movement comes from the bullet sparks and the buildings become blurred wich shows that the character is moving.

different types of pictures

this picture shows perspective as all lines go into the centre of the picture.

this picture shows movement with the birds wings and the background being blurred.

this picture shows depth as there is a foreground that gets smaller into the background

skate 2 review

skate 2 is the latest in the skate series which is developed by ea (electronic arts), skate 2 is set 5 years after the original game after a series of unfortunate disasters that left the city in devistation. the city has now been rebuilt and has been redesigned with new spots and buildings. there are a few spots still around from the first game but with a few tweaks to them. there has also been a clampdown on skating with blocks put up in the major skate plaza's and around the streets which can be taken down using the new contacts section of the phone, these contacts have big black who will help out with securiy in restricted areas, someone who can drain pool's around the city for a few more skate spots.

the gameplay and graphics have been updated in the game for more playabilaty, new tricks such as handplants and finger flip's, other tricks have been updated to give even more control to the player. the graphics are not much different from the first but you can tell that they have been smoothened out and a bit more detail added and alot smoother gameplay without the jumpiness of the first game. as you progress through the game you have options to buy skateparks and teleport to them wenever you feel like it. if you ever get bored of skating the parks and streets you could always play with the thrasher hall of meat which has taken over from the broken bones screen from the first, with the thrasher hall of meat with every bail you do you will get a score on the amount of bones that are broken or unique ways of injury such as breaking the groin or falling at high speeds.

overall the gameplay and graphics are better than the first with hours more fun to be had and alot more skating. the downside to this game is that sometimes it can be very annoying with the tricks not going as you had wanted and some missions are about trial and error re-doing them alot to get it right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mcx_kRG1Ok