Author: Thom

For the first lesson of the week, we began by reviewing the movie “Klaus”. what I gained was that they used their own voices as sort of structure to help with the animation before the voice actors came in. They also used they’re own acting as a way to help aid the drawing process. Next…

Question of the Day what is 2D animation? for me, 2D animation is a collage of moving pictures around 24 frames per second. combined into one video. it allows you to create things that are near impossible in the real world and can be done by almost anybody. 2d animation is an animation created in…

For the entirety of Week 12, I focused on completing my 2D game using the assets and game kit that we were given. First I started by implementing the game outline as the background to allow me to understand what I have to work with. Next, I began creating the playeable area on the tilemap…

Games Design Document 1. Title Page 1.1. Game Name –  2. Game Overview 2.1. Game Concept – a 2D platformer that takes you around the body of a car. 2.2. Genre – Fantasy; Modern; platformer. 2.3. Target Audience – any age but mainly late teens and young adults. 2.4. Game Flow Summary – The game…

Games development Today I played battleship, The Oregon trail and Zork.  Within Battleship, the challenges were mathematical decisions based on prior knowledge of the game that’s being played. Within The Oregon trail, the challenges were making sure that all rations were spent wisely and only used when really needed. And within Zork, the challenges were…

D&D Wrap-up Humanoid character For my humanoid character I started by researching reference images on Pinterest. Eventually I came up with a few ideas for each section. I also worked on a colour scheme that matched, by using a website known as coolors.co. Next, I began to work on my character turnaround sheet. I first…

Lesson 1 In our first lesson of the week, we started with a question of “what is reflection?” and “what is the importance of reflecting on what we have done?” reflection is the ability to go over and think about what has been produced in your work. The importance of reflecting on what we have…

Independent study because the 31st of October was an inset day, I was unable to attend my first lesson of the week and so I relied upon my independent study to catch up on the work I might have been set. I began working on creating a face for my character. Following my previous concept,…

Assessment week For this week we were told that we would have an assessment week. That meant that there would be no formal lessons and we would be tasked on focusing on a single piece of work according to a theme. the theme we were set was Divali and colour and light. Immediately I had…

Monday At the beginning of Pete’s lesson, we recapped on the rule of 9 within shading and created another sphere. This time round I felt that I did much better as the shading had much more different tones to it. For the rest of Pete’s lesson we started creation of a concept sheet which involved;…

Lesson 1 And Lesson 2 For the Beginning of Week 4 I began to create shading using Photoshop. I learnt this by turning a circle into a sphere (shown below). On the second half of my lesson on Monday I created a concept of the layout of my dungeon. I gained inspiration from the now…