Saturday, 22 March 2014

A new project: BA3 contextual studies

For contextual study project we have been asked to work in a group of 2 to show a presentation at the end of our term this presentation is meant to revolve around character development and what defines the character within a game space.

Personally I think it might be difficult to work with partner compared to working on my own compared to the last two units but also may be a bonus and a way to reflect better ideas off each other I also think that the topic we are covering is an interesting area to view and I look forward to seeing the finished product by the end of this term.

A new project: BA3 Asset Creation

For this new project we have been asked to use skills are developed through our directed study over the past two terms to create a game ready assets in a game engine. First off we have been asked to research different types of castles to come up with our own design idea for a castle it must be placed upon a hilltop with a bridge to have access to it. We have to do research and light sketches to develop our idea of the castle this will be done with rigourous research.

We then have to take are ideas into the modelling package called maya and started create our own castle. Alongside modelling the castle we also have to UV unwrap the model and create a texture for it as well.

Once this is done we are able to take the asset over to a game engine of our choice. Then capture video of the assets rendered in real time in the engine

As well as all practical studio work we also asked to work alongside it with our blog documenting any research and ideas that we have as well as drawings and low poly models. This is mainly to documents are process of working on to show how we have developed our ideas from concept to solid 3-D creation.

My personal opinion of this project is that I found to be more interesting than the other two we have been given so far as I have much experience with my I feel more confidence to create a high standard piece of work compared to the last two projects were I not have any experience in those areas before hope to get high-grade for this project and have a lot of fun with my and get more hands-on experience with different game engines.