I've been a reasonably busy bee the last few weeks. Although I don't have much to show for it!
Firstly, I've gor work from the Ariel, so I've been creating new games and then tinkering with the games to make them better. Its quite cool to have the games shown to other people and then get feedback from them...because they're not involved in the development stage, its nice to get some new ideas thrown in later on (unless I can't code it...which hasn't happened so far which is good!) So here are a mere few of the things I've been working on.
The middle pic is an exercise called the Talking Fireman, and its simply an animated fireman talking through some tasks that the pupils can do, but I really like the animation style on it, as its going to be a wriggly/wobbly line, and I think it looks quite cool.
The Ariel has asked me to design the look of the main framework of the CD-ROM, which I feel sort of honoured/chuffed to do, cause it means I get to put my own little stamp on it, which is pretty damn groovy. I presented them with my one (and only) idea (I only drafted one just because I liked it so much, and anything else I thought of just look as nice in my head as the original idea!)
I liked the idea of the talking fireman so much that I wanted to make the whole CD-ROM in that sort of stylio, so thats what I did. I now need to work on developing the idea so it looks a lot better (as I whipped these up fairly quickly incase the idea didn't go down too well!) I'd say this style was influenced by alot of adverts I've seen for shows targeted at a teenage audience, so the likes of skins and hollyoaks...very much channel 4-based; cause I figured thats what the kids would be into! A sort of grungy/graffiti style. REBELLION should be the name of the style of something...or SOFTCORE REBELLION. I'm trying to make it sound like a font name or something. Okay. Stop waffling, Claire.
I've also been working on a NEW and BETTER mini portfolio...which I don't have screenshots for, but I will do soon! Don't you invisible people worry!
So, yes, keeping busy, but not TOO busy (as I neared a mental breakdown by forcing myself to be TOO busy, so now I'm pacing myself!) So, whoop!
(Have seen Scott Pilgrim TWICE now, because it is AWESOME. I wish I could have fights like that in real life. But that would be wrong. And I also played Heavy Rain over the weekend which was AWESOME. Norman Jayden is my hero. WE wuvs him, precious. But man oh man, I really want to play Lego Harry Potter, because....it looks AWESOME....or it sounds it at least, I've not actually seen any gameplay. And I'm done!)
