Monday 10 March 2008
So my video represents the way I like to be around people and socialising and being in the centre of it all being busy with things to do. But I am always in a constant struggle to find a place to be alone a place with piece and quiet. Which is something I find hard whilst at university. So the Monkey represents me. The tree is the quiet place, the buildings are the people and everything that is busy in my life and the camera work so me always looking for the quiet place looking to be alone.
Friday 7 March 2008
Evaluation
We were set a project called Identity, we had to explore the meaning of our Identity and how we see our self then form this we had to create an avatar that would be placed in a space. We had to consider our Identity the design of the avatar and the space.
The project meant we had to research what an avatar was to gain an understanding of what we had to do and how we would design the avatar. I thought the best way to gain a understanding of “who I am” so I started by do a mind map this help me to get all the different traits of my personality down I help then to gain a direction of where I wanted to take the project. So to help I did a mood board so I could visualise my mind map giving me a good direction on what to do. For the avatar design I started to draw myself and then develop those drawing an illustrated avatar. I came up with the design of a monkey wearing a green T-shirt listening to music. This is to represent that my nickname to my friends is monkey, green is one of y favourite colours and I really like listening to music. I feel a monkey is the best way to describe my identity.
The area, I decided to have it a city with a huge tree over looking and have my Avatar sitting on a branch looking down at the city. The idea developed because as a person I like to be surrounded by people and be busy in a busy environment. So the city represents this need to be around people and the need in a busy place, but then there is a contradiction with me, because I am constantly looking for a place to be alone. I wanted to show this with the huge tree which is the main theme representing the constant need to be alone. My avatar is sat down looking over at the city this is to show what the city represents to me as the busy place. To design the area and Avatar I had to use 3D Studio Max this is a 3D modelling software, I found it really hard to make any progress at the start of the project I found it to be a big learning curve, but after I learnt the basic I felt comfortable to produce my Avatar. I think if I had more experience with the software I could of done more to the area and made it look a lot more professional.
The movie is going to have a sound track of a busy city and birds singing. I thinks this puts across the idea of the busy to city to the viewer even though I have not modelled cars or people the audio will allow the viewer to know they seeing a busy city.
I started my research in an online 3D community to gain an insight what it is like to have an avatar I maybe change your Identity and in a way become some else. I kept a diary that followed my Avatar progress with the virtual world. I food the experience to be both interesting and little boring because of he fact that there was not much to do on the online community that I was on, I don’t think I would go back on this particular one again. As another form of research, I looked in to the work of Russ Mills an Illustrator. I especially like his work form 2006-2007 because he did portraits of people and edited them on the computer to get his finished result his work at this period consisted of just people’s faces.
I feel this was a successful project and that if was to do it again I would like to charge a few features and maybe do some more tutorials and some animation in the video. But due to the time constraints of the project I was limited to what I could do but I am happy with the final movie, I feel I am ready for the next project and feel my ideas reflect the ideas from this project.
The project meant we had to research what an avatar was to gain an understanding of what we had to do and how we would design the avatar. I thought the best way to gain a understanding of “who I am” so I started by do a mind map this help me to get all the different traits of my personality down I help then to gain a direction of where I wanted to take the project. So to help I did a mood board so I could visualise my mind map giving me a good direction on what to do. For the avatar design I started to draw myself and then develop those drawing an illustrated avatar. I came up with the design of a monkey wearing a green T-shirt listening to music. This is to represent that my nickname to my friends is monkey, green is one of y favourite colours and I really like listening to music. I feel a monkey is the best way to describe my identity.
The area, I decided to have it a city with a huge tree over looking and have my Avatar sitting on a branch looking down at the city. The idea developed because as a person I like to be surrounded by people and be busy in a busy environment. So the city represents this need to be around people and the need in a busy place, but then there is a contradiction with me, because I am constantly looking for a place to be alone. I wanted to show this with the huge tree which is the main theme representing the constant need to be alone. My avatar is sat down looking over at the city this is to show what the city represents to me as the busy place. To design the area and Avatar I had to use 3D Studio Max this is a 3D modelling software, I found it really hard to make any progress at the start of the project I found it to be a big learning curve, but after I learnt the basic I felt comfortable to produce my Avatar. I think if I had more experience with the software I could of done more to the area and made it look a lot more professional.
The movie is going to have a sound track of a busy city and birds singing. I thinks this puts across the idea of the busy to city to the viewer even though I have not modelled cars or people the audio will allow the viewer to know they seeing a busy city.
I started my research in an online 3D community to gain an insight what it is like to have an avatar I maybe change your Identity and in a way become some else. I kept a diary that followed my Avatar progress with the virtual world. I food the experience to be both interesting and little boring because of he fact that there was not much to do on the online community that I was on, I don’t think I would go back on this particular one again. As another form of research, I looked in to the work of Russ Mills an Illustrator. I especially like his work form 2006-2007 because he did portraits of people and edited them on the computer to get his finished result his work at this period consisted of just people’s faces.
I feel this was a successful project and that if was to do it again I would like to charge a few features and maybe do some more tutorials and some animation in the video. But due to the time constraints of the project I was limited to what I could do but I am happy with the final movie, I feel I am ready for the next project and feel my ideas reflect the ideas from this project.
Diary Synopsis
I tried to enter the community of Second life but found I could not enter the community or even get an account from them so I found a different online community call Vside. This is a small online community. There are only three average sized maps to explore.
I found my experiences in Vside to be at time to be a bit boring I started getting a little bored with doing the same things I did not like the idea of socialising on a computer with people I do not know I preferred to socialise with people I know. The first two weeks were ok they were more about discovering what was it all about and why people create a new identity. At first I got a little addicted to the online community. I think it’s been more of a novelty of meeting and talking to people you haven’t met and are in a different country. I noticed that it never really gets busy until late at night I found most of the events I went to, this could be because the creators of this online community are based in America and so the majority of the people that go on this community are American and the events that I went to. It was three in total they were at 4 o’clock in the morning. I only did this to experience what it would be like to visit these events.
In Vside I also heard that there were quite a lot of secrets to find in Vside. I was fun finding these secrets I meant that I had to make more friends so I find these secrets within the online community. Managed to make around more than 100 friends, in the community there is an incentive to making more friends because you earn points called “Respekt” points the more you have you are able to access new areas such as VIP rooms or buy items of clothes that are made available by getting more points. I did actually make friends with someone that I spoke to on a number of occasion’s jus to catch up. They were one of the people who invited me to the event that took place one event was quite tricky to find. I had to find my way to a hidden basketball court. It took a while to find. The party was at 4 am so I decided to look for it before the party I did not want to be looking for something so early in the morning.
I would say my experiences in Vside to be quite exciting but as the time went on and I done majority of the things you could do on Vside. I got a little bored especially when the project work got more demanding I got less and less to enthusiastic about visiting the community. I think I might go on it again from time to time but I don’t think I could get addicted.
I found my experiences in Vside to be at time to be a bit boring I started getting a little bored with doing the same things I did not like the idea of socialising on a computer with people I do not know I preferred to socialise with people I know. The first two weeks were ok they were more about discovering what was it all about and why people create a new identity. At first I got a little addicted to the online community. I think it’s been more of a novelty of meeting and talking to people you haven’t met and are in a different country. I noticed that it never really gets busy until late at night I found most of the events I went to, this could be because the creators of this online community are based in America and so the majority of the people that go on this community are American and the events that I went to. It was three in total they were at 4 o’clock in the morning. I only did this to experience what it would be like to visit these events.
In Vside I also heard that there were quite a lot of secrets to find in Vside. I was fun finding these secrets I meant that I had to make more friends so I find these secrets within the online community. Managed to make around more than 100 friends, in the community there is an incentive to making more friends because you earn points called “Respekt” points the more you have you are able to access new areas such as VIP rooms or buy items of clothes that are made available by getting more points. I did actually make friends with someone that I spoke to on a number of occasion’s jus to catch up. They were one of the people who invited me to the event that took place one event was quite tricky to find. I had to find my way to a hidden basketball court. It took a while to find. The party was at 4 am so I decided to look for it before the party I did not want to be looking for something so early in the morning.
I would say my experiences in Vside to be quite exciting but as the time went on and I done majority of the things you could do on Vside. I got a little bored especially when the project work got more demanding I got less and less to enthusiastic about visiting the community. I think I might go on it again from time to time but I don’t think I could get addicted.
Sunday 2 March 2008
Avatar Space implementation
Now that I have created my avatar I now need to create area my avatar will go into. I struggled at first to figure out how i will go about implementing the space it took me quiet a while to get used to some of the features i had never used such as lighting and mainly using the camera.
Avatar implementaiotn
I struggled at first to create an avatar for in 3D studio Max beausse with it being a new software to learn it took me a while to figure out what to do. After a bit of messing around with software I managed to create my avatar.
Sketch book Space Design
Now That I have developed my Avatar I need to consider the space I want it to go in to. I need to consider my identity for the design. As a person I like busy places such as a city and I like quiet place . So in a way I love being in a busy place but I always in constant struggle to find a quiet place to find piece and quiet. So before I design my space I need to research cities a and parks.
These are some of the pictures I took.
These are some of the pictures I took.
Sketch book Avatar Design
I have came up with my final idea for my sketchbook I decided to go for the Monkey design because it as always been my nickname. I also decided to give him a green T-shirt because it is one of my favorite colours. Because the drawing was in 2D I could not imagine how I would be able to model my avatar in 3D.
Sketch book Avatar Design
Now that I have explored my identity i feel it is time to start my design Ideas. I wanted to go for something simple because I had to model my avatar on 3D Studio Max which a piece of software I have not used much previous so I think by keeping it simple I could easily produce a avatar.
sketch book
Here is where i looked at an artist illustrator who drew portraits of people. His name is Russ Mills he uses real media to draw his images then he edits them on the computer. I really like his technique and his style I did a project last year on this artist and I tried to replicate his style but using some of my own techniques
Sketch book
These are some images that i drew of myself, I wanted to use different methods of drawing to explore who I am. I feel the best way to explore my identity is to draw myself.
Sketch book
On my blog I will show extracts from my sketchbook showing my thought process on this project and the ideas i want to put across my ideas on my identity.
This is my mind map and the mood board that I produced that shows my identity.
This is my mind map and the mood board that I produced that shows my identity.
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