Flash Project (update)

After hours of trying to figure out things. I was able to make and Interactive flash using Actionscript 3.

I have to say that I had major frustrations when working on Actionscript 3 in Flash. cause for one thing. it's very very precise. The major problem of the whole script was that I forgot to add in an instance name for the button and it took me a while to figure it out.

Anyways, I managed to do something in Actionscript 3 . So I'm very satisfied.

In conclusion with this class, it was pretty good. It was fun to animation and do different things. I wish i was able to figure out how to do more with interactive flash . But all in all, it was a pleasure. 

Maya Final Project

       So for my final project I basically constructed one of my characters from polygons out of experimentation and then tried an environment background. Maya is still new to me. However I was able to try different things with it and got the base of the program for the most part of it. I found it to be quite fun though at times but also  it was a little painful to work through.

             When trying out the  grass brush in paint effects, it really slowed the computer down. Another thing I tried out was trying a Toon shade on the character.  I guess it turned out okay but the grass wasn't  able to take that kind of shade. Another trouble I had is learning out to use lighting still . I can see why there's a whole another category in lighting with the media, when doing a movie. I'll try more experiments though.  This was a fun class, and since it's over i'm a little sad about it. However, this doesn't mean i'm going to stop on working on maya from here. I'm going to be buying books to try out new things and I'll also be taking an animation class next term, so i'll be definitely looking forward to that.

Final Project. Falling Star Storyboard

So for my final project in my Art 348 I decided to work more on Project 6 with storyboarding and finish the first part of the first chapter in the Falling Star project. This is a redone version of what i made about three years ago. And starting new, I wanted to try different ideas with the story than what I had earlier and still try to maintain the feel that I had with the original.  There were some things I like about this, and there was some things I didn't like. But taking a whole new approach of the story helps give me more experience and ideas of how I want the story to be.


If you are interesting in seeing the original:

(Note: The music composer for that did the music of the original is redoing the music for the new version once it's finished. )

During this class I did a lot with redoing with this project especially with the redesign of characters and environment ideas. It's rather strange how much an idea you had can evolve later in the years. This class had me want to try different things that I'm not use to and even though I still find it uncomfortable, I feel satisfied after I push myself into trying something new.

Also I never got to post this since I wanted to work on it a little more, but since out of frustration with perspective and running out of time, I might as well. I paid so much attention on the detail of this clock.. Which I probably wanted to do last. I'm still going to finish this though over spring break.  

And lastly. since this is in concept art, while I was in art block in working on my stuff I was able to create another concept character which I kind of found interesting enough to show.

 

Although these are loosely based sketches, it certainly gave me ideas of what i could do with this character. Character's name is Liron with two antenna sticking from her earphones.  The line connecting to them, shows the sound waves of the music she listens to . Her hair without music is short, plain and white. But once she listening to music her hair changes depending on her mood and what she is listening to which makes her hair Like a giant audio spectrum analysis.

In conclusion, I had a lot of fun in this class. And it was very profitable for me to learn. I'll remember the exercises that I had and try them again in the near future to make even more ideas.