Extra Credit- Story Board's

These are my story boards. They outline a game where a hunter is trying to find the secret diamond hidden in the castle. In order for him to reach this diamond he must blast through a wall of piled stones to uncover the key. Once the character does this the key is used to unlock the door to the castle where the character is greeted by poisonous snakes that circle the diamond protecting it. The character must use his sword to slay   the snakes one by one without being bitten. After he has defeated the snakes the magical diamond is all his. 

My first board outlines the general concept of the game that I have just displayed for you. My second board outline the  scene where the character is slaying the snakes to get to the magical diamond. The last board shows the very beginning challenge the character is faced with having to blast through a wall of stone to get to the needed key. 

Final Semester Project

I updated my rock, paper, scissor poster because it was the lowest graded project. I also wanted to take it to another level by animating it I'm photo shop. I went with the same layout as the old project but I changed the colors and fonts to all match. I also changed the artwork because I wanted photos with a clear background to keep it simple. I animated it using opacity to get all of the objects to appear, and I used position for the description and the rules to be "pulled" into place. That aspect is hard to tell because they did not move very far. I am very pleased with how the new version looks.



I chose to do a different line art because the last mountain I did was not dimensional and pretty basic. This took my the most time because the object was large and it had to be carefully outlined because of all the curves. I filled in the shadow colors pixel by pixel and was surprised at how many difference shades of greens. blacks, and blues can be used in one small area. I filled in the silver color by selecting the area and using the fill option to fill it in. I like how this came out because it looks very similar to the original, and the mountain seemed to have layers of different colors. This took so long because every few pixels I would need to grab the eye drop tool and start filling in the next few.

W14- Second upgrade

These renders show my updated maze. I wanted to continue to make it look more like a icy cave. I got an icicle texture and dropped it into photo shop where I edited out the background. Then I duplicated it to create a boarder around the maze, leaving a few spaces where the door would be. Then because the color came very dull through the render I made it almost completely white so it showed through to look icy. I wanted to add snow to the top of the maze so I used the paint effects and stacked bubbles on top of each other to look like piles of snow. Because these were also dull and see-through when I took a render I make the bubbles white to look like snow. I was able to use some tools I used in photoshop to upgrade my maze in maya. Although there is no way to edit out the blue cones that provide the light, overall I am happy with the progression of this project.

W013- Project 2 upgrade

I chose these icicles because I thought I could add them around the boarder of the ceiling of my maze. I would do this by getting a tillable texture and recreating it as it did for the rest of the maze structures. This would give it more of an icy feel because in the renders it is hard to see that the top is blue ice. If recreating tiles does not work I can always use paint effects to create different strokes or maybe different size cylinders. As a third resort I could try and create something that resembles icicles in illustrator and see  if I can transfer that into maya.

This represents a pile of snow. I also want to add these to the top part of my maze or pushed up against some of the walls in the maze to create more of a tunnel feel. I can do this by creating a shape in maya and distorting it so it looks like an abstract mound, then I would color it white. I would probably have these mounds pushed up against the corners, and they would be fairly large. 

W013-updated project

The first animation is my original title screen. I chose to update this title screen because there was technical difficulties with the first title screen. In the original one (first animation) there was no snow. For the updated animation I added snow because it would give more of a wintery feel to the screen. Also, because it can snow on a mountain, where the game takes place I thought it fit. I did this by taking the snowball and shrinking it down to two different sizes. Then I duplicated these sizes and placed them at the top of the screen. I had them fall at different speeds of time to replicated how actual snow would fall. 

W12- Game update

This was my first animated title screen. I want to update this by having all of the clouds turn dark like the Game options cloud. I would do this by coloring the clouds and having that animation appear consecutively as the snowballs are rolling so the game options cloud is the last to light up. I also want to add a character to this title page. I want the character going down the mountain in front of the snowballs to bring the "challenge" part of the title some meaning. I would do this by getting a cartoon character snowboarding or skiing and have that character progress down the mountain before the snowballs do. I want to add these effects because I feel like it will make the title page more interesting and more centered around the concept of the game. Although the picture below is more dimensional then my game title I chose it for the character. My game title is more cartoon like making it hard to find a professional display of exactly what I want. I chose this character because I like the position she is in. The arm placement and bend of the knees signify that the character is moving downhill. Most of this work will be done in photoshop because it is about adding elements and animation to those elements. I have planned to upgrade the rest of the uncolored clouds since the beginning of this assignment. I had the idea to add a character because when creating my second logo for this game The main center of it was a character and I want to unify the two together. 

W 12 Improved maze

For this render I took it far away to show the glow of the light sources in a general look. The use of the spot light as a light source is shown through the cone shape.

This render is taken from almost a level view and closer in. This is to show some of the cracks on the wall and how the light is glowing inside of the maze.

this render is really far away and a top level view. This shows where the light soured are placed and how the maze is lit.

This render is the closest view. The glowing cracks are visable from the floors and the walls. the light is clearly seen.