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.
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.
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.
