Evaluation

Our evaluation was incorparated within our project.
This was done with power bars and was placed on our card profile.

There were three bars of evaluation.

Strength:
How you applied your skills towards the project. i.e drawing, software.

Power:
What ideas(concepts) you brought to the team.

Stamina:
Your attendence and attitude.

Because we all felt everyone had put in an equal amount of work, we decided to rate our self's then bring our ratings back to the table and discuss them as a group, making sure we were realistic in our judging of ourselves and ourselves within the team.

Next Level

As we talked about the video once it was rendered, we thought 'how can this be better'.
We came up with the idea of 3D, this was a spontaneous thought, and we ran with it. We accomplished this by downloading a 2D to 3D converter, that enabled us to munipulate a depth of 3D'ish...we then proceeded to make 3D glasses.
These are some of the images taken when we made the 3D glasses.

Music

As a group we dicided to go with the theme song, 'Blade Runner' as we thought this suited the project. We believe it was retro and spacey which is the feel we were after or wanted to portray.

                                         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgz6jFxMpyk

We also thought of the Legend of Korra theme for our credits

                                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtGNZOoeVP4

Tweaks

After placing all our elements together we noticed some things that needed attention. This required taking a step back, and re-arranging key frames within After Effects. We noticed that our prologue we wrote didnt make sense and some timings were out. To go back and edit proved difficult but we all wanted everything to be perfect, and felt if there was one mistake then this would not be up to standard.

Near the end

Our team are now nearing the end of our project. We have completed all parts towards the project and now all we have to do is put them together.

Team Picture

This is the team picture that Pastel put together for us.

Placing elements

In this last class session, we brought all elements together. Kate had finished the profile cards, so we were able to bring them across to After Effects and place them in our scene. Pastel also finished doing a team picture that we will place on the final page of our project, this will be a loading screen.
As a team we also discussed a way to evaluate the three attributes that are on the profile cards. These attributes were Strength, Power, and Stamina.

Characters

These are our characters towards our project. They were hand drawn both by Pastel and Aylse, then altered a little in Photoshop, giving small amounts of color to everyone's toon.

Kate

Jay

Pastel

Alyse

Logan

Project continued

Over the last week our group discussed finer details towards the project. Font, music, and our origin stories were researched and applied. Each had the task of coming up with their own origin story that we can place on our profile card. Once that was done we needed to decide on a font that will match the theme of our project, Pastel took note of this.

The music was a little bit of a struggle to find exactly what we are after, this is still in progress.
We ended the class session by giving tasks to each person to complete by next week, we also included a concept of bringing in a prologue story of how each character meet.

Progression

Each individual from our group had set tasks to complete over the week.
Logan created mouse cursor and arrows that will be placed within the project.
Pastel and Alyse created charactor drawings, Kate created cards that our character profile will be placed on, and I created the start of our project within After Effects.

We discussed ideas for backgrounds and card design as we ran in to a few issues with the design itself.
In the end we decided on a final format that we will use. Please refer to the picture below.

 

Intro page to character select

Intro

This is our title 'PARADOX' using the card dance effect.

Paradox

As a team we came up with the name 'PARADOX'.
It was my task to create that title and logo and present it at the start of our project.
First I went to the website http://www.dafont.com/ this is where I found a font that I felt was suitable for a project of this sort. I created our title logo, within Photoshop, then imported to After Effects to manipulate. I then decided on a particle effect. I wanted a bunch of small particles coming together to create our title and logo. This effect is known as the 'Card Dance' effect, and I used a handy tutorial from YouTube to do this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGx1Ur9GrSE

Title/Intro screen

Found a great link showing several different styles to an opening that can show your name/title within a intro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fOdWFNcvxM

Character select images

These are some example images of character select screens.

http://kartones.net/blogs/viciocomomonos/street_fighter_iv_character_select_screen.jpg

http://games-open.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/street-fighter-1-character-selectaryatayebi-just-another-wordpresscom-site-pdaaa3ta.jpg

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/26300000/Ultimate-Marvel-Vs-Capcom-3-Full-Character-Select-Screen-video-games-26309843-852-465.png

 

Decisions

At our last group meeting we decided to design a character select screen that is in a video game format and that will show our profiles and statistics once having selected a character. This was decided as a group, and we set tasks for each individual team member to complete before our next class session.

Pastel & Alyse had the task of Character design by drawing small sketches. Logan, the task of making individual layers so our creation has movable objects we can manipulate within After Effects. Kate had the task of looking at layout or design, and I had the task of completing a name and logo that represents the team and project.

First Collab group meeting

To enable our random selected group to work well together as a team, we decided it was I good idea to 'break the ice'. To do this we came up with a generally questionnaire.
This is as follows:

Interests: Animation, music, movie, TV
Favourite movie\book\TV show: Game of Thrones, Vampire Chronicles
Favourite Location: China, Egypt
Favourite Colour: Purple
Creative Strengths: Animation
Favourite Music: RnB
Least Favourite Chore: Cleaning up after others
Favourite Quote: They got money for war but cant feed the poor
If you could paint a Scene.....: Other world
If you could witness any event in history: 2000yrs into the future
Favourite Superpower: Flying, The force
What Character would you most like to be: Slade Wilson
A song from the soundtrack of your life: Aaliyah-'I care for U'
What do you miss most about your child hood: Hukuna Mataata (no worries)
What would you do if you won Lotto: Blow it all on my family and friends, until I was broke again
Favourite Food: Seafood
Least Favourite Food: Insect
What combo of two animals would you like to be: Tiger, Bat
Clean or Messy: Clean
Ninja or Pirate: Ninja
How would your friends describe you: Chilled, Caring, not pashed
Idol: 2pac, Aaliyah

Facebook link

Have created a link within this blog that will lead to our Facebook group page. This can be found to the right with a Facebook logo. This is available, as we have discussed ideas and thought towards the project

Week One:

Placed in a random group within our class we are expected to basically invent a detailed profile of our team. As a team we have complete control on a design that will enable an effective evaluation of the performance of each team member.