Hi again…
So this is where each group will answer their own question. Think about what you’re trying to say with your project–what problem are you solving, what is its reason for being??
This will help us understand each other, but it’s also a good exercise for people who need to get used to explaining their artistic intents when submitting to a show or applying for a grant…
Hi guys,
Please respond to this post with your name, your program of study, what you do, and what you’re interested in!
Thanks!!
Hello everyone!
Sorry it took a while to get this out.
The most important things that came up during the meeting are in the email I sent to the group; if you did not get it/have a crazy filter and don’t even know it’s lost in a sea of emails (you know who you are), I will reiterate. Or just copy+paste.
1- We will be having a second Pitch Day next Monday night at 6:00pm (11th floor, same room 11.707):
2- There will be a new section on the blog for both a) “who we are” and b) “the answer to your question”:
a) When you have a chance this week, you should add a small blurb about yourself to the “who we are”,
i.e. your name, what you do, what you’re interested in, what program you’re in.
b) If you’ve pitched an idea, or have already been thinking about it, we are trying to get people to post “the answer to your question”.
What does that mean? Well, what question are you answering with your project?
More specifically, what is it you are saying with your project, and what is it a response to?
It would be great if we can get used to explaining our intentions, especially if your group would like to show the end product, or are applying for grants!
**web people, does everyone in the group have permission to edit the blog?
3- The deadline for applying for special projects grant with FASA is this Friday the 12th, at midnight!
I attached the form to this email–if you would like it, feel free to email me–you also have to write up a separate detailed budget and project description.
4- Finally, and most importantly:
Although there were no koalas present, we did get attacked by a bunch of huge birds flying out of the wall, and then got really bored.
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Now for the notes:
After a giant, cheesy round of intros, we went over the pitches from last week. If you missed them, here is another (really) short summary:
Ramy’s concept: perspectives
Moh: creepy creatures
Samir: sound
Peter: growing a planet
Brian: interactive game for mobile phones (see emails for more info!)
Pedro: 2 ideas
1-small fear of light, controls the basic human function, the body
2-“panel kill” imagine if a bunch of comic books scattered on the floor, jump into each other’s stories
Nancy: “Tuesday” 4 friends at a bar
Jonathan: 2 ideas
1-zombie game, take drugs to stop from becoming a zombie, otherwise ppl seem tastier
2-platforming with fighting, merged!
(Nancy’s stickman zombie stumbling off a platform)
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WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IN NEXT MEETING:
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More on scheduling:
Our production cycle is one year.
Winter semester: design document (due April)–how the game will play, sketches, references, tests, etc
N.B.: ONCE DESIGN DOCUMENT IS DONE, IT’S A SHUT CASE
Summer semester: production!
Fall semester: (December) is the end! + drinking!!
Pacing is important!
PITCH DAY NUMBER 2!! Next week.
OUR GOALS:
–>For this week, answer the question! Put it up on the blog, organized by project.
Miscellaneous info:
-Can maybe use motion capture at a lab at McGill: physics-based animation (talk to Shahin)
-Club members (again) please put down your name, program of study, what you do, and what you’re interested in doing :)
Ramy D – Spatial Distortion
- Spatial Distortion to accelerate plot.
- Gateways can look THROUGH into completely different rooms. Ie: you can see a sphere through a doorway but only when looking THROUGH. The sphere is not actually PRESENT.
- The example can be found in some films such as “the Number 23, part 05 of 11”. Jim is up somewhere, the camera moves, and suddenly he is elsewhere. Continuous reality.
- PROGRAMMING TRICKS NEEDS STORYWRITER. MODELERS. ANOTHER PROGRAMMING.
- Camera angles will be triggers. If you look at something a certain way, perspective changes and a key plot point is revealed. The world is malleable, everything changes gradually.
- Not looking for something visually complex but progressively detailed.
Mohannad – ART DIRECTION PITCH
- Very washed out, no obvious horror elements, grayscale
- Story Ideas; “Nature’s Evolution”. Humans are parasites feeding off the planet. Nature’s way to fix it is to slowly mutate our DNA to be closer to more valuable creatures/animals. People start developing weird deformations.
- “Consequences”. Wheelchair guy develops joints and bones to deal with his condition
- GAMEPLAY IDEAS: 4D painting that you can go into and live in. Static environment and characters except for minor animation cycles (eyes, water drips, etc.). Like modern warfare 2 ending “the museum”; acting out action scenes in “boxes”. Quiet other players, only bother you if you bother them.
Nancy – Tuesday: a tale of being terrible http://netownsend.net/ccgd/
Pedro – PANEL KILL/BODY EXPLORATION
- Comic book exploration, like a choose your own adventure book.
- You can mix and match your characters ie: put Calvin and Hobbes into “Watchmen”. Mixing genres make the story more entertaining. Like exploring a comic book, moving panel to panel.
- GAME IDEA2: You are a ball of lights that “fixes” the body, repair dead cells, eliminate disease etc.
- Full 3dimensional space: locate yourself, control the white sphere and learn new movements with it. Collect points to get new abilities. Precise surgical tasks, like sewing arteries.
- Reference: Trauma Center Series, movements like flower.
KODAMA (Japanese for spirit)
- Grow your own planet. One flower into many, many trees, roots combine in the middle area
- Cute little white blog character. A specific happy/cutesy feeling, you are creating your own ecosystem.
- Little due holds a cloud like a kite and walks around to make things grow. Every time you restart, you make a new world.
- THERE ARE NO THREATS
Jonathan
- You are on the verge of becoming a zombie, you must take drugs.
Samir
- Playing with sound
EVERYONE WHO HAD A GAME IDEA, PLEASE POST IT TO THE GROUP!!
Summary
The country in which the story takes is agoraphobic. Fourths country is isolated from the rest of the world, surviving in a state of fear masked with false peace. There are no provinces or states, just cities and ordinary citizens never leave the city where they are born. All products, including information are produced and consumed in the isolation of the cities. There are no old people and it’s assumed this is the way it has always been.
One person was not in awe; Kara’s Father hands gripped. For a split second his eyes lost composure and sank deeply into his sockets. Although Kara’s father was young, early forties at the oldest there was something aged if not wise about his reactions up until this point. Right now, he was loosing his shit. The memory that came to him in the kitchen this morning had now become clear, he knew what was flying through the air and he was scared.
Dan grabbed Kara’s hand and she knew at that very instant to do as directed. They ran into the city leaving the crowd behind them, still staring at the sky.
Chapter 1: Playable game
Authors notes: this portion is written as a script for the interaction
Positioned in the center of the city, in a large building on the 45th floor, in a room that looks like a classroom. The room is rectangular with the long side running east to west. The north wall is composed almost entirely of windows opening onto the city skyline. Through the windows shines light from the sun setting, creating shadows and yellow highlights along the south wall of the room and leaking into the hall through the door.
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Action and View:
The camera behind Kara, observing her drawing, focusing on her arm as she colors in her own character. Pan out to view the whole room, with Kara at the front of it (the viewers right). From the rightmost window, a rocket appears in the distance and travels across the viewable space (seen behind Kara, through the windows looking onto the city) and hitting the side of a buildings. Kara gets up from her chair and aproaches the window, trembling. The camera follows, getting closer to Kara as she approaches the windows. The building is still standing as flames start to blow out the sides and rubble tumble from the point of impact. A few moments pass and three more rockets hit different locations of the same building and it goes tumbling down, hitting other parts of the city as it collapses. And there is a moment of silence.
A rocket enters the view space from the left most region and Kara trembles, backing up from the window slowly, heading from the door. The camera is at the window, looking upwards and see the sky filled with rockets circling the city in flying V formation. One breaks away from the grouping , targets and hits a building directly infront of Kara, sending flaming pieces of debris directly at the classroom window.
Chapter 2: Monuments and a Lifetime of Labor
Hello everyone, this is Nicolas Barriere. Some of you I’ve had the pleasure to meet and others sadly not. I’ve been working on a lot of things for the past week and I wanted to share it with it everyone. Principally:
- Ironing out the last few kinks in the Game Script. The script is now at its 4th iteration and I encourage to go read it as soon as possible.
- Making functional schematics of the Game Script. The script is actually quite exhaustive and this simply synthesizes the important points of the level progression.
- Making maps for every area traversed by the player during the course of the level. Detailing everything for the 2D artists and 3D modellers. Now there’s actual visual reference for all of the areas covered in the Game Script!
Here there are:
This page is dedicated to deadlines. People have things to do. This is where those tasks meet up to the normal calendar.
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Hey Everyone
here’s a little update on Kara’s model. Charlotte started her on Maya and I continued what she started. For this week, I’ll be working on Kara’s character in Zbrush. I’ve put a few images for you guys to see how she looks so far.
Navigation
Rotate: click on the empty canvas and drag
Move: Alt + click on the empty canvas and drag
Scale: hold down Alt, Click and hold the mouse down, release alt then drag to mouse. [it easier to get used to that it seems]
F: frame object to the canvas
Ctrl+D: divide geometry
D: higher resolution [Go to the higher subdivision level]
Shift+D: Lower Resolution [Go to the Lower subdivision level]
Shortcuts while sculpting:
Shift: smooth
Alt: Zsubtract [dig into the surface instead of raising it]
Ctrl: Paint Mask
