Final Identities Project

so my second project is finished at last. well it still isn't quite! there are a few dead-ends that i need to sort out but i'm hopefully going to sort this out very soon. i'm also going to try and buy www.jacquipickup.co.uk


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Identities Project Update

At the moment I am really quite pleased with the progress I am making.
I am still doing the animation side of things in 3D Max, but hoping that it should be complete by the end of this week and then I can start the Flash side of things.

So far I have a my welcome page set out how I originally planned. Although there is an addition of a letter. This explains what the site is for and a bit about me. Where the address would normally be is a list of links to the interactive elements of the page.
Letter header:

This was done in 3D Max using a projection.

My basic logo:

Although it looks a lot like a pretzel, it is supposed to look like a 'J' and a 'P' intertwined.

I had the idea of making this into a magic8 ball, the only problem being mapping my logo on the base. Although, I do quite like the idea and might use it anyway without the logo if i can't do it, as it is visually quite effective.


To bring all my objects together I have created a shelf. Below is a render of what it looks like at the moment. Each of these objects are going to link to something. The Letter will open similar to it does at the start. The sketchbook will link to my blog. The photo album will open, and the pages will turn when a page is clicked on. The duck will link to some examples work that I have done during the year. The monopoly house will take you back to the closed door. The Bubble Bottle will take you to a bubble game, where you have to burst the bubbles to achieve a good score. The picture hanging on the wall, will take you to my avatar animation. I am hoping to include the magic8ball but we'll have to see about that one. I have also made an ipod. I meant to include this in my animation but it proved to take too much time, but I would really like to include it in this and make interactive, so that the user can change the between a few selected tracks. I'm not how difficult this is going to be though. I have a feeling I am being too ambitious and I'm sure that flash won't be very kind to me either.

Interactive objects:
1) Bubble Bottle/Game
2) Photo Album
3) Ipod?
4) Magic8ball
5) Door

To Do List(in order of priority)
* make a label for the bubble bottle and map on
* map onto photo album
* sort out the animation for the letter
* animate ipod
* render everything and take it into Flash!
* re-render animation
* buy www.jacquipickup.co.uk
* magic8ball: animate

Identity Project 2 Brief_Ideas

For the second part of the identities project, I want to incorporate as much of my modeling and animation from the first 'avatar' assignment. Not necessarily to save time, but to create continuity through the projects and also this way I will be able to improve what I already have and so insure a higher quality of work. I put a lot of effort and not to mention, time into the first project and although there were a few things which I would've tweeked if I had a bit more time; I was really quite happy with my final outcome.


Welcome Page:
















Full shot of the door which zooms into the door knocker...

















The door knocker will be a button and when pressed it will trigger the knocker to knock on the door (possibility for sound fx) and door will open.

















Simultaneously the camera will focus on the welcome mat with the letters strewn on it. These letters will act as links to other pages and hopefully the images/information on the letters will have some relevance to the link.


I am going to re-model the door knocker and improve the lighting as this is the first page the viewer will see i want it looking good!


Photo Album:
I will model an interactive Photo album where the viewer can turn the page...this will incorporate picture but also AV files. The animation will be done in 3d Studio Max.

Bubble game:
Using the bubbles from my animation I am going to create a simple game where the viewer can burst as many bubbles in an allocated time period.

wAlKeR...

This is my walker from the Heirarchies exercise that we did in one of our seminars, I learnt a lot from this exercise as i hadn't used a lot of the links, IK chains and contraints before. its a shame that i have made my avatar already as i could have developed a more advanced person if i knew this previously, but saying that i am quite happy with the simplicty of my avatar and its environment as that was the originl plan anyway.

Cars

These are my old cars, thought i would have them scooting around! they are just splines that i've extruded and maped so very simple!

bUbBlEs!!!

Using a tutorial from a fellow blogger ( video-tutorials-chile.blogspot.com )and also 3D studio max help i have managed to create a Particle system. I have now got to find out how to animate this...

bill board

i'm not sure why this isn't appearing, any ideas? it plays in windows media player...AVI...small file size...bazzare!

Anyway...its supposed to be a rotatig billboard. It has 4 segments which turn to show the 3 photos which evoke good memories- very cheesy I know. but cheese has its time and place! :D

Snowman

I did this in the first few weeks of the term. I'm not sure why I chose to do a snowman, maybe because it has quite simple structure?! It was just an exercise in learning 3D studio maxx really, I didn't get round to animating him but I found it quite a useful exercise as I found out how to edit polygons and grasped some other basic techniques which have helped me quite a bit when producing my avatar and its environment...

Ducky

This one of my sessions on 3Dmaxx just messing around...

Progression...

when I created the suspended window it made me think of these idents done by Channel Four. I am thinking of making the windows spell out something or represent a symbol. haven't quite decided what though!

this is just to show where i'm at at the moment. I have a billboard at the back which i am going to try to make rotate, and i've got to add maps to the windows. i am hoping to put AVI files into the windows but haven't quite decided on what yet.

Avatar in 3D maxx

BBC3 style blob man

Identities Idea

I have finally thought of a idea for the identity project that i am happy with. i am going along the lines of how everyone you meet has some influence on who you are, whether it is copying a saying from a friend or having your mother eyes. So i am going to create my avatar from cutouts of my friend and families' features and then have my 2D avatar wondering round a virtual world where there are billboards for films i have watched/maps from places i've been etc. At the moment i am thinking about my avatar listening to an ipod which the audience can hear and looking at all the scenery. i'm hoping that 3D Studio Maxx will lend itself to this, but theres only one way to find out...


My animation will be similar to the BBC's 'Charlie and Lola' in its 2D and quite jerky style.

This is an example of magazine cutout animation i found on youtube

I imagine it will be similar to the way they have merged photographs to make an amusing representations of politions etc on the back drop to 'Have I Got News For You'