First of all would like to apologise for not posting for the last two weeks but do have a reason, of which I am going to tell you. As you may remember from my last post the space invaders project was done and dusted, the oral exam done and I had an extended weekend where I would write back my next post the following Monday.
Well I did have all the intentions of doing so but was halloween and ended up going out to have a couple drinks with the people I live with, so did not have any time to post. On that day we spent the whole day being briefed about the new game we would be working on over the following 6 weeks. I cannot tell you too much about this game as I realise that a lot gets changed over the course of production, and as this game may be published on the app store I'd rather not give you false information. Yes that's right, we are making a game for the iPad2 and have been split into 2 groups. I will tell you that we are both making platformers and that one team's main character is a ninja and the other team is a spy. So I am working on the spy team, we have 4 programmers and 3 artists in our group, whereas the ninja team have got 5 programmers and 2 artists.
Anyway onto Tuesday and the reason why I haven't posted in over a week. On this day I came into uni feeling slightly fragile but still capable of working. We were learning how to use Maya the afternoon before and were continuing the whole day Tuesday, and consequently the Wednesday too. Half way through the day I received a phone call from my mum informing me that my aunt had passed away; as I had no idea that she was even ill, this obviously came as a huge shock to me. I decided to stay in uni working, and also came in the following day, but it has to be said that it was all done with my mind a long way away from that room.
Thursday right after uni I took the train home, and then Friday I went to France with my mum to pay my respects at her funeral and spend a couple extra days with my uncle and cousins. This really did help to see that they could still have a good laugh with us, though I guess they had suspected that she was on her way out and had mentally prepared themselves, that's not to say it wasn't hard and very sad for them but I imagine they were in a way glad that she is not in pain anymore.
Anyway I came back on Monday night, and straight back to uni on Tuesday. Basically this whole week is being dedicated to concept drawing. This is where we put pen to paper and decide on the shapes of everything, from characters to ladders and environments. This is kinda fun as this is where you get to interpret the brief in any way you like, and you can come up with some very good concepts. So today has been spent the whole day concepting different ideas.
The interesting thing about today is that Emma (who was on my team) and Isaas the ninja were both switched around the groups today (remember don't get attached to your work as you may have to give it up some time) so a lot of the time today was spent bringing Isaac up to speed with our visual style.
Guess this kinda works out for us though, Emma did some amazing drawings for our spy and all the animations that will be needed; and now we have Isaac we will be getting some amazing environment drawings. I do have a suspicious feeling they will do this again through production, Richard the ninja will be swapped with either Simon or me. Oh well we will see.
Tomorrow I find out my preliminary results from my first project, so will keep you informed on those. Prob won't have much else to say as will be more concepting.
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