Post 1: Questions/Research

Task 1: Key Questions

What/Who will be my character(s) be?
• Zed
• Cloud
• Vincent Valentine
• Itachi Uchiha
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Who has done this before?

Who/What is my favourite Animated/Video-game character

How can i be original?

What new skills do i need to learn?

Movement

• Blender - Motion capture

-Camera tracking

• Digital Video Camera
• MPEG Stream Clip

Character
• Illustration-pen tool
• Scan
• Drawing
• Tracing
• Photshop

Task 2: Research: Existing Characters

Zed

Aesthetics- I can't really see his body because he has a full set of armor like shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Color palette- Black, Grey, Red Purple, And Metallic

Style- Asian/Oriental

Accessories- Full set of armor, Hidden Blade, Giant Shurikens, Cape

Personality- Dark, Evil, Power hungry

Motivation-  To have his revenge on his master who banished him for using the forbidden art.

Relationships- Zed is friends with Syndra who is the dark sovereign and enemies with Shen(Master's son), Akali and Kennen who were the ninjas that was trained by the same master who was killed by Zed


Back story- Zed was an orphan and was taken in and trained by the great ninja master. Zed always wanted to win the master's favour but Shen(Master's son) always draws with him. Zed became jealous and then sought out to find an advantage. He found a box which had all knowledge of the forbidden ways and used the techniques to beat Shen at a duel. His master found out that he used the forbidden ways and banished him. He then comes back with an army to seek revenge in which lead to the death of his master and claimed the temple as his training grounds.

Cloud

Aesthetics- Tall and skinny, has a good proportion.

Color palette- Dark, Flat

Style- Realistic, Hand-drawn

Accessories- Buster sword, black outfit

Personality- Helpful, Determined

Motivation- To stop Sephiroth from coming back to life

Relationships- Cloud has a relationship with Tifa Lockhart and enemies with Sephiroth


Back story- Professor Hojo had found the bodies of Zack and Cloud and decided to use them for experimentation of the Jenova Project. For five years, Cloud and Zack were used as lab rats to Hojo in the Shin-Ra Mansion. The amount of Jenova and Mako injected into Cloud’s body brought him into a comatose. Zack had no reaction to the cells injected into his body and five years later he broke out of the Shin-Ra Mansion along with Cloud. Zack had escaped with Cloud who was still in a coma state, yet before they made it into Midgar, Zack was shut down. Cloud’s memories then joined with what Zack was, causing Cloud to believe he was Zack. Later on Cloud’s memories merged with Tifa’s thoughts, and Cloud believed he was the First Class soldier who grew up in the town of Nibelheim.

Vincent Valentine

Aesthetics- Tall and Skinny. His aesthetic reminds me of Itachi Uchiha from Naruto Shippuden.

Color Palette- Dark, Stained

Style- Destructed, Urban

Accessories- Headband, Cape, Gun, Pointy Gloves and Shoes

Personality- Vincent isn't much of a talker. He always keeps quiet and doesn't try to be friendly with anyone.

Motivation- To kill Sephiroth who was the antagonist
Relationships- Vincent fell in love with a support scientist Lucrecia Crest

Back story- About thirty years ago, Vincent was a member of the
Shin-Ra Electric Power Company's Administrative Research Division--the company's Black Ops unit, otherwise known as the Turks. At the age of twenty-seven he was assigned to supervise something called the JENOVA Project in a town called Nibelheim, and there he fell in love with one of the supporting scientists, Lucrecia Crescent. Though they were very attached to one another, an unpleasant secret in Lucrecia's past--related to the death of Vincent's father--caused her to withdraw from him and instead pursue a relationship with another scientist, Hojo. Soon after, Lucrecia was discovered to be pregnant, and the fetus was slated to be used as a subject in the project. Vincent seemed to operate under the impression that the child was his, although her relationship with both him and Hojo made the issue of fatherhood rather vague.

Nacho Libre

Aesthetics- Hes tall and fat which reminds me of luchadors from Mexico .Has a good proportion.

Color Palette- Light blue, bright

Style- Mexican

Accessories- Mask, Pants

Personality- He has a good sense of humour

Motivation- To get the woman of his dreams

Relationships- Crush on a Nun

Back story-  He was raised up in an orphanage and one day he came across a poor man who had wrestling skills which lead them to becoming a tag team

Batman

Aesthetics- Tall and muscular, has good proportion.

Color palette- Monochromatic black,

Style- Hand drawn, Urban, Cartoon comic surrealist.

Accessories- Mask, Cape, Arm gear, Belt

Personality- He is a calm, unfriendly person

Motivation- His motivation is to stop crime in Gotham city

Relationships- He lives by himself in a mansion with his loyal butler who took care of him since he was young

Back story- Both of his parents died when they went out one night. This motivated him to stop this from happening to other people by stop crime in Gotham city

Post 6&7: Advanced Tools And Techniques

Task 2

Explain how advanced tools and techniques have been used to create, edit and integrate digital media outcomes.

For my spatial design I've used a variety of advanced tools and techniques to produce my city. For the one of the principle of animations I picked rendering and compiling. One of  the advanced techniques I used to create my work is rendering and compiling. it uses a lot of tools such as mesh movement, bone rotation, key frames, and rendering. This helped me produce an animation that made my character move and look alive. In order to have an animation you would have to collate all the rendered images from Blender into Adobe After Effects so that the program would turn all the rendered images into a character animation. Another principle of animation that I picked is the Advanced modelling. One of the advanced techniques that I used is modelling. This uses a lot of tools such as the extrude tool, transform tool,  Loop cut and slide tool, and knife tool. Advanced modelling requires a lot of tools in order to achieve a high quality model because all of those tools help with the accuracy and detail of the model. This helped me produce a high quality model that appeals to my audience.


Task 3



Discuss why advanced tools and techniques have been used to create, edit, and integrate digital media, and how their use has enhanced the outcome.

Advanced tools and techniques do help to achieve a high quality of work. One of the techniques I used is animation which is part of the rendering and compiling principle of animation. I chose this advanced technique because it helps you produce an animation. It helped me produce a high quality animation which appeals to my audience. If I haven't used this technique then my character would only be stationary which wouldn't appeal to my audience. This can affect the quality of my work which I luckily used for my character to produce a high quality animation. Another advanced technique that I used is modelling which is a part of the rendering and compiling principle of animation. This technique helped me greatly to produce a high quality model which is above the standard that I was aiming for. This also helped my model appeal to my audience because of the quality and detail of it. Without this technique I wouldn't have any good details on my model which can downgrade the quality of my work.






Task 4




Student can evaluate how the application of advanced tools, techniques affect the quality of digital media outcomes.

The advanced technique that I used is modelling which is a part of the advanced modelling principle of animation. When I was in the construction of my spatial design, I would use the loop cut and slide tool to mark out the roads and locations of the buildings. This gave me an accurate placement of my roads and buildings which helped me produce a high quality model. Another example which I used the technique on is the details of the buildings and roads. I used the loop cut and slide to achieve straight windows and doors for my building. I also used the loop cut and slide to mark the roads. This helped me achieve a high quality of detail for my model which appealed to my audience. Another advanced technique that I used is animation which is a part of the rendering and compiling principle of animation. Before I was compiling the rendered images I used the rotation tool to rotate the armature of my character in order for the model to move. Then I used the keyframes tool so that I capture the movement of my character. I repeated this process a lot of times and it produced a number of rendered images. These images are then collated to produce my animation. This technique helped me increase the quality of my work which appeals to my audience. This technique also helped make my character look very realistic because of the quality of the rendered images.