Lunchometer In Colour

So here is what I've made so far for the lunchometer project.

colour scheme using kuler

luncho biting

Lunchometer Sketches

This is the start of my 2nd week (of 5) with Thought Den. Thought Den do fun web and mobile and interactive installation stuff. Here is their blog post about me (and other things too of course). Currently, I am doing lots of researching and designing the visuals for a web app going by the name of lunchometer.

header sketch

page layout sketch



animation & icon concepts

Own Little World Release

Own Little World explores the childish nature of imaginary games and a naive perspective of grief and loss.

Final Major Project - NCCA Bournemouth University

Thomas Kelly- Director, Art Direction, Cinematography, Character and Camera Animation, Concept.

Alex Goodfellow- Rigging, Transitions, Character Animation.

Chris Carter- Text development, Character Animation, Story.

Steven Bills- Modeling, Textures, Set Dressing, Rendering, Compositing.

Scott Hazell- Music

Benjamin Riehl- Production Assistant

Film Website: littleworlds.co.uk

Production Blog: ownlittleworldshort.blogspot

Compositing

This was an assignment I had in 2nd year. Basically, we had to composit 2 images or sequences together, one of which had to be live action (although they could both be live action).

As I had enjoyed the green screen filming workshops so much, that although I knew it would be a lot more work, I wanted to composit a moving image sequence.

So I went out to get some interesting photographs, making sure to record camera height and map out the light sources so that the exact lighting could be replicated for the green screen shoot. I was looking for a night time, or an indoors location as the lighting would be easier to replicate.

nice background photo I took but didnt use

The shot I decided to go for was one where it looked as though I was walking through a gigantic version of my bedrooom. I then set up my bedroom with appropriate lighting took some shots, and also took some shots with a makeshift chrome ball (an onion wrapped in tinfoil) to help with lighting information.

my bedroom

my bedroom with "chrome ball"

Once the greenscreen studio was set up I realised that it wouldent be physically possible to replicate the shot. This was mainly due to the height the camera would need to be at, and the angle the camera would need to be at to the green screen and stage. So a slightly different shot was shot for the green screen plate.

still from green screen shoot

The still photograph of my bedroom was redone with consideration to light sources and camera distance in the green screen shoot, and also made a little more visually interesting. The image sequence was then composited with the photograph using Shake.

composited sequence

Own Little World Finished

My major project this year has been an animated short going by the name of "Own Little World". It explores the wonder of playing and escapism, mixed with a childlike naivety concerning grief and loss.


As we are going to wait a while before we release it online ( film festivals like to be the first place where a film is screened, and we would like to submit it to as many as we can). Here are some stills so that you can get a flavour of it.





I was part of the group of four, the other BACVA students that were involved were: Steven Bills; responsible for modelling, texturing, set dressing, rendering and compositing. Alex Goodfellow; for rigging, animation and transitions. Tom Kelly, the Director; for Art direction, story, effects, cinematography and animation. We also had production help from Benjamin Riehl and our composer Scott Hazell.

My roles were: story, concept art, character development, boat design, text, animation and credits. For a much more extensive breakdown of my work on this project you can check out my major project report. (sorry about the image quality, but thats the only way I could upload such a big .pdf)


littleworlds.co.uk is the animation's site where more information on the film (release and festival dates and the like) and artist bio's can be found.

Cast of Octopult

So now I've handed in the last of my coursework, I should have more time to update this with the work I've been doing.

Here is the current supporting cast of octopult:











I just had a lovely weekend in London. Stayed with friends for a long wekend mainly to go to


which I would highly recommend for anyone interested in making games of any type (card, board, roleplay, casual, AAA console). I think they are planning another one for October. But yea, learned loads!

Octopult Release

Octopult is now for sale on the app store for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.





It is released under ludomodo (the name derived from ludo and modo, the latin words for play and way, it translates to the way of play), which will be the game publishing name for Dan and myself.

Hope you enjoy it. If you have any feedback I would love to hear it so we can make the changes users want when we update the game.