Angela Buchanan, Week 3 PPJ - Blog Post 1

Angela Buchanan, Week 3 Journal PPJ, Blog post 1

Early Concept Art 

Positive Content

-During the meeting there was good discussion about the narrative aspect of game, which helped direct my concept art decisions

-I feel that the images used in the concept art clearly communicates the direction I want to take for the game's theme.

-Not only did I find images for idea inspiration, but I manged to make a few sketches so that we can begin putting consideration into characters and environment.

-Overall the concept art will help the team define the narrative aspects of the game and the world it takes place in.

Negative Content

-I would've liked to get a wider variety of sketches completed.

-I also wish I could have completed the sketches earlier in the week to bounce more ideas off my team mates.

-There was a mix-up regarding who was doing concept art for one-pager.

Work and hours

• Organized files and structure of individual tech demo (1 hr)

 Restructured tech demo organization to make implementation easier.

• Discussed theme ideas with team (1 hr)

Discussed space alien theme park theme. Covered ideas such as the aliens' intentions and the humans' roles.

• Image search (1 hr)

Researched images to use as a starting point for determining style, theme, and color.

I mostly looked into retro sci-fi posters for inspiration. Vegas night life and Theme parks were added as inspiration as well.

A couple of examples

• Color analysis / Pallet creation.

I analyzed some of the images for color direction, then did brief research on color pallets being used.

•  Sketches (3 hrs)

to add more personality to the concept art sheet, I made a few sketches. One alien concept and a ship concept. I also did a colored sketch to test out one of the color pallets.

Total weekly hours: 8 hrs