Typography for Hour Glass World

Today I worked on making the Typography for the world. I spoke to Jenny about the typography she created for their title sequence, and she told me how it was mostly based on Hebrew and the reversal of certain letters and words. With this in mind, I tried building an alphabet around it as we would need to use it in our book.

Hourglass – שָׁעוֹן חוֹל

Sand – חוֹל

Fall – סתָיו

When looking into different words in the language (that were relevant to our world), I noticed the key characteristics of the typography were the flicks and tails on the letters, and the dageshs. (The small dots above certain letters. Keeping this in mind I created a typography based around these characteristics and this is what I came up with. Once I had this all finished up I started to write it into the “history book” for our final piece.

 

Some links i found useful.

http://www.jewfaq.org/alephbet.htm

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/736774/jewish/Whats-up-with-the-dots-in-Hebrew-letters.htm

http://www.hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_Three/Dotted_Letters/dotted_letters.html

 

Presenting our Trailer

So today we presented our Crystal Egg World trailer. Must say we’re fairly pleased about how it turned out as we all worked pretty hard on it. We worked well as a team!

We also had our projects switched around, now we’re working on building history and culture in our world through a game. We have to make some sort of sport or a game that the inhabitants will play. We need to think about how this game came to be and how it will be played.

Finally finished!

That was a pretty busy one but we’ve finally got it done and out of the way. Today we were working on finishing up the title sequence and putting the rest of the trailer together.

A few days ago we stopped of at the continental market and found a stand selling crystals and stones. We thought we’d pick one up for research and photo opportunities for the project. Today we brought it in, along with the pre-made crystals the previous group made and took photos. We got a sheet of acetate and drew on it with different coloured whiteboard markers, then placed a torch underneath to project the colour. We then placed the crystals on top of the light to illuminate the crystals. Below are the results!

I also tried applying the textures I made to the models Rebecca and Phoebe made, but for whatever reason they wouldn’t hold on to the model so any time we imported it, it would just come out gray. From here because of timing we had to make the decision to make it one solid colour, giving the world a monochromatic feel. It would have been nice to have the textures but the scenes do look pretty good with the solid colours.

Once we had it pieced together I attempted to merge Caitlin’s music piece with my own and succeeded! It was pretty coincidental that Caitlin’s piece ended on the note that mine began on, so it was pretty simple to merge the two.

Texturing

Today i worked on texturing the character’s Rebecca and Phoebe made, I exported them from Sculptris and saved them as .obj’s and then imported them into photoshop. From there I could paint directly onto the model.

After seeing Rebecca and Phoebe’s models, we decided that Maya might be the best suited direction for this assignment. Phoebe has been experimenting more with animating camera movements in Maya and seems to have got it down to a tee. I think we could easily accomplish what we’re looking for if we continue with Maya! We also think this because the stop motion animation we tried out didn’t turn out quite the way we wanted. It was only an experiment though so we’re not to bothered.

Sculptris

Recently Phoebe and Rebecca have been experimenting a lot with Sculptris and Maya and we’re beginning to think that this might be the direction we will be taking the animation. I began to play about with sculptris as well and this is what I came up with.

Moving arm animation

Today Alec looked at our Moving Arm animation, as always he gave us feedback on how to improve on it which was pretty helpful as i’m starting to figure out Maya.

When creating this animation, I re-read over what Secondary Action secondary action is.

“A Secondary Action is an action that results directly from another action.” Source: https://www.evl.uic.edu/ralph/508S99/secondar.html

 

 

Music and Typography

We dedicated most of our time today to designing typography for our world and the soundtrack.

 

I looked at the xmen: first class sound track for inspiration. I decided to use the bass line in “Not That Sort of Bank” (video above)  and then stuck to a simple chord progression. I also used the Condensator  amp setting in garage band and used a pitch shifting pedal in order to create ambient and ominous sounds. Caitlin also created a piece of music so once we finished our pieces we worked out how we could merge them.

When creating the typography I looked at different crystal formations and how tessellations could be put together to make a font.

           Image source: http://www.adventure-caves.com/images/Cristales_cueva_de_Naica

 

 

Image source: https://www.pinterest.com/nickiemillard/my-magickal-world-of-crystals/

Image source: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/kangaroo/forum/topics/origami-tesselation-variable-folding

Crystal Egg World

The projects have been switched around again! Sadly Even and I have been separated after working with each other from Week Zero. Sad times indeed… But i’m with a new team now and after talking we seem to have well rounded team! Phoebe seems to be great at modelling and camera movements in Maya, same with Rebecca! Rebecca’s watercolour art is amazing as well. Caítlin is a great talent for photography, typography and music so overall this is a great team to be working with and I look forward to seeing what we come up with.

So for the trailer for our world we’ve been going through various ideas. We’re thinking that we might make a map, and have the camera pan over it. Then when the camera reaches a key location it will transition into the maya made location, then fade back to the map and move to another point where we’ll have another area of the map made in maya. We’ll look at the game of thrones intro for influence.

 

We’ve also been thinking of looking at video game intros for inspiration like a scene from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. I felt that we should look at this one because it gives of the same feel that the last group tried to convey in their animatic.

New markers!

So i’m still working away on the world project, while doing the essay and photos. We’ve been told to focus more on getting the photography and essay assignments finished up. I picked up some copic and promarkers today and they are amazing!! Really loving them as they’re so easy to work with.

Colour presentation

So today we presented our world with colour and compositions added. We were first to present and things went fairly well. However, after seeing how all the other groups worked and came together, i started to think that we maybe could have collaborated more together. I saw that other teams were using other peoples drawings and building upon them and i think thats what we need to do more off. Don’t get me wrong though, we did work well together and discussed each other’s styles and drawings with each other, but we didn’t really switch and exchange drawings to build upon and improve. I’ve definitely been inspired and will begin to do more of this.

Below are some of the pieces i presented.