unit 68 Game Design

Unit 68 Game Design 

these are some mechanic sketechs drawn up with annotations discribing the games main mechanics as well as the 4 "classes" players are allowed to select and what there function is. 



unit51 3d rendering

Basic rendering 

     

first i created some primiative shapes adding a variety of diffrent effects onto each via matriels each use diffrent textures opacitys and reflective propertys, this was followed by adding a texture for flooring and the sky. 

next i tried basic text creation and editing as well as utilising both artifical and natrual light styles.

this is a small landscape peace that was the result of experimenting with the landscape tool as well as the magnet tool 

with this model i used a tutorial to create the lava materiel creating the volcano itself with the landscape tool and then attaching the formula to the lava materiel to finish it off 

in this model i attempted to create a water surface using a custom materiel and attaching a formula module.

Visual Language Exercise

                                                              Visual Language Exercise

This Picture was created for an exercise to create a picture depicting a bird attacking it's pray
but only using basic shapes to create the animals and scenes

this exercises allowed us to use depth and light with basic shapes for example in the picture above
because the is in the horizon objects like the buildings become lighter as the get further away.

This Exirsise envolved us creating a colour wheel

The Art Of The Book

Typography Hakiu Poems

                                                                     Typography Haiku Poems 

for one of the typographic tasks we had to research an independent Haiku poem  and create 4 different interpretations of the poem each time with a different lay out and focus on the message.
the task was assigned to allow us to experiment with different typographic values like size,colour
spacing and positioning and see how they effect the way  a message is conveyed threw typography aswell as the power of the message.






















this was the first version were we kept the poem exactly the same only takeing the word we thought to have more of an impact and turning it into an italic to highlight or sharpen the message.

the second version focused on size and positioning and how it effects the message for example larger text could be presived as louder texts and smaller texts quieter.












the third version mixes the previous two as well as allowing us to add colour to the text and background and show how primarily colour can effect the way the message is prescived
for example text in red could be interpreted  as dangerous or negative

the fourth version of the poem is a  more experimental version it allowed us to use any of the previous methods and use numerous fonts, this version was more focused on overall presentation rather than one specific style.

Optical Illusion

Optical Illusion 

Optical illusions also know as visual illusions  are tricks of how your brain preseves information  transmitted from your eyes for example creating multiple sets of visual information that other wise put together would not make logical sense.

There are three main forms of optical illusions, 

The First is literal illusions that make images from object that would not normally create these images.

The Second Physiological ones that play on the extent of information taken in by the eyes and brain 

this can be created by different things such as light,motion or color.

The Third is Cognitive Illusions more widely  know as "mind games" playing on sub-conscious
information concluded by small amounts information for example the motion of few circles
back and forth into one postilion if done correctly could look like a figure walking because we would relate the shape and motion to the that of human motion even though  the image is just a handful of circles moving back and forth into one position.

This is a literal illusion as in a actual version of this the three circles spin in different directions and at different speeds creating false movements like the circles inside expanding were as there actually just spinning

This is an example of a "Mind game" similar to the example in the description of
physiological illusions, it simulates human movement

because our brain recognizes the shape and musle movment of a human however the illusion is merely created by a few well caculated circles moving in a repeated pattern.

 

 

 

 

This is an example of psychological illusion when animated the two colored pass threw the vertical black  lines creating the illusion that one Square  is slower than the other however a short interval takes away the black lines to reveal that both squares are traveling in synchronization, the illusion comes from the fact that your brain is trying to proses the information consequently one of the squares appears to be slower or faster than the other.

Studies Of Advertisment and propaganda

many advertisements have both literal meanings as well has hidden messages both of which are created in the advertisement.

This advertisement's literal meaning  is evidential a group of fire men not responding to the obvious emergency situation which they are trained to deal with,
the hidden meaning within this is expected by the advertiser to be figured out by the viewer
as they expect you to conseve the same message but apply it to the situation of there company (the WWF
) sort of asking a moral question like the one displayed here asking if it would be accepted
if fire men just a let a fire burn in front of them following with the statement "you can't afford to be slow in emergency" this statement suggests to the viewer that there situation is an emergency.

 













this is an advertisement for Birm a brand of medicine
the literal meaning of this picture is shown in the glasses invulnerability and the hammer that struck it shattering  creating a role reversal as it would obviously be the other way around in a realistic
situation
However the hidden meaning is linked to the liter one by the phrase "no disease can get to you"
 which suggest to the viewer that thr product will give you the invisibility to diseases just as the
glass to the hammer.

03 The Alphabet 

the first alaphabet was used around 2000BC in ancient egypt during the bronze age it was the representation of the lungage developed by semetic workers around that time, today  most alaphabets have been directly molded from this one for example the greek and phoenician alaphabets.

the proto-canaantine much like it Ancient Egyptian prototype only represents consonants in a system called abjad linknig ever alphabet ever used to phoenician script, the aramatic script adopted as the official script of the persian empire is the bases of all modernised alphabets in asia.

   The Greeks

The Greek alpha adoptied phoenician lettering and became the sole source of all europeian lungages

the greek alphabet is also thought to be the first real modern alphabet as it exchanges cosnotants for vowels.

the literal meaning of this mosaic could be to describe something relating in context to the location it is in ,Greek mosaics were used to tell stories and depict the gods themselfs.

The Romans

several hundred years later the romans adoptied the greek wrighting and lungage and refined and modfied it creating several diffrent styles for diffrent purposes like creating formal and informal types for important and less signifiacant documentations,additionally the roman stonemasons used to hook

the letters to stop there chisels from slipping not only was this effective but also seemed to be aestheticly pleasing.

they also created the "baseline" a tool in typorgaphy were the letters sit on a line which allows it to become perfectly alligened and there fore more more aestheic and easier to depict.

the literall meaning could be the documentation of dates or historical events as it also includes several roman numeirals within the text

Roman chiselings were used for documentations for a variety of purposes.

The romans also largely developed books and creating informal handwrighting styles

these books were known from there Greek name a "Codex"(literally meaning block of wood or book in greek) these codices were a large change from there predesseors which were scrolls , the codex had many advantages over the scroll firstly they could be open flat on any page ,secondly they could be wrote in recto and verso formats and lastely the covers gave trhem versitiality and protection

for these reasons codexs were used from there on all the up threw the middle ages.

This codex is a roman codex it seems to tell a story or could be a historical documentations

as most roman codieses did ,this had been transferd from the earlyer greek codises which achived

a similar culturall use.

Urban symbols, icons and Semiotics

Symbols and icons can have many different meanings and history's behind them

and it can mean different things to other people with different cultures or religious view.

Semiotics is the study of symbols and icons as well as the study of there definitions to the many different peoples, experiences  and cultures.

in modern day Semiotics study a much deeper meaning of  a symbol 

studying how effects  on a certain person , the way it is used in communication

,,the way they are organized and the context in which they are used. 

Charles Sanders Perice a philosopher recognized  in modern times as the founder of modern semiotics

Hi's work was less concerned with the meaning but more concerned on how people  recognise the world and the things in them. 

Perice invented a system of three different types of symbols to allow them to be recognized easier. 

1. icon 














An icon is a sign that resembles something such as a photograph of a persion , it can also be an
illustrative or diagrammatic like this stop sign



2. Index 

a index sign is something that relates to an object or location this 
sign relates to the location telling the person that it is the location of a bathroom. 



3. Symbols 

 A symbol will have no logical connection to the object there are many symbols on and off the computer screen one could be the symbol for a web hompage but this would be usually represented

by a house these two have no connection bar the name 

a example of a symbol in real life could be a flag for nation which will also have no connection but will represent it. 

all these types are often used on the internet to help users to navigate from page to page and help the user distinguish information. 

Urban Semiotics 

An urban semiotics system is a system of symbols and icons located in urbanized areas to 

hep locate areas ,designate problems or distinguish different areas or  useful points of interest

such as train stations ,shopping areas or schools 

and example of these would be the sybol for a zoo on a sign could be a elephant or the symbol for 

a parking space could be a capital P as these are associated with there designated locations. 

C.R.AP. Work

C.R.A.P. is good design 

C.R.A.P.  Stands for Contrast.repetition,Alignment and proximity four key standard used in design to convay a message or navigate properly mostly for websites.

i have examples of some below.

 This web page shows a few of the C.R.A.P principles however the most prominent is Alignment
for example the main context of the page has been centered between the margins not only to allow the background to standout but also to centeralise the the information also the illustration and text bubble are connected together to create one function this is also seen below as the image to the left and the text to the right of it also work together in this way.
another principle that can be found is repletion within the texts as the heading within the speach bubble   as well as the sub-heading are the same colour and similar font.
the last Principe visible is  the proximity principle shown hear by the distance between the main heading and illustration and the information below.



















this image shows mostly the proximity perspective using the rule to manipulate negative space and allow the human eye to create the image there are two examples in this image the first being the out line of the dog being created by were the pattern of zeros stops and the white space starts ,the second
being the white space contrasting with the black dots,eyes and nose.

There is also a example of alignment in this image with the zeros in the background aligned horizontally to help create the dog image
 

This image shows the principle of contrast mainly between the flower and the background manipulating the colours of the image for example the colour used for the background is a darker colour even ot of the flowers shadow which slightly dominates the background but also as the image itself is slightly blurred out of vision to allow the brighter and more various colour scheme of the flower to stand out even thow it has not been aligned within the center. 

This image shows Two  of the principles that work together to create the images affect 

the First alignment of the steps,the space between each of the steps and the spaces within the steps 

creates the look of perfection and uniformity with both the steps and the shadows they create 

Secondly repetition is obviously used in the image  created by the continuous perfect alignment of the steps creating  the image.

This image clearly uses alignment to convey its message  as the road and the road lines all 

perfectly move straight forward in the direction of the horizon not only does this convey depth within the image but also creates a sence of motion or movement. 

 

Visual communication in art 

02 ideograms 

An ideograph is a symbol that represents a hole idea rather than one word or numerical unit it is often used for way finding a example might be the representation of a key location E.g a air port,train station or docks they are also used in Arabic numerals and mathematics which are used globally. 

in this picture the symbols based within the upper most parts of the book could be describing or showing a scene or perhaps important information

Cuneiform

Cuneiforms were created by a ancient society in southern iraq over five-thousand years ago known as the sumerians due to there society expanding and beoming extremly large and complex however rather than imploying a wrighting system for the purpose of  storys or documentation but ratther it took on a more bureocratic tone creating a system of  symbols to represent a number of diffrent things like numbers,words or the sounds of words.

The standard for the documentation was to be written on squares of clay mostly becuase the matriel was plentiful as well as reuseable but also becuase the "reed stylus" would create the imprints easly on the surface, the tip of the  reed styluses was stroked onto the surface creating a wedged shaped
symbol which is why it is called a  "cuneiform" as this translates from latin to "wedge-shaped"
in addition the slabs of clay could be molded into diffrent shapes like cones or shperes for diffrent purposes.

This system of wrighting has inspired many others to imploy a similiar system the most famous of which includes the old persian cuniforms a simplified version created from there own alphabets.

The literal meaning of this set of cuneiforms could represent a documentation of sorts
accounting numbers of objects or even pepole.
The more abstract definition could be a depiction of some sort of story or event
as some of the cuneiforms seem to be shaped like humans or animals.

Hireoglyphs

hireoglyphs were a system of symbols and drawings created in ancient egypt to communicate storys or important events,hireoglyphs are made up of three types phonetic glyphs a single symbol that represents one thing alone like letters found in the alaphabet , logographs which represent morphemes
and determantives and ideograms which simplfy the maning of phonetic glyphs and logographs
threw out the ears of the three kingdoms (old,middle and new) over 700 hireoglyphs had been used by the time of the Greco-Roman period its estimated over 5,000 hireoglyphs had been created.

This seris of hireglyphics could literally described
the ascension of a pharaos,
the abstract meaning could tell the story of
a pharaos being granted life or after life by what could be Ra
the egytpian god of the sun one of the most important figures in egypt
and usally represented by a strange eye symbol located in the top left and right of this picture.

Visual communication in art  

01 Cave Art 

petroglyphs 

Dateing back to at least 10,000 BC used by pre-historic  cultures usually neolithic peoples

many different styles cn be found world wide but each of them hold the same amount of secrecy in Language or definition.     

 

The literal meaning of this image is that the carving may be representation of daemons or monsters of some form or prehaps telling a story including these strange creatures.

The abstract meaning could be a religious meaning based around gods/religous symbols 

and there contrast with different aspects of life like time witch could be represented by the small circle the firgure is carrying in the image as these continuous circles were meant to represent their thought of time cyclical.  

           Cave paintings 

 Cave paintings are paintings painted inside caves, on the walls ad the ceilings these paintings have been created since the upper paleolithic estimated to be about 40,000 years ago, the paintings are most often based around wild animals and hum figures a rare and usually very vague, historians believe the paintings are the works of elders of the tribes or religious chiefs know as shamans. 

the literal meaning seems to be to record a hunting event or to record a encounter with a new/Different

Creature. 

the abrstrat meaning is the unknown language or

form of communication to reference something culturially important

           Geo glyphs

 geo glyphs are large drawings on the ground or motifs which are generally larger than 4 meters 

the largest of these is known as The Nazca Lines located in the Nazca Desert stretching 53 miles 

from the town of Nazca and the town of pal-pa in Peru, however there are many more similar to these around the globe including Australia,Scandinavia,Iceland and parts of the former Soviet union. 

it is thought there general use of these glyphs are to be viewed  by there gods but for what purpose remains a mystery though people ether (inaccurately )  accuse it of being for the purpose of terrestrial

travelers as well as assuming the tribes men were added by these creatures because of the mathematical accuracy shown by the glyphs as well as the tools required are thought to be more advanced than this culture however studies have shown that even with today's tools its is possible and very easy to be accomplished by a small group in under 48 hours , therefore many experts believe 

that considering the possible man power  of the tribes it is possible to achieve these feats with no foreign intervention. 

 

the literal meaning seems to be just depicting a creature like a spider or other insect perhaps to be viewed by a god for religious purposes similar to rituals

the abstract meaning could be to represent achievement or serve religious purposes.

  

What i did today

a brain storm created by using bubble us a free brainstorm creation software the brainstorm was used to create a story path and plan out how the story is told and the Oder in which he story's sequences plan out.

A Ying Yang Created with the path tool in illustrator  on 10/1/11