Final Santa Assignment Result

Here is my complete santa christmas card with a games theme:

And here is a version without the text:

If you're wondering why santa is pulling a pose, then you might also want to know that I recently played saints row the third. Yep its a good game.

Santa Assignment Sketches

For my Christmas assignment I really like the idea of combing santa with old computer/video games to give it an actual CGA theme to it. I had ideas like tetris, super mario bros, and castlevania but I didn't show them all   at once in these sketches.

Concept 1: Castlevania santa riding space invaders

Concept 2: Santa playing an old video game of himself

Concept 3: Santa riding a sleigh made from a Tetris piece being pulled by a space invader and bullet bill

I really like the idea of santa riding a sleigh made from a tetris piece being pulled by other characters from games because it mixes the concept up and gives it more of a game style rather than a modified santa character.

Santa Assignment Moodboard

Final Plane Crash Scene

This is my final design for my 2 week plane crash assignment.

I struggled a lot on this project since there were a number of problems including the UV maps for the plane and also the correct geometry for the plane. I wanted to make the plane look like it slid underneath a building into a large car-park but I didn't have time to put in the debris on the floor. I tried to keep things as close to the brief as possible though. Overall I think I could have done so much better on this project and I am pretty disappointed on how it turned out.

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Plane Crash - 2 Week Assignment

For this assignment I am required to develop a scene depicting a plane crash following instructions set in a brief:

Your scenario is: an aircraft (Boeing 747, American Airlines) has crash landed in New York, (Lower East Side area). The plane has come to rest smashed into a building. The fuselage is broken but largely intact. Parts of the aircraft have broken off and rubble and wreckage is strewn around with some smoke and fire. Our hero character (white male, 30, dark hair, T shirt, jeans) was onboard but has miraculously survived the crash and is standing stunned before the wreckage (to give the scene scale, drama and a focal point for the viewer). The director isn’t sure which time of day will work best for this scene and wants you to produce alternatives for him to consider.

I started off by creating a mood board of various Boeing models so I could get a feel of the general structure and form of a plane rather than just the 747:

I then created a mood board of the lower east side of New York:

Next I created a mood board of different plane wreckages to give me a sense of the innards of planes, not just  a Boeing:

I still felt that I didn't have that much knowledge of the internals and structures of Boeings so I created a mood board containing blue prints and images showing the inner workings of the aircraft:

I finally created the initial idea sketch in which my resulting piece will be built upon. I like the idea of the setting being in an under croft but I may change it to a low hanging bridge. I really like the idea of the plane being split by an impact happening off camera and then the wreckage shown to have grinded across the concrete surface:

Spider Bat Final Halloween Creature

Here is my final 3D Model of the Spider Bat. I think the outcome could have turned out so much better but I struggled a lot with the UV mapping. I think I managed to get a good spider form however.

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Halloween Ideas/Concept sketches

To get a feeling of my final creature I did some concept sketches of general ideas. My goal is to create something that would generally terrify someone. So I had the idea of combining different scary things together to make one big scary thing.

I first did a quick brainstorm of things that make people scared, or generally a bit unnerved.

I then combined some of these ideas together to get different ideas until finally:

I came to my final idea. Because a flying spider generally scares anybody.