Production log
- 1. 24th Oct – Spent the lesson organising my time in a time plan schedule. 25th Oct – Made a list of some favourite and not so favourite 2D characters of mine so that I may take inspiration and get an idea of where I want to go with my project. 26th Oct – Started mood boards and mind maps with images and text, as a visual document of the theme I would like to pursue. This included anatomic reference that I can link to when designing my final character. 31th Oct – Finished my mood boards and mind maps. Added more images and refined my mind maps. 1st Nov – Generated several sketched ideas for a character, using my mood boards and mind maps from the previous lesson.
- 2. 2nd Nov – Produced a final design sketch. 14th Nov – Began to produce character profile in power point including skills, game outline, appearance etc. 15th Nov – Continued work on character profile. 16th Nov – Presented character profile to the class, and recorded it ready for upload onto Moodle. 21st Nov – Scanned in final idea. I then began to trace over it in illustrator using the pen tool. 22nd Nov – Continued to work on illustrator. Began adding colour and some shading to my character.
- 3. 23rd Nov – Continued to refine illustrator character until finished. 28th Nov – With my finished illustrator character, edited it (redrawing the wings, making frames) in order to make it animated. Then tested that all elements worked as intended in flash. 29th Nov – Made a quick and simple flowchart. Began to make flash presentation, using a few placeholders. Inserted the basic foundations such as menu buttons etc.
- 4. 30th Nov – Continued to create flash presentation, mostly just making sure that the JavaScript was correct and that all functions worked correctly. Also adding some colour. 5th Dec – Sketched out a basic picture of my character from a different angle, then used this as reference to produced this is illustrator using guidelines so that it would be in proportion with my initial illustration. 6th Dec – Added all my imagery to the flash presentation, began to change colours and dress it up a bit etc. Made scene with the character profile information. 7th Dec – Made intro for the flash presentation. Added sound effects and music.
- 5. 12th Dec – Made the moving graphic that interacts with the titles when you click them in the flash presentation. Touched a few other things up a little. 13th Dec – Created logo, implemented into flash. Proofread work, made sure all the files were organised and that everything just generally worked. Fixed up any little flaws. 14th Dec – Began to work on evaluation. Did not finish in time. Although the deadline has passed, I will have to put in extra work to get it finished and uploaded ASAP.