10th day of Intern

  What I have done today was completed the third character which is the crocodile.

  The characteristic of the crocodile is evil and unfriendly. She is a female crocodile which is very protective to her eggs.

 This is the color test of the crocodile. The color which I have chosen was similar to the color of gold and with red costume. Gold represent the evil of the crocodile and the red represent the violence of the mother crocodile.

  The mood board which I have found was green in color which is the original color of the crocodile.

 The style guide which I have found was the picture above.

9th day of Intern

  What I was did today was proceed to another character design which is a crocodile. It's just same with the previous character that I did. I have done researching on the crocodile. There are a few kinds of crocodile which are Nile crocodile, West African dwarf crocodile, Estaurine or saltwater crocodile, Johnston's crocodile, Cuban crocodile, American crocodile, Morelet's crocodile, Orinoco crocodile, Siamese crocodile, Mugger or Indian freshwater crocodile and Gharial or long snouted crocodile.

I have did further research on Nile Crocodile. What I have found out were Nile Crocodile is a common crocodile which can be found in lots of places.In East Africa, they are found mostly in rivers, lakes, marshes, and dams.

The Nile crocodile is the largest crocodilian in Africa.The male crocodile is larger than the female crocodile and it's usually measure from 3.5 to 5 metres long, but the mature ones can grow to 5.5 m or more. Female Nile crocodiles measure 2.4 to 4 m. Typical Nile crocodile weight is from 225 to 500 kg.

Eight day of Intern

 What I mainly did today was doing a research on how to do Augmented Reality in 3D max. I found out that it needed plug in to be installed in it and also the template of the marker that given by the plug in software. The software that I found was AR media. I'm still learning on how to use it.
  Besides, I found out that the AR marker based can be apply on business card. It's interesting and it can even introduce yourself with that concept. Moreover, I also found out that they apply it on T-shirt and playing games by preview it on computer.

7th day of intern

  Today was the same like yesterday, I have finished 2 characters design so far. Well I manage to speed up and finished the 2nd character in 2 days. It's better than the 1st character I did. There are 4 pages which are character's profile, color testing, mood board and style guide. The character that I have completed was Great Egret.

  This character name as Greg in "Sugar Pals". He is a warm-hearted, friendly and responsible bird. He loves to travel around and he will migrate when ever the weather started to turn cold. Therefore, I'm trying to design a n outlooks that looks like traveler.

  Well, next is color testing. I pick the 1st wan on top left because his body color it's almost white. White represent the purity of a person or innocent. Moreover, his personality is kind, friendly and have a pure kind heart to help his new friend.

   Style guide for this character still the same with the other character as they have black outline and plaint color in the outline.

    This character made me think of blue ocean and the clean and fresh blue water because Great Egret usually can found at the place that consist water such as river or stream. 

  What I have learnt so far were identify and do research the character before we design their outlooks. After we got the information for the character then we gonna follow the flow of the storyboard and classify what kind of characteristic of the character in the story. For example, "Sugar Pals" got lots of different kind of animals in the story. They have different behaviour, so we have to understand the story too. That's how we get the idea to design the character.

Sixth Day Of Intern_Great Egret

  What I have been doing on the sixth day was proceed to another character, which is Great Egret. It is a kind of bird and is a large member of heron family with long legs, white plumage and a slender body. I have found out a lots of data on this kind of bird before sketching the character.
  Besides, the behavior of the animal can decide how the animal will looks like. For example, kind,  friendly and so on and so forth. The behavior of Great Egret can be aggressive if facing danger.  They usually can be found at freshwater and saltwater marches, streams, pond and mud flats. This kind of bird will migrate when the weather begin to turn cold.
  In conclusion, the data that I have given me an idea for designing the character. I Great Egret I will be sketch will in kind and friendly look, and will be wearing a beach kind of hat on his head. It looks like beach costume because they will migrate once the weather turn cold. So it will be more suitable if it's in beach costume.

Fifth Day Of Intern

  What I did today was creating the profile for the previous character. Besides, I also did color testing, mood board and style guide. I have done the research for the beaver. Well, it has 4 types of them. I have did a further research on North American Beaver and their facts. I have learnt a lots in this type of animal. So, what I did was apply the data into the character that I have been doing now.

  I have done three angles and 3 different expression on this character. It's characteristic is easier to get angry   and he is old. A normal life spam for a beaver is 20 years. So his appearance appear like an old man. I got the data from http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/beaver.htm,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_beaver,http://fohn.net/beaver-pictures-facts/. The beaver was injured due to the hippo spoiled his dam while he is near the dam.

  Next, I have did some color testing on this character and I found out the brown color of fur with a green bandage is much more suitable for him because it the color mode express that he is old.

  The mood board were more likely seem to be brown color and more to nature like wooden texture because the original color of the beaver is brown color. Moreover, they stay in the dam that build on the river.

  I have did research on the style before creating this character base on the style of "sugar pals". Their style most likely were black outline and simple plaint color on the character without gradient add on. But it is different with the background style compare to the character style.

Problem-Based Learning

Problem-based learning is a kind to teaching method. It's unlike with the traditional teaching method. It has no content given and your instructor only explain and present you the problem and we have to solve it and discover it by ourselves. It usually a group work and we have to discuss the problem and come out a concept and solutions to solve the problem. The instructor acts as mentor and facilitator rather than a source of finding solutions.


 There are few steps we have to go through. The first step is instructor give us a problem. We have to identify the problem. Besides this, we have to know the strengths and capabilities of each team member has. So that, work can be done smoothly.

  Step two will be brainstorming, develop  the problem and write out the problem statement. Bubble diagram can help us to develop the problem and get the source of solutions. We have to list out few solutions and choose the best one or most likely succeed.

  The next step is assign and schedule research tasks. Each of the team member have to handle their their task according to their strengths and capabilities. This step require you to fill in the missing gaps by doing research. The knowledge and data could help us to support our solution.

  Step four will be state the solution and present the finding and recommendations to the team member. This included the questions, info gathered, analysis of data , and recommendations based on the data analysis.

  Lastly, sharing your findings with the instructor and students. Integrate new knowledge and skills in the context of the problem and also summarize the process you used. This can help others learn as what you have learned.

  In conclusion, PBL can help student prepares to apply their learning to real world situations. On the other hand, it enables student to become a producers rather than a consumers. Lastly, it could help them improve their communication skills and critical thinking skills.

Forth day of Intern

  In the forth day of intern, I have learnt that designing a character have to include their characteristic,mood board, colors and so on and so forth. The most important thing is the style of designing the character must be follow the original style guide. Make it simple, it have to make a complete and in details included their hobby and their favourite.

  What I have done were designed an animal and do research on their types(http://www.evi.com/q/list_types_of_beaver). And also do some color test according to the characteristic of the character I created. For example, the character I did is easier to get angry. I used warm color like red, redish brown, orange color to do color test.

Augmented Reality_2

 I have did a further research in "Augmented Reality". To make it simple, there are 2 types. They are Maker based and Location based. Augmented Reality is element that can be view physically and enable the user to interact with the element that augmented by computer generated sensory input. It can be view by downloading certain apps in smart phone.Augmented Reality has bring lots of benefit to us because it can apply in medical application, industrial, military , and also entertainment. For example, we can use it to place our furniture and changing colors before moving in to the new house.

 Besides, augmented marker based can be use in education. For example, it use marker based to generate a 3D short video to replace a normal maths question. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zb2spZvHFQ. In conclusion, marker based is marker detection for augmented reality(http://www.infi.nl/blog/view/id/56/Marker_Detection_for_Augmented_Reality_Applications).

 Location based is almost same with marker based. The different is location based use weather to generate the elements. Location based mainly use in mobile apps such as gps, games and so on and so forth. For example, Time Treasure is a games that used location based services. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMQ5DFkU794&playnext=1&list=PL107CE7E9E352FC91&feature=results_main
 The interesting thing that I have found is we could create a doll or any of the character to interact with the user. Dolls that can talk and it much more like a pet. We can even place a house or other objects to the dolls and they could do something with the house. It just like raising a pet. For example, I can create a creature or monster and interact with it and raise it as my pet.

3rd day of Intern

It's been 3 days, and what I have done today was design the character by using photoshop and Illustrator. Since there are lots of different characters so my group mate and I have split the job and each of us design different characters. Character design is my weak point and I always spent lots of time to complete it. So that, today I'm experimenting which way to work better and faster. So what I did was draw a rough sketches then trace it with pentool and experimenting the colors in illustrator. What I have learnt today was doing research on mood board to guide my character design. The character I have designed today was beaver. I'm still in progress on doing this and I'm gonna modify the outlook of the beaver.

These are the guide line for this beaver. So that I won't run out of shape while drawing it.

The colors I'm going to experiment will be the image above. I'm thinking to putting the color by following their characteristic in the story. The name of this group of colors are stingy. The beaver is kinda stingy in the story. So I'm gonna use warm colors to complete this character design.

Target

In this internship, there are few things I have targeted. I'm going to improve my communication skill, gain more experience before enter the working world, and get to know what designer really does while working. Besides, what I'm gonna learn in this intern is improve my motion graphic skills and interface through flash and after effect. Moreover, I wanna learn how to putting in script into Adobe Flash and navigate them. For example, putting in script to create a preload bar before entering certain games. Also, compositing is important for me. I wanna improve my compositing skills on doing interface and motion graphic.

Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality is a technology that blurs the line between what's real and what's computer generated by enhancing what we see, hear, feel and smell.Augmented reality is closer to the real world. Augmented reality adds graphics, sounds, haptic feedback and smell to the natural world as it exists. Augmented reality is changing the way we view the world -- or at least the way its users see the world. Picture yourself walking or driving down the street. With augmented-reality displays, which will eventually look much like a normal pair of glasses, informative graphics will appear in your field of view, and audio will coincide with whatever you see. These enhancements will be refreshed continually to reflect the movements of your head. Similar devices and applications already exist, particularly on smartphones like the iPhone.

It's second day of my intern on 16 Jan. What I mainly did today were list all the characters out by scanning the script all over again. Instead of doing this, I also did research on the characters that I have listed. For example, I do research on their body shape so that I could know more on their body structure and how to draw them out. The characters are mostly animals. I search for vector image of the animals and save them inside my folder to be my reference so that they could guide me when I do my character design.

This is the reference I have found on google image. How I gonna use this as my reference? Well, to follow the Sugar Pals' style I will smaller the eye of the bee and modify the body of the bee a bit. So that we could match the style back. For color scheme, I mostly look for the color that suitable according to the characters need. I did my color research at www.colourlovers.com. This website is useful to me because the color that match inside have their own rationale and title with it. In conclusion, what I have done so far it's do research on all the characters and color that needed. Besides, I learnt that we could do as many research as I can but we have to match back the style that we really need when we look for reference. In my opinion, reference that I have saved for the character design actually don't need so much of them because we can get confuse on which reference we going to focus on it.

Opps! It's almost 3am in the midnight and I'm still staying up late to update my blog here. Well, yesterday, I mean it was 15th of January it's my 1st day of intern in Backbone Entertainment. Well, I did learn new things here. But it was my unlucky day for me because my laptop broke down and it took me lots of times to fix it. But,that's not important. The important parts were they had given us (included my group mate)a new project to do. I had read all the storyboard and scripts. Well, I did look for research. What I found out it's the project we going to do included lots of knowledge needed to complete it. We need to look for very single detail of the project needed. Meanwhile, I learnt new stuffs during my research. The project included animal,planet,geography and so on.