scott k week11_final portfolio
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MAAA363By: Kaitlyn ScottInstructor: Duane LooseThe Art Institute of California – San DiegoFall Quarter 2015Week 11
MOBILE GAME CONCEPT
Project Brief: The idea behind this project is that we (the students) have been asked to update a mobile RTS game. Starting with compiling a style guide including: screen shots of the current game and inspirational reference images. Then creating a paint-over update of the old game.
STYLE GUIDE:
The game I chose is called Auralux, a RTS indie game that was created to bring the genre back to its original core of strategy.
Current Style:
Over all the look and style of this game is very simple, minimalistic, uncluttered and artistic. Consisting of only the colors red, green, and blue.
Proposal:
Using the three types of galaxies as reference replicate the shapes in the outer gray rings. In an arrangement that when the player’s units take over a sun completely it looks and moves like a real galaxy. As well, add in a third enemy as the color purple. Make it so that when the units of any color collide together the underlying pulsating color is a blend/combination of the fighting units’ colors. Also give the whole UI a much more sleek futuristic look, all the while staying true to the original concept of minimalism and abstract art.
STYLE GUIDE:
UPDATE:
PRODUCTION
PAINTING
Project Brief:
We had to choose a story, that is not already a film / TV show / or game, andcreate a production painting that captures the spirit of the story. Eventually givingthe final painting a small animation using Adobe After Effects.
THE STORY:
THE CRIMSON CANDLE
A MAN lying at the point of death called his wife to his bedside and said:
"I am about to leave you forever; give me, therefore, one last proof of your
affection and fidelity, for, according to our holy religion, a married man
seeking admittance at the gate of Heaven is required to swear that he has
never defiled himself with an unworthy woman. In my desk you will find a
crimson candle, which has been blessed by the High Priest and has a
peculiar mystical significance. Swear to me that while it is in existence you
will not remarry."
The Woman swore and the Man died. At the funeral the Woman stood at
the head of the bier, holding a lighted crimson candle till it was wasted
entirely away.
By Ambrose Bierce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
On his death bed a man asks hiswife to go grab a red candle inhis desk. Saying it has beenenchanted so that as long as itlasts she will remain loyal tohim, if she does this he’ll go toheaven. The wife burns thecandle through at his funeral.
This story is about the natural greed andselfishness that rakes the human soul andmorality on a daily basis. Neither thehusband nor the wife wants to give up theirown happiness for the other. In this instancegreed is not represented by money andriches but rather by happiness. The husbanddoes not want to go to hell; causing hiswillingness to sacrifice his wife’s happinessand ability to move on so that he may go toheaven and be happy instead . On the otherhand, the wife wants to be able toeventually move on in life and love anotherso she sacrifices her husband’s pride byburning the candle at his funeral. Bothgetting what they want with little thoughtto the other.
THE SPIRIT OF THE
STORY:
Time period: 1800’sLocation: USA
THUMBNAIL SKETCHES:
THUMBNAIL SKETCHES: • Through my thumbnails I was really able to narrow down that I wanted to portray both heaven and hell, in a very classic Christianicmanner using clouds and fire.
THUMBNAIL SKETCHES:
Immediately when I started planning out my thumbnails and ideas for this painting I knew that I had to represent the red candle, it is the main feature point of the story after all; but I wasn’t so sure if I wanted it to be the main feature of the painting. The thumbnail to the right is the one I ended up going with largely but I did pull inspiration from my other thumbnails.
REFERENCE IMAGES:Eastman Johnson
REFERENCE IMAGES:
• I loved how soft the brush strokes appear in this painting and how the colors blend and bleed into each other; I really wanted to be able to mimic the feeling that they bring within my own piece.
Eastman Johnson
REFERENCE IMAGES:
• The vibrancy within Church’s color pallet immediately caught my eye, first with the clouds shaping the U.S.’s flag following down into the red halving of the trees and then the soft pink highlighting the water, it all contrasts so well together.
Frederic Edwin Church
COLOR BLOCK:
During the color block process I focused a lot on where I wanted all my colors to go and what hues and tones I wanted. I also determined that although the candle is a huge part of the story its presence needed to be more subtle. Because that’s what the candle is, the candle is the gateway for the greed and selfishness of this couple, and on a larger scale humankind. It is something that is always present but rarely seen plainly.
COMPOSITING
THE FINAL
IMAGE:
When I heard about this project I was immediately excited to composite in Photoshop again, it being something that I don’t get the opportunity to do very often within my classes and with a busy schedule. That being said, I wanted to make something that looked one foot in and one foot out of partially being realistic and then also having a very painted quality to it using good high resolution photos. One of my most challenging tasks was creating two realistic humans, before this I have only composited backgrounds. I was extremely lucky in finding two colorized photos from the civil war era, both of which I had already had in low res. black and white photos for historical context and body positioning references.
COMPOSITING
THE FINAL
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THE FINAL
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COMPOSITING
THE FINAL
IMAGE:
Compositing the husband was a lot more of a challenge, even though I only used the one photo for him. To alter his facial features I started with liquefying his cropped out face and then trail and error using different layers, brushes, filters, and colors.
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