Tuesday 28th April 2015
Session Review
During today's session, I have taken one of Mantas sketches the Knight drawing and applied some shading to it to replicate the style of illustration seen in the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 motion graphic opening. In addition, I spoke to a fellow classmate named James who previously undertook this module and he talked in depth about his concept and finished product, I proceeded to ask him on what resolution size he used for his informatic booklet.
James had informed me by commenting that he used a resolution of 800 pixels wide and 699 pixels in height. I then proceeded to apply the same resolution settings and now the stage(screen) was large enough for me to fix the composition of text and images and finally the booklet started to visually look like the medieval codex's I used as image references in my mood board, especially with a darker shade of brown which was made to create the illusion on of stained pages.
By Sebastian Jones
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Sunday, 26 April 2015
Medieval Booklet Drawing Quality
Sunday 26th April 2015
Session Review
During Friday's session, I informed Mantas that the lesson was still running despite the fact that our lecturer had cancelled it due to illness. The reason for this was to force him to meet me and show me what he drew for the booklet and scan the images I felt were worthy enough o be placed inside the interactive booklet.
A few of the sketches he drew such as the knight and castle were basic but with additional detail could be made to look of high quality. I personally want the drawings to match the style of the Castlevania:Lord of Shadow 2 motion graphic opening and that of artwork in the medieval ages. After observing the opening sequence I concluded that a similar style could be achieved in my booklet by digitizing hand-drawn animations in Adobe Photoshop to apply the appropriate shading to the animation sequences and mimic a similar visage to the Lords of Shadow 2 opening;however my teammate Mantas needs to start drawing more animations and sketches and since I have submitted a large amount of work by creating the basic navigation and information I feel somewhat cheated by a handful of drawings Mantas has produced during the entire production.
References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uNaYFO01uk
By Sebastian Jones
Session Review
During Friday's session, I informed Mantas that the lesson was still running despite the fact that our lecturer had cancelled it due to illness. The reason for this was to force him to meet me and show me what he drew for the booklet and scan the images I felt were worthy enough o be placed inside the interactive booklet.
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| Robin Hood By Mantas Ratkevičius |
References
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uNaYFO01uk
By Sebastian Jones
Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Medieval Booklet Production Session:5
Wednesday 22nd April 2015
Session Review
Session Review
During today's session having successfully backed up all of the booklets production files in my email, new USB stick and with my other teammate Mantas. Today I began to fill in basic information on a few of the empty pages such as becoming a knight, hierarchy and structuring the layout for iconic figures,
However, the existing images Mantas has drawn for the production must be scanned university instead of using the photographs he has taken with his mobile phone. The reason why the scanner is needed is in order for me to possess high-quality images while colouring and shading them in adobe photoshop and so the viewer can see appealing graphics on the screen.
References
http://www.medievalplus.com/medieval-history/
http://www.knightsandarmor.com/history.htm
http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages_guilds.php
By Sebastian Jones
However, the existing images Mantas has drawn for the production must be scanned university instead of using the photographs he has taken with his mobile phone. The reason why the scanner is needed is in order for me to possess high-quality images while colouring and shading them in adobe photoshop and so the viewer can see appealing graphics on the screen.
References
http://www.medievalplus.com/medieval-history/
http://www.knightsandarmor.com/history.htm
http://www.ducksters.com/history/middle_ages_guilds.php
By Sebastian Jones
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Data Loss and Recovery
Tuesday 21st April 2015
Session Review
Previously last week Friday I had lost my USB stick containing almost all of my university, college and personal projects; however, thankfully my university files were scattered around and saved on multiple MAC computers in the Digital Arts Centre. So my first action before purchasing my new USB stick was to compress all of my animation folders and store them in my email account which was a wise course of action.
Also my personal work was saved on my home desktop and as for the college work that is missing which is my 3d models and animations I have contacted a friend who is still attending south Birmingham college and will transfer my l still left on my college computer to my email; furthermore, this threat was detailed in SWOT analysis and thankfully I took the right course of action.
Overall at this point despite it being a slap in the face I am used to this cycle of losing my past work which it seems once I finish once set of education the work is submitted but the majority of work I possess is discarded leaving me only with wok that strangely seems to be useful later on for future projects and this is evidence in my university and personal projects since it forces me to work harder and the steps I undertook in creating that work is relived in my mind's eye.
By Sebastian Jones
Session Review
Previously last week Friday I had lost my USB stick containing almost all of my university, college and personal projects; however, thankfully my university files were scattered around and saved on multiple MAC computers in the Digital Arts Centre. So my first action before purchasing my new USB stick was to compress all of my animation folders and store them in my email account which was a wise course of action.
Also my personal work was saved on my home desktop and as for the college work that is missing which is my 3d models and animations I have contacted a friend who is still attending south Birmingham college and will transfer my l still left on my college computer to my email; furthermore, this threat was detailed in SWOT analysis and thankfully I took the right course of action.
Overall at this point despite it being a slap in the face I am used to this cycle of losing my past work which it seems once I finish once set of education the work is submitted but the majority of work I possess is discarded leaving me only with wok that strangely seems to be useful later on for future projects and this is evidence in my university and personal projects since it forces me to work harder and the steps I undertook in creating that work is relived in my mind's eye.
By Sebastian Jones
Friday, 17 April 2015
Medieval Booklet Production Session:4
Friday 17th April 2015
Session Review
By Sebastian Jones
Session Review
Following on from the last session, I presented my latest
booklet file to my lecturer and she gave both my teammate Mantas and useful feedback commentating that she had an issue with the linear navigation of pages;
however, I strongly defended my idea although her feedback was relevant and
useful.
By Sebastian Jones
Friday, 10 April 2015
Medieval Booklet Production Session:3
`Friday 10th April 2015
Session Review
Following on from the previous session, I have begun to create a new flow chart featuring the new subcategory pages I would be including. This is useful, since working in a linear step by step fashion during each page's creation was clear enough for me to follow and enabled me to precisely keep track of what I was working on and the actions that needed to take place.
However, despite me following a structured and simple workflow, repeating the process of creating nw button and fitting it to a section in the timeline became so linear and tedious I had to take a well-deserved break and occupy my consciousness to something else.
Once rested, I returned to the tedious task of creating each page and I soon completed the main category pages; nevertheless, I realized if I was to inform the audience and display detailed information for each subcategory I would need to create an additional sixteen ages in other words I would possibly need to create additional subcategory pages of the existing subcategory pages.
Later during the session, I came across some intriguing information and hilarious doodles drawn by medieval monks. I then proceeded to draw using flash's paintbrush simple vector illustrations in order for me to plan what images to draw for each page and where to place.
References
Aberdeen Bestiary. (2011). The Medieval Bestiary. Available: http://bestiary.ca/. Last accessed 10th April 2015.
Vincze Miklós. (2013). Bizarre and vulgar illustrations from illuminated medieval manuscripts. Available: http://io9.com/bizarre-and-vulgar-illustrations-from-illuminated-medie-1456202572. Last accessed 10th April 2015.
The University of Nottingham. (2011). Manuscripts and Special Collections. Available: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/researchguidance/medievaldocuments/introduction.aspx. Last accessed 10th April 2015.
The University of Nottingham. (2015). Manuscripts and Special Collections. Available: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/researchguidance/medievaldocuments/languages.aspx. Last accessed 10th April 2015.
BBC. (2014). BBC - KS3 Bitesize History - Everyday life in the Middle Ages : Revision:. Available: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/history/middle_ages/everyday_life_middle_ages/revision/1/. Last accessed 10th April 2015.
Steven Till. (2009). Heraldry in the Middle Ages. Available: http://steventill.com/2008/07/19/heraldry-in-the-middle-ages/. Last accessed 10th April 2015
By Sebastian Jones
Session Review
Following on from the previous session, I have begun to create a new flow chart featuring the new subcategory pages I would be including. This is useful, since working in a linear step by step fashion during each page's creation was clear enough for me to follow and enabled me to precisely keep track of what I was working on and the actions that needed to take place.
However, despite me following a structured and simple workflow, repeating the process of creating nw button and fitting it to a section in the timeline became so linear and tedious I had to take a well-deserved break and occupy my consciousness to something else.
Once rested, I returned to the tedious task of creating each page and I soon completed the main category pages; nevertheless, I realized if I was to inform the audience and display detailed information for each subcategory I would need to create an additional sixteen ages in other words I would possibly need to create additional subcategory pages of the existing subcategory pages.
Later during the session, I came across some intriguing information and hilarious doodles drawn by medieval monks. I then proceeded to draw using flash's paintbrush simple vector illustrations in order for me to plan what images to draw for each page and where to place.
References
Aberdeen Bestiary. (2011). The Medieval Bestiary. Available: http://bestiary.ca/. Last accessed 10th April 2015.
Vincze Miklós. (2013). Bizarre and vulgar illustrations from illuminated medieval manuscripts. Available: http://io9.com/bizarre-and-vulgar-illustrations-from-illuminated-medie-1456202572. Last accessed 10th April 2015.
The University of Nottingham. (2011). Manuscripts and Special Collections. Available: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/researchguidance/medievaldocuments/introduction.aspx. Last accessed 10th April 2015.
The University of Nottingham. (2015). Manuscripts and Special Collections. Available: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/researchguidance/medievaldocuments/languages.aspx. Last accessed 10th April 2015.
BBC. (2014). BBC - KS3 Bitesize History - Everyday life in the Middle Ages : Revision:. Available: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/history/middle_ages/everyday_life_middle_ages/revision/1/. Last accessed 10th April 2015.
Steven Till. (2009). Heraldry in the Middle Ages. Available: http://steventill.com/2008/07/19/heraldry-in-the-middle-ages/. Last accessed 10th April 2015
By Sebastian Jones
Wednesday, 1 April 2015
Medieval Booklet Production Session:2
Wednesday 1st April 2015
Session Review
Session Review
Continuing my first attempt at creating a button that can navigate to different scenes,...
After searching through numerous other online tutorials on linking scenes, I decided to use what I learned from the first tutorial I discovered and simply experiment and play around with action script.
From what I created on frame one when I click the button it jumps to frame five and displays a green circle a placed on frame six. I then began to create two buttons name Culture and Knights and once applying the appropriate action script code to both buttons they jumped to frame five displaying the culture page and then the second button displayed the knight's page on frame ten. For extra work I applied a home page button on the culture page; however, the home page button on the knight's page won't seem to return to the first frame displaying the homepage.
Nevertheless, I managed to simply solve this small issue by repeating the code I applied to the first homepage button.
By Sebastian Jones
After searching through numerous other online tutorials on linking scenes, I decided to use what I learned from the first tutorial I discovered and simply experiment and play around with action script.
From what I created on frame one when I click the button it jumps to frame five and displays a green circle a placed on frame six. I then began to create two buttons name Culture and Knights and once applying the appropriate action script code to both buttons they jumped to frame five displaying the culture page and then the second button displayed the knight's page on frame ten. For extra work I applied a home page button on the culture page; however, the home page button on the knight's page won't seem to return to the first frame displaying the homepage.
Nevertheless, I managed to simply solve this small issue by repeating the code I applied to the first homepage button.
By Sebastian Jones
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