For the second project I’ll be working together with Jas Hughes.
Everything about the project will be here: http://mediaproject2.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/
I’ll try to put a few bits and bobs on this blog too, probably in form of a summary at the end of the week or month. Everything else that I’m working on this term will still be postet on this blog!
Today we had a really inspirational guest lecture/seminar/workshop run by Mark Lochrie, who introduced us to a new gizmo called littleBits.
“Bits snap together with magnets to create instant circuits for foolproof inventing.”
This is us coming up with ‘cool’ concepts and ideas, some more successful then others. We started of by building concepts according to instructions but we quickly took what we learned and made our own things. LittleBits is really intuitive and easy to play with. The only problem that I have ist that it’s quite expensive. Maybe it’ll have to ask for it for my Birthday. All in all there is not much to say other then: Try it out yourself!
This is what the final city looks like spread across several screens.
For the final piece the screens will be set up in a circle facing outwards so that it loops back around and people can walk around it.
The next clip shows how characters will cross to next screens
In order to have something to hand in on Thursday I will have to leave out half of the characters and also reduce what people are doing to a minimum. This is horribly annoying, but I don’t see a way around it. This also means it won’t be a 3min long animation looping around but only 1min and maybe looping (possibly not). The thing that bothers me the most is that I’m not at all happy with that decision. Esp. because if I had started working from the beginning on I would have easily got it done. I don’t think it really works as a piece anymore. Characters are just running around not interacting with each other.
There would have been a thief that the old lady would have hit with her cane, kids in halloween costumes trick or treating but then getting scared by wolf opening the door, Bob the builder fixing the guys broken heart, boy selling lemonade…. soooo many things that would have made this so much better.
It also frustrates me because I wanted to give everything for the final year and now I have let myself down. I still think if i had got it working the way i was imaging it I could have walked away with a first (that is most definitely not happening) but I’ll stop rambling now.
Here are some prototype/test versions:
So close to actually finish drawing all the characters. Just a few more! You can do it!
(Also have to make thiefs head smaler and sprayer guys head bigger)
