#animationandmovingimage

For my Animation and Moving image project, I am working with Yuyu, William and Michan. Our group decided to make an educational game based on poverty, our main objective is to raise awareness of the struggles a person living in poverty goes through everyday. To allow players to explore a more detailed environment and understand how hard it is to survive in such conditions.

We are making an immersive exploration game about the problems in third world countries. For this semester we mainly focused on refining our skills with unreal engine 4 and to work together to help players understand how hard it is to survive within the harsh conditions of poverty with facts.

The map we are making will be listed with facts that are located at specific areas and events throughout the environment. The layout and design of the map is spaced closed together to make it represent what it looks like in a poor suburban area. We have slum shacks spaced closely together along with a messy industrial area on the side, both of these areas lead to a large market place where people interact making the whole scenery look busy. We have used Unreal Engine 4 to build our game, so that it can run smoothly in terms of performance, gameplay and involvement with the area. With the materials and textures that we have established due to the high graphics of the engine, the player is immersed into our simulation completely to make them feel sympathy and immersed.

The reason of why we have chosen to help raise awareness for countries that are suffering from poverty is because they don’t receive enough recognition. We want to create an experience for players that are eye opening, throughout years people have tried to help raise awareness with charity and by using their voices. We want to help these people with our game to allow players be more knowledgeable about the problems a third world country goes through.

Since survival games are usually noticed as a game to try and stay alive in, we based our game around the idea and feeling of a survival games, such as ark and mine craft. We have taken our time researching about poverty and the causes of it such as religion and government corruption. We also hope to create an experience with an interactive system that resonates with a player on a much deeper level.

What I wish to change in our game would most likely be to evolve it into a survival game, instead of keeping it an educational game. I want to make the player feel more immersive within the environment and to have them relate to what it feels like to live in poverty. It’s important to us that people understand the importance of basics human needs and that there are people that are forced to live without access to these basic needs every day who are living in third world countries.

Our goal in the end is to make people realise the dangerous environments, diseases, struggles and the harsh reality that people who live in poverty have to go through every day.

Its our first week back after the mid year break and for this semester, i have decided to take the “Animation and moving image” paper for my studio. 

I have always been interested in animation and after our first lecture, i have come to realise that their are many many ways to go about in approaching animation, whereas before i had always just thought that it was drawing pictures frame by frame. 

But there are many ways such as motion capture, puppeteer, framework and even CG 

What i would like to achieve this semester and for the rest of the year is to try and refine our horror game, to try making it better and a lot more scarier with a better plot story and level design.

I hope to achieve something like a cinematic such as the “Among the sleep” introduction, which i found really unique and entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A0yojJCXsw&ab_channel=Adventure%27sIndex

The brief for Space Image and Sound was quite interesting one. The brief was very expansive and allowed for me to do anything I wanted. For the project I was interested in creating a stop motion animation that was based on the idea of anthropomorphism which means giving inanimate objects human characteristics or personality. In this case I decided to apply anthropomorphism to toys and have them struggle to want to become human and do human things. Anthropomorphism is widely depicted in modern day media and the reason it is used is to usually attracted the attention of the audience and as it does it renders the character worthy of moral care and human consideration which results in the audience relating more to the character as a human.

This project was mainly influenced by modern day media which commonly depicts anthropomorphism. The main influence of my project is Toy Story as it focuses heavily on anthropomorphism as well as the first one having the character struggle with who/what he really is. However in my animation I am depicting anthropomorphism a little more differently than it is in modern day media, anthropomorphism in media usually depicts toys or animals with very human like behavior, appearance or personality but in my animation I want to focus on the idea of the character (which is a toy) wanting to become human and do human based activities but since he is only a toy he cannot do so, but whenever he comes across a human related situation he thinks of itself becoming human and being able to do those activities. This is the main part of anthropomorphism which emphasizes the idea of giving the inanimate project human thoughts as oppose to human personalities. The main purpose of my work is to show what if a toy did have human features what would they do?

These are the toys that will feature in my stop motion, I decided to use the soft toy as it stands out compared to the other lego toys I am using in order to give them contrast and more easy to distinguish. As well as that I wanted the soft toy to feel quite out of place in the stop motion and he is the one that is more unique compared to the others.