changing gears

I'm totally changing what I'm doing. After having discussions with several professors, I've decided that I need to do something that's related to what my current passions really are, and right now it's nutrition. The state of food in America (and a lot of the world) is terrible and people are regularly eating things that are full of chemicals and substances that would never have been considered food 1000 years ago, let alone 10,000 years ago. I want to get people to consider what it is that they're eating and how unnatural it all is. I'll do this by creating mock products, or labels, or foods...not exactly sure what it's going to look like yet. I'll be writing a proposal and going from there next week. Hopefully I'll have photos or concepts for you guys soon.

some stuff

I started to make some images. I decided to not do pictures and drew the objects then went into illustrator and created value patterns over top of the drawings. I like the style. I'm going to mess with it more and see how feasable it is to do lots of individual frames.

yadda

did programming. making progress. gonna draw pictures.maybe a storyboard.

programming

I'm getting started on the programming end of the game. It's going to be a vertical shooter such as Galaga or Ikaruga. I would like to make it a bullet hell like the Touhou series, but that would take some intensive programming. We'll see how it goes.

Galaga - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_lE_L0UtkQ

Ikaruga - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LES0bAg0dBk

Touhou - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N30n1HbDOc0

Doin' Stuff

The goal this semester is to have a definite direction set by mid September. I have toyed with the idea of doing a hand-drawn frame-by-frame animation. I have also thought of creating a video game. I plan to make some character animations in the next week, and work on a possible game mechanic too. My theme this year is the perfection of the paleolithic man, and how agriculture has destroyed our planet, and our bodies.

a little more

messed around with some watercolor brushes I found online

new stuff

So I've got a little momentum going. I'm still developing the pieces. Here's one of them. I'm thinking about watercolor painting over the top of prints. Give me your thoughts.