work

1. Production Reflection
Josh Palmer

2. Process
• Firstly I made the slope in the back
ground. I used the pencil tool to
make the diagonal slope and then
I filled in the rest of the slope with
white. I then made a background
the goes from light to bark by
simply drawing over the lighter
parts. After making the back
ground I started on the main
menu. I coloured in the whole
screen light blue and turned down
the opacity to make it look like ice.
I also made little cracks in the
corners so people could tell what
it was. After this I made the play
and customize buttons. To do this I
made a rectangle type of button
and I added a shade at the bottom
with the pencil tool. This is so the
animations look better.

3. Process
• Next I created a time line a added another page.
To do this I used the eye tool to un-see the main
title and the ‘play’ and customize’ bars. I then
created a new section in the time line for the
characters to come in. I first added an arrow to the
left and then I made all of my characters to come
in one by one. I created everything with the pencil
tool and used the colour selector to choose the
appropriate colour. I also then made another
animation of the character being chosen and then
made him come off the screen.
• I then made the animation of the game starting. I
used a darker blue to get the effect of the ice. I
then started to make more animations and kept
increasing the amount of ice on each frame, until
it was full. When this happened I added some
extra pieces of ice to make it look more real. I
would have done single pieces of ice but it would
have taken too long. After the ice was gone I made
it just to be the main game screen.

4. Process
• Firstly I started off by making the canvas size really big so I could
see what I was doing and look at the whole level all together.
• I made all of the different kinds of ramps using the pencil tool. I
out lined all the ramps in grey so they looked a bit more realistic.
I added some cool rails that would be fun to play on as well. To
get the sky background cover the whole thing I simply just
copied and pasted it all the way down. I also added a finish line
and a nicely detailed house. This was so that there was a reward
for completing the level.

5. Process
• Next I got onto the animations. I properly could have
done this a lot quicker if I did it in a different way but I
did not know that before I did it. I started by making 5
character positions: normal stance, going down a
slope stance, going up a slop stance, grinding stance,
and the hands up normal stance. I then added all of
these on the level at the position I wanted them at. I
then started at the beginning where I could on see
the 1st person using the see/un-see tool and did this
until the very last guy. Each person on the long picture
below was one frame. Until the end I just animated
the same guy jumping.
• I then made the canvas size to the original size to
match with the starting screen and for each frame I
moved the whole map to the left so you could see
where the character was.

6. Process
• To add the SFX and music in I used premier pro.
• Firstly I made my own little jingle in garage
band using some pre made beats. I added drum
beat in and then I added so piano beats in as
well so it fitted. I then put it into premier and
made sure it was the correct length and that it
sound good. I then put the constant power fade
effect on the end of it so the sound just fades
off rather than cuts off. This will make the
whole thing sound smoother.
• Next I added some SFX in to it. I added a SFX
for: clicking on the buttons, ice cracking, the
characters dialog when being chosen, grinds,
characters dialog for landing a trick, the crowd
cheering and finally the sound of someone
snowboarding. For all of these SFX I had to trim
them down. For the ice cracking, button select
SFX and the grinds I had to duplicate the audio
clip after trimming it down. I did this by
selecting the the clip and then using the ‘alt’
button on my keyboard to duplicate it. I used
the constant power fade tool again for the
crowd cheer at the end for the same reason.
Finally I used the ‘audio gain’ tool to decrease
the decibel level by -7 for the music. This is so it
didn’t over power the SFX.