Production reflection
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Ellie-Warmingham reflects on the process of creating a pixel game animation. She started by choosing colors for the background and character. Everything was drawn on separate layers to make fixes and animation easier. The background includes mountains, bushes, and moving clouds to make it more interesting. Platforms and backgrounds have added shades of the same color for variety. An attempted menu screen was scrapped due to style and text issues. The finished animation includes a character navigating platforms with health and coin counters, within the limitations of pixel art.
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This document summarizes an experiment conducted to create an advergame. It describes the various tools used to create the animation, including the pencil tool, paint bucket, zoom functions, and timeline. Colour blending and duplicate layers were used to add effects and animate objects. The background, barriers, and disk were created first before animating the layers on the timeline. For the final product, the document proposes keeping the gameplay concept but adding features like scoring, changing the disk to a planet shape, modifying the background scenery, and making the disk disappear after a goal for a more futuristic feel. The experiment provided useful ideas and feedback for the final project.
7. production reflection
The document summarizes the process of creating music and sound effects for a video game. It discusses using Beep Box to create simple music that fits well within the game. Foley sounds were recorded at home using a microphone and Audacity, including a door lock for lock picking, flame sounds using matches, and picking up a wooden beam to represent picking up a fishing rod. The process of adding sound elements to enhance the game experience is described.
7. production reflection
The document summarizes the process of creating music and sound effects for a video game. It describes using Beep Box to create simple music that fits well within the game. It also discusses recording basic sound effects like door locks and match lighting at home with a microphone to represent in-game sounds, despite not capturing every intended effect. The process of making music was easier than expected, while some sound effects like flames required more creativity to mimic in recordings.
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The document describes several experiments the author conducted using various digital tools to edit images, create animations, and work with sound.
In the first example, the author describes editing a photo of the Maldives by increasing saturation to make the water and trees more vibrant, and adding shadow to make the sky darker.
In the second example, the author experiments with adding glow, bevel, and emboss effects to text in Photoshop to make the font stand out against different colored backgrounds.
The third example discusses using BeepBox to create background music for a video game by layering different repetitive sounds into a pattern.
Subsequent examples describe creating pixel art using different apps, making basic anim
1. production experiments
The document describes the student's experiments in creating an animated character and game. For the character, the student used separate layers for the eyes to allow independent movement. They also added a glow effect that changed the entire character's color, which they decided to keep. For the game, the student designed a background and table, drew characters, and added frame-by-frame animation moving objects and scores. They exported the animation from Photoshop as a video and added self-made sound effects in Premiere Pro, though matching effects to frames was difficult due to lag. The student plans to include independently moving layers and self-made sound effects matching the game in their final product.
4. production experiments game (1)
The student created pixel art assets for different game ideas using Photoshop. For an alien escape game, the student designed an alien character with green skin and a purple suit to look unusual against a dark, dreary background representing Area 51. For a match game inspired by Candy Crush, the student designed cookies like circles with dots and a gingerbread man to lay out randomly on a gray tray. The student reflected that they may include adding tone to colors, fitting backgrounds, character movement details, fast-paced music, and backing sounds in their final game based on these experiments.
1. production experiments
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Here are a few key points from your research evaluation:
- You conducted product research, questionnaires, and interviews to gather information from various sources
- Product research helped inform decisions around animation style and level of detail
- Questionnaires provided insights into audience preferences to make your product more appealing
- Interviews allowed for more detailed responses but were harder to incorporate all feedback due to time
- Responses generally supported bright colors, detailed characters, and setting during the day
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Product Research:
Strengths - Provided good examples of existing animation styles and techniques to analyze. Gave inspiration for visual design.
Weaknesses - Only looked at a few examples so not comprehensive. Did not get audience perspectives.
Questionnaires:
Strengths - Reached a large sample size of 50+ people. Collected quantitative data on preferences.
Weaknesses - Questions may have been leading or unclear. Did not get qualitative insights into why people prefer certain things.
Interviews:
Strengths - Provided rich qualitative data and explanations for preferences. Could ask follow up questions for clarity.
Weaknesses - Small sample size of only 2
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The document outlines initial plans for a project which include creating a mind map, mood board, and informal proposal. It asks about analyzing the mood board for repetition and influence on the final product. The informal proposal will describe the current idea, concept, type of products, needs, and audience. Choices will be discounted with reasons.
Production reflection - Audio
Ellie Warmingham reflects on the process of producing an audio book. She began by editing together recordings into the proper order. Next, she found music and sound effects from various online sources like Uppbeat and YouTube to add. She also created some instrument sounds using BeepBox. Finally, she listened through her work and adjusted sound levels to balance the recordings and effects before exporting the final product.
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- 2. Process I started by choosing the colours for the background and the character you play as in the game. It was great to see which colours would work best for the background and looked nice together. I used a few of my past experiments and examples to help me get inspired. On one of the layers, I added the colour pallete so it wasn't hard to access, and I could easily change the colour when I needed to.
- 3. Process I drew everything on different layers to make it easier to fix something if anything went wrong. Some of the layers had the background, platforms, coins or characters on them so I could access them quickly. This way I didn't have to run into tricky situations where I had to spend ages try to fix something and I could get on with what I needed to do. There was a fair amount of layers, but it was better to do this than to have it all on one layer. Having everything on one layer would've complicated the animation process, too.
- 4. Process I tried my best to make the background colourful and cheerful, adding mountains and bushes to make it look more interesting. The background wasn’t moving at all when I made it, so I decided to add in some moving clouds. Its’ hard to be very detailed when you’re just working with pixels, so I tried making the platforms and the backgrounds a little bit more interesting by adding different shades of the same colour to have a bit more of a mix rather than just one bold colour.
- 5. Process I thought I’d try adding in a menu screen for my game animation rather than going straight into the game. I used the same colours for the background because I wanted to keep the overall style of the game colourful and vibrant. I didn't end up using this though because I didn't like the style and it was hard to add in much text with such small pixels. I wasn't too impressed with the menu screen which is another reason I removed it. There wasn't an easy way for it to fade out and move on to the actual game wth a smooth transition.
- 6. Process This is the finished product. I added moving clouds and a character that went along the different platforms. Health and a coin counter were also added to make it feel more like a game. I'm very pleased with the finished product although I couldn't add too much as it's only a pixel game which can be limiting but I put as much as I could into the finished product.
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