Nick Maloneys New Media Blog

We had to design 10 characters for 3D and draw a new character for …whatever we are doing later at school.

Either way, done and ready for the frenzy of the masses.  

Today was one of the last days of art class for the first term of Cert4.  Even though most students did’nt enjoy the class, I felt like I still learned something and was given a bit of hand on experience with different art styles/techniques. 

One of our last sessions was splashing ink onto paper then observing if the marks formed shapes, much like the basic of reconising shapes and patterns like our cavemen ancestors did, without the clubbing or dinosaur fighting. 

Still thanks to this course was a great eye opener ands its almost halfway there… 

Next assignment is going to be our own hand drawn characters for 3D class, inspired by the video game Little Big Planet.

Since the game offers large customization of a basic character model we are told to darw our own so we can design and animate our own 3D character similar to Little Big Planet.

Most my designed characters most likely won’t be posted here or at school due to offensive material.  

A game which we have to work on for Flash in our course is nearly coming to a complete.

The game is about you play as a scout ship that is stuck in enemy territory.  Without any weapons you must escape by avoiding other enemy ships.  It took a lot of planning and was constantly on the chopping block but thank god its almost done. 

Also the Soundtrack is copyrighted by all respected owners.  The tracks are.

Level one in Metal Slug copyright by SNK Playmore.

Jungle Bouncer, King of Fighters 98 by SNK Playmore.

Boss fight theme, Contra 3 by Konami.

Another Joe, by Clover Studios and Capcom.

Staff Credits, by Sonic Team and SEGA. 

Also big thanks to Trevor for not strangling me also. 

Finished a  DVD menu of my favourite film Back to the Future for an assignment, all done in Adobe Illustrator and all menu’s inspired by the film staring Micheal J Fox.  A classic indeed.