Kyle Smith Game Art 2024-25

Studio Practice By Kyle Smith 23rd September 2024 We was given a task and that was in a group we were given a genre and ours were Cyberpunk. And then in the group we each chose Hero, Villain, Minion and Mentor. I let everyone else chose and I got the Hero role in a cyber punk. I firstly looked at cyberpunk edge runners and Akira. Which are cyberpunk themed. They both have a leather jacket theme going on so I thought I would go for something like that. For my character I thought he could come from a the waste land. He's needing to go to the city. This would make the Hero stand out from the city. As the wasteland is more rougher look wise and wild so the Hero would be kind off the opposite of the cyberpunk city as they are usually a lot more organised and futuristic when it comes to tech and  style with people and buildings. I really hated my Initial sketch and went in a diffrent direction. With my bottom sketch I feels more rough and you can tell he isn't from the city and he...

 Toolkit 1 (3D) By Kyle Smith 24th September 2024 Within this lesson, we explored Maya, I already had experience with maya beforehand so not a lot was new for me, but I still felt like taking notes to look back and reminds myself of things I might forget. First of all Simon told us about the tools. Things to highlight is that Computers love to render 4 sided shapes like square and rectangles, this also includes cubes and cuboids with are made up into from squares and rectangles.  Here is some shortcuts for Maya that Simon has showed us: Q - Get Rid of handle. W - Move E - Rotation R - Scale CTRL/ E - Extrude CTRL/ Z - Back Alt/Left Mouse - Rotate Camera Alt/Right Mouse - Zoom in/out Alt/Mouse wheel - Move If I go in Mesh Tools, I can automatically insert edge loops. And If I click on the box next to it can change the property of the edge loop tool like the amount of edge loops I add. If I got into Windows - Settings and Preferences and then selection then click select faces wi...

 Critical and Contextual By Kyle Smith 24th September 2024 We are going to research franchises in gaming and pick a franchise to write about for couple of weeks. My first thoughts are Sonic, Pokémon or Yokai watch franchise. To get in contact with Rachel,  we can email her by: email -  rachel.williams2@confetti.ac.uk Telephone Number - 0115 952 2075 Within the Critical and Contextual we have 3 assessments and the deadline for the first assessment is Sunday 13th December 24 11pm. The Summative Assessment needs a 3,00 word case study, and a research journal. And there is 6 module outcomes assessed. These websites has been provided to us: This is a simple and easy digest way to interpret the modules. Here's a list of genres that I could use: Puzzle - Life is Strange RPGs - Pokemon JRPGs - Persona 5 ⭐ Sandbox - Gmod First Person Shooter - Blck Ops Sports - Wii Sports Mystery - Detective Pikachu Horror - Fnaf⭐ Rouge-like Survival - 7 days to die Platformer - Sonic⭐ Multiplayer...

Concept Art and Design  By Kyle Smith 24th September 2024 In this lesson, we are exploring concept art, thumbnails and our project. Environment designs is being explored firstly and its importance within gaming.  We have been shown our project and our prompts. We are giving Artifacts that we have to include without our prompt. The Following Prompts: Witches Cottage Heroes Arming Chamber The Abyssal Dungeon ⭐ Interior of the Wights Tomb Temple of the Scared Carbunkle The Fort of Festermire. The Following Artifacts: ⭐ ⭐ This is the slide which I will want to and look back onto, to guide me and give me a checklist like work. I've saved a bigger one on my USB drive. We are being shown some examples of Environment Sheets from World of Warcraft and some other examples from artists, here are some of my favourites: I really love this one, it feels really fun and crowded. The anime like style for the world is so colourful and fun. I love the lighting. The rule of third also gets our fo...