Plans and Timetable

This video clips shows everything i designed in my sketchbook, with the music i plan to use for my final major project. i struggled to find a way to upload my music, so i found the best was to record going through my sketch book while i played the music on my speaker.

I posted these pictures to show, how much time I had left. After every end of the week I would take a picture of our classroom whiteboard, so I knew what was happening during the weeks. I spent the begging of Easter holiday planning and when we came back I developed those ideas, and started to model in Maya. After a quick change up I re-thought my ideas and came up with a new one that I knew I could accomplish.

Science-Fiction

Though out the years science fiction has been a big part of our culture, and the most common appearance in genre. The first appearance of the word science-fiction was in 1851 in a book called “A Little Earnest Book Upon a Great Old Subject” by William Wilson; who describes science fiction as the truth of science within a pleasing story that ‘itself may be poetical and true’. Many believe we take for granted the rapid advance of technology, creating the superstition of the supernatural ruling our world, which is were the idea of robots is persuaded into stories. 

Science-fiction goes far back to the early greek civilization when the idea of superhuman beings resided on the Mountain of Olympus, and distant lands that inhabited one-eyed giants, six-headed monsters and other imaginary things of the impossible. But times have changed since then and the idea of the supernatural has rising to fantasy, films such as Mary Shelley’s frankenstein, to x-men. Though the idea of Science Fiction is based on technology, it still branches into other genres, such as horror, fantasy and romance for example: 

WALL-E, directed by Andrew Stanton (2008) Disney – PIXAR. The film is about the distant future where a small collecting robot learns emotions and begins a journey to decide the fate of mankind. This animation has several genres including science fiction; he was a normal robot that turns into an artificial intelligence, by learning over time. However this film is based on the fantasy side of science fiction, unlike the film Matrix.

Matrix directed by the Wachowski Brothers (1999). is a more realistic film about a super AI that has taken over the world, and a man who helps to rebel against these forces by using coding against coding. This film was inspired by the y2k bug, when the computer systems crashed, sending many into a panic, believing the assumption that computer will take over the world.

These two films are different due to the way they represent the idea of science fiction, WALL.E represents the more peaceful yet still action packed side of animation, where the robots try to help the humans. Matrix is filmed in front of a green screen, and the technology is trying to destroy humankind by controlling their minds.

What i’ve learned from Product Design

My timing and planning needs to be flawless if I am going to finish this project on time, and having models to create in Maya is going to be difficult, because I don’t have a computer at home to make things easier; everything I need is, like a computer is at college. So by reducing the amount I model on Maya should give me enough time to do other things like how do I plan to animate my characters ? how can I make them interact with my products ? how am I going to do the staging ? etc. Its easy enough to have a plan that sounds fantastic, but putting them into action is more challenging then I had anticipated especially when drawing the body’s anatomy is your weakest subject in art. If I am going to over come this, I will need to keep drawing until a successful drawing is completed, and after that I could use tracing paper to keep everything in proportions and then change the characters pose.