333 - Teddy

Teddy has had his heart ripped out by a child that no longer wanted to play with him. What happens when a teddy bear loses his home and family? Well, he gets thrown in the garbage and becomes surly. Eventually he will rise from the depth and take revenge on children everywhere. Out of the three drawings this one needs the most work. Basically I need to redraw him.

333 - Penny

Meet Penny, the main character of Lucidity. I need to rework the side profile before modeling and the other drawings need to be cleaned up.

333 - Cupie Axe

This is my weapon concept for my Zbrush class, and yes that is a cupie doll head. I plan on cleaning these images up a bit before I model each one.

333 - Concept Document

Lucidity
Concept Document

Owner: Joseph Grossmann

Story Overview
You are a small girl named Penny who gets sucked into her own dreams. She must battle her nightmares to make her way out. All she has is her imagination and one huge axe.

Overall game concept.
Player must navigate through surreal environments trying to escape.


Conflict Ghosts, dinosaurs, gerbals and peanut butter sandwiches

Character Game The main character is Penny who is really adorable and has an axe.

Genre Platformer

Game Play Jumping, stabbing, slashing, climbing, riding a horse.

Key Features Real-time axe battles, AMAZING Graphics

Technical Challenges zbrush

Target Machine PS3

Target Market Mature

Rough Ship Date What is a rough date for completion? December 2006

Competitive American McGee Alice

405 - Complex Mechanical

For my first trick I am going to model a windup toy called CosmoJetz by a company called kikkerland. Here is a link to the site where you can view a movie of it in action along with some pics. http://www.kikkerland.com/GA/1581.htm I will also take some pictures of the one I own and post them along with other concepts.

Blogger Spasms

Well....After trying to post and get things up to date on this blog for about two hours, and not to mention that blogger thinks that my blog is spam, I am now able to give an update....or something along those lines. My projects are having a creaky start but are finally moving. When I get home I will post all the concept pics I have for both classes. To hold you off I found some images of the new Dr. Seuss movie Horton Hears a Who! and decided to share. I hope to be this good someday.

http://comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=16502

405 - Flight

Wow! First day and already on my third post. Just a quick update on the second model I am doing of the cartoon character. Here is a link to the website for the short film that is being made with this character. http://www.animatedpunk.com/flight/
Now the short isn't going to be made with my model. The animation is for 2-D senior project. Also, make note, that the main character design has changed so, as of my posting, the design on the website is not the one I am doing. An updated version can be found at her deviant art site http://animatedpunk.deviantart.com.

405 - Concept and Schedule

Thesis Statement: This quarter I am going to create three high detailed models.

Project Description: The models are going to include a hyper-realistic male or female, a cartoon character and a complex mechanical object. All models will be modeled and textured by me. They will also all be designed by me, except for the cartoon character that will be designed by Lindsey Butterworth.

Schedule:

Class 1: Wed Sept. 13	Introduction to class. Intro to materials. Review of Interactive Media.
Class 2: Mon Sept. 18	Three possible product pitches and exposition of skills (15%).
Class 3: Wed Sept. 20	Create schedule and begin work on concept drawings (3 per project).
Class 4: Mon Sept. 25	Have blog up and running. Have concepts done for complex mechanical.
Class 5: Wed Sept. 27	Begin modeling complex mechanical and continue working on concept drawings.
Class 6: Mon Oct. 2	Quarter project presentation (10%). Concept drawings due. Wrap-up modeling and begin texturing complex mechanical object.
Class 7: Wed Oct. 4	Quarter project presentation (10%). Complex mechanical object modeled and textured due. Begin modeling cartoon character.
Class 8: Mon Oct. 9	Continue modeling cartoon character.
Class 9: Wed Oct. 11	Cartoon character model due.
Class 10: Mon Oct. 16	Midterm presentation and check-in of design docs (25%). Continue texturing cartoon character.
Class 11: Wed Oct. 18	Midterm presentation and check-in of design docs (25%). Cartoon character modeled and textured.
Class 12: Mon Oct. 23	Model hyper-realistic human.
Class 13: Wed Oct. 25	Continue modeling hyper-realistic human.
Class 14: Mon Oct. 30	Texture hyper-realistic model.
Class 15: Wed Nov. 1	Continue Texturing hyper-realistic human.
Class 16: Mon Nov. 6	Hyper-realistic human modeled and textured.
Class 17: Wed Nov. 8	In-class help and progress review. Slack.
Class 18: Mon Nov. 13	In-class help and progress review. Slack.
Class 19: Wed Nov. 15	Final project and presentation due. Review and post-mortem.
Class 20: Mon Nov. 20	Final project and presentation due. Review and post-mortem.

And it begins....

So, the quarter has begun and along with that comes projects. Here at Studio I, I will talk about my progress this quarter with my Studio I class and my Zbrush class. Everything is open for critique, so please do. I will put the course number in the title field to differentiate between the two classes. Studio I will be (405 - Post title) and Zbrush, or Sculptural Texturing for Games, will be (333 - Post title). I will also be putting up links to other websites and reference images along with anything that I find is a good goal to work towards. My professor has required for us to post at least once a week, but I will be posting more. I am one of those people that when I start working on a project I don't stop thinking about it and getting out of bed at 3am to write down an idea becomes habitual. In short, check back often. I also have a website that has yet to be completed but has some stuff on it including useful links. You can find it at: http://www.acuppajoe.com Eventually, it is my plan to have a WordPress blog built into that site that I can make updates on it much like this blog, so others can always see my progress.