final dissertation

Master Copy

cont ......

this bit finished with music .... with a few errors to be fixed ...

promo vid nearly done ..

this is most of the promo vid done now, just some real footage to piece it all together, and a couple of animations to put in the vid ... have a look.

test continued .......

here is a test with all 3 characters, there is a bit of an outline problem but it can be easily masked out in AE.

test: animation over real footage

just a simple test of putting flash animation over real footage. nothing fancy here but apart from some minor things its not too bad.

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a bit extra at the start ...

work in progress

this is the scenes from the projecter that prof. wobblybottom shows .... no voice over as yet but its nearly the finished article ...
http://vimeo.com/22743444

storyboard - re-design

made a few changes to the story board, believe it sells the characters more to potential buyers ...
Storyboard

ending of storyboard

for the ending of the promo video (as the pdf is a bit vague, its the last 4 slides) this is the style of what i am going to do.
if you take from 20 seconds in and on till about 30, this is the style i will recreate with my characters after the initial back story part.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ML3cVpZjc4

promo storyboard

here is the storyboard for the promo video which is under construction. please excuse the watermarks on the pages.
storyboard

inspiration and colours

just to show some inspiration for the colouring of the characters. i looked at the moshi monsters

and took inspiration from the way the characters were coloured. i had a few initial colour designs which i analysed and thought against in the end ..... these were a couple ...

the later picture also shows the 3 characters resembling phallic likeness which was an issue that i had addressed  in the previous posts.

character diamonds

here are the relevent character diamonds for each character, each one has a physical and a mental diamond to reflect the characters attributes.
the first 2 are for jimtim:

the next 2 are for Binfo;

and the last 2 are for Addie;

mood boards for characters

here is the mood boards i created for the characters. each board has their relevent names on them.

character designs

from the intitial design concepts in the previous posts i have used flash cs5 to create my characters. the first one was this character. this was the route i was going down with the other characters: the problem was that the characters now take on a phallic shape and after discussion was deemed slightly inappropriate for the demographic in which i am targeting.

so therefore the designs had to be tweaked and this in now the 3 characters.
the first is Binfo

the second is Addie, and the third is TimJim.

these are the final character designs for the N8ives

advertising

after doing a case study on the c'mons it was interesting to find out about the marketing strategies that took place. the use of underground guerilla tactics worked fantastically for the c;mons, why not put some of the good practices to the test with a smaller project, my characters 'THE N8IVES'  i though that some kind of sticker or urban guriella campaign that could drum up some hype about these characters. i made a short advert on After Effects that would create curiosity when people see the you tube link ... have a look ....

more designs .....

so starting to get a final feel for the characters here are some more designs to show the progression of the designs.

initial designs

Introduction to characters

View more presentations from davybai.
this is a small powerpoint presentation to show initial designs of THE N8IVES.

fig 1

fig 3

fig 2

so literature review complete showing all the research into generation Z and characterisation. also included in my interim deliverable is case studies on the c'mons (fig 1) designer toys (fig 2) and the ugly dolls (fig 3)