Mood Board Assignment

1st attempt at a mood board.

These were more things I like. I couldn't really come up with "mood" related images. :\

What does someone else's character want assignment

Character: Joe

Thought up by: Kris Ashburn

What he wants: Joe would probably want helmet covered in camera lenses that converted the combined images from all of the cameras onto a screen in the helmet that lets him see in a 360 view around his head.

What’s stopping him: his own limited understanding of technology and his clumsy and very shaky hands would prevent him from successfully assembling anything correctly.

How he would try to get it: Comb the internet for do-it-yourself plans to build an all seeing camera lens helmet and get distracted by photo shopped people with eyes in the back of their head.

Character Profiles Assignment

Character 01

Name: Edgar Staten

Physicality:   not fit but not fat. Average male height, not tall but not short.

Style of Dress:   casual modern-day attire, t-shirt, jeans.  Beanie or Russian style hat, sometimes a light winter coat.

Background: Average family, mom, dad.

Basic facts- sex, age ethnicity, religion etc:    Male, 22, white

Family: Mom, dad.

Childhood: grew up in suburbs

Friends: gamer types,

Romantic Partners:  none yet.

Locations lived in:  United States

Occupation:  Student, studies metal working.

Personality:  laid back, kind of lazy, but will go out of his way for someone he likes.

Worst faults:  Often doesn’t finish things he starts

Habits:  Un-announcing what he’s about to do.

Favorites- food, sports, books, movies, TV shows, vacation spots, etc:   Sweet and sour chicken w/ rice.  He enjoys fights with nerf weapons and videogames. He also wants to make old fashioned swords in his metals class.

What does the Character love? :  His crush,  Emily Grant

What does your character keep in the refrigerator? The medicine cabinet? :  Fridge- Sprite, leftover taco bell.

What’s your character’s idea of a perfect day off?  Chilling with his crush and playing video games.

Character 02

Name: Leonard Calligan

Physicality: Skinny

Looks: short hair

Style of Dress: casual

Gestures: uses hands to demonstrate his ideas

Basic facts- sex, age ethnicity, religion etc: Male, 19, White

Childhood: spent gaming

Friends: all gamers

Occupation: student

Personality: random, energetic, quotes video games alot

Best Qualities: means well

Worst faults: a little clumsy

What does the Character love? Videogames

What does the Character hate? Homework

What does your character keep in the refrigerator? The medicine cabinet? Mountain dew and pizza

What’s your character’s idea of a perfect day off? Chilling with friends playing online videogame multiplayer

Extra: He often loses touch with reality, daydreaming he is a character in a video game, and in conversation will compare real life things with parts of video games.

Character 03

Name: Melissa Sharp

Physicality: fit

Looks: bad-ass

Style of Dress: Casual/ robot claw-gloves and boots

Gestures: slashing things into small bits

Other physical distinctions: she has claw-gloves and boots

Background: normal

Basic facts- sex, age ethnicity, religion etc: Female, 22, white

Family: normal

Childhood: normal

Friends: not many

Occupation: robot-demon slayer

Personality: serious, to the point, get things done fast and efficient

Best Qualities: looks out for others before herself

Worst faults: looks out for others too much

Biggest Fear: not being able to stop robot-demons

Habits: attacking things that take her by suprise

What does the Character love? Making things right and keeping humanity safe

What does the Character hate? Robot-demons

What does your character keep in the refrigerator? The medicine cabinet? Medicine cabinet: first aid supplies, stitches and other things to treat robot-demon endused wounds.

What kind of footwear does your character prefer? Robot claw boots

What’s your character’s idea of a perfect day off? Not having to deal with robot-demons and enjoy a day at the beach.

Character 04

Name: Captain Wright

Physicality: fit, tall

Style of Dress: combat armor

Background: military

Basic facts- sex, age ethnicity, religion etc: Male, white, 37

Childhood: Military training

Friends: fellow soldiers

Romantic Partners

Occupation: soldier

Personality: serious

Best Qualities: won’t back down, even when faced with impossible odds.

What does the Character love? Ensuring peace.

What does the Character hate? People who threaten peace.

What’s your character’s idea of a perfect day off? The day after a mjor victory that benefits hundreds of thousands of people.

Character 05

Name: Sir Villarreal

Physicality: Fit, tall

Style of Dress: medieval armor

Gestures: swinging a mace around

Background: noble family

Basic facts- sex, age ethnicity, religion etc: Male, 27, white

Locations lived in: the castle

Occupation: knight

Personality generous but fierce

Best Qualities: chivalrous

Worst faults: perhaps too loyal

Biggest Fear: dragons

What does the Character love? Being the good guy.

What does the Character hate? Not completing what he says he will.

What kind of footwear does your character prefer? Iron boots

What’s your character’s idea of a perfect day off? Surrounded by and getting to know the townspeople he fights for.

What’s your character’s favorite celebrity? King Arthur.

Character 06

Name: Gilroy Pibbles

Physicality: short, average weight

Style of Dress: business casual

Background: regular

Basic facts- sex, age ethnicity, religion etc Male, white, 30

Family: regular

Childhood: regular

Friends: regular

Occupation: accountant

Personality: very imaginative and immitative

Worst faults: daydreams too often

Biggest Fear: never becoming an actor

What does the Character love? Acting

What does the Character hate? Accounting

What’s your character’s idea of a perfect day off? Attending a premiere of a movie he acts in. (daydream)

Characters: Old & New

So yeah, I've been at this whole "3D" thing for two years now. So far I've enjoyed it and I can't wait to learn more. But up to this point all of my characters have been robots... why? Because I'm still pretty inexperienced with skinning, more specifically, painting skin weights.

But don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love the characters I’ve created thus far. In fact I think its time for a family reunion.



Beep Bop Boop!

 




On another note, I’ve started brainstorming ideas for a protagonist character for my character animation class.

A SWAT officer... with a mace?!

That’s all for now. :P

Assignment 02

Rango from Rango – I like Rango as a character because he is trying to find where he fits in an unfamiliar place.  He largely discovers who he is but this is based on his good nature to begin with.  Eventually, he becomes the hero and does what is right after he misleads people into thinking he is someone he wasn’t, but eventually becoming genuine.

When I first saw the character, he was quirky and unsure of himself.  I like characters who are forced to become someone of importance or who need to step up and do what’s right, even if they aren’t defined or are bad to begin with.

Wikus Van De Merwe from District 9 – Wikus is another character who eventually becomes someone who steps up to do the right thing.  He starts off abiding by corporate rules and procedure which he has always known to be good.  After he starts to turn into one of the aliens he policed and evicted, he begins to learn of their struggle under the big, power hungry corporations.  Although most of his journey is for his own benefit, he ultimately does what is right over his own needs to become normal again.

At first I thought of him as a typical corporate worker. Just in it for him, possibly money, but with a hint of good, to help him and his wife.  But he also shows a kind of disregard for the alien’s lives. By the end of District 9 I was ok with him, rooting for him and then hoping his action will one day pay off so he can return to normalcy.

Scott Pilgrim from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World – Scott is semi-good from the get go. A kid struggling to keep a relationship but ends up letting situations get the better of him, by the end of his movie, he steps up and makes amends, and sets everything straight.  His actions weren’t for any greater good or cause bigger than himself, but he just wants to make everything in his own life right again.

When I first saw the character I thought he was kind of a nice guy but mostly in it for himself, kind of full of himself.  But by the end of his adventure, he’s an ok guy that I imagine a lot of people can relate to.

Assignment 01

Here is the first assignment.

Bio:

Miss Katherine Von Fluffyhead was once a part of the horde… of cats! Horded by some little old lady, Katherine now having escaped her prison hordes assortments of plastic toys which she keeps close at all times and fearing for their safety and nutritional well-being. (The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.) She is known to fear aliens and often sit on park benches feeding fake plastic flamingos while wearing a tin foil hat.

An uncomfortable situation:

If Katherine Von Fluffyhead were to accidentally find herself in a toy store she would probably freak out at all the voices she hears of the little toy’s cried for help.  The thought of small children getting to them and teething on their little heads would upset her to the point of tears.

Bio:

This particularly salty pirate sails under a flag of candy wrappers.  She undergoes a strange ritual with her stolen swag of sugary treats by melting down all the chocolate into a beverage which she consumes upon a good day’s plunder at the candy store. (She would tell you she stole the candy from the shop with cutlass held high and her smelting cup ready for its loot. But she actually stole the money from her mom’s purse and just bought it.) Yes this pirate yearns for adventure on the high seas, but she makes due with the highways and candy stores.

An uncomfortable situation:

Somehow mistakenly finding her way into the local health-food grocery store, she goes to the checkout lines to purchase… I mean, plunder the sweets but finds nothing but sugar-free gum.  Embarrassed at this horrific mistake, she hastily exits the store and loses her pirate hat on the way out.

Bio:

By day, he hides beneath a mild mannered beret, but by night he becomes: Ink-face! (I ran out of names…) a beacon of light in the crime-filled world of illegal underground tattoo shops.  Along with his side-kick: Regular Guy, he brings evil tattoo artists who re-use needles without cleansing them, and who sketch the Chinese symbol for bacon into the flesh of teens who don’t realize what it actually means, to justice!

An uncomfortable situation:

Ink-face unexpectedly lured into a tattoo removal shop by his fiendish arch-nemesis.  Ink-face panics and clumsily tries to escape through a window but hits the wall next to it.

Character animation class: At long last!!!

I've been waiting patiently for 3 years for this class, and it’s more beautiful than I ever imagined! Brainstorming for a story begins. (a story that I’ll literally have a minute to tell)

I want to base my story off of the gaming community/culture and videogames as a whole.  I have a vague idea of the base plot and want it to look like something out of a game.  Something along the lines of a hero rising up and fighting the final boss for whatever magical thingy he quests for/wants.

In my imagination (… :D …) I imagine the hero being a stereotyped parody of a ninja/super soldier/Scotsman or lumberjack . (For the sake of aesthetic comedy… it’s also subject to change)  The villain I imagine as some kind of evil, mustache-twirling, caped dude. (The name “Doctor Baron Von Evil-Satan” is stuck in my head thanks to red vs. blue.)

But these are just my base ideas, I’ll have to look into what makes videogames tick as a whole in terms of plot first before anything is solidified. (I’m a gamer, this won’t be hard.)

So, knowing me, I’ll probably jump the gun and start storyboarding my vaguest of ideas into a foundation for the real brainstorming sometime this evening and/or tomorrow.  In the meantime I’ll await my newly ordered textbook (which should help with crafting stories for visual storytelling) to arrive tomorrow and wait for an email I think my character animation instructor told me she would be sending with our first assignment. (Aside from making a blog.)

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