The idea of the identities project was to create an avatar and environment which represented me. To help us with project we were advised to use Second Life and blog your time on there a bit like a diary. At first I dint know how second life was going to help much, I knew about changing the avatars looks and clothes and thought yeah that would help a little but it wasn’t until I was on for about a week I found out you could change the way you walk, sit, stand and fly. That’s when I realised it will be more useful than I thought and so I started thinking about how my character is going to look and what kind of environment I want him in. I started off just browsing the internet for animated characters for some influences and found a quiet a few different type of characters that I liked. Spending time on Second life helped me with the environment going to different places I got different ideas so I took pictures of them and blogged them.
After looking at all the choices I had I tried to play around with 3ds max trying to make something at first it was okay playing around with it after the seminars but it was still hard to get use to. As I went on using it I dint really get any better learnt how to do different things but actually making the things I found hard so I thought I need to think of a more simple idea. While I wasn’t researching consciously was watching “Ghostbusters” and researching sub-consciously. While watching I thought I could make something like “Slimmer” it wouldn’t be too hard and thought I could put some legs on it too. I spoke to a friend on the course and we shared some idea’s he told me about his sci-fi design and his influences and I told him about mine. It was then I realised that I had forgotten that my character had to reflect me so I had to come up with something new since there wasn’t a connection with “Slimmer” but the talk about sci-fi got me thinking about aliens.
That’s when I got my idea to make an alien and in a city. The alien represented me and the city was my preconception of Nottingham City. When I moved here I didn’t know anyone and so that’s why I thought the alien was appropriate and I made the city look really dirty and dark skies because from what I had heard Nottingham wasn’t the nicest of places and always being on the news for shooting, stabbings etc. Overall I think my work is ok not the greatest and not as good I would have liked it to be. I didn’t have too much difficulty with the software except the camera but I think that was just on my copy at home so my character kept going off track. I think it did ok as representing me and how I felt when I moved here maybe I could’ve done it about how I am generally.
After looking at all the choices I had I tried to play around with 3ds max trying to make something at first it was okay playing around with it after the seminars but it was still hard to get use to. As I went on using it I dint really get any better learnt how to do different things but actually making the things I found hard so I thought I need to think of a more simple idea. While I wasn’t researching consciously was watching “Ghostbusters” and researching sub-consciously. While watching I thought I could make something like “Slimmer” it wouldn’t be too hard and thought I could put some legs on it too. I spoke to a friend on the course and we shared some idea’s he told me about his sci-fi design and his influences and I told him about mine. It was then I realised that I had forgotten that my character had to reflect me so I had to come up with something new since there wasn’t a connection with “Slimmer” but the talk about sci-fi got me thinking about aliens.
That’s when I got my idea to make an alien and in a city. The alien represented me and the city was my preconception of Nottingham City. When I moved here I didn’t know anyone and so that’s why I thought the alien was appropriate and I made the city look really dirty and dark skies because from what I had heard Nottingham wasn’t the nicest of places and always being on the news for shooting, stabbings etc. Overall I think my work is ok not the greatest and not as good I would have liked it to be. I didn’t have too much difficulty with the software except the camera but I think that was just on my copy at home so my character kept going off track. I think it did ok as representing me and how I felt when I moved here maybe I could’ve done it about how I am generally.
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