My future

In the future I hope to be traveling around the world making video games.

GAMES DESIGNERS

Sam Houser
an English video game producer and developer. He is a co-founder of Rockstar Games and one of the creative forces behind Grand Theft Auto. He is responsible for making the 3D environment within the game. Houser has been making GTA since the third game.

Phil Fish
Philippe Poisson (born 1984), better known as Phil Fish, is a French Canadian former indie video game designer, best known for his work on the 2012 platform game Fez published by his company, Polytron Corporation.

Fez was released in April 2012 to widespread acclaim after a protracted five-year development cycle. Its final phases of development were shown in the 2012 documentary Indie Game: The Movie, which brought Fish celebrity unusual for game developers. Following an online argument in July 2013, Fish publicly announced his exit from game development citing long-term mistreatment by the industry.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Fish)

Mark Cerny
Mark Cerny is an American video game industry figure who has worked as a game designer, programmer, producer and business executive. As president of Cerny Games, which he founded in 1998, he now acts as a consultant in the video game industry. In 2004, he was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Game Developers Association, and in 2010 he was inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame. In 2013 he was announced as the lead architect of the Sony PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.
Major Games
Major Havoc (1983, arcade) — Programmer, Designer
Marble Madness (1984, arcade) — Programmer, Designer
Shooting Gallery (1987, Master System) — Programmer, Designer
Missile Defense 3-D (1987, Master System) — Programmer, Designer
Shanghai (1988, port to Master System) — Programmer
California Games (1989, port to Master System) — Programmer
Dick Tracy (1990, Genesis) — Programmer, Designer
Kid Chameleon (1991, Genesis) — Programmer, Designer
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (1992, Genesis) — Programmer, Development Support
Crash 'n Burn (1993, 3DO) — Programmer, Designer
Total Eclipse (1994, 3DO) — Programmer, Designer
The Ooze (1995, Genesis) — Programming
Disruptor (1996, PlayStation) — Executive Producer
Crash Bandicoot (1996, PlayStation) — Executive Producer
Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (1997, PlayStation) — Producer, Designer
Spyro the Dragon (1998, PlayStation) — Executive Producer, Designer
Crash Bandicoot: Warped (1998, PlayStation) — Executive Producer, Designer
Spyro the Dragon 2: Ripto's Rage! (1999, PlayStation) — Executive Producer
Crash Bash (2000, PlayStation) — Producer, Designer
Spyro: Year of the Dragon (2000, PlayStation) — Design Consultant
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (2001, PS2) — Programmer
Ratchet and Clank (2002, PS2) - Designer
Jak II (2003, PS2) — Programmer, Designer
Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando (2003, PS2) — Designer
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (2004, PS2) — Design Consultant
Resistance: Fall of Man (2006, PS3) — Design Consultant
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (2007, PS3) — Design Consultant
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (2007, PS3) — Design Consultant
Resistance 2 (2008, PS3) — Designer
God of War III (2010, PS3) — Design Consultant
Killzone 3 (2011, PS3) — Design Consultant
Knack (2013, PS4) - Director

David Jones
Jones created a small game called Lemmings, Lemmings was a very highly rated game. Lemmings got David Jones recognised as a games designer. Rock Star then got in touch with him to start up a Rock Star branch up in Scotland called Rock Star North.

Trip to the Bradford

The Bradford University
I found the trip to Bradford university very useful as the games design course was very useful as I was interested in doing this and it has made me much more confident with what I want to do. 

Hepworth Gallery 

These are some of the images I got from from the Hepworth gallery.

Research Into Handbook and Advertising

I like this design as it is very simple and bold. I think that the use of only two colours is very effective. The matte finish on the black contrasts the gloss of the gold. 

The three images above are all examples surrealism in advertising. In the first we see the man in the advertisement holding the light to light up the advert. I like this as it isnt something if usually see. I think they would have had to build off of the advertisement. In the second image we see the stem and leaf of a tomato on the bottom of a ketchup bottle. It suggest that the whole bottle of ketchup is made up completely of tomatoes. In the final image of the three, we can see an advert for tape. It is a very simple image of tape. However the thing that attracts me to the advert is the fact of the the sign appears to be held up by the same tape suggesting that it is very strong.

Bus Station (Meeting with Paul Horne-Project Manager)

I found the meeting with Paul Horne very helpful as I now realise how important it actually is, as it is going in the brand new £3.2 million bus station in the centre of Worksop.

I feel that the design is very 1930's art deco.

I like the design as it is very free flowing.

I have done some research into art deco and found this:
Art Deco or Deco, is an influential visual arts design style that first appeared in France after World War I and began flourishing internationally in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s before its popularity waned after World War II. It is an eclectic style that combines traditional craft motifs with Machine Age imagery and materials. The style is often characterized by rich colours, bold geometric shapes and lavish ornamentation.
Deco emerged from the interwar period when rapid industrialisation was transforming culture. One of its major attributes is an embrace of technology. This distinguishes Deco from the organic motifs favoured by its predecessor Art Nouveau.
Historian Bevis Hillier defined Art Deco as "an assertively modern style ran to symmetry rather than asymmetry, and to the rectilinear rather than the curvilinear; it responded to the demands of the machine and of new material the requirements of mass production".
During its heyday, Art Deco represented luxury, glamour, exuberance and faith in social and technological progress

Health and safety videos.

The outcome of our videos were very good in my opinion. The video is professionally fished. However if I was to do it differently I would use mics and a professional white background.

Colour Theory.

In the visual arts, colour theory is a body of practical guidance to colour mixing and the visual effects of a specific colour combination. There are also definitions (or categories) of colours based on the colour wheel: primary colour, secondary colour and tertiary colour. Although colour theory principles first appeared in the writings of Leone Battista Alberti (c.1435) and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (c.1490), a tradition of "coloury theory" began in the 18th century, initially within a partisan controversy around Isaac Newton's theory of colour (Opticks, 1704) and the nature of so-called primary colours. From there it developed as an independent artistic tradition with only superficial reference to colourimetry and vision science.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_theory

 

Donkey!

I have used a donkey instead of an easel I didn't like it as it was very uncomfortable at times and awkward.

London

HE FAIR

I would like to study something to do with art for computer games. So I have looked into universities that cover this area this is what I have found.
De Montfort university- Game Art Design-52
Norwich- Game Art Design-53
Southampton- Computer and Video Games-84
Teesside University- Computer Games Art-15


V&A

I would like to have a look at Walker Evans' photography of masks from 1935.


Tate London

I want to look at the piece between Leon Golub and Hrair Sarkissian. Level 3 Room 9.

The Visit!

We set of from from Worksop at around six o'clock in the morning. We then arrived at London to walk around the HE fair and talk to universities such as Sheffield Hallam and Falmouth. I looked in the direction of games design. We then set off to Tate London where all of the photos attached are from. However the last one is from the V&A.

Evaluation of peers work

I like this piece of work. I like the way definition is gained through the pressure applied on the charcoal. 

This piece is very good as the dimensions are captured very well within the bones.

Using charcoal and paint Alix created a very good peice showing line and tone very well. 

Life drawing!

I like the style of my drawing however if I could put more detail in the head it could become event better. I think that the head is the weakest part of the drawing.

I have created another piece of art based on the human form i.e. the skeleton I focused on the arm and hand.

I like my piece as I feel that I have created a quite pleasant piece as I feel that I've shown line and tone quite well.

I like my piece as I feel I have got the proportions of the body correct and I think I measured using my pencil quite well. 

Charcoal

Currently I have been working with charcoal. This was my piece, I enjoyed working with charcoal. I used it quite a bit in secondary school and I like the definition you can add with it. I would like to use charcoal more often. 

This time I prefer my mark making. 

I like the hand of the piece the most.

After having a week away from using charcoal I feel as if I am still as good as I was previously if not better.