Magic Writer – Week 5
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This week has been very hectic for me with loads of school work. You can say that last week was wake up call when a friend of mine mentioned that we only have few weeks left of this course, this made me realize that I don’t have much time left for some old lingering works that needs to be done as soon as possible. Due to my sudden change in priorities I have sadly not put that much time on our project that I probably should have. Ohh well, nothing a few all nighters can not fix. So, due to me not putting so time on the project, I have not gotten that much done lately. For this week I was suppose to had drawn high score, victory, defeat screen, and look for the last sounds that we are missing. While I did started on several of these, the only I managed to finish was the high score screen that will be shown on the main menu. Picture of it below.
Our lead artist said it looked good but due to the lines between each plank it looks like only one thing should be placed in each of them and not a list, and that it could easily be fix if I drew a paper or something that covers most of the planks making it look more like a billboard. This was something I did not see as a problem because I did not think people would see it that way, but our mentor agreed with our lead art, that just goes to show how little I know when it comes to drawing and how people perceive it and that I have lots to learn. I did get started on the victory screen, but not much has been done on it. It is still only in the rough sketch phase which is literally the high score screen that has been stretched out. There is much work on this that needs to be done. While I was working with the project and the left overs, I had more than 5500 files in one playlist. I have not listened to all on them yet, most of them I do not even need to. If I had gone through all of them it would have been 33 hours of listening to various sound FX. Even if I would only listen for one second on each of them, it would still be 1 hour and 30 minutes, 1 hour and 30 minutes of constant clicking. So I figured that I could do this while working on other things. Out of the once I did listen to, only a few could be considered to be suitable for our game. Most of them were sounds taken in a town or a city, nothing that is suitable on a beach. So my assignments for this week are the same as those I had last week. Except for the score board that I only need to make a few small adjustments on. Time to go back to the drawing board. Wish me luck!  |
