WEEK 3 REVEIW

 Sadly when Katy designed him, she didn't give much of a body base so I could interpret what she wanted. (see in blog 7)

These coloured characters are called 'Minions' for each colour (Green = Asgo) they are recoloured but the same character, this is to save time so we don't have to make two different minions for each shop, as it will get too much work and wont be created in time, minions are basically shop workers that try to attack you, so as well as the bosses trying to kill you, they have different minions to kill you as well.

 These are health pick ups you can pick up, when doing this you can gain health when you are low, there are even weapons that you can pick up and throw at the bosses and minions to make them weaker.  I started with a concept drawing then made them in Gimp.

 Me and Katy have both started to design our Sprite sheets, I drew out the concept and designed all the characters in SAI at home, this was hard because my tablet broke and I had to use a mouse, she created them in a sprite sheet and we both did colour gradients and coloured them in and did the shading. So we have created a motionless sprite for most the characters.

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In the dipper chart you see that our work is ahead of it's self, probably due to me and Katy working through the weekends. 

WEEK 2 REVEIW

All week both me and Katy worked together, which is good because together we work really well. So far I'm pushing her a lot so we both work at the same pace, not one a head of the other so giving our work to Ellis will be constant and not half of the sprites he needs and another the other half another time so he would have to go back and do it again, so far we are both ahead on our time table.

here is the concept art me and Katy drew, as we agreed I drew Sainsmorries and Asgo, Katy drew the other two. Since they are gangstas, I kept the idea of old time, Frank Sinatra, Italian style and the new age London type of gangs, or 'chavs' as other people would say. I thought it will be good idea to mix it up a little and use these two types of well known, but different gangs. I drew them on paper and scanned.

After we drew we created pixels in the program 'Gimp', we find this program easier to create sprites on. We originally wanted taller, more realistic kind of pixels, but I didn't like the look of it so I asked for a smaller and fatter version like they have in the first Pokemon and both me and Katy liked the look a lot. Pleased on the base, we carried on and coloured in, we wanted a lot of detail on the colours to make it look pretty and noticeable, doing this we loved the design a lot more. We made the colours but using the same colours of Red, or Green, and make gradients with it, doing this putting Dark shadows and highlights and it creates a better look. We made the rest in Gimp and used the same technique. 

Here, you see the gradients we used and the program.

While I was writing the paper, Katy experimented with a walk animation and came up with this, its a good start for walking forward, and showed me how she did it, this is a good start since we are going to start on the animation next week.

I completed all tasks set this week and more, in the dipper chart you will see I am ahead of all work by a bit. also in my spread sheet it was said I have completed all the work I was set this week, also done more since we have started to animate the sprites.

WEEK 2 MINUTIES

5th December 2013

 Everyone started off saying how they was getting on with the work, Ellis said he has completed the foundations and needed something to work with, Anna and Katy said she needed more work to be set because they finished all of last weeks work, we talked about what we needed to do, Katy said she needs to create the shelf's anyway so when she is done she can give them to Ellis so he can carry on working hard. Anna said she can draw concepts of the characters and when she's done start creating them in gimp, Katy wanted to join as well because she said she enjoys making pixels, Anna said by the time she's finished drawing concept art, Katy would be done making shelf's so she can join in and make the process faster.

Anna mentioned how she won't be in college for the last week due to an operation, Katy said that she will send her work through Facebook, such as pixels and concept art, we all agreed on this and Ellis mentioned he needs something to work on, so Katy offered to create shelf's for the games for Ellis to use and put on the computer, Anna said she will design the characters for the game, Katy agreed to help when she has finished, Ellis said that everyone pretty much needed to carry on from last week and he needs to insert shelf's, everyone agreed and went off to do there work.