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.