Week 5, Year 2 Time to unleash

So are after finishing the film room project and having a bit of a relaxing back weekend, It was time to move on to the next one. The SENTRY GUN PROJECT, I’m really looking forward to this one because I have a lot more freedom to do what I want to do but I’m not going to go crazy with it and come up with an idea that will take me to long to do. I am going to take it at my speed and just be relaxed with it because I know a lot of the time that if you come up with an idea to quick and work on it too much. I know that I will just get board of it and will just want to start again. That is why I’m going to try and come up with an idea that is just funny and maybe a little stupid.

So last week in one of my classes we were shown a fun way to come up with an idea. All I had to do is make a list of different categories and make sure they had between 2-6 different things in them, then number them and roll a dice. Whatever number it landed on I would take the from the category then go to the next one till I finished and had a final. I started with a mind map just to get things rolling first and from this mind map came up with the categories. I came up with 7 different ideas, some of the ideas did not really sound like they would work that well at all but from the 7 I pick the new, stylised, magic, food, Christmas. I really like the sound of this one because it just sound really fun and something that I can get really into.

So something new we were told about was how to make a bash kitI started with a moodboard just to help get the ideas flowing and so I could make a bash kit. I started looking at sentry guns and after a bit I look at different Christmas stuff. I soon realized that I need to put them into 2 different moodboards, 1 for guns and stuff and one just for different Christmas stuff. This help me get more ideas.

We also had to add an every day object to are sentry gun, so I pick my zippo lighter. I pick it at the time because I had it one me at the time and when I saw it, it just gave me the idea to make a sentry gun that shot out something on fire. 

So now was the time to make the bash kit. In Photoshop I make an outline of anything on the moodboards that I like the look of then just filled them in black and copied it over to a new Photoshop file. I put them in to different groups, just so I could pick 1 from some groups and a few from other groups just to make I got a good mix of different shapes so I cloud make Silhouettes.

So when it came to making the sentry guns Silhouette, I wanted to make sure that it still look like a gun but with a Christmas theme to it. I decided to do it in 2 parts. The first one would be made out of stuff from the gun moodboards then I will pick out 5 and then add Christmas stuff to them and pick the best one out of them. So I made 20 different silhouettes and put them onto one image and uploaded it to Facebook to find out which once look the best to other people. I also went around and asking class mates for their opinion. I did this one Fridays, so over the weekend more people can tell me what they think. To help me get a better idea what looks best.

also over the week we were shown how to set up are sentry gun up in unreal 4. There was already a ready-made file with an example in it. This leads to what I learnt in unreal 4 this week was blueprint. Blueprints is a bit like coding but without the pain of having to write lines of code but because of this it does have its limitations. It’s still a very good tool to learn and a lot easier to learn. I don’t have anything to show right now but I’m going to take some time to learn it because I know I will need it for future projects.