Face to Face meetings
On tuesday morning of this week we had the oppurtunity to meet other courses who are also working on a collaborative unit to try and find team members for our project. I was able to talk to a lot of different people from many courses such as MA Games Design, MA 3D animation, MA Visual Effects and many others who were all very interesting to talk to and had some great ideas and interests in what projects they are interested in creating.
Initially i started by talking to some of the other students about a ‘Paper Man’ adaptation which some were interested in especially some of the MA Games design students who even discussed the possibility of mixing their interest of creating board games with Augmented reality to create a paper airplane game adaptation. I felt that this idea would be extremely interesting and very unique and was something I initially wanted to discuss further after meeting all of the other students. I also met quite a few of the MA 3D animation students who showed me a number of their showreels and the type of modelling and animations that they have previously worked on which was great to get a feel for the type of projects they are interested in.
Choosing Team Mates
For this project we are also required to work in teams from members of our own course in MA Virtual Reality. I started to talking to all of my coursemates and the ideas that they had but I am not going to be working with Yiran and Lin on a comic adaptation chosen by Lin for virtual reality. I had also began contacting some of the students that i met during the meetup this week such as the three MA 3D animation students but the others had also been talking to them as well so we will now be workiing as a team of five with Esme and Marianna from MA 3D animation.
Adaptatation of False Knees
After joining Yiran and Lin for the project i started to research further into False Knees which is a webcomic written by Joshua Barkman. The comic is shown as ‘an illustrated guide to animal behaviour’ and focuses on short black comedy sketches of the animals interacting with the world and other animals around them. This has the oppurtunity to create a very interesting comedic VR adaptation that could combine a number of these short stories to create a single longer storyline for a 5 minute long experience.
First Group Meeting
This morning the group had our first meeting to discuss more details and aims for this project. We met in the library and discussed the comic False knees and the different ways that this could be adapted into a virtual reality project while also assigning the different tasks and steps that we would need to take to successfully adapt this and work as a group. We also wanted to find out more of what the MA 3D animation students would want to work on and see the different skill sets they have in the range of both animations and modelling assets for the unity build.