Arts of Naas : Exploring Animation

Project Evaluation

We were given a project called exploring animation. By deadline we got to finish our project a playable game.

Our project was about we are given some different types of painting from a museum National Gallery London. My painting calls the lament for Icarus by Herbert James Draper. This painting was about showing dead Icarus, surrounded by lamenting nymphs. The wings of Icarus are based on the bird-of-paradise pattern. Then we were given a task that we have to make a playable game which will be based on our given painting.

I was influenced by my painting, I was thinking a lot for my game I was thinking with my painting then I made a mind map for my game I did lots of research and did some imagination to come up with this idea. I gain a huge experiment about game making. first I did everything in paper work like I did some drawing about size of game background, character, and other stuffs I used power of 2 which is a standard size of a character or background or other stuffs. After that I did some separate mind map for my character and game level design. I made 5 individual backgrounds for my game to make it parallax. Each background has different things such as I put the end of background is plain and mu front background has lots of stuffs like houses, grasses, some mountain. My middle backgrounds have mountain, others one has birds and clouds. For my character I drawn a picture in a paper then I tried to make some similarities with my character from my painting then I came up with a sample of my character then I just simple drawn a silhouette of basic shape of standing character and his walk cycle and jumps frames for my jump I did 6 frame and for walk cycle I did 9 individual frame and I made some mistake while I was making it after wards I fixed it I made some gif animation first I made as silhouette animation file of walking and then I made a colourful animation of walk cycle and jumping. while I was doing this I used sample technique which is I actually found out how they normally walk in game any character then I just follow the walk cycle and drawn them and I used same shape of legs and hand in my jump animation by edit them .

It was designed by Photoshop then it’s programed by construct 2 software. But I used Google chrome for doing research and internet browser for checking my game play. To make my character walk and jump I used construct 2 with power of 2 to make it animation it just a sample way to make character animate using all frames in sequel.

I learnt some effective things from this whole project this are how to make a background parallax, how to use global variable, colour matching, power of 2. I got lots of different choices but I used just some of them because of some restriction. I wanted to put some enemies in my game I drawn them as well but I could not make them run in short period. Its effect my game but beside I put something else which are Sharpe balls. To making this whole game I had faced lots of problem like when I was working with my background I could not match my both sides then I just reduce some opacity from my both corner of background. Even while I was making my character walk cycle then I found it as it walking as backwards then I fixed it by making more legs frames.

I think I could not manage my time effectively because of short period but I learn lots of techniques which will be help me to make a perfect game in very short time. I could be made it more developed by putting my enemies, Different types of bullets. I am very happy with my jump and walk cycle. I enjoyed my most of the time while I was making jump animation and walk cycle even my backgrounds as well. I do not like my collectable and moving platforms because I do not think its match with my game. Overall I am very happy at list I made a playable game by my own idea and design.

this is my last game play

this is game play after fixing my bullet

This are my collectable and bullets

its a game play after fixing a global variable

My collectable

game play after fixing walk cycle and jump animation

walk cycle is update with hand movement

jump animation with hand movement

same as my walk cycle first time I just did my jump by drawing legs movement now this time i tried to match my hand shapes with my legs when he jumped

I try to match my hand movement with my walk cycle that's why i draw more shape of my character

I put the jump animation on my construct game it's working but i found that my walk cycle is not working anymore

My jump animation

This time I did't need work a lot because I have already got few leg shape position for my character from my walk cycle. this time I just edit some of my legs

walk cycle

I put some coloured to decorate my character

walk cycle in silhouette

It was really hard to fix it but I did First I looked at some picture from google how character normally walk. like how many frame should be in on walk cycle what position of shapes of legs suppose to be.

after my finished this research I was able to fixed it

I fixed that by drawing more legs frame

Walk cycle

This is my animation for my character but I fond some problem that's look like its going back

silhouette picture of my main Character

This is my picture which i made from my painting and now I decorated it for my character

Character mind map

This is screen shot of my Game

screen shoot while i was doing my work

Backgrounds for my game
I try make my parallax more realistic i try to make it look like as alien planet and dark environment

this is my background for behind

This are some birds

clouds

sky with different colour

I put some different type of houses on two Mountain some. there are two types because one type is i meant this is evil house and other's one is good house
My front Background

More clouds

Mountain

How I fixed my problem is i just make some transparent and reduce the opacity from both sides of my front background.

Demo Video of my game after fixing some problem

Demo video of my game But I found some problem which is my background did not match by both sides

My games level plan and Action plan

My painting research

Artist interpretation of my painting

1. Herbert James Draper 2.Frederic Leighton

I have made a sample quiz game in Kahoot website about my research on it, there is link below
https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/1631123a-71f7-41a6-9ef0-df4b39e83165