Recording of Senior Thesis project; Balance in Haven - remaining Act 2 images colored

I apologize for the rough camera movement as I'm using a touch pad instead of a mouse.

Concept art, which are drawings that depict a concept for a game or film, is usually in straightforward format, either as finished single images or a small gallery of those single images. My project is to present these concept art in 5 forms, 4 'in progress' and a 'finished', in a virtual gallery made in a game engine with the use of a 1st person controller. While in the gallery, the player can move around and view the "in progress" images in motion with the ability to pause the motion with the use of the left mouse button. 

My project was made through the use of Photoshop (for the images), Maya (for the objects) and Unity (for the execution). 

http://lillianchenartworksportfolio.weebly.com/


* edit/ 
Video needs to be re-recorded and re-uploaded.
 Uploaded video

I might have more images to upload later tonight depending on how quickly I can get the remaining parts of my history research paper draft done. 

Balance in Haven - coloring #2; Captioning work in Slideshows

I played around with a couple of coloring styles (mostly with layer arrangement and flow+ opacity of the brush).

Sadly, because I was playing around with a couple of coloring styles, I only got two images colored. However, I do like the speed for completion this style goes through! 

I was planning on captioning everything within the slideshows on this site but apparently I got way ahead of myself and most of them were already captioned. 

Now I have nothing to do to be productive during my moment of no motivation, ahaha.
I could always sleep early.... though it's only 10:51 PM at the moment.

Birthday drawing gift for friend

A bunch of my friends (as well as students from our college) went to Sakura Matsuri (Cherry Blossom Festival) in Washington D.C yesterday (4/13).

I went last year but we missed the bloom by a few days. Luckily this year we made it! And my allergies didn't kill me, figuratively. While at the street vendors of the festival, two friends and I visited a Stuffed Sushi stall we saw last year and found new merchandise!! (Such as a Fox Onigiri and a Penguin Onigiri). With those and stuffed mustache, we got the idea of having a mustache pin over the penguin's beak. Thus came this drawing. 

Birthday drawing/gift for my brother

It's a few days late since I had to study/review for an exam on his actual birthday but a quick/rushed drawing of my brother for his birthday.

I had to go through several different potential poses before I went with this one. I've been so rusty and out of practice... I couldn't figure out why the coloring process didn't look right; I forgot I would usually do the values first before the color.
Final colors went through color correction and balance before final version.

Interactive Storytelling - edit on Act 3

In order to add in Rose Water's backstory, I added more images that explained  Rose Water's past (or at least hinted at her bitter childhood).

Act 3 video got updated as well.

Working on project; thunderstorm

After finishing my review for an exam I had earlier today, I spent the remaining time sketching the extra images for my Interactive Storytelling project between then and my exam.
I didn't get far though. I'm glad I didn't decide to work on the images after my exam and before my meeting (and coincidentally a black out); for the main reason of having no power in the building I was in for the meeting. 

I'll try to get as much of the remaining images done before my class tomorrow night and Friday before my all nighter before getting on a bus to D.C for Sakura Matsuri. 

The storm has put me into a relaxed mode, which I suppose is good as I've been back into stress mode lately. Projects (Senior Thesis, Games II and Interactive Storytelling), exam and history research paper were looming in my head the past few weeks. (Yes, all of them )

Balance in Haven, interactive story; Blog and website house keeping

Act 5 and 6 have been uploaded and annotated and linked to Act 4 and 5 respectively.
I still have to add a lot more sketches and images between the acts or within the acts themselves; a few of them are a bit too short.

I've come to realize that many of my pages [for this site] aren't labeled. This would be very important in terms of viewing the sub pages of my gallery. I've moved my portfolio, senior thesis project and About Me/Resume to another site so they are on their own and not cluttered with my personal stuff.

Check the Portfolio & Bio tab/page for more info!

Balance in Haven (Interactive Story)

I'm still wide awake after 3 in the morning, this could be bad for my sleeping schedule. Regardless I'm getting work done!

At the moment, I've got most of my videos made and uploaded on Youtube. They're unfinished images but the first version is mainly a proof of how it works. I don't think I can call it a proof of concept; it's also very roughly put together so a lot of the transitions and animation doesn't seem quite right still. I'll have to fix that when I don't have a test to study for! ( >_< )

Interactive Storytelling project - next batch of images

... will be uploaded later today when I wake up. It's almost 3am but I was able to get a good majority of the images sketched out. I realized after I called it a night that I forgot a key image to express an event for act 3 I believe; in addition I'm thinking if adding additional images of close ups for the two characters to show more detailed/ visible emotions rather than just their current poses.
But that's enough for now, I need to sleep so I can wake up at a reasonable time later today.

/edit *later today*
Despite not having a lot of images for this project, I was able to get all the images done for the animatic for my Games 2 group project.

As I mentioned in my 'almost 3 am ' post, I still need to add a few images, especially ones to show detailed expressions/close ups.

4:31 pm EST
I mentioned earlier in the day that I was missing images (sketches) that would give more details or help with transitions. They're not in act order but here they are!

Games 2 animatic - extra images

10:26 pm 

The animatic for my group needed more back story so the art group decided to scrap the rabbit hop in the beginning and to add more images to bring out more details about Hawksey's backstory and to link the end of the animatic to the beginning of the gameplay.