Spring Lab/Showcase for IMM Program

12:51 AM EST
(IMM = Interactive Multimedia )

We (IMM Dept. and its students) held our annual Spring Lab ('showcase' of  students' work such as games from Games course, senior thesis projects of the seniors this year, animations, video, physical computing, apps, websites,etc).

As I am a senior and part of the Games course, I had Concept Art Cubes (my senior thesis) and Hawk- Z (my group project). Below are a few screenshots of the game my group has been working on this (entire school) year. Planning during the first semester (fall), implementation ,building and making of the game the 2nd semester (spring). I take no credit in the character and enemy models. 
My part in the project included the animatic, concept art and terrain building (mountains, trees, etc). You can see what each member of the group did towards the project. 

The lab itself was pretty successful I'd say. On a personal standpoint, my senior thesis' project concept and concept art were praised by friends. fellow IMM students and guests who came by to see the projects. Additionally, my group's game (Hawk-Z) got praised as well, appearance and challenge-ness. I personally saw only 3 people who actually "beat" our game One of which said he had to actually play our game seriously to beat it. The game might have been a little too  hard, but at the same time, many of the people who played the game didn't read the instructions...

Making a daily goal to sketch poses

I started making a goal for myself to draw poses and gestures (using a random timed poses and gestures drawing site) at least every day. So far I missed a day but below are the sketches from those 30 min sessions. To the side, it's a pose I believe I sketched for the 1st session and altered it slightly before coloring it. 

Playing with Terrain Toolkit in Unity

5:37 pm EST 
As level/terrain designer of my group for the Games class I'm in, I tried out the Terrain Toolkit asset one of my members wanted me to research and it is amazing!

Just a few screenshots of a few things I threw together - Terrain Toolkit, Skybox, grass textures painted on , Mini-Palm-Trees-Made-Into-Bushes. Yea...

Balance in Haven - remaining images colored!

11:52 pm EST

After having lost a day due to possibly getting a sinus infection which turned into a fever, I finally caught up in some work I wanted to get done yesterday! The images aren't in order but they're parts of Act 4 - 6. 

Balance in Haven - most of Act 3 colored

12:30 AM EST
I was able to get a lot of the coloring done today (as in yesterday...) before my evening class and meeting (elections for executive board).

Going off on a tangent, the elections took a lot longer than they should have, given that many of the positions were running unopposed... but question & discussion took up a lot of time due to one person's questions and phrasing as well as term usage. This was to the point where the person used terms that most of the people (except for 1 person) knew what that person was talking about because they were the same major. Basically, instead of being straight to the point and clear, the questions or comments before the said questions were long winded and took up too much time. The whole elections process took 1 1/2 hours when it prob, at latest should have only taken 45 minutes to 1 hour. 
But I rant and digress..

The images below are part of Act 3; currently there's one more image that needs to be colored to complete Act 3 before moving onto Act 4. 

4:02 pm EST

It's only the first few images of Act 4 since I realized that I never colored the images for the flashing lights. 
I still don't know how I feel about the "flash on" image...I was thinking of adding a glow instead of these sharp lines but that wouldn't really show a flashing light in my opinion. 

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.