Art Direction / Project

6.9.2022 - 11.10.2022(Week 2 - Week 7)
Chang Jia Yee / 0350402 / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media
Art Direction
Project: Design New Among Us

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INSTRUCTION

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Project: Design New Among Us

Task to do:

Stage 1 -

We need to play and analyze Among Us and Goose goose duck with the designer's thinking, make a comparison, research and point out their respective advantages as well as disadvantages, similarities and differences.

Stage 2 - 

Next, we need to take Among Us as the prototype, add our own design ideas and creativity, revise and upgrade this game, and complete our own design style.

Stage 3 -

Finally, we enter the practical stage, and we must integrate it into our New Among us Game according to the design style we put forward in stage 2.

Stage 1

In the first week of class, we play Among Us and Goose Goose Duck and made groups of three. My teammates were Vernice and Cheryl. I think the three of us are already very familiar with each other's working ability and working style, so I believe that the results of our team will be great, and there will be no too many obstacles and differences of opinions in our communication.

Proposal Slides

Stage 2

Fig . Discussion in class

Fig . Notes & ideas & sketches we jotted down on the table

In the first class, Miss Anis mentioned that table in Xspace could be used as a place for us to take notes when we discussed idea, so we brought our own marker in the second week, and then began to draw and joted down our discussion idea on the table. Seriously, it's actually fun to write and draw directly on the desk.

Fig . Discussion in class

Art Direction Presentation Slides

Stage 3

Fig .  Moodboard / references

Each of us is assigned his own work, and then I am in charge of the design of character.

Fig .  Art style comparison of character design

At first, the character design was rather dull, and the eyes only used black spots, but then the color was bright yellow. After the discussion and modification in our group, the eyes became white and eyeball, and the eyes looked bigger. Blush was added to the cheeks, which made them more lovely and colorful. At the same time, the yellow color of the chicken also adopts the yellow color that is more in line with our retro color system, and is shaded, which makes it more textured and vivid.

Fig . Final character design

After our group discussion, we decided to design 10 characters with different characteristics. I draw the representative images, articles and wearing styles of each character according to their images.

Fig . Final character design

Fig . Edit short animation in AE

Because we think that playing games is a dynamic form, we intend to make our finished products move and show our finished products more intuitively.

Video . Chick The Bot game demo

Here are the photos of our happy mood after the final presentation rehearsal. We are finally going to finish this homework! On the whole, everyone is very satisfied with our work, and they also help each other in the production process, giving each other opinions and affirmations.

Fig . Online discussion with my lovely teammates

Fig . Last discussion before our final presentation

Final Presentation Slides

Miro Board

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FEEDBACK

Week 7

The idea of combine retro and futuristic style is sound interesting, let's see how you guys done that

Week 9
Your current progress looks good. Keep it up. Sketches of your interface can see the effect in AI.

Week 11

Your progress is quite fast, and I look forward to the final presentation to see your finished products.

Week 13
The design was completed well and no complain for that, but can add the learning point into your slides

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REFLECTION

I think this is a very interesting course because this course is to finish homework in groups of three people. We need to study and observe the whole course, and then transform the game Among Us. I think it is very challenging because it is to create my own style and complete the revision according to this direction. At first, it will be difficult to finish, but when you see everything moving in the right direction bit by bit, you will feel a great sense of accomplishment. Besides, I like my teammates very much, because all of us have done our work well, and we are very willing to listen to other teammates' suggestions and make improvements. Moreover, our aesthetics and opinions are consistent most of the time, so we can communicate smoothly and greatly speed up our progress.