Game Analysis: Art 5101

Cristina Feret
Art 5101 art and games
Written assignment 1

                  Pocket Monsters, better known as Pokemon, is a roleplaying game that has been around since 1996 in Japan and 1998 in the USA. The main goal of the game is to catch all of the monsters and to become champion of the region. Despite that the game is 20 years old and has developed many versions with developing technology, the game play and remained quite the same. To keep the game fresh for each generation of versions that are released, a new region is available to explore and new monsters are added to the list to catch. Even though the game’s target age is for children, the current majority fan base are the 20-somethings that grew up playing the series.
                  The functioning basics of the game are like that of many other roleplaying games that have battles. However, the protagonist isn’t the one fighting physically, the monsters or Pokemon are. A  Pokemon trainer can have six Pokemon with them at a time. Each Pokemon’s status are unique. Each species has a base stat amount and with training their stats become unique to each individual Pokemon. These stats include Hit Points also known as health, Speed, Attack, Special Attack, Defense and Special Defense. Special stats are based on attacks that are elemental or magic based and do not come from physical contact. Once the hit point number reaches zero, the Pokemon is considered fainted and can no longer participate in battle. Another Pokemon would have to take its place to continue the battle. Items can also be used to revive a Pokemon to participate in battle and also heal its hit point number. However, if an item is used it counts as an attacking turn. Once a trainer has no remaining Pokemon that can fight, they have lost the battle and have to give the winning trainer money.

                  The game implements the battles in the main story line. Defeat the gym leaders across the region. Head to victory road, battle the elite 4 and then you can face the current champion. If you defeat their Pokemon team, you are now the champion. There are also after game missions that can be completed.
                  Despite that Pokemon began with 151 creatures to catch, the last released version contains 802 Pokemon. This number is very overwhelming, but it still keeps my interest because there are so many new things and old nostalgic things to explore. I also enjoy the gaming community within the Pokemon fan base. Pokemon has always been a social game. We need each other to catch all of the Pokemon in the list, and much of the game outside of story mode is for 2 to 4 players. With modern technology allowing easy access to quick connections to the internet and infrared wireless connection, playing Pokemon has been more social than ever. The Pokemon Company also hosts regional, national and international competitions that offer cash and scholarship awards to completive Pokemon players who reach top ranks at the event. Earning money for playing my favorite video game? Count me in.

Art 3101: Human Canine Prosthetics

 

Dogs are known to be man and woman’s best friend and have a huge place in my family as our own kin. I grew up playing tug of war with large dog breeds, placing the toy in my mouth to behave like them. One question always came to my mind – what is it really like to be a dog? Due to our physical upright human proportions, we are unable to walk around like our quadruped friends. I developed with the human and canine skeletons in mind, Human Canine Prosthetics create a fun experience bonding with your companion on your own four legs.

Art 3101 Video Update

Observing Food Bowl from Cristina "Kira" Feret on Vimeo.

Art 3101: Sketches - Prosthetic object or extended perceptual (Part 2)

Human Prosthetics that let us experience life on 4 legs just like our best friends. 

This idea is to have a person wear prosthetics that would prevent them from walking upright. The front boots would have an inside bar that your hand raps around to stabilize the body. This would give the person a canine view of the world. Their body would have to adjust to using their limbs in a new way as the prosthetics give them the canine ability to move as a quadruped.

To see previous post about this project click here.

Art 3101: Sketches - Prosthetic object or extended perceptual

Idea 1. Dreaming Walker

Devices that claim to improve your sleep with lucid dreams, such as these masks and headbands, exist already today. With this device, the person wears a bluetooth lucid dream capable headband that will take a step each time the person steps in their dream. In a lucid dream, you are aware of the fact that you are in a dream. However, with this device you can control where you walk in the real world too. However, just you might not know where you are when you wake up. 

 Idea 2. Human prosthetics that make humans walk like dogs. 
In order to be on the same level as our K9 Friends we always go on our hands and knees. Because our bodies are designed to be upright on 2 legs rather 4, it is impossible for us to exactly walk like them. With this we can get the true, and fun, experience of walking like hour our family pets do. The front boots would have a bar in which we can grab with our own hands, stopping us from using our opposable thumbs while trying to get the real experience.


To see updated sketch of Human prosthetic idea please click here.

Art 3101: Telepistomologic Themie Last Update

 

 

 My Telepistomologic Themie Project was build, painted and tested by animals within the past week. A few physical changes happened to the device as it had issues supporting the bowl on top due to the weight. I was able to change the support imbalance and also added a closed off front and back instead of having an open hole. This stabilized the phone further than it did before.

The recordings were successful, despite one minor hiccup from a dog having separated the body and the food/water bowl. I figured out that this happened from me not using a strong enough glue and decided to use a strong construction tape instead to hold it down.  The videos recorded from my cell phone are currently in the editing process for Thursday's project deadline.

You may compare these images to the previous post of 3D models (Please click on the link!) that were used in the creation of the project idea.

Art 3101: 3D Printed Cubes!! (yay)

So I can officially say that I have my first 3D object from a class that was created off of cinema 4D and printed into a one inch cube in which that I can physically hold. It feels really amazing. We had an in class project to create cubes with our for initial of our name (mine being C) and have our cubes connect to a classmates somehow. He and I chose to have mine as the "innie" cube and his as the "outie". The knob on his is a trapezoid like figure that gets smaller as it gets to the edge, where it would fully connect with my cube. 

 

As I learn more about 3D modeling I hope to have more 3D printed objects soon. I'm quite proud with my progress, but as with all beginners in any program I am still learning and progressing with each class. Our next project is to take Project One and to physically build it. More updates on that soon! 

Art 3101: Telepistomologic Themie 3D model

Art 3101: Telepistomologic Sketches

I honestly had a lot of trouble thinking "outside the box" for this assignment. My usual mindset of thinking is in a narrative format, usually about how to display cultural differences, language barriers and how the character handles it within the society they live in.

The idea i ended up coming up with was an inspired by watching my boyfriend play with his mom's dog. The dog would hold his mouth open at the appearance of a treat but snap it shut when the treat would be retracted away. The idea is a bowl attached to a wood bottom that is slightly smaller than the clear glass bowl. The bottom is a two piece surface that would allow for easy access to pull it apart and clean.

A phone or thin camera would have a felt pouch with two long handles that contain micro cameras (2 each side) these then record how the dog (or any animal) that approaches the bowl eats on the food and how we can see the mouth of the animal. The device's felt handles would have a clip to attach them to the inside part of the bowl. The size of the bottom square is about 9x9 to 12x12. The opening for the phone would be 5x7 to accommodate the size of a samsung s5 with the pouch/handles attached. 

 First Approach

Side

 Above View

 Bottom View

Item Morph Animation

Beauty pageants are very important in my personal life, as they have helped me grow into a more well rounded woman throughout my life. I decided to do a rather quick hand drawn animation for three items that are apart of every pageant girl's world. The crown, the sash and an evening gown are all something we recognize or have in our possession. 

Despite the rather shortness of the video, there are many frames that go into making the progression of the morphing happen. About 40 individual hand drawn frames were outlined and colored to give the effects. The coloring and lining are only in draft format and are not perfect, but I only intended to practice the motions and framework that goes into animation.

It is now a few day before fall 2015 semester starts at Ohio State and I wanted to practice art before my classes got a bit overwhelming. I will be practicing my figures and sketches throughout the semester and hope to share them with you. I have some craft projects and logo work that I will soon be prepared to share and will make a post about them when ready.

Cyborg Buchaechum

During Spring 2015 semester at Ohio State, I got back into art classes by taking art 2500. It was actually a repeat class that was equal to a class I took at CCAD, but I felt that taking this again was a refresher on what I need to know as a digital artist. I'm glad I did this, because I was able to do things that I was highly proud of and even made a simple sketch I did a year earlier in April 2014 become a finished work of art.

The image was sketched in a program that I really enjoy to use: Autodesk Sketchbook Pro. I'm still learning to master the program and took the chance of our project in this class to keep using the program to learn more about it. I took the time to make many mistakes, which lead to me understanding how the program worked, and what I exactly wanted to do to color and line my work until it was at a finished quality.

The idea of this work, which I titled Cyborg Buchaeum, is to put traditional Korean culture and the rapidly technological growing culture together of Korea into one. The past two semesters have helped me connect to the culture of Korea even further, as being able to that introductory Korean language classes have enabled me to read, write and speak the language better than I have before. Especially reading and writing, which I did know know by studying alone.

So what is Buchaechum? It is a traditional fan dance done in the traditional dress called the Hanbok. The fan seen in the drawing is a signature characteristic of the dance. Usually this dance is performed by women, however in modern times men have learned the art as well. In fall 2014 semester, I learned this dance in my Korean dance class and have been in love with the beauty of the dance before I even knew how to do it.  I believe that is what gave me the passion for this piece.

I'm really glad of the result of this piece. I was honored to even see it up in the end of the year show at Ohio State called "Pilot Wave." As mentioned before in  the last post, this drawing plus a video of mine also helped me become the National Vision Award winner at the Starjewel Pageant held last week. I'm quite proud of my achievements and will try to do some creative projects in between the summer algebra class and art history class that I'm currently taking.

Until then enjoy the month of June!!

- Cristina

Blog Reboot!!!!

It has been a long time since I posted on this blog, two years to be exact. Let me kindly explain. My last year at Columbus College of Design (CCAD) was wonderful. I learned many things including how to make storyboards, anamatics, character design and more. During that year I had also questioned the very being of my animation degree progress at the school. It was not that I did not enjoy animation, however I felt that something was lacking in my degree. At the time I had no idea what that missing aspect was.

Unfortunately due to financial reasoning, my time at CCAD was cut short. Though this change might have been very positive for me. I was actually given time to think about what I was going to do with my art career by looking at the art I produced at the school. If I had a choice on the project I had been working on, a large portion of my video work had Korean pop music used in the background, and many of my other non-video related work had elements of Korean culture in it. My missing element was the fact that I didn’t speak Korean fluently, and I couldn’t read or write  the language I loved so much.

Figure One

This is when I began to search for schools that had Korean and Art as majors available. Little did I know that the school only a few miles away, The Ohio State University (OSU), offered the path that I wanted. I applied to OSU during my last semester at CCAD – only to be denied right away. I’ll admit, I was crushed right away, but I’m not a person who gives up easily. I wanted to show the admissions staff at OSU that I was worthy of being a buckeye and focused hard on my last art classes. I earned a 4.0 semester with straight As. I reapplied to OSU during fall of 2013 and started my first classes there during spring semester of 2014.

As you could imagine, adjusting to the large school was a huge change for me. The hardest part so far has been trying to get through my GEs (such as math and science) that I believed I would never touch again after high school ended. I’ve been in Korean courses for two semesters now and have a basic understanding of the language more. I also began to take art courses again in the past semester. This is where my art journey has begun to unfold again. After two years without an art class, I really have not been doing much drawing, but I’m going to change that.

Figure two

Figure two is titled Cyborg Buchaechum, my latest work of art. It was a sketch from last year that I decided to work on for class. It made the end of the year show in Hopkins Hall titled “Pilot Wave”.  As pictured in figure one, this piece of work, and a previous anamatic that I had made were also submitted to the Starjewel Showcase Nationals just last night. The director thought I was fitted for the honorary Vision Award because of those submissions. It means a lot to m, as these pieces have a lot to do with my inner self. I also won Miss Starjewel Supreme Queen last night.

 For now, that will be all.  As I rebuild myself in the art world, I’ll be posting more on this blog. I’ll explain in more detail about Cyborg Buchaechum and my classes at Ohio State University.

- Cristina