Production Team

Team Name: Cybercondriacs

Team Leader: Ali Ahmed
Concept artists: Leanne and Lawrence
Photoshop Artist: Lawrence
Flash artist: Rory
3D Modeler: Tony

Blogs:

Tony: http://www.tonysgamedevelopmentblog.blogspot.co.uk
Rory: http://www.roryoliverg.blogspot.co.uk
Leanne: http://www.lalaleeleesblog.blogspot.co.uk
Ali: http://www.alismobilephonegames.blogspot.co.uk

Route focus: Green Route

Psychology of Sound

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDUnQs4u2oQ
Ib Main Theme - Orchestral Version

This piece of music makes me feel emotional and reminds me of something Tim Burton would use in one of his films. In some places it reminds me of a deep sea scene. It's very surreal in places too and turns into something that wouldn't be out of place if it were played in an aristocratic ball.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBITwDfPags&feature=related
Dragon Force - Fairy Tail Battle Music

This piece is action packed and reminds me of fast paced fighting. It gives me goosebumps just by listening to it. It has an epic vibe to it and reminds me a little of a bard playing in an inn... but more fast paced with drums and guitars! It fits with action and will not suit emotional scenes at all.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bty4-TgBV9I
115 - Elena Siegman

This song is really action packed just like the above piece. This reminds me of an opening to a shounen anime like Bleach or Death Note. It has it's down moments to when it gives the feeling of epicness. Not much to say about it really. It is very religious based and talks about the second coming of Jesus and the Anti-Christ. It's used in the Call Of Duty: Black Ops Zombie mode as a kind of unlock-able battle music.

Science of Sound

Wave Length

The wavelength is the distance over which a sound wave repeats.  It is usually determined by considering the distance between consecutive corresponding points of the same phase, such as crests, troughs, or zero crossings. Wavelength is commonly designated by the Greek letter lambda (λ).

Amplitude

Amplitude is the intensity of a change in an Oscillating Variable. For example, Sound waves in the air are oscillating in atmospheric pressure and their Amplitudes are directly proportionate to the change in pressure.

HCI Update

Today, I added more pages to my HCI concept and made interactive buttons for switching between the different pages. Problems arose during writing the first piece of code for a button but that was easily rectified by getting my friend to teach me the basics and then I figured the rest out myself. Scripting in Action Script is a good language for people who aren't really that adept in programming. In fact the animating in flash is actually a lot harder than the scripting. When I first introduced a second page the animation looked like it was having a seizure by switching back and forth every half a second. Then I learned of a stop function witch stops the current scene from switching to a new scene. That is where the buttons come in handy. Buttons aren't just used for switching scenes though. They can be as simple as a start button for a certain animation or as complex as a "click to reload" or a "Click rapidly to open gate" type of button. My HCI might not yet be completed but it's well on its way to being a fully interactive HCI map

This code is for the "Back" button. It's basically saying once the button is released then it will go back to scene 1. 

Multi-Story Water 3 Routes Info

GREEN - Weir to Weir - [ Filming with CD/MB - FRIDAY @ 3pm & Sun@ 3pm] Agreed Points of Interest on this Route [15] : Hirst Wood, Hirst Lock / Weir / Mill, Roberts Park / The Lodge / Bandstand / Cricket Pavilion / Sports area / tennis courts, Shipley Glen/Tramway/Dodgems, Higher Coach Road Estate / The Mansion,  BLUE - Lock to Wharf - [Filming with CD/MB - Friday @ 4.30pm & Sun@ 12pm] Agreed Points of Interest on this Route [6]:  Shipley Wharf / Canal boats, Saltaire train station, UR Church, Salts Mill / Early Music Shop RED - Mill to Mill - [Filming with CD/MB - Friday @ 5.30pm & Sun@1pm] Agreed Points of Interest on this Route [10]: Salts Mill, Shipley Wharf / Noble Comb, Shipley Wharf / Swing Bridge, Saltaire & Shipley train stations, Dixon Mill, Lower Holme Mill, Victoria Mill

Maps and HCI (Human Computer Interface)

Human Computer Interface is the way a human interacts with a computer. Objects like the Keyboard and the mouse are interfaces. Things on sites like login boxes or interactive buttons are also a type of interface. The way the site makes you notice these interfaces is by making them look important, things like a glowing effect or a bevril emboss effect. Sometimes they will be animated to catch the eye of the viewer.

We have been asked to create a flash site for a map of the Shipley stretch of the Leeds - Liverpool Canal. We are marking key historical landmarks so you can hover your mouse over them and look at the story of that building. We will be marking the points of interest with icons most likely of our own creation and animate them to be interactive buttons. This might prove difficult because my Adobe Flash skills aren't as good as my Photoshop skills. The style I'm doing this map in is quite simplistic but sometimes simplicity is better than an elaborate and over the top design.

First Commission job

A friend of mine wanted me to draw him in anime style and offered to pay for my services. It wasn't an official commission job but I'm still being paid for it. This job wasn't to difficult to complete but I did have troubles with shading and hair detail. All together it took about six or seven hours to complete fully (estimated) The drawing was done entirely in Photoshop CS6. It might have turned out a little better if done by hand first but this was also a test as to weather or not I could draw in photoshop to a professional standard.