Paper Shop - Complete

I finally finished the paper shop set the other day and took many photos.

I also made some mock ups with the man in the shop, made from separate photos of each limb put together in photoshop.

New sweet shop in Cambridge

These are some photos of the Mr Simms chain of old fashioned sweet shops in the Cambridge branch taken over Easter break, they have since opened one in Norwich too!

Update - Late April

Paper work is going well, I have quite a few positions and pieces for the old man character and lots of tiny paper jars. I have found a reasonably sized cardboard box to build the shop in and I've made some of the shelf units and the door. I have though a lot about how the counter will be (one pieces of flat paper, or a folded pieces with a surface top) and how the shop front will appear when animated. I have intested in a high quality camera over the easter holiday and I have been looking more at After Effects. Animating the level segments is not going so well, Flash does not alow the colour to behave as I would like because it is vector. I have also tried using some other animating programmes like Pencil which is simple and effective but crashes a lot. Traditional media has also proven largely unsuccessful so far, I tried making a flip book of the swimming boy but I was going about it the wrong way. I am still enthusiastic to try more at all of these areas and make something that works. Since making my site rosieball.com I am keen to see how I can mold the sweet land page to become my portfolio for assesment. As for a showreel the shelf unit experiment from the previous post could be used for this.

Game Concept Portfolio 2

In order to meet the brief requirements my 'portfolio' needs to be a creative and imaginative display of everything I have produced, emphasising the stylistic themes of my project and embodying them. I am planning on making a display case in effect, a large image of a shelf displaying all visual aspects of my game idea. This may be interactive. Here is an initial mock up I have made..