weekly update #6

A late weekly update again… sorry for that but it was Easter.

The project is in my opinion not going fast enough. I haven’t done much last weekend because I focused on my supportive narrative and I was busy with finding good sources. Unfortunately, I now have too many sources and it make me crazy because I cannot decide which is relevant enough ...

I have orderd the book "Picture This: How Pictures Work" by Molly Bang and "Deeper than Reason: Emotion and its Role in Literature, Music, and Art" by Jenefer Robinson. So I have to wait a few weeks for those. Both books are interesting, in Picture this Molly explains why certain shapes, placing object in a certain way, colors and composition let us experience certain feelings. Deeper than Reason is about the role of emotion in art and why this is important.

Now that I'm going deeper into research I am slowly getting scared ... what if the theory I hope to create already exists?

I'll just have to read the books and go find out if that is so.

I also have borrowed two thick books. "Emotions" by Nico H. Frijda and "Psychology of the Arts" by Hans Kreitler and Shulamith Kreitler.

I hope to find a definition of emotion in an objective way and find theories of art that evoke emotions. But I noticed that a lot of books about art and emotions are about how to translate your own emotions to art and let the viewer experience your emotions. But that’s not my main goal. My goal is to decide which emotion the viewer should experience, not necessary  your own emotions.

Well I have a lot of reading to do and drawing, and hopefully I can finish the books I have borrowed this week.

Character Designs #2

Weekly update #5

A bit late weekly update, but Hiromi is back from Japan so we can speed up the progress again. Last week Egbert has reviewed our moving storyboard and gave us some feedback. Hiromi and I discussed the storyboard and decided to make a new and improved version of it.

Hiromi will be doing the storyboarding and I will focus now on the Character Designs. There are already some designs finished which will be uploaded soon.

Also I have started to begin writing the introduction of the supportive narrative. I hope to finish that this month.

Next week we have a meeting with Egbert and we will show our new ideas about the trailer and show our new planning, the Character Designing is finished.  I have a meeting with Tarak to show progress with the paper and project, for that I need a finished storyboard and the first chapter finished of my supportive narrative.

paint factory

first music demo's

Some music demo's Jelle Roosen has made

Weekly update #4

The past week we finished the moving storyboard. It’s now up to Jelle to design some music and sounds. We didn’t make the deadline ‘a paint a day’. This because the moving storyboard had priority first. One paint is finished and one character design. We hope to make up for it next week.

Jolanda has started writing her supportive narrative, she aims to finish the first chapter (Introduction) next week and collects more resources for writing the paper. 

Next week we aim to create more paints and character designs, and hopefully Jelle will be finished with the first version of the moving storyboard.

Character Design Susan v2

Character Designs of Susan, also some sketches before she became a zombie.