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The Video

admin — Fri, 22 May 2015 16:01:09 +0000

Here is the video. It shows the loading screen home screen and 2 combos made in the main interface. More to come if someone actually wants to code this out. If you do please contact me.

Shading Done

admin — Fri, 08 May 2015 17:45:54 +0000

Finished up the shading/gradients. Added a shine to the eyes, made the lines beween fingers/toes lees thick. Changed the Panda and Panda offspring eyes, and changed the coloring on the Monkey/Panda or Moanda to make it a bit less ugly. Marc had said it was the ugliest thing he’s ever seen, so Moanda got a makeover.

Before:

After:

Another shading example at top.

UI Screens

admin — Fri, 08 May 2015 04:48:28 +0000

Last week I finished most of the screens. I originally had the main buttons to enter the game, and apply the mix transition as play symbol with a white circle around it. The group thought this would signify to the user that a video would play. I originally chose this as one of the top paid (and top rated) children’s apps uses this convention as well. I changed it to a Bunky face on the first screen and a Question mark with a circle around it for the main gameplay button. Here are some screens:

I also made the 3 faces for the add on farm pack.

Next an animation of how it works.

Hard Lessons

admin — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 02:40:07 +0000

On friday my crit group helped me decide how to go about shading the character in the Bunky App. We decided that on a very small screen it was better to do gradient only and have the outlines solid. I worked on it all day friday and got everything except the bear and his “offspring” done. I proceeded to overwrite the file on my portable hard drive and take it home to work on it.

At home I had the pre-friday file open on my computer , and when I quit out I saved it. Later I merged the folder holding my workboard with the one on my portable hard drive. It overwrote all of my work from friday because the one on my home computer was saved later. I am kicking myself for not having re-named the file.

Then at take it or leave it I one of the panelists questioned it being in my portfolio, because people go to school for character development and that I would be competing with them. Another panelist said they were removing more and more illustration work from their portfolio as time went on so this was pretty discouraging. I was given good feedback on a UI element I can change on this, and the advice to create a polished demo of the interface in after effects. I was hesitant because I don’t know after effects at all but maybe I can help someone letterpress and they could help me with my animation of the UI.

Rough Sketch of Splash screen

admin — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:36:38 +0000

Rough Gif of the UI

admin — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 08:34:23 +0000

Bunky Genetics

admin — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 07:36:32 +0000

Believe it or not there are some Genetic rules to BUNKY.

Here is what trumps what:

EYES

1.Cat

2. Panda

3. Monkey/Bunny (same)

EARS

1. Bunny

2. Monkey

3. Panda

4. Cat

BELLY

1. Monkey

2.Panda

3. Cat/Bunny (same)

LEGS

1. Bunny

2. Cat

3. Panda

4. Monkey

TAIL

1. Monkey

2. Cat

3. Bunny

4. Panda (no tail)

NOSE

1. Bunny

2. Cat/Panda

4. Monkey

COLORING

1.Panda Mixed with other

2. Whatever looks best overall

WILDCARDS:

-Whiskers

-Mouth

-Monkey mask

Panda/Bunny (Punny)

admin — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 07:14:25 +0000

This is pretty cute. I bet there are some real life bunnys with panda markings.

Monkey/Panda (Moanda)

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 10:45:10 +0000

This one isn’t the cutest. Somewhat lemur-y like most of the monkey combos. I tried making the arms black with white outlines but it looked very strange.

3 Shading Styles

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 21:46:10 +0000

Thinking I like gradient and brush best. The speckles look too dirty. Going to probably go flat for the mockups. Going to try to do an animated gif in photoshop to show the scrolling functionality. Or just make some diagrams with arrows if running short on time.