Play it here:...

Play it here: http://ift.tt/1NAVmnt

(Please don’t sue us Spielberg. This isn’t for profit.)

For practically two day’s of work, this game didn’t turn out half bad. Big shout out to my team: Donald Zhong for basically making the whole thing, and Andrew Baena for bringing my art to life in the cut scenes. As for me, I just dicked around on my tablet.

Basement Dwellers: Episode M’Lady is a side-scrolling platforming game in which you control a basement hermit going outside into the world beyond your house on a quest to find your one true love. Is it too good to be true even for someone as unloved as you? Could this girl really be your Princess Peach, Zelda, or Leia?

Lots of progress made on the sprites for my upcoming game...

Lots of progress made on the sprites for my upcoming game project.

Gonna have a fun night of cutting ahead of me. #SFU #SIAT...

Gonna have a fun night of cutting ahead of me.

#SFU #SIAT #project #cards

Character designs for my board game project.My group ended up...

Character designs for my board game project.

My group ended up talking bout weeaboos and how bad they are and I was just laughing along because I’m actually weeb trash myself.

Latest art project. Still a work in progress. #SFU...

Latest art project. Still a work in progress.

#SFU #SchoolofContemporaryArt #project #art #installation

Social Butterfly - interactive origami project #SFU #SIAT...

Social Butterfly - interactive origami project

#SFU #SIAT #SchoolofInteractiveArtsandTechnology #technology #project #school #origami #Arduino

Project: Luka Drafts

Drafts for my comic project. It's based of Luka by Suzanne Vega, which is basically a song about a girl shrugging off the fact that she is abused.

 

Now the alternative story. These pictures were supposed to appear when you hovered over the original story. It's supposed to depict Luka's ordeal the night before the story started, as well as reveal what really happened. Originally, I was going to integrate these scenes into the story linearly, but taking to the account that the theme of hiding and wanting to do something "different", I chose this gimmick instead.

And I don't think I've posted this yet, so I'll post it now:

Me brainstorming for the project before I even took the class.

Made in openCanvas
Last picture pencil on graph paper

Project: Luka Storyboards

Haven't been drawing much for fun due to homework. I've been spending all of my free time drawing panels for my webcomic I'm supposed to make for school. Expect more pictures as well as information of it in the upcoming days as the project is due this week.

For now, I'll post my crappy storyboards for the lack of anything else to post. My writing is pretty illegible here so don't expect to understand much.


Made with pencil on paper.

Project: Art Noveau Phantom of the Opera

I already introduced the topic on a previous a post, but in case you're too lazy to either click the link or scroll down, I'll recap for you:

We had to pick a graphic design style (New York School or Swiss design, say) and were given the choice to either make a poster based on a movie or a famous place. I don't know how famous place got so many votes, because I know like one person who actually chose to do that boring thing.

Anyways, my partner and I chose to do Phantom of the Opera in the style of Alphonse Mucha.

And there you have it. But before I post the actual poster, would you like to see some more drafts first?

A cleaned up version of one of the drafts, where I pretty mush centered and neatened things up a bit, as well as give you an idea as to what colour scheme we would be using.

Our final second draft. Made her looking towards you a bit, widened the space allotted for the title, as well as added a text box for all the movie-like stuff like actors and what not.

So which draft exactly did we end up going with? The answer's none of the above, but a draft my partner put forward. I've never seen the movie before, but I think this is supposed to be based off the scene where the Phantom meets Christine at a mirror, and she realizes it's actually a door. I don't really know, I'm just getting this off hearsay.

And, without further ado, my final poster!

Art Nouveau Phantom of the Opera Poster

Sleep? What's that? I don't even know if you could count those two measly hours of sleep I got as actual revitalizing sleep. But yeah, if you already couldn't guess, I spent two all nighters on this thing just so I could get the impossible done and have this ready for presentation day, even though we wouldn't be able to print it in all 36" by 24" glory until much much later. I actually have the poster sitting in my room right now, ready to be handed in but can't because my TA isn't at school until Wednesday.

I've grown to have a greater appreciation for Illustrator and after doing this, it has opened my eyes as to what the program - or really Live Trace - can accomplish. Yup, I pretty much made all the people out of Live Trace.


Drafts made in openCanvas.
Poster made in Illustrator.

Art style poster drafts

Just dumping my first drafts I did for my poster project for school. We had to pick a graphic design style (New York School or Swiss design, say) and were given the choice to either make a poster based on a movie or a famous place. I don't know how famous place got so many votes, because I know like one person who actually chose to do that boring thing.

Anyways, my partner and I chose to do Phantom of the Opera in the style of Alphonse Mucha.

I later on found out I was doing it wrong because I was supposed to draw all these drafts out on paper and not computer, but meh.


Made in openCanvas.

Project: Automata

Our beautiful automata

Oh, hello there final project. Even though it was the cause of much shedding of blood, sweat, and tears (mainly tears), I'm pretty damn proud of it. Best of all, if you couldn't tell from the gears and stuff in the box that something is supposed to happen to the figures when turned, movement is smooth and works most of the time without issues.

Yeah, our thing is pretty lame, but at least it's beautiful, dammit! That's all we have. We were able to secure a spot in the spring showcase from it, so I'm not ashamed of it at all!
I think after the horrible "definitely ugly" rating we got when we pitched our idea, we just strove to make my prof eat his words.

Project: "Tipsy Jazz"

Magazine Spread Assignment

The title of the this article is "tipsy jazz" and it's about interior design, more specifically "jazz inspired bar design". Yeah, so totally unlike me to pick something like this to do, right? Well, I didn't pick it, nor did I approve of the title. It was more like it was imposed by my partner and I shrugged and went with it. You might call that being a door mat, but I call it being a good partner. I know how to compromise.
(Though I sorely regret not going solo so I could make the magazine about horror movies or a hair magazine featuring Yu Gi Oh characters...)

Honestly, I'm freaking out about this project. Even though I'm done and can put it behind me, I have a really nagging feeling of impending failure. For one, it got super stressful the day - or really, last couple 'o hours - before the presentation due to issues that kept cropping up while I was finishing up the project. I think that's all I'll mention now, because the story is a long one. But part of it does include my partner. That's all I'll say.

Unfortunately, I don't think I should show my partner's page, because it's technically not mine's. I know it's a lame excuse, but I got a better one: I don't have a picture of it either.

Ugh. I hate this assignment, and I'm not proud of what I submitted.


Made in inDesign.

Astrum: Demolition Technology

Logo

I guess this is a follow up to a previous post where I had all my draft logos. I'm going to fast forward through previous drafts and just go directly to the final products. We decided to go with the red star in the ring, just cause.
Another big aspects of this project was the design of the business card and letter head. Personally, I think our card is pretty sweet.

Business card front

Business card back

 The checkered part of the star represents a hole I manually cut out before I handed it in.

Letterhead

Yes, I was this close to having to go back, replacing the logo with an older draft, and then reprinting everything during the day it was due (and admits the rush of all the other people who planned to print last minute)  all because my prof told me the logo was too generic and how she preferred the older one. If it was anyone else, I wouldn't shrugged and been like, "Meh, it's too late. Already got it printed." But this is the prof we're talking about. She even urged me to do it, saying it was worth the extra effort.
In the end, my TA convinced me otherwise. I bit the bullet, and I spent my night scheming up bullshit to relate our logo to explosives and not so much film and photography. Good thing my partner's particularly good at that.

P.S. Did anyone notice that our company is Russian?


Made in Illustrator and Photoshop (even though it should've all been Illustrator)

Project: MoV Graphic Novel Part 3 - Ze Actual Thing

...and, without furthur ado, here's actual comic.

The pages are black and white because I sent the pages to another guy who printed them out and coloured it like that. That's why only the cover has colour because I was in charge of printing that out (and I was shit scared that my colour printer, which was already running out of yellow ink, wouldn't make it).
Also, over half of them have words because at first, I was putting the text in myself. For the rest of it, I got another guy to do it. Like you'll understand it with or without text, though.

And yes, I found the Looney Toons part kind of... just thrown in for the hell of it. I do have to say that I did a good job (at least in some parts) of making them look like who they're supposed to be.

Oh yeah, I forgot that people read left to right in America. Woops.

Unfortunately, the rest of the colouring was not as kick ass as this.

Copyright infringement.

I actually like how Sylvestor looks here, standing there all stupid like.

Because they totally don't resemble who they're supposed to be.

...troll face.

"You realize, this means war!"

Bet you'll never guess who those three Daniels are (though you already wouldn't if you didn't go to school with me).

Pepe's got a gay crush on Bugs.

D'aw.

And this is exactly why I chose Pepe: he always ends up alone in his shorts.

Should've ended it with "That's All, Folks!" instead of a sad picture of (supposedly) Shylock.

While I was doing my individual evaluation of how the marks should be distributed around the group, when it came to one member, I wrote down "I honestly don't know" in the part where it says to list what they did. Though it's not entirely true, because I heard he coloured in two backgrounds.
Granted, I did hog a lot of work, lol. But that's because drawing's my forte.

Outlined in SAI,
Edited in Photoshop.
Cover made in openCanvas,
Edited in Photoshop.