Questionnaire

Please send your answers to me by either leaving them in a comment here, or emailing me at spannadan@hotmail.com

1. Age
2. Sex

You will need to look at this selection of images Link

Please answer the following questions with the scale:
1 = Strongly Disagree
2 = Moderately Disagree
3 = Neither Agree or Disagree
4 = Moderately Agree
5 = Strongly Agree

Please put the number of the question, followed by your choice of answer. (e.g. 3. 2)

3. High definition characters improve gameplay.
4. Pixellated game characters make games more fun.
5. Realistically proportioned characters are important.
6. Computer game characters have become less aesthetically pleasing with the inclusion of realistic modelling.
7. 2D characters are childish compared to 3D characters.
8. A game is only good if the character design is realistic.
9. People only play games where they play as beautiful characters.
10. The limited colours of early sprites such as artefacts 1 and 2 degrade its value.
11. Realistically modelled eyes are important.
12. Lighting of the character is important.

Please answer the following questions with a sentence.

13. What is your favourite example from the picture, and why?

14. Please write down the order from favourite to least favourite using the number above the picture (e.g. 362415)

15. Do you prefer pixel art or 3D art?

16. Do you have a favourite game character? If so please write the name of the character and state why you like the design of that character.

Client Project

I tried to show someone my finished client project today, and found that I hadn't even uploaded it... stupid me. Well here are some pics anyway.

Artefact series

Here is all my artefacts placed together in a series, I made this to get a final feel for the work that I have done, and also for a reference sheet for use in my questionnaire.

6th Artifact

I finally finished UV mapping and texturing my final artifact, I'm pleased with most of it but there are a few things I'm not pleased with. Final polygon count was just under 7000 polygons, 7000 being the limit i set. This was based on the model for Lara Croft in a more recent release of the series. I will update soon with details on the questionnaire, and I have to write up the evaluations also.

5th Artifact

Ive finally finished my 5th, after learning a few lessons in the art of UV from Andy I'm pretty comfortable using 3ds Max after moving from Maya. I'm pretty happy with the result, after a bit of research and decision making I found out that apparently the model for Master Chief from the first Halo game was 2000 polygons, so I decided to aim for this. I made this model differently from the others as in that I had to model already, my sixth artifact (or it will be when I have UV'ed it) and I took out enough polygons to meet the 2000 limit and still keep a recognisable shape. I also Rigged and posed it, which I want to do more of, I'm getting that hang of that slowly... next step animating.