Floppy Taco Reflection

Media Arts Reflection: Floppy Taco

Materials: Computer Based- Photoshop and Flash CC

Date: Monday, May 11th 2015

To make this project, I used a premade template for a game called Flappy Bird, there are many elements such as menus, animated characters and collision code with pictures. To make the different elements, I used Photoshop to create characters and used stock photos as a foundation. I made different pictures to create phases for the moving “taco” and used Cinema 4D to create a more authentic and professional looking menu with 3d text.

At the start of the project, I was told to identify a problem in our society and I chose the stereotypes with the mexican people being referred to their food and them border jumpin. So therefore, I chose a taco to represent the animated character and pictures of borders, buildings and enforcements to represent the obstacles. My ideas changed from a mexican guy to a taco in the middle of the process because it seemed like a more symbolic and known symbol.

The only influence I had for this game is from the maker of flappy bird, for making the game and giving me a good idea on what to do and things I would need.

This game was already templated for me, so therefore there was not a lot of room to change symmetry, game dynamics and playability. I tried to make the scale of obstacles to scale and exaggerate some to give effect. My main emphasis for this project was consistency and making sure it wa sonly the wings of the taco that moved, making sure he remained the same scale.

My main motivation for this assignment, was to create a smooth playing game with interesting and eye catching elements and obstacle, animating the taco as much as possible and making the game fun.

I feel like the game was overall successful, there were a few glitches at the start on figuring out how to import different elements, pictures, etc. But I was able to figure it out and from there on it was very easy. The process of adding pictures to the library surprised me, as I thought code would be needed for variables and such.With more time, I would’ve had wanted to animate some obstacles and make them dynamic in ways, such as moving, shooting and grabbing.

In conclusion, this game was a good example of what it  is like to make a game without actually coding anything. It was a little tedious to figure out, but it all worked out in the end.

Floppy Taco

D:\Video Game Art Files\Flappy Bird\Game files\Floppy Taco.html

Art Movie

FB Assignment

Toy Hack Reflection Questions:

1. If you were to box and sell this, what would you market it as? (What is the purpose?)

If I were to box and sell this item, I would make it a comedic packaging with sarcastic names. It would be along the lines of: "Dino Ernie" or "Ernie the Dinosaur". The purpose of this product, is to show kids that there is both good and bad sides to everything. On one aspect, Ernie is a kind and well reputable character, but in a dinosaur body, it could show his bad sides.


2.  What do you like the most?

I like the combination and irony of the toy, it provides it with a contrasty feeling that works well with conveying the message trying to be conveyed. I also like how it all came together, I did not have an idea of what to do, until it was time to do it. I also like the screws in Ernie's head, shows a "Frankenstein" look.

What do you like the least?

The things I dislike the most are the button I created and some of the glue spots being undone. If I were able to make the dinosaur move with electronics, it would enhance greatly. Lastly, I dislike the fact that the only way i could mount the button was with glue.

3. What would you do if you were to re-do this assignment?

If I were to re-do this assignment, I would make the seams stitched not glued. I would make them with professional looking stitching. I would also want to add moving parts and maybe move the mouth of the dinosaur. Lastly, I would add lighting to the eyes and change the voice box.

Theme: Stereotypes
Idea: Mexican Jumping borders~ Flappy bird

Theme: Tech Takeover
Idea: Flappy bird hitting down cell towers and such- Flappy bird

Theme: Global Injustice
Idea: Flappy bird dropping food.

Final theme: Stereotypes
Idea: Mexican Jumping Borders

Main icon: Mexican Pixelated

Pipes: Borders

Tokens: Tacos, Burritos

Art Movie- Consequences.

Short Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1fkCtFJ7dw

STEM LOGO

  STEM LOGO
~C4D and PS CC

Painting Without Paint by Nathan,Harlan,Ryan and Sean

"Cole MacGrath"~Infamous

"Angels and Demons"

7 Edited Photos

Black and White (some with Color Toning)

Coloured Picture

Colour Pop! 

Contact Sheet Assignment

Philippines Trip

On November 28,2012, I embarked on a Boeing 747 owned by the Philippine airlines to get to my home country, the Philippines. When I got down in the airport, I can feel the weight of my textbooks in my backpack just weigh down my back. I needed to bring the textbooks to keep up with my studies. Right when we got down, I immediately turned my Go Pro on to document my trip, I planned to document my whole trip so I can look back at it.

After a few days of rest and family reunions, we decided to go zip lining. At the mountain, we took a silver old jeep to the peak and strapped in and enjoyed the ride. When we went to church in the Philippines, we attended mass at the oldest church in Asia, it was very catholic and had a very rusty, old look to it. One day, we went on an outdoor excursion, on that excursion we saw the rarest mammal in the world, the Tarsier, we saw many accustomed Filipino birds and we saw a waterfall where Holy Mary appeared among the people.

During the excursion, we got the opportunity to scuba dive and see many different types of fish. During the night time, we enjoyed the night-life and the comedy bars in Manila, the nation’s capital.Many bars were also explored and we listened some of the best music I have ever heard and the best visuals for music ever! On one traditional excursion, I got the “joy” of eating live worms, surprisingly good and the chance to climb a peak, a religious peak where prayers were said at the top. During the celebrations, we lied down and sat on a “Banig”, which is a multicoloured sheet that is used as a cover for hard ground and such. We also acquired a “barrel statue” where it shows private parts of a man covered by a barrel, we did not get a full explanation, I didn't even ask, aha. All of these memories, engraved into my brain, skin and my Go Pro. It was a crazy trip with many surprises!

Memories in My Skin Assignment Reflection

Sean Castillo

1.    Technical aspects I used:

●     Layering photos and changing opacities to create depth and mixtures.

●     Changed color curves to create similar or differentiated colors.

●     I used layer blends to make a more unified look between layers.

 2. Ideas or Concepts

 My idea for this project was to create a crazy, non-peaceful piece of work. I wanted to                          reflect my trip and how it was crazy and full of excitement. During the production                                process, I started my composition completely because of lack to rotation in the image 

 and I created an attempt at making the pictures blend together.

 3. Influences

 No artists inspired me to create this image. I just let myself loose and did magic with                           Photoshop. I then just became critical with myself and readjusted images.

 4. Composition

 I tried to create a mix of images with different sizes and opacities. I tried to have more                          solid opacities on the corners to create a box feel to the picture. I tried to create emphasis 

 on the more connective images such as the church and scuba divers while adding birds to                    draw the eye back to the place or flow of emphasis. As a whole, I feel that the pictures 

 blend together in a natural way, I tried to create a yellow kind of tone with red and blue,                      representing the colours of the Philippines.

 5. Motivation

 Besides fulfilling the assignment, I really wanted to share my experiences in the                                    Philippines using pictures and reflect on the BIG things I wanted to really emphasize. 

 I wanted to explore a more “traditional” tone of colours such as yellows, blues and reds that                represent older  cultures.

  6. Critical Assessment

  I feel that my most interesting elements are the mixtures of nature and man made things,

  such as the Plane and the Church blending with the different textures of the face, waterfall.

  No, I do not feel that I could have improved my assignment anymore because it was so                         hard to know what to put and not to put.

        

        

Duotone Exercise

    Mile High- Layer Blending

Colour Balance Excercise