here is the beginning scene and vectorised animals ready for animation. I also tried to put up the animations I did but they would only load as still images?

random pics?!

something we could've needed from the start!?



Ha, oh well! Here are some pics from what we discussed for the choice of animals in the wilderness.









To me I feel it could be a nice touch of visual language, using simple semiotics to portray the message.

running away option

1) man begins to run; angry bear behind the man.

2) the bear catches up with the man.

3) man is beaten up by the bear.

i like them, i think the muzzle of the bear looks really good! wot im gona do is draw them up in illustrator with all the movable bits n make a file that i can give to you and kieron tomorrow so we're all ready for animating!

character movments

some of the bear's movments based on Laura's bear style.

using cut-up colored paper, a camra, and edited on photoshop.

heres a quick mock up of the characters at different angles - theyd look neater when drawn up in illustrator. i also made a little animation on photoshop but my pc couldnt hack it and the whole thing just about crashed so ill c if i can get on the uni macs instead!

heres the pine forest with out the characters if u wnt to us ethis background

With our earlier discussion of how to address the illustration situation for the project, i thought drawing cartoonish bears maybe a good start. 

As you can see the process of maintaining the prominent features of the bear makes it recognizable(head, arms, body, etc). 

From that, i have also produced a cut-out illustration of the bear, my focus for this development was to have as much mobility in the character, so that animation can be done as quickly as possible.  

i created sum cartoon backgrounds which might work? youll have to excuse my man hes a bit rubbish!

initial ideas

developing background (woods) and character (animal) style using cut-out colored paper.
[i'm not happy with the outcome though]

developing character style using collage cut-outs for bodies and cartoonish illustrations for faces.

illustration based on the cut out characters idea

Took me a while, but i got there in the end?!?

Here's a few illustration sites that we could possibly look into:

Tobyleigh.com

ellywalton-illustrations.com

rui-ricardo.com

Two of the illustrators have a nice messy look to it, something that we can venture into?

oh and also here's a nice lil website that has option/choice aspect of interaction!

Killfrog.com

The site also has a "How to animate" section on it too, so hopefully that will be helpful, if we need tips on that kinda thing. 

Interactive Design ideas

After a short discussion with my group after reading the required brief, I started to mind-map or plan my ideas from our discussion on paper.

10 things you should know about...
-Most of my ideas were related to the science topic.-
human hand: every time the scroller is dragged onto the image the screen slowly zooms closer to the skin, exposing common bacterias found on the human hands.

-good bacteria/ bad bacteria.

-disected corpse on a surgical table with exposed organs in a dark room; viewd from a birds eye, placed across the screen with facts about the human organs.

-facts about living plant spieces.

Worse-case scenario
-a pop-up would appear with choices of a reaction amongst every senario.

-the theme of the interactive design would probably take place in a scary forest: lost in the wilderness or plane crash in the forest.

-there could be a small interactive map of where the viewer stands, in the forest as they come across a scenario in the corner of the webpage .

-as the user scrolls down the forest a threatning animal appears.

-dead trees, no leaves. full moon, wolf hawls..? foggy.

-threatning animals include:

giant rabbit (silly)
birds (eagle, falcon)
snake
scorpion
spider
panda
fox
owl
elephant
gorila
mountain lion
dog
racoon
deer
bear
baboon
squerl (the smaller, less harmful animal could be a part of the background making sounds)
rabbit
insects (bees, magots, beatles)
hedgehog



Next step:
-research tips and advice on how to survive animal attaks.
-start creating visual development and experiment on most sutable style of illustration.
-create a rough idea of the story board

playing around with photography - kept it lighthearated (notice the angry eyebrows on angry bear!)

its nice that website

this is a good website to look at all creative stuff but theres also a web section which has some nice immersive sites that i thought ud wnt to look at.
some interactive sites i thought were nice:
http://www.telescopictext.com
http://thisissand.com
http://yugop.com
http://www.ertdfgcvb