A New Game progress

In class we were given a Gantt chart to help organise and schedule various tasks associated with the stop-motion project. After watching a short stop-motion film (the review is below) we went down to the workshop areas and started designing our sets. For today, we worked on the videogame user interface, based on the concept art that Marilyn provided.


 We also made a mess of our workshop in out arts-and-crafts vigor:

Head Over Heels (2012), Directed by Timothy Reckart

Head over heels is a 10 minute claymation student film, detailing the day to day life of an old married couple.
The husband and wife life separate, but parallel, lives, with one on the floor and one on the ceiling. When the husband tries to give the wife a gift, it starts an argument that sends the house (which was previously floating in a cloudy void), crashing to earth. The house has crashed in such a way that the wife is on the floor and the husband on the ceiling, allowing the wife to walk on the ground outside and trapping the husband in the house. In the end the husband and wife end up reconciling their differences by adapting to each others way of living (the wife nails her shoes to the ceiling of the house to be in the same orientation as her husband for example)

The film has impressive attention to detail, ranging from things such as the picture in the frame and the shoes. The lighting in some of the scenes was good, especially where they had a low, yellowish light to simulate a sunset.