I will start with my Visualisation Project "Up above down below”.

Task:
Design and model the ultimate roller-coaster. Set in either outer-space or underwater or in-between. Design both an environment and track that is both imaginative and fun, but with an accurate grounding in your worlds' physics.

For this after a bit off thinking about settings for it:
Space Station
Minning Field
Underwater anicient Remains
Space Fight
Underwater Expedition

Then running over many ideas in my head i decided that i would most like to build an underwater scene, and with that in mind i first looked at excisting RollerCoasters for principles, limitiations, track desgins, car desgins, immersion settings. I have actuwally done a bit off research into rollercoaster's before, With that i had a shortlist of coasters to look into further;
X/X2 (Six Flags Magic Mountain, USA),
Tatsu (Six Flags Magic Mountain, USA),
Kingda KA (Six Flags Great Adventure, USA)
Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit (Universal Studios Florida, USA)
Air (Alton Towers, UK)
Nemesis (Alton Towers, UK)
Manta (Seaworld, USA)

I will also be looking into underwater scenes from films, underwater excavation, archeology, wrecks, sea life.

The Return

Right this is long long overdue, but its about time i updated this. Right now am on Year 2, and Taking the Virtual Enviroment pathway.

Year 2 Term 1 Projects;

-Visulisation: RollerCoaster.

-Animation: Of Bot And Bananas.

-Game: Card Game.

-Network Essay.

-Seminar Work.

I know i am late for all this going up lets just say medical problems and leave it at that. As i can i will be updating my process for these projects.

RocSoc PR Position

I am Running for the PR executive position next year and this is my Assault poster to help with my campain.

Research, Written Task

Creative Origins:
Over the Past few years my creatvie projects have mostly just been for my self playing around with ideas and developing my abilities however these have usuwally been little projects that took a back seat to the projects i was doing for Graphic Design and Design Tech in collage. However last year was a bit different with not being in collage and working for most of the time, my work became a source of sanity and release from the rountine of being a salesman. Other work came up like precents for people and requests from friends to make certain things for them. Other than that it was all just for me. I did it like this out of necesity over anything else, if i didnt keep doing it my ability would drop and i wouldnt have been ready for uni.

Future:
I see the future of my creativity in the world of animation/storytelling/artist, wether using 3D or hand drawn animation, or both combined. I guess its easier to say to be graphic artist working in the graphic novel industry/ concept art, with influences from 3D design. It makes sense to me.

Research:
I find that resarch can help me achive inspiration as well as somting to strive for. But i guess its biggest purpose for me is understanding i need to know the reasons why behind most things, for example if designing a character i want to know there background, manerisums, personality, lifestyle bofore i can imagine what look suits them, i can come up with lots off ideas without that information, but that information helps me focus my designs. I guess it is with this that i see myself drawn to the Explanitory starting point. I guess that i am most wary of exploritory resaerch as you cant always end where you want to, theres no overall aim to understand or find something, just to search etc, i think. Interim Resaech is the most irrelevent to me i think as i dont view progress as a part of resaech, i view it as a holding point, where you re-evaluate you research and see if there is a new direction you need to go in or what areas you need to expand on. This to me is an evaluatory method.

The End of Second Life

I probably should have updated this by now but just talking about second life bores me so every attempt to finish this has failed, so here we go.

My avatar had many iteration of itself before i settled on my final self some where just for the simple purpose of that looks cool but not what i wanted to appear like, although i probably would appear as them from time and again, if i continue to use second life, so no. Here are a few of my possible looks.

Weird Skin and Tail:











Samurai:











Master Chief:











Chibi Prime:











Cool Meerkat:











This Avatar i really liked, and was using for awhile until i occurred a foxes tail and added this back to my original avatar with some new trousers and boots and the Fenrir seen in second life was Finlay born. The Car shown is a Ferrari599 GTR for scale, as well as for me driving it around.

Well now that my appearance was finalised, time to show the exploring that i forced myself to do. In all i found a few interesting places, and some buildings i would love to see in real life if created, but i doubt that they would be.
A trip to Berlin:
In all fairness i was completely disappointed with this visit as i was expecting so much more from a virtual Berlin. There was no Brandenburg Gate, no Reichstag building thus no great glass dome on top of it, no East Side Gallery, the only thing that was there was the Alexanderplatz which has the Fernsehturm and the Bahnhof, but this was no consolation for the many other major buildings that i would expect to see in a virtual Berlin.

So Another thrilling adventure in the land of second life involved a theme park.
Nothing more to wright really that was it, is was nice that some rides worked, many worked incorrectly and had glitches throughout, notice the direction of travel in image 3 compared to the previous 2, again another evening well spent.

Well enough bad as there isn't enough space on here for that, the only place i found interesting on second life was a Steam punk world, which in all fairness if this wasn't good would have made me want to kill the inventors of second life for ruining such a culture. Lucky for them it was decently done.


So In my response to second life i would give it a 2/10 and it only gets that due to avatar customizations you can get for free and the steam punk world, other than that it wouldn't get a score, as way too many things pissed me off explicitly about it. On a lighter note of insanity, who the hell spends there actually money on this shit, who on this damn planet would buy a new hair style on here, In all fairness am surprised its not run by EA as there master as flogging pointless crap at people when it should be free to begin with.

That's it I'm free and to celebrate i am uninstalling second life and never letting it touch my computer again until drastic improvements are made, and by which i mean it becomes a high graphics, 3d virtual environment with an actual VR simulation machine thingy.

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Now playing: My Dying Bride - The Scarlet Garden
via FoxyTunes

Moodboard

This is the moodboard for my box/showcase.

Second life

Well i guess its about time i mentioned my wonderfull time in second life. Ive been bumbling about with it for a few weeks now and so far can only manage 20mins a go before becoming so bored that i need to go punch a camel to keep my brain from stroking. Yes im probabliy being harsh as it is very vast and theres bound to be something on there to keep me interested for an hour but if there is i failed to find it. Right anywya lets start from the beining, Avaatar/ Alias, i chose an alias id been using for afew years now of Fenrir Ragnarok, but upon finding out you couldn't create your own last name i was thoughrally annoyed at this early stage of the lack of complete user customisation, so with that i settle on one of the pregenerated ones for me to chouse from of Roecastle, close enough i guess, buts its not really. right next avatar creation, i simple picked the musican skin as a base when i created m acouunt and started from there, (See First image)