Coloring/painting style : Vivid colors, glitches, haunted places

• I still haven't drawn background that interact with character yet

• The pacing still awkward but will edit again during final one

• The boat in this per-compose haven't get change yet

• The stick that character throw away is a cigarettes.

• We don't need to use parallax technique but use contrast in the project instead

Micro Project

• Start cleaning and animatic for trailer

• Try different camera angel so it can be more interesting instead of close shot.

• Try to find my own styles to make my game more unique and display more about character trauma dream

• Think about sound that you going to use in the trailer (for final one hire musician is recommend)

• Although overall of the finish work can't tell message as much as we expect, but it is good we able to finish it in time.

• Next time, it better to put text that can tell final message, it might help viewer to understand what we trying to convey more.

Micro - Project and RVJ

• Making a table of content for RVJ to make other able to read it easier

• If possible try to finish animatic and add more in game scene, finish story board and designing more creatures that will be in the game.

• Beware of contrast in value and how you going to use light/shadow and color to express out each scene.

An animation project for the game I going to make in the future after graduating from university. The story is about a boy "Noah" who try to escape from his trauma dream.

The event takes place in haunted school. The game portrays the character traumatic experiences and guilt from hurting his best friends. The creatures in the settings portrays the fears he has, such as social anxiety, being bullied, etc. To escape from this place, he needs to be able to accepted the truth about hurting his friends, so he can wake up.

The pacing I want to play with ambience sound, silence, and the sudden tension in the music to make viewer a little bit scared. The trailer is mainly showing game play, however, the trailer will also have some hint of what happened in the story.

I laying out what the game play will have and what map will show each game play in the trailer (top-left note).

The main map I going to do are toilet (for hiding scene), Classroom for item scene, hallway for running scene. Others are for showcase in the concept artbook.

I added some flashbacks and more hints of the game to let the audience get a hint of the story behind this mysterious world that the characters are facing.

The Previous design process is mentioned in my old RVJ.

For this year, I cut out the long hair part because Aj, Damian had suggested me that since the character is gloomy and lack of self-confident he will not put a flashy hair styles or outfit on himself.

I learned how to used limited pelleted to the game, and how to connect each limited palette color by using color ramp.

Pixel art is different from Full CG since it is pixel and the size is very small, every dots is important.

(The explanation about proportion is in my work process)

For this semester, I changed the color to blue - purple - red because blue can represent death and remorse red can represent anger or danger, and purple represents mystery. I want to use blue as the main because I also want it to have some underwater images in the game.

• change brightness to match with horror game concept

• Edit window silhouette to become more clear.

I used it for making a monster sound in trailer

I choose to utilize this approach rather than drawing frame by frame because it can take a while to draw. This method cuts down on the amount of time needed to create the eyeball scene, thus even if my after effects crashed twice, it was still worthwhile.

Most of the horror RPG games portray characters's traumatic experiences, which the video explains how they narrate.

This video also helps me to illustrate the map and how other games use dreams as the perception of their traumatic experiences.

• Edit character move while breathing (because when people moving their head and body will also move as well.)

• expand the character to make character near the screens.

• When open the door, making the animatic to have step to make audience knows what to focus first, so change pacing when character open the door to be 1. open door -> eyes open

• Item - classroom

• walking/running from monster - hallway + canteen

• hiding - bahtroom

• other map - rooftop

• main scene - art classroom

Second, I had tested the map color twice. Ajarn had suggested that I add contrast between the map and character, so I made the character  brighter than the map.

At first, the sound when water is dropping comes, then the quote "it's all your fault" comes immediately, so it has no pacing. Then we decided to change and make the water drop sound fade out, then the talking sound comes in.

The final one is in Animatic session

At first, I wanted to add a gradient to add detail, but it did not match the map since the map has a mostly minimal design. So I changed it to not have a gradient and focused on putting brightness and darkness through lines around the table.

This video tell how the game told a 5 stage of griefs of the game which portrays how Sunny use his dream to move on with his traumatic experiences.

This gives me the plot idea for my thesis on how they using dream as something that can haunt you or can heal you as well.

The anomalies in our dreams mostly portray something we fear or something we do not want to see. This helps me to create a creature in the game, and what I want to use a creature as is what the character has experienced.

The mood and tone of the story also have some mysterious vibe by using smoke and blurring.

The main thing is to think about character personality, and think of what fashion, posture, or design that will able to tell the story of this character.

What to focus on on the on the story boards process in order to tell the story.

• Using story narrative graph and study how the this trailer tell story through visuals.

• More information is in RVJ pg, 39

Study on using vivid color scheme in the animation.