Sem AB: Week 2 consultation

Consultation 1 (Tuesday, 11/11/14)

Tutor: Chuan Zui

Had the first consultation with Chuan Zui in this final semester. I have discussed the story outline, shown the story board and some of the digitize scenes to the supervisor.

I am worried and concerned about the storyline in my final project as the story length is a bit too long. After discussion with Chuan Zui, I decided to shorten the length of the story, by combining the story of chapter 2 and chapter 4 together. Besides, as Zui suggestion, I should have made some adjustment for the story flow as below:

Chapter 1: Baku's Childhood
Chapter 2: Enter to sabotage dream
Chapter 3: Met the character Yoshi who change Baku's personality.

I shifted the story to start with introducing Baku's childhood and what makes him changed at the beginning of the story instead of letting the user to experience the sabotage dream because it will be confusing and lack of understanding of the whole narrative for the user.

Other than that, I have shown and explained in one of the interactive parts to Zui, which is the scene when the mask guy was passing the cat clay toy to the kid.

In this part, buttons will be shown at the clickable area, the cat eyes, mouth and body. The interaction will lead to different outcomes as it depends on the user to decide whether to help Baku to sabotage or not. I am thinking to put timer in this section so that to increase the tension for the user, Zui was also agreed.

The digitize scenes are too dim, I will adjust it become brighter and makes some adjustment on colors contrast. The next step that I will execute is refining my storyboard as it has adjusted. I will be continue to digitize my graphics and some refinement.


Consultation 2 (Friday, 14/11/14)

Tutor : Kelvin

I have shown the same progress to Kelvin. In my interaction part, Kelvin said is too static and not interesting enough. Kelvin asked to compose few benchmarks on what I want to archieve. He suggested me to consider using Adobe Flash to animate so the interaction will be wider. Story is too long and he asked me to think about what makes this project fascinating to let people want to buy it. Other than that, to work faster to get my digitize scene done.


After the consultation with Zui and Kelvin. I have listed down what is my next execution.
- Think about how to make my project stand out
- Digitize chapter 2, code the interaction part in Adobe Dreamweaver.
- Lack of landing page(Home page), I will try to digitize it
- Refine artstyle.
- Consider to animate in Adobe Flash.
- Find some benchmarks to support my artwork.