On Friday our lovely class just started a module called "From Concept to Prototype" Now this module if you understand design language is about getting an idea and going through stupid amounts of redesign and then eventually once you finalised and chosen what concept you go with you start construction or use if you're a graphic designer/ illustrator, the concept you use. In game design we call this the prototype. But this applies to anything you build for the first time so make as you will.
So at the start of the lecture our lecturer wanted us to draw a character which he verbally gave us instructions on which he wanted it to look like, Most of the instructions where very... interesting. However I will list the directions he gave
- Girraffe head with 8 Horns and a small neck.
- A Barrel for a body, like an oil drum thing
- Robotic tenticles? - Octermingiraffinator? WTF?
- Followed by stilts for legs. - yep.
- And to finish it off big chunky walking boots. #Fabulous
So this is funny, and it caused a giggle but actually seeing some of the class' work actually amazed me to the point I would stick this abomination of a character in some sort of game.
Secondly our lecturer gave us another concept but in pure words, we would just describe as a fat Bruce Willis thug guy who loved his mumma's shoe collection.. yes we had to give him sexy prada shoes. This thug obviously loves Jimmy Choo, yes. I did another funny.
Now moving onto the third concept. Our lecturer let one of our class sit in the hot seat and describe a random character concept, and obviously my desperation for attention meant I was going to volunteer myself, so I did and I found myself in front of 22 people hoping I was going to say something normal for a change, and my god, did I disappoint them.
So firstly, my messed up concept, I chose to give the lizard head a cute "tiger main" which I was so lovely corrected that it was lions that have mains. So I repeat a gecko lizard head with a tiger main, with cute little tiny cat eyes. So I patiently let people draw that before blurting out my next idea which was a carrot body (yes the orange vegetable you heard me correct) with mechanics on it's body in the shape of a smiley face. Crazy eh? Then I decided to attach two huge Terminator arms to the the walking death carrot. Don't mess with this bitch or it will mess with you. Moving on from his overly HENCH robotic arms, I decided to give him human like legs with the lovely asset of shorts. And to finish this fashion- challenged death carrot, I decided to give him a lovely pair of kinky high heel boots. Yes. I even got the pleasure of naming this vegetable beast. Yes I named it Hashtag Janet, Hashtag as a word not a symbol.
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| Alex Stockwell AKA Savamther - A design from my mind, very bad ass. |
Now after seeing what everyone created it was exciting to see how all these different styles and looks of the same character concept I came up with on the spot. Now the interesting thing was how many classmates questioned the concept into detail and the amount of times I said to everyone; "you can choose" because I kept missing out the little details that in which I will call the 'Designer' needed in order to come up with the perfect design. This is where the title A Designers Nightmare comes into it. How can people come up with the correct concept if you miss the little details. And where designers can empathise with me you need all the details to project something from the mind and put it into a sketch or concept. The moral of the story, if you're going to get something designed, know what you want because Game Designers, Graphic Designers, Interior Designers and even Make-up Designers, we are not mind readers. If you're not happy be more specific.
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| Ayrton Scanlan's - Carrot Demon from hell... Or my mind... |
And as much fun the lecture was, I learned that details are the bits that count. Because missing details will piss off anyone thats a designer. Unless you're not a fussy git (like me). Then using the imagination is also fun :D
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| A fine Carrotation By Libby Nixon, she read my mind, and then judged me. https://www.facebook.com/LNixonArts |
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| Zara Abbas - If Jaxx from Mortal Kombat was a Karrot and cross-dressing. This would be him. |
Thanks for reading I hope you enjoyed this blog update I just wanted to thank my class mates in the FDA of game design for giving me the chance to explore this way of thinking, and a special thanks to Libby Nixon, Ayrton Scanlan, Zara Abbas and Alex Stockwell for letting me use their designs as examples of my concept for this blog. Peace.
Check out Libby's Art page I can guarantee you will not be disappointed. https://www.facebook.com/LNixonArts
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