Josh Morgan Next Gen Blog

Right so yesterday we had our test shots to check our angles for when we were doing the full filming for the vfx shot today. So we got quite a lot of the shots until we got talking to Mike in which we discussed our idea of a vfx shot whihc at first was a teleportation fight scene in which the main actor would find himself trapped against 3 other people and they would start fighting in which he would teleport  around them fighting them until one of them gets kicked through a wall. This was the original concept idea for this VFX shot but Mike persuaded us against a fight scene as it really doesn't look that good and looks a bit childish when just a bunch of people are fighting. So instead we came up with a new idea of a chase scene in which one actor takes the other actors phone and then they start the chase scene. However the second actor will continuously run after the first actor thinking that he will be able to catch up to him until the first actor starts to teleport away. Even...

This is a game we got tasked to make called OneTwoThree in which the player will have to add up only using the numbers 1,2,3 to get to 30. So this is to show my improvements throughout making the game so all the times I had to change my code is being shown here. So this first screenshot shows the first part of the code which is just allocating the number 1 key the number 1 to add up to the end amount. This part of the code helps a lot because it helps in creating the other two inputs for the game. These two screenshots show that I managed in code in the next to input keys for the numbers 2 and 3. There are only three inputs for the game however the code still needs more to be added to it before I can get the game working. This last screenshot of the code shows the full code that I managed to get finished earlier. The parts I have added was the timer code which will just time how long it takes you to get to the target amount in the game. As well as th...

The three primary colours are Red, Blue and Green these are the scientifically proven colours however history dictates that the three main colours are Red, Yellow and Blue.  The issue with this is that the three main colours when blended together must make white but RYB makes a shade on white but not absolute white on the other hand RGB makes absolute white and therefore are the proven primary colours.

Today we got asked to start and come up with ideas to create a VFX shot. We first got moved into new groups to start this project. We all came up with one idea at least to put towards this task in which it would need to include VFX and some sort of story to go along with it.  the ideas that were discussed were: Jumper Movie inspired teleportation Free-running Some sort of space maybe like the film Gravity Slow motion gun fight Fantastic four inspired fire transformation  The teamwork went pretty well today we all helped in the development of each others ideas as well as discussing which idea we liked best to then move onto going more in depth of what we would like to see. Our communication was pretty good everyone contributed towards the idea pool and everyone helped in the discussion of how we are going to write the story and how we are going to incorporate the VFX shots into this.

The Imaginarium and Creative England are partnering up to become a new independent game publisher.  They are wanting to bring out 10 games within the first 12 months of their partnership including a Planet of the Apes game in the mix of these games. In a joint announcement at the Creative England Live 2016: Catalyse event, the firms said that they would work to “to help develop and grow the UK games development community, enabling greater opportunities for small content creators to flourish, mobilize and scale up both in the UK and internationally”.  Imainarium being one of the companies to be behind NextGen skills I will definitely be looking forward to the outcome of all this and hopeful if getting the chance to talk to someone from Imaginarium to see there views on all this and to hopefully get the chance to get some advice from some great people in the industry.  My opinion on this is they are being quite ambitious to bring out 10 new games within the fi...

Today Ant taught us all about Dot Product. The mathematics description of dot product: “The Dot Product gives the cosine of the angle between two vectors times by the length of each vector” The dot product would look like this when it is written out. (?,?,?) . (?,?,?) Say the 2 coordinates are (7,-4,2) and (6,2,0.5) You must multiply the XYZ values against the other XYZ values (42,-8,1)  You then add them 3 numbers together to get the dot product which in this case would be 37.