Wednesday, 13 March 2013

First draft of Learning Agreement


What do you intend to do?

In this project I will be creating a series of environment art pieces to create a whole new area in the 'Red Dead Redemption' world. I want to create a series of artwork to portray a whole new environment that the player could visit with the main character to extend onto the main storyline. Using research into the time this game was set I want to recreate an event that would serve as an interesting and unique add-on to this already vivid world.
A key area at this time which I want to recreate is the 'Ocean of Fire' endurance horse race which took place in Saudi Arabia. The artwork will portray the journey of the character across the ocean to this foreign land, as well as the places they will visit before and during this great race. Overall, I want to produce 8 strong finished environment pieces, as well as progress sketches to give the feel to this new world.

How do you intend to do this?

I will begin conducting research into both the game and area I want to set my concepts. From this research I will gather a collection of reference images which I can refer to in my drawing. I will first create small hand drawn sketches of small areas of the environments, such as buildings, tents, people, horses as well as plants etc. From these hand drawn sketches I will progress to importing them into Photoshop and transforming them into digital images. Then from this I can begin to create my large environment studies, experimenting with techniques and styles.

Why do you intend to do this?

The bustling and beautiful world of 'Red Dead Redemption' is vast and unique. However, the world in which it is set is limited to its style. Through this project, I can expand this world and create a new life and feel to this already beautiful game. Using my idea, I want to recreate the desolation and despair these riders felt during this 3000 mile long race, and give the viewer an idea of the loneliness and difficulty of this feat.

Assessment Work:

I will be submitting the following for assessment:

  • Learning Agreement
  • 5 2D Large Environment Pieces
  • Pre-Production images (Digital and Hand-Drawn)
  • Project Blog
  • Project 500 word evaluation
  • Self Evaluation

Schedule of Work: (to include the deadline for submission of assessment):

  • Research, collecting reference images and blogging findings (Ongoing throughout project)
  • 2D Hand Drawn images of small assets, locations
  • Digital pre-production images
  • Technique and Style experimentation
  • Digital paintings
  • Create a small design document of progress and labels
  • Complete Evaluations and Blog work

Submission: 10/05/2013


Resource Requirements:

I will be using the following programs for this project:

  • Sketchbooks with pencil and pen
  • Photoshop
  • Graphics Tablet


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