Animation, games and Interactivity - Studio 1 Folio 2 Plan Re-Post

RATIONALE: INTENTION

The concept:

For folio 2, I have decided to work with the concept of quarantine and create a piece known as “Going places”. As this is a stressful phase for all and people are not supposed to leave their homes, I want to provide an experience of a vacation to the player of this interactive piece by sitting on their computers. The boxes represent our homes and the environment represents a holiday-like place. Each box has its own environment. When the player uses this piece, he can get an essence of a holiday.  The player starts with an environment-neutral normal box and can select which corridor or box he wants to start with and go. When the player enters each box, each environment will play its own music upon interaction by the user. For instance clicking on trees, or clicking on mountains. This music will be soothing and relaxing for the listener. As the player moves along, he can change corridors and will view a new environment while walking and will listen to soothing music all along the way. He can even change the music while moving through the corridors.

The purpose:

The purpose of the interactive piece is to provide relaxation and make a person stress-free during this period of quarantine. The music will be soothing to the person who is listening it as he moves around one particular corridor. By moving through the corridor, the player will get to explore and observe the space and feel relaxed.

The plan:

For folio 2, I am planning to work on the idea of creating a walking simulator style interactive piece. The concept of the interactive piece is that it will contain boxes or corridors lined one behind the other and each rectangular box will have its own environment. I am planning to work on environments such as mountain, plains, plateaus, canyon, caves, desert, sea and many more. I will be creating the environments by myself and I will also be working with various textures and lighting for each of the environment. By the end of this folio submission, I will be having many assets created by my own self and various sets of textures and lighting that I have done on my own. In addition to this I will also be having an interactive piece which interacts with the user upon the orders made by the user.

CONTEXT: FIELD           

My field of work sits within the field of game design and development and specifically, creating a walking simulator-style game to be precise. This walking simulator is also related to the concept of sound. There are many existing practitioners in this field who have created such works like Gone Home, Stanley parable, soma layers of fear and many more.

METHOD: CONCEPTUAL, TECHNICAL, CRAFT AND MANAGEMENT

The work I do in the studio will support my intention as it will be helpful to create and work on a concept that I am really interested to create. It will be an entirely new experience for me as I will be working with Unity and I am new to the software. Thus, studio work will help me enhance my skill set and engage and explore new concepts. Through an engagement with my folio work, I want to enhance my skill set through learning, exploration and guidance by my mentors.

PRODUCTION: TOOLS

To create this project, I will firstly create models in Maya, texture them in substance painter and then export these models to Unity, do the lighting and then I will work towards the creation of the walking simulator and work towards my project in Unity and then I will be exporting and submitting the final output. I will be gaining exposure through this project as it will allow me to experiment with various themes and also work with Unity. Unity is a new software for me and through this assignment, I will have a chance to use and explore the possibilities of the software. I will also use sound editing softwares for the editing of sound. In the end I will be submitting this project, along with flat renders of the environment and also the textures and lighting renders that I have used.