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Friday, January 10, 2014

Finished!

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I've finished everything on my dissertation, all chapters, titles, contents for chapters, surveys and all the artwork to go with it. I h...
Saturday, January 4, 2014

Chapters 1 to 4 Done.

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I really feel like Im making a lot of progress with my essay now, I've very nearly finished it. So far I've done the into and 4 chap...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

Death & Disease (READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED)

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Please note: as part of my essay into looking at what makes the perfect scary monster I have been looking at various forms of death and dise...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Dissertation Poster

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A while ago we were asked to design a poster outlining out intentions of what we would be involving into our dissertations. I quite like ...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

A Night of Horror Films

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Just like the night I spent playing video games with my classmate, Hollie Lowry, the other night I spent watching horror films to try find s...
Monday, December 30, 2013

Why are things Creepy?

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Whilst doing research into why we feel fear I came across this wonderful video by Vsauce on Youtube named "Why are things Creepy?"...
Sunday, December 29, 2013

Evolution of a Monster - Pt 3

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After a lot of hard work sketching and scribbling I've finally designed my final two creatures for the outcomes of my dissertation.  ...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Taught Fear

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What it is: Taught fear is something that is neither passed on to us through instinct nor earned through an experience. It is taught to us ...

A Night of Horror Games

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Recently myself and a fellow class mate, Hollie Lowry, had a night of playing horror survival video games in order to figure out exactly why...

Rational & Irrational Fear

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As part of my essay I've started looking into the various types of fear and how they effect us in different ways. The first two that  I ...

Instinctive Fear

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Instinctive Fear What it is: " It is a basic survival mechanism occurring in response to a specific stimulus which is perceived as ...
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Evolution of a Monster - Pt 2

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Over the past week or so I've been gradually building up my monster designs to try and achieve my final product. Its been quite dif...
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Evolution of a Monster - Pt 1.

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So the first step I've taken to designing my monsters was to create various mood boards of the things that I've been looking at. The...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Progress of my Essay

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The following is a small snippet from the introduction of my essay: Over the course of millions of years creatures have adapted to sur...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Spooky Scary Monsters

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So its finally gotten to the point where we have to write our dissertations. I had a good think about it over the holidays, thought about me...
Sunday, June 2, 2013

Borderlands - Sketchy Scruffy Cinematics

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Borderlands has always been a personal favourite of mine from the moment I first played it. The way that the story string itself togeth...

Diablo 3 - Stationary Movement

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Diablo III is a game that I've adored since I first got my hands on it. The game play itself I thought was interesting but over...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

Making Connections - Granny Bacon

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Granny Bacon, is a man who I've been talking to recently about the video games industry and how I could improve my chances of getting my...

Making Connections - Lawrence Mann

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Shortly after our latest guest speaker, Tom Evans, came to the college to talk to us about being freelance and working in the creative indus...

Hazardous Concepts - Website In The Making

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Because my facebook page seems to have become quite popular, certainly more so than I expected, I've taken it upon myself to start desig...

Hazardous Concepts - My Facebook Page

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Over the past few months I have been considering various ways to attract outside audiences and network with other people both locally and gl...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

First Hand Field Research - Environments

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In order to improve the amount of first hand research and referencing for my project I decided to take myself out for the day and do some e...

First Hand Field Research - Animals

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As part of my research into various animal concepts I went to a place called None Go Bye farm over in the countryside. The purpose of coming...
Thursday, May 16, 2013

Finalised Transmedia Decision

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After thinking more about how my project could be reflected through the transmedia process I have decided to create a bestiary or creature c...

A Change of Plans and my new Pro forma

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Over the course of this most recent module I've had high hopes of making my very own opening game cinematic using After Effects and my o...
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Crit Notes

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Today was our crit day so I took some notes of each persons projects, what I liked and what I think could be improved or followed up on. J...
Thursday, May 9, 2013

Guild Wars 2 - Opening Cinematics

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This guild wars 2 cinematic is my main source of inspiration for my own animatic. The reason why I love these cutscenes so much is that ...

Character Concepts - Demmi Sparrowstone

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Demmi Sparrowstone is a character that I created for the purpose of being the face behind the narration of my animatic. When i originally d...

Character Concepts - Saurians

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The Saurians are an ancient tribe of dinosaur-like humanoids who inhabit the majority of my world, Golgotha. They are one of the oldest race...

Character Concepts - Sirens

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Character Concepts - Forest Matron

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The Forest Matron (shown on the left) is one of my first characters that I have designed for my world of Golgotha. I have used various re...

Guest Speaker - Tom Evans

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Top tips for getting into the digital industry: 8 years experience. - Freelance creative. - No experience is bad experience. - Be able t...
Friday, April 19, 2013

Interim Crit Feedback

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Today we had our first crit of the new self directed module, rather than all of us having to sit around and wait for everyone to come up and...
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

The Gaze In The Media

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Upon comparing the writings of Mulvey's - 'Visual Pleasure' and Coward's -'The Look,' it can b...
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