tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18352438168575293242024-02-19T06:07:17.720+01:00christina ziem - diploma thesis- Christina Ziem -http://www.blogger.com/profile/07112636751206359400noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1835243816857529324.post-22259871516910412762010-10-15T13:02:00.004+02:002010-10-15T13:10:11.548+02:00New PortfolioFinally its done, I relaunched my Portfolio site!<br />
Now you can find many of my works online with detailed projectinformation, like making ofs or workflow descriptions. Feel free to visit :) <a href="http://www.christinaziem.de/">http://www.christinaziem.de</a><br />
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</span>- Christina Ziem -http://www.blogger.com/profile/07112636751206359400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1835243816857529324.post-44282678396189406892010-10-14T14:09:00.005+02:002010-10-15T14:54:19.707+02:00Developing Process MortimerAnother person Moira gets to know is Mortimer. Mortimer is A Death. Which means that he is not the only one. His speciality is to catch the souls of wild animals and pets.Actually he doesn't like his job and often dreams about something better. Despite his fierce appearing he is a quite sensitive guy. Some early sketches: <br />
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His body should be very tall and skinny. When drawing his outfit I played around with the length of his neck. I liked the Idea of a long neck like in outfit one, because it gives him some kind of awkwardness. Imagining him talking to smaller people he always has to bend down, which might even look funny.<br />
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For his job, he needs a special tool. Some kind of staff which gives him the power to separate the soul from the body.<br />
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The first concepts showed him as a young, happy and wild tomcat, but actually he is much older.<br />
He has seen a lot of things and has his own way of thinking. Somethimes he is a bit of a dramaqueen and tends to think first on his own needs. But nevertheless he has a special connection to Moira and so she is also his best friend.<br />
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So she got rid of some baby fat in her face.<br />
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The next step was her body and clothes. The body should be a bit taller but concerning the clothes I oriented me on my first clothing concepts.<br />
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</span>- Christina Ziem -http://www.blogger.com/profile/07112636751206359400noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1835243816857529324.post-71522889978672996142010-03-20T11:02:00.012+01:002010-03-20T19:40:51.673+01:00too busyA lot of time went by and now there is just one week left to finish my diplomathesis.<br />
Against my assumption in September, I was too busy to update this blog :(.<br />
I hope after finishing my thesis, I will upload more concepts.<br />
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here is one of the first concepts of Mandigo the cat<br />
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But I have to work it over, because its to realistic and doesn't match the games "cartoony" style.<br />
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</span>- Christina Ziem -http://www.blogger.com/profile/07112636751206359400noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1835243816857529324.post-12183089888155627732009-10-09T21:20:00.014+02:002010-03-20T19:37:43.455+01:00Concept - Mandigos DreamAt the moment I'm busy with writing the description of my game world and characters. But after all that writing and thinking I wanted to paint something, so I started a concept of Mandigos great dream of his life.<br />
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It seems he is a simple guy.. he just wants to be happy and play ;)<br />
But I think he might have some other dreams. Perhaps I find some time for painting more tomorrow or next week ;)- Christina Ziem -http://www.blogger.com/profile/07112636751206359400noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1835243816857529324.post-83861361231692940382009-09-11T19:10:00.011+02:002010-03-20T11:18:52.259+01:00Moira get's dressedI played around with different cloths but always ended with dresses. ;) I need comments on the outfits,please!!!<br />
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I Think that's it for the first 3D concept of her head. Next steps are some assymetries and variations in her face.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><blockquote><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEzMX0jF8MZlQpchHcmD_l64GpZUhFl1ba7SbXAAqVwfPBEZcRGelOa_ltTYDPFOoZQEUuqvMnAPLSmKUb0rh6O66VlZ7euDHFD1LUTp73XZMTrlkMhSRodNFVg17rv6tBRO8NUxtBUNTI/s1600/scribble_all_small.jpg" rel="lightbox[concepts character]" title="pencil sketch"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378440611521968562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEzMX0jF8MZlQpchHcmD_l64GpZUhFl1ba7SbXAAqVwfPBEZcRGelOa_ltTYDPFOoZQEUuqvMnAPLSmKUb0rh6O66VlZ7euDHFD1LUTp73XZMTrlkMhSRodNFVg17rv6tBRO8NUxtBUNTI/s320/scribble_all_small.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 143px; width: 320px;" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjScADVYys5L5VM3S9Ct4Tur-ctdvQsJ_cmBZTMEwa_2c8Vo9aMKjuFt5noYYkn8TEzdRxwvQ1hcOSdVf2Ke9YWD7OaMVCwVgGDvxVX8YuQLXdwcXjx0wuUiSu2usXZpiFMm355aueb9Xij/s1600/double_moira.jpg" rel="lightbox[concepts character]" title="color sketch"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378436752665401922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjScADVYys5L5VM3S9Ct4Tur-ctdvQsJ_cmBZTMEwa_2c8Vo9aMKjuFt5noYYkn8TEzdRxwvQ1hcOSdVf2Ke9YWD7OaMVCwVgGDvxVX8YuQLXdwcXjx0wuUiSu2usXZpiFMm355aueb9Xij/s200/double_moira.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 134px; width: 200px;" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNuQ3CYlI9wkQ978z4LqshTDVRSs93LaIFCAdgeRRmz1mjc8ihNfxjh7kgaqr8VUohQ8fgbTQZ_i1B0iSu-zGaufAMKIte8gLm7wbRVefxQ6VGEDqadfj_wDXctnTSo42mBNWDlD82SMjm/s800/models_001.jpg" rel="lightbox[concepts character]" title="zbrush sculpts"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378436758714833138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNuQ3CYlI9wkQ978z4LqshTDVRSs93LaIFCAdgeRRmz1mjc8ihNfxjh7kgaqr8VUohQ8fgbTQZ_i1B0iSu-zGaufAMKIte8gLm7wbRVefxQ6VGEDqadfj_wDXctnTSo42mBNWDlD82SMjm/s800/models_001.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 200px; width: 105px;" border="0" /></a></blockquote></div>- Christina Ziem -http://www.blogger.com/profile/07112636751206359400noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1835243816857529324.post-65078417567363124072009-09-05T17:05:00.007+02:002009-10-24T17:11:42.091+02:00Glimpse of my story<blockquote><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLNKTPpPdW80ptgKX8mqSIQ_AjHFVYIE-EiK5sPnEkcGRSiTTrt9vgXlQFJQgo3qNWI8Ict3ff6wxdJeCzghRTQhsk5ISDf18O0KUEn76GGrczPdbUxeGy4K0cff47icTApNGQEAxn4KeS/s720/gang_v.003.jpg" rel="lightbox[concepts location]" title="the cave"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLNKTPpPdW80ptgKX8mqSIQ_AjHFVYIE-EiK5sPnEkcGRSiTTrt9vgXlQFJQgo3qNWI8Ict3ff6wxdJeCzghRTQhsk5ISDf18O0KUEn76GGrczPdbUxeGy4K0cff47icTApNGQEAxn4KeS/s720/gang_v.003.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 369px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 493px;" /></a><br />
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"Moira is a 12-year old girl and that's anything else than candy. She has a brother which bothers her all the time, no real friends and school is more than horrible for her. With a few words, she hates her life. But when her best friend and cat "Mandigo" is about going to die and in the middle of the night the death in persona has come to her room to take the soul of her friend the catastrophe is perfect. When trying to stop the death from his mission she gets accidentally sucked into the Twilight World and makes acquaintance with all kinds of obscure things and creatures, who know the secrets of life and death. Will she find here a way to bring the soul of her friend Mandigo back to her world?"<br />
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The main locations of her adventure are set right now and in the near future some concepts of them will appear in this blog. So let's get back to work ;)<br />
<br>- Christina Ziem -http://www.blogger.com/profile/07112636751206359400noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1835243816857529324.post-2081572192627769762009-09-05T11:22:00.020+02:002009-10-24T17:07:20.563+02:00Birth - The beginning of my diploma thesisStarting in April 2009 I tried to find out what I want to do exactly in my diploma thesis.<br />
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It was and is an step-by-step process in which many ideas and researches ended no where but helped me proceeding. Literature and articles on the internet about Game-design, -play and -development also helped me. Check my book list.<br />
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Starting with storytelling I needed to find out how to write a story for a game and what's the difference to writing for film. I had several story ideas and spend much time on writing and developing them further but everything I made up until June 2009 wasn't used ;)<br />
I investigated my favourite games because I wanted to know why they are so much fun. At some point I thought about making a game for children, which should be educational. So I spend three weeks on investigating on-line and off-line games for children. In the end this idea was thrown away because without and psychologists and pedagogues this won't work.<br />
Concerning the technical issues I made a tutorial-game with <a href="http://unity3d.com/">Unity Gameengine</a> and realized that you get things going pretty quick with this engine. So I will definitely use it to present the graphical appearance of my game concept.<br />
In July 2009 I rediscovered a story idea I totally forgot. Then I knew this is it what my game should be about. So I developed it further and I'm still working on it so It isn't finished ;) but I'm quite confident about that.- Christina Ziem -http://www.blogger.com/profile/07112636751206359400noreply@blogger.com1