Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Final and Artist Statement



Artist Statement

My interaction was based around the idea of something (in my case a person) following the mouse around the screen. I gathered my main idea for my interaction from stunt planes and how they do different tricks in the air and leave a trail of smoke behind them. From this I thought of the idea of making a super hero fly around the screen by following the mouse. After a while I thought that it would be quite boring if he just flew around on a blank screen, so I decided to introduce the city scape to it along with some clouds.
The user is fully in control  of the flying guy as he only moves with the mouse, so depending where the mouse is moved to the guy will follow that path.

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

Step 5

the 5th step was copying the stick man into the other code with the background and adding a smoke trail. Adding the smoke trail was quite difficult at first but after add managed to find the coding for a simple particle system which i was able edit it made it a lot easier and was pretty much a matter of copying some of the code into my own.

Step 3 and 4

Step 3
In step 3 i decided to add windows to the buildings so you could see through them and be able to see the guy flying behind them also it gives the appearance that he is flying through the buildings.

step 4 was creating the stickman which was pretty basic as he is just made up of an ellipse and a series of lines.