Mayors art show

this is the version of Adam that i have submitted to the Mayors art show the final piece will be 12" by 17" and i really hope i get in.
also the title is just young hero since it's on it's own not part of the set.

Overview

OK I've meant to post more things here but have been away from the computer every time i get a brainwave. so i've been putting all the info in notebooks and such. anyway i'm going to post the profiles of my seven Heroes and Miss M. here soon
the other thing is that I've got most of their histories hashed out now and i know all their powers and today they let me in on the big overall plot-line so we are good.

several things i still need to work on are the Rogues and the City. I've decided to use an old story idea as the history of this universe. That gives the world a bit more history and heroes of the past to live up to and in one case maybe meet. it also gives me some villains to bring in that i made for the other story. keep in mind this is several hundred years later but the ideas never actually got used so i can just change the motivation and back-story and be good. there was also a cult in the original which i can easily bring back.
the old idea also has given me the name of the city.
Star City: named after one of the Heroes from the original idea. she helped bring the world back from the brink. she might still be around because of the nature of her powers but i haven't decided yet. if she does come back she will be much changed from the original. her hero name was Stardust hence Star city. it is now known as the western capital of the New U. S. A. (there is still an eastern capital but i have yet to hash out the details. )

the look of the city is what i've been working on but there are so many ideas going through my head it's been hard to stay on topic.

ideas

once i get started thinking i get a lot of ideas all at once so i'm going to put some of them down here so i don't forget.

since i want to do superheroes research the publishers, as well as the distributors. see if you can interview people in the industry, make connections. possibly split the website in half, half on the heroes half on the comics and distributing and Conventions and so on. don't forget about the conventions. see what smaller publishers have to say verses the big guys.
on another note,
what does it take to make a hero: part of the site on the process, initial sketches, ideas, all that.


Plan things out then decide on how to do it. don't pull punches. this is big make it fantastic. don't settle for anything less.

reserch

considering all my Senior project ideas have to do with super heroes I've been reading a lot of hero comics and watching a lot of hero shows.
I love research.
OK so what i've been watching so far is:
batman the animated series
Batman the brave and the bold
Ben 10
justice League
reading original green lantern comics
Others on my list are:
superman the animated series
superman doomsday
Green lantern first flight
Teen Titans
unbreakable

there are some others but they aren't coming to mind at the moment.

Senior project

i've been thinking off and on about what i should do for my senior project and though i still don't really know what i want to do i thought i should post some of my ideas.

#1: an idea i came up with a while back was to create an obstical course for the YHA. there would be different obstacles that could be put in different orders. i would have different animations for each hero, and for each obstacle. the trick would be to get them to play one after the other so it looks like one unit, and having the order change depending on what obstacle is up. the thing about that would be the time to do all the animations, and the fact that it would be almost all in flash.

#2: then i got this image into my head. it's the interior of an elevator and there's a panel that asks for authorization, a name and password. i like how that would work for the CS side. that led me to remember a scene from Myst where you're in an elevator and the whole thing with looking for keys and all that. that worked. i think i could make something like that only in the YH tower. that would be more CSish, more programing at least. i could even build some of it in Maya. as well as use flash and photoshop.

right now the YHA is what i'm working on and i think i could use them in the project since they will probably still be interesting to me next winter. more on them later.

talk about stuff

Finals are over. YAY
i am free of class for the summer.
on another note i've been writing a lot recently. i created a new character named Any Vimes. she's a reporter and she's been having fun interviewing people and chasing down leads. all good fun. Will has been busy opening a restaurant. It's called The Glen. then there are Iris and James who have entered another contest on my behalf.
then there's the fact that i'll be leaving for San Fransisco tomorrow. just one night but with six of us it will be fun. after that there's moving back to Eugene, figuring out my senior project, getting a job.
stuff

the plan for my buttons

so for the button assignment i plan to make five scenes and link them with symbolic stuff. the flower pot will take you to the forest the fish to the sea ect. i had fun planing this out because i was using post it notes. those are the blue. the picture above that is a rough draft of the sea.

Drifters

I've been working on my own GN on the side. so far I've been calling it Jumper, but i think i might change it to drifters, the problem with the title is that for the first chapter i want it to seem like the characters are normal and something is just slightly off. So i don't want to give anything away with the title.
the overall plot is that this woman Ivy appears on this planet that is referred to as the garden. she can jump between dementions and when she leaves Drake the other MC follows her to a new world. she teaches him to jump while trying to stay away from the Planeswalker organization.
the first chapter consists of four parts and it's basically just Ivy, Drake and rakes friend Hige running around. Drake and Hige don't know that Ivy is from a different planet and nether does the reader so things seen a bit strange around her.

The comic Plan

Ok for the comic class i'm going to be working on a collaborative project with two of my friends.
the finished project will be a ten to twelve page comic centered around Halloween. I will be designing the characters as well as doing the formatting and line work. my two friends will be scripting and coloring the arc.

Characters:
the main character is a young girl, she is seen in the beginning in a frilly dress but most of the time she is in an overlarge sweatshirt, rubber boots and a bird mask. she has long wavy hair and curls framing her face.

the next character is a little boy with black hair. his costume is a crocodile suit that is reminiscent of Dino pajamas. the hood hangs down his back and the tail drags behind him on the ground.

our antagonist is a tall man is a smiling mask. his body is overly long. he has long matted black hair and is wearing tails. he is smiler to Jack Scelington (sp?)

the other characters are all children dressed in various costumes, A knight, a flower, an angel, a witch, a ghost, and others. the personalities of these children are contradictory to their costumes. the angel is mean the which is nice ect.

goals

I never really put my goals up here for the fountain so here goes.

i want to create a model of the square in front of the library.

i have the basic outline done and I've animated the fountain. I need to add details to the buildings and texture them i need to make several decisions in regard to the library itself. First do i want to show the back of the library? If so what is the design of the library overall? What is the scale of the library in comparison to the other buildings? In regard to the other buildings. What is the purpose of each building? should they have a uniform design? what is my color pallet?

I have a basic model of each building in relation to the other buildings. My plan is to enlarge these and add detail individually to each building in it's own file then combine them all into one file. i haven't tried anything like that before so i don't know if it will work properly but, well, we'll find out. i know several buildings are going to be cafes, i have one table/chair set for outside these, but depending on the stile choices i may decide to make another. I also need to consider the use of crates and other random things for behind the buildings and in the allies and such. I need to decide how I'm going to limit the seine or whether I'm going to leave it open to add to later. I could potently make the entire city eventually.

on another note i want to try making Flit to run around in the city. i think if I'm working on my own creature I'll be more inspired to make it look and move right.