Researching and exploring ideas

for the aquarium project research we did some primary research by going to the aquarium and taking pictures and recording video of the tank and fish we want. At the end of the day we came back to college and discussed all the ideas, the first idea was to make a story using the fish in the RAF tank but that would take up to much time and the project is only 5 weeks long. we took our first idea and developed it to a virtual fish tank. We took recording of the most popular fish personality and reactions to other fish and animated them from videos we had.  the main plan is to make the animation informative, every time you clicked on the fish the animation would stop and the fishes bio would come up in a box telling you everything from location to size ect. The whole animation was in cel shade to make to fish and background look defined.

Developing an idea for interaction work

Working within constraints

the biggest constraints for me and James was our skills in adobe flash. we only know a little bit of code and not enough to make the fish react the way we wanted but thankfully we had a lecture on image manipulation and in that lecture we learnt about puppet warping. this is one of the tools that James and i used in the animation. Another constraint was time, the project was only 5 weeks long and along with that we had a team member down for the entire project so for the whole time it was just James and me. Because there was only two of us we had to ask for help quite a lot from Lee or Luke and that took up there time.

Completing the work

Reviewing your own work

overall i feel that the project would have been better if we had more time.  I really enjoyed working on this project with James, i enjoyed it because he was a good partner to work with we both helped each other out to the best of our abilities and could bounce ideas off each other also we can both take constructive criticism. If i had to do this project again the things i would do differently would be to learn a bit more on flash and get another team member so that it wasn't just me n James doing all the work. In my opinion the project was a good one to get us used to the industry. but i do wish that we had finished the animation so that we could present it.