7th January to 12th January

Aims

Here begins a new term. Time to re-write a new timetable and get down to business.Heres the timetable i think you can just about see it. If we stick to this everything should get done in time. It will be hard to stick to this this term because of dissertation but i've made strict rules for Andrew and i to do an hour a night and that should get us through fine.

This week, following my sudden brain wave having looked at the Zelda phantom Hourglass artwork booklet I’ve given myself a week to look into the journey background textures. I’ve set Andrew off on modelling the environments and I know that’s going to take him a while as he’s got 3 to do and they’re not really that simple.
There are 5 environments that I need to plan but I want them all to be 2D on planes so it’s not like I’ll be modelling complex environments. The idea is to make these LOOK nice.

Goals reached
I’ve looked in to the journey designs and am doing a lot of research. It’s going to be far too hard to make them all look like authentic 1930 stamps as these were all made in cross hatch and I think the whole thing is going to look pretty boring if we model the whole thing like that. Therefore I have devised an awesome plan. This plan being to make the stamps look like the work of artists.
I made a miniature test of Holland and I think it came out quite nicely although when I showed it to Mike I don’t think he agreed although Dave thought it looked pretty good. The problem with this style for Holland though is that it absolutely must be done on brown paper, putting it on white paper will look really naff.
When trying the boat scene in a similar style I realised that I couldn’t use this for everything the search had to go on for other styles that fitted each location specifically.
I have started the boat scene as I think this should be done in the cross hatch style I want there to be at least one scene that does use the traditional 1930 style. I don’t like cross hatching so you’ll have to wish me luck as this will go on for a while.