Backgrounds

3000 pixels x 3000 pixels

This was the first scene I attempted as a sort of warm up. As you can see...well...it's rubbish, but I had no idea how to even start something like this, my starting point was colour picking from a similar landscape but this went out the window. However some elements I like such as the scale and composition but the picture itself looks far too child-like, especially for Manifest.

This is the Climax 'Absorbtion' scene, I first drew a basic outline and then painted in the various sections. I did this in colour right away even before I knew about Highlights, Shadows and Midtones and found out a better technique (Painting in shades of black then adding colour with opacity). However I think this works well in black and white as an 'eye of the storm' moment, a frozen highlighted moment in time.


These are all early versions of my scenes, they were all done when I was very new to photoshop so I kept on updating them as best i could over time.

Game Evaluation- Squares

Character Name: ‘Manifest’

Full Name: Manifest-econtra

Gender: Male

Age: 6 Months

Birthday/year: December 2012

Hair: Constantly fluctuating/changing

Eyes: Changing colour

Origin: Created from a universal imbalance, never questions where he is from, he accepts he does not need to know, however he is born from something ‘supernatural’ to some species, but is a result of an existence outside the universe construct.

Language(s): Does not speak unless necessary but speaks in an unknown language all can understand including animals and all conscious things.

Height: In flux

Weight/Body Structure/Distinguishing Marks/Traits:  Drastic shapeshipter and can construct weapons and forms at will, wears a cloak that is organic aswell as his scale-like armour, features change depending on status.

Ethnicity: N/A-One of a kind

Friends/Allies: ‘John’, many he meets, although he is neither ‘Good’ nor ‘evil’ in nature, so he is mostly unrelateable to humans, more just encountered

Enemies: The human race as a mass (although his goal is to guide them away from self destruction), aswell as many leaders and unique enemies

Beliefs/Religion: A religion all to his own/none/beliefs based on what he learns

Career/Past Careers: None

Dreams/Life Goals: To restore a positive equilibrium

Hobbies: Shape-shifting to observe

Likes: His own abilities and phenomenon’s like the sunset, also discovery

Loves: Success

Dislikes: Undeserved or unnecessary loss of life

Loathes: Being opposed by the arrogant or destructive

Fears: Own destruction

Strengths: Self reconstruction, adaptation, empathy, durable

Weaknesses: Sound waves-Disruption-Dealing with certain bacteria or substances

Good Qualities: Acts on knowledge, Immerses self in goals and pursuits, Aspires to understand everything he comes across and even recreates them, Cares on a deep level about all organic things

Bad Habits: Releases sometimes huge, and sometimes destructive exerts of his abilities as an expression, doesn’t like to hide himself for long periods of time

Turn Ons: Intricate or impressive vessels of Life

Turn Offs: Meaningless loss of life

Talents: Celular construction and creation

Special Skills: Shape-shifting, Interaction with cells, Able to mimic life-forms

Temperament: Fairly dosile in nature, can get a feeling of oppression if he has to hide what and who he is because of his pride in what he is, he also cares on a personal level about all organic life, and loves all of the varying constructs for him to discover and understand, He is angered by the distruction of life without cause and can become a highly distructive force

Background:

Created by a phenomenon between the universe, he is a complex and unique cellular being with complete control of every cell and particle of his being. His creation is thought to have occurred from a constant underlying force of will, a negative force causing spark in a far off place leading him to earth.

Image association

Adjectives

·      Chaotic

·      Fiery

·      Crowded

·      Furious

·      Tragic

·      Gaseous

·      Traumatising

·      Horrifying

·      Spacious

·      Middle-aged

·      Bald

·      Frightening

Adverbs

·      Desolately

·      Connectively

·      Intimately

·      Sadly

·      Depressingly

·      Collectively

·      Desperately

·      Coldly

·      Silently

Event Description

It was my 5^th birthday, I was filled with excitement, as today was the day I would finally have a party and the best and most fun place known to my school friends. Frantically we all scurried into ‘Cast aways’: a huge Warehouse-sized bouncy castle type-thing. The sweat of 5-year-old childrenslathered the inflatable material and stank of B.O…Hyper kid B.O. I decided, somehow it would be a good idea to climb up the side of a part that was not ‘child-proofed’ and fell into a small gap thatconstricted my entire body, the time that passed while I was down there I am still unsure of, because I couldn’t breathe I assume I became unconscious in some way, I just remember Complete darknessand the violent pulse as the castle jolted around from the Madness of kids flinging their selves against the walls carelessly. I then remember a huge hand reaching down, having seen my armpinned so that it protruded from the gap, then in a haze I returned to the world just as my parentswandered past where I was exploring, at the sight of me their faces stretched rapidly and their eyeswidened…So I must’ve looked a right state...Probably should have sued their asses.

Game Evaluation- Squares

Simple game evaluation test

Game Title:

Squares Game

Player Names:

Joseph Donoghue,

Summary of Game Rules:

Points on paper in lines, evenly spaced, players using different coloured pens take in turns to draw a line inbetween the points, whoever draws a line to close a square shape wins a point and has to take the next turn, the player with the most squares when all the dotted points are taken wins.

What was fun about playing this game?

The thining ahead aspect is quite fun as it challenges our mind to think about your nex move and stay sharp

What was not fun about playing this game?

The time taken to colour the squares and draw the dots beforehand.

Numbered list of simple commands, which describe gameplay.

1.Assign different colours to players, set up paper with dots in cube formations

2.If square is made, colour in the negative space square and stay with player for another turn

3. If no squares made swap players

4. Repeat rules 2 and 3
5. If all of points are taken up end game and total scores

News Headline adaptation: “Fatal car bombs hit Baghdad”

Dilemma: Global war and dispute, Manifest takes many intelligent actions to distract and divert war and killing, moves in a political manner after learning aspects of interaction, he is angered and confused by any killing and prevents the problem by trying to eliminate the causes rather than the actions, but also will step in to stop destruction. By thinking in a ‘cause and effect’ he can achieve real changes.

Gordome, a twisted man and organizer of global disruption campaigns such as terrorism continues to dictate and threaten his way into his goals, goals of a new world full of pain and ruled by no one, chaos. His lack of ability to feel pain because of a brain condition, born with no pain receptors he is completely inable to detect harm to himself, he has carried out many self altering surgical changes such as attaching blades to his digits, he is fascinated with pain and in a twisted way years for it, however he became diseased and infected by these procedures but as long as his brain and organs function he continues to live, he has had his organs caged and re-enforced.

The Puppet Master, a mysterious force who masters in the manipulation of others, think of an exaggerated Derren Brown, but twisted and real, his agenda is to re-create the world in his image.

·        Deep Black Space, atomic schisms begin, energy is released through bursts and forms begin to take shape

·        A thin, lifeless looking figure takes shape (brown/yellow in colour)

·        Slowly the figure gravitates toward earth, during the descent through the atmosphere a long cloak is formed surrounding the figure (still thin and faceless)

·        The figure lands with huge impact in a wild setting full of thriving life, crushing the ground around him, nearby animals gather to investigate him

·        With a large ‘crack’ noise he rises to life breathing in violently

·        The Manifest lives amoungst the wild and discovers many life-forms and child-like uses his cellular shape-shifting gifts to create and mimic the animals he encounters

·        Some time later he encounters his first humans, who are destroying forestry areas

·        Manifest keeps his distance to study the creatures, seeing their destructive nature he shifts into an injured beast as a game experiment to see how they would react

·        To his uneasy surprise one of the men takes him to his home to care for him

·        Over some time of being in the care of the stranger, the mans wife recently recalls seeing a dark figure with a moving face in the garden

·        One night, Manifest finds his way into the house at night time, he explores the many man-made creations

·        Unknown to him he has awoken the man who is wandering downstairs with his shotgun, when they suddenly clash, in a panic, manifest places his hands on the mans face, the man becomes paralyzed in fear and shock as manifest takes on his form partially, both screaming un-naturally Manifest leaps through the wall drastically shifting form and screaming

·        Manifest begins to shift into the form of the man and finds himself near a settlement, obviously war-torn

·        He begins to cry in the street with confusion and frustration at being unable to understand his form

·        He then witnesses a gang of armed men shooting another man on his knees

·        Filled with rage for the very first time he used his drastic shape-shifting and structures to destroy them, the last of them (the leader) he takes hold of, he absorbs his memories, memories of a huge building and many atrocities that happen within

·        After some time at the same building, Manifest gains access through seeping through the walls, he one by one takes care of the inhabitants until he no longer feels the presence of life, he collapses on the floor disgusted with himself, with a sharp shard he cuts of his forearm, letting out a scream that alters his shape, however he stares blankly as his arm reconstructs itself

·        His mind wanders and like a strike to his mind he gets a flash of a memory or a figure in an empty room

·        He finds a basement level, inside is a solitary figure sat on a chair in the centre with nothing but a huge Television screen in front of him, showing what seems to be a news report

·        The figure very plainly asks ‘Who is there?’

·        Manifest, confused, takes on a form of one of his victims

·        ‘You do not smell like (name)’ he says as he stands

·        Goredome rips apart Manifest in his form, flinging the pieces in different directions

·        Manifest reforms in his natural state much to the shock and awe of Goredome

·        Goredome appears visibly weak, and withers to the floor

·        Manifest grabs Goredomes’ head and sees images of destruction and recent news flash kind of images, climaxing in a dark vision of the future.

Early Concept sketches for 'Manifest'