For our Live Creative Project the whole class has been tasked with creating a fire safety video for children in primary schools to teach them the basics of fire safety. The video has been split into several scenes that we have split up into groups to create, at the end of this project we will combine all of the clips together to create a short video.
The age group for this project is around 6-8 years old so we are going to use bright colors that will appeal to the younger children and utilize cartoon characters based from fire fighting equipment to give informative dialogue to the children, acting as a narrator for the clips. This will hopefully retain their attention as the characters are interesting to look at and the scenes will be big, bright and colorful and full of small details.
The reason we are using this co lour palette is based off of some research we have gathered by looking at children’s TV channels and the types of programs they show. They are all usually lighthearted and very colorful.
Using these basic themes we will incorporate them into our designs so that it will naturally catch their interest easier.
For my task I was partnered with my classmate Carl Lipyeat to create the “overcharged” scene, this involved a bedroom with overloaded plug sockets and so we decided to base it around a computer desk with extension cables that were plugged into several other sockets such as block extensions, other extension cables etc.
To create this we had to create several 3D models to populate our scene with, to do this we used Maya to create and texture our models using block colours as this was the agreed color scheme by the class. We wanted to focus on the plug socket and so we focused most of the detail there and allowed the rest of the room to be background filler, we created a bed, tv, xbox, table, computer, monitor, mouse, keyboard and some game posters to make the scene look like a child bedroom.
I am really proud of how the plug socket models looked when we had finished with them as they were not simple block wires, they had bends and turns in the wire which I had to learn a new skill for, this involved using the pen tool to draw the rough path of the wire and connect a 3D tube onto and make it follow the line, this sped up the amount of time asset creation took and so we were able to create the scene in time, with all of the textures and models in place.
I am happy with our final result but one thing I would change is just to have a bit more clutter in the room as it seemed too tidy for a kids bedroom.
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