An environment or structure composed of mechanically animated flowers on a background of vine-like growth. The flowers respond to the presence of people; as people near individual or groups of flowers, the flowers open or animate in another way.
At this point we have created drawings and conceptual models for both the vines and the flowers themselves, and are beginning to test methods of mechanically animating them.
I agree with Dima's Dark Crystal idea, there was a lot of cool animated plant life in there. I had been thinking along the lines of Fraggle Rock, so we're both thinking Jim Henson. Labyrinth is a good one, too.
For the Creature Creator, if you can get some kind of collision detection going it ought to be pretty easy from there to apply different backgrounds and place interactive areas. There are a few threads on the Processing boards about collision detection, if any of those would be helpful. Other than that you could maybe try an existing game engine, like Dima suggested. What you have now is looking good, though. Are you thinking a water or air environment? Something else, more abstract?
eye_food:
http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
Cartoons would be a good place to look for inspirational images as well. These are backgrounds from Samurai Jack: http://www.saltygraphics.com/Background_sketch_01.jpg
http://www.alivenotdead.com/attachments/2009/06/13/06/35976_200906130618015412.jpg
And here is a clip from the show the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, which I especially like the character design and animation in (although we should probably strip out at least a little of the morbidity):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uojl_WJCXpM
And images:
http://www.bogleech.com/scrapbook/brains-eccwtf.jpg
http://zonakidz.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/grim-adventures-of-billy-and-mandy.jpg
http://www.cartoon-secrets.com/Photos/Grim-Adventures.jpg
Feedback?
The cartoon network has a VERY distinctive look that we definitely could try to go with. I think the challenge is going to be HOW to creatively steal from a variety of sources :)
ReplyDeleteWe are a little behind on this one <-- fairly late in the semester to ask this question :( but that just means that we have to figure the prototype design this week. No pressure.