Env thesis sketch

My teacher is late, so did this while we're waiting. 30min sketch for a possible environment look for sidescroll platform.

And, just another mock up, trying to learn if I can draw a collidable map in photoshop, because right now it's looking like I have to use this confusing tile map system. I don't want to do that for a couple reasons, the biggest being restricting the style to that of an old 8-bit game, which I don't want.

EDIT:

OK, through days of research and asking questions on the forum. I managed to get this http://megaswf.com/serve/2109101 Click in screen, then use left/right arrows to move when you land. It's a little buggy. I'm so exhausted doing programming. It's necessary though because it tells me how to make the visual assets. (It would suck to spend 8 weeks making visual assets and then find out I can't use them because of flixel's or my technical limits.)

Thesis Part Dos

I can't embed a flash without paying for the monthly fee so here's a direct link to the hosting site in the mean time. This is the new direction I'm going with for my thesis. I've been teaching myself a little AS3 programming and using the Flixel library to be able to start this project.

Click the screen to start. Move using arrows.

http://megaswf.com/serve/1932195/

This is just a test---not a part of the game---of how I can treat the environment. I just took apart an earlier piece and created kind of like a matte background set up.

I was inspired by Limbo. It's out on Steam and iTunes for download. Here's some info on it, Limbo.

Tablet class

This one was a good exercise because we're only allowed to use two colors. We had to mix those two to get the rest of the values, hue, etc.

Advice my teacher gave me, it seems like all my marks are going 40mph, I need some that are going 5mph. I never thought about it that way.

Old thesis sketches

Scratched Drafting Table Plans

So I really wanted to build a drafting table over winter break, but I found myself investing too much time planning one. It was a naive dream, and for maybe some other time. I designed a cool "infinity-light" tabletop feature, which was all theory and not actually tested haha.

It has a glass table top with infinity light feature, plus the whole surface can be made into a lightbox. The angled top is adjustable. Dimensions are 28"x40" and 30" for height.