पीसी doodle

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Heres a doodle I added some colour to it (rather quickly) , I think its messy but quite a niece idea , for the shuttles are big so you have room to float around and the pods are different colours to attract different audiances (as will the features inside that arent shown). Anyway I'd say this is a small stepping stone to the right idea , I guess also from now on I should make some more refined ideas!

If you want to work hard, have a tendancy to slack and a weekness for online First Person Shooting games..... Don't Buy Halo3!!!!

Yeh well ,



Two weeks ago I played Halo3 for the first time (offline) , I enjoyed it slightly , slightly because it still seemed similar to the old Halo games and after a while you get tired of fighting multitude of enemies in similar scenarios (and similar graphics , well on normal screen anyway) . Well I did any way.
Then the other night my cousin recieved an Xbox 360 for his Birthday , so I embraced the oppurtunity to go round and play it , though this time I was able to play it on line , some thing I'd never done on a 360. First I was amazed amazed by the loading to time (really quick in relation to the playing time) , but yeh the gameplay was ace when I got on it , you can have a tonne of people online at once, at multiple scenarios with loads of knew weapons . The knew mines are pretty cool to wreck cars with and such , it took a while getting used to it all but once you do its ace.
Thats a brief summary but I'm not a games reviewer and I arent going to spend ages rattling on about the tactics and such. As that would just get dull . If you want an in-depth review go on Ign or gamester.
Though one other thing that was excellent about it was , my cousin had the headset so you could really have a go at people(Immature I know) , hours of fun , I couldn't believe that you could here every body who had one , it just shows how fast technology has grown.
Well there my enthusiasms about the game anyway.

Drawn rough ideas!

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These two sheets , show and idea fro the carriage that takes them up (the left) and a basic representation of the kind of mechanism that will take people up , its like a big elevator!.
I think the idea on the left maybe a bit to dull , it doesnt look futuristic enough , though I quite like the pic on the right , I think its prett cute . If my target audiance were children I'd use a style in the final similar to this I'm sure( of course a lot more polished)



Heres some more carriage ideas , Im quite please with the look of them actualy , I think they look pretty futuristic and spacious , though they may benefit from having two floors!. I know this would make the thing on a massive scale but its the future ! things thought of un achievable today , will be achievable then. The things on the left are ideas for VR glasses , I think I could probably do with some more inspiration!

Seu Jorge - From favella dwella' to movie and music star!

I thought I'd take a break from writing about the space idea, to write about something else I found interesting.
Recently I stumbled across this knew musician who I have to admire. It was when I was watching the film "City of God"(A film which displays the harsh realities of streetlife , it follows child to trying and survive the violance on the streets of Rio De Janeiro.)The film was great , one of the best I've seen of the past 10 years (and in the film they used many people from the slums themselves to play the characters , this I thought was very sincere and clever)My brother told me that one of the characters in the film who was dragged into the violence (knockout Ned) is a singer/guitarist(in real life) famous in Brazil .




I was half interested...Then he told me Seu had been in a Bill Murray film in which he played a musician who covered Bowie tracks in Portugeuse. I was interested. Then my bro told me he'd done a soundtrack for this, of Bowie songs translated and adapted to Portugeuse. I had to get it. So I did , and above my expectations the guy can sing and play guitar amazingly. I think hes done so well in life to come from living in a favella in Rio' to becoming such a succesful artist , though its no surprise the guys got talent. Vocals and guitar.

Heres a clip of him playing a Bowie song in the Film , "The Life Acqautic" , "Changes"

Onboard entertainment

I watched the Matrix the other day , partl in search for inspiration , partly becuse the first one is the best and I hadn't seen it for a while. Anyway one of my favourite bits is where Neo Jacks in to the training session for the first time. This realy is Virtual Reality for thats what the matrix Is. O think I may include VR machine in the cabins of the space wheel , though maybe not all for people would want to enjoy the views . I did look into VR on a few sites , and they say its in development ( its even used for training pilots and soldiers in some areas), though at the moment its hard to get it a really high resolution. though they say in the future it wont be a problem!

Animation Brief

For are latest brief , we'v been asked to create an animation where to objects interact and show emotion. Though the objects dont have to be too complex , we have to show a movement sequence and portray reactions between the characters/objects. First I will animate something simple to try and get the hang of it. I have done flip book animations before, though I'l try some other types of animation . Over the next couple of weeks I'l do some research , into animations showing relationships.

Space Enternaiment

Space Cabin Enternaiment,



Well recently I'v been thinking about what I may have un my cabins , to entertain people. For many different types of people will wan to go into space . So I needed something that would satify those different audiences (ya know : kids , couples , families and whatever) . So I thought I'd need something flexible , something most people could use and enjoy . I came across this computer table , (through a friends recomendation) the table I think would suit most people . As you can see it looks easy to use and fun , I mean this is just one now !, in the year my space tour is launched there could be 3D versions that you can play games with and such,(for the kids) adults/couple/fmilies could watch movies on it or search for information on the net. Or you could just eat on it?
The type of people that may want to travel to space in a modern machine would I think feel inclined to use the table for its entertaining features. If not you could just read a book on it.
+ there could be different style cabins with different tables.

Anyway its an idea, a hologram emitting table for entertainment. SOunds pretty good to me.