They are to be cute-ify and simplify for PG audiences and team style. So will consider re draw Helen’s earlier design.
-CH
Mood.Tone.Style
this post will be how we find our mutual Mood.Tone.Style. We are going for family, PG.
Claire Huang –
Nima, de Enrique Fernández. from Spaceman Project
Texture
Artist model by Shaun Tan and other unknown artists
Shapes, character in space
Use of tone and intricate change of depth
Limbo (Game), not the mood we’re going for, but the level of detail
Characteristics
Quirky aesthetics/flavor
intricate and elegant
Use of Colour & Mood
Use of simple Colour contrast, textures. Friendly and dreamy, welcoming.
Shaun Tan, The Rules of Summer
Sharper, edgier
Softer, minimum
Technique
Shapes
Finalising Sensory and physic
Claire Huang –
to make all our sensory fit the criteria our alien needs, since i needed to draw them:
Heat Pit: read the etching from the heat tools and manipulation of their tunnels by others in surrounding area, and sensing heat sources for rejuvenating purpose.
Lateral Line: read the etching and conversation with their peers. It perceives pressure difference of vibration, it then forms a mental pressure map (their language).
Electro Sensory System: How they gain their vast spatial understanding with high accuracy in detecting the very most faintest electro field in their world.
Electro field exist in Space: https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/q309.html
Skin: Manipulatable indent/surface properties/textures, act of energy rejuvenation
Feelers: Vibration can be produced by the feelers that can be felt by the Lateral Line (emotion..?)
Presentation in Week 7
Feedback; Focus our idea and development contents.
- Anatomy -> Geology, Yes to the 2 planet idea makes perfect sense, Mars; might be dry and rocky, Earth; moist, tempura, allow slithering. Different traits shows how the Aliens can evolve (depends how long they’ve been there), Final can be prioritise design on 1 planet.
- Make Plot/Scene illustrations and design, contemporary experience design process.
- Our design concept needs Clearifying and be in a connected order, we were bouncing off multiple ongoing things,
- to help focus this: The Cartographer Wasps story has numerous stages of it, to simplifying idea, we can boil down to a simpler narrative we will be more stream lined, this can filter and focus our ideas (simplify+toss out).
Between Now and Befor Class
- Refine ideas from critique (visualising, discuss,, resolving).
- I (Claire) make weekly timetable, Tasks deadlines for team.
- Start making/visualising, tweeking developing concept. No more narrative development work.
- Tone + Mood: what flavour and style?
- Scene Concepts: drawings of Alien and Spaces!!
- Practice/conceptualise final deliverables
- Get down to detail development.
PRESENTATION SPEECH IN FORMAT
slide 1
The Channelers is our our working title of the project. We’re in the process to develop a title that will emphasise the deeply rooted culture(?) we need to work on a title that gives a better idea of the story; ideological conflict, battle for land
Blind Cartographers Quake
Underneath Plundge
Plannet Comber Down to earth
Slide 2:
Passionate in ideation, imaginative concept development and are determined to improve visual practices between the crossover of illustration and sculpting
Slide 3
Slide 4 Early Physical Concept
Subterranean physicality that will allow Specific motions that reflects their nature and cultural values, their activities will intermesh with other communication media such as Haptic and apparatus.
Slide 5
Their purpose is to calculate and measure every possibilities and influential factors’ potential influence on their environment, and the future of their species/sub cultures.
To do so Underlings rely on their abilities of hive mind, and collaborative ritual practices which we be covering.
Slide 6 Sensory Concepts
Underlings’s rely on their Lateral lines and Electro sensory system to articulate and obtain knowledge.
Lateral Lines allows them advanced sense of spacial awareness, they are small spores that measures the pressure of the air waves bounced off obstacles with physical movements
And the Electro-sensory system gives them the hyper sense of orientation where they can navigate themselves and the world with high accuracy.
there is no extent to these sensory’s limitation and alternitive capabilities.
Slide 7
Slide 8
Slide 9
Underlings communicate through both movement and vibration, the different levels of vibration allows them to communicate to humans with a heightened touch sense i.e. the blind, hearing impaired or autistic. In our narrative those who can feel the Underlings start to develop a language and understanding with them.
Underlings use technology similar to heat guns to turn the earth around them into a more malleable and clay like substance. This, along with their natural digging abilities, allows them to create intricate tunnels that form their underground homes. The walls of these tunnels are carved with specific patterns and textures that communicate directions, information to others that come past.
Slide 10 Physical motion Dialogues
This a concept for how Underlings express themselves. The activity involves Underlings performing series of Complex texture sets with their body surface (with extreme speed). At the same time, with body movements, they simultaneously receiving complex haptic feedback in the forms of mental pressure maps.
This practice is like an intellectual debate or conversation, a situation where Underlings are problem solving constantly
Slide 11 & 12 “world”
I guess i’ll talk about this since i wrote it – Helen
Slide 13
- TV series
- Novum
Slide 14
We feel our narrative would work best if we didn’t pander to any one audience and instead tried to make it for all ages. Much like Zootopia, our narrative deals with real world issues like prejudice, land ownership and disability, we want to present these issues to kids in a less confrontational way while still educating them, and hopefully educating their parents a bit too.
Our storyline features multiple arcs following both he underlings who settled on earth and those that settled on venus, the children who communicate with the underlings and their families, the hive leaders, and the gold mining community/leaders.
Slide 15
These are some enhanced Visually haptic experience we came across. They’re styles we came across while looking at possible layout aesthetics
Slide 16 “formula”
Helen will talk, but you dudes can add to it.
Conceptualise Behavior, Rituals, Practice
Moc Presentation Aesthetics
Color Pellets
- Industrial
- Steam punk
- Earthy/dark
Styles that are silhouettes and haptic
Bug Lab (in Tepapa)
Behavior, Rituals, Practice
Mathematician Collaborations and Society
Sourced: https://www.math.ethz.ch/sam/the-institute/history.html
Research Institute for Advanced Studies (RIAS) in Baltimore, Maryland “was a useful point of contact between mathematicians during those years of the cold war.” Where numerous visitors and seminars are free-wheeling in it’s academic department, RIAS was thought to be “the largest concentration of researchers in its areas in the world”.
Collective Elaboration
This practice is like a debating, intellectual conversation and a constant evolving problem solving situation where partitioners exchange knowledge with symbols. Which relates to how Hapticans are to express themselves amongst others when partaking in the elaborative process; they each purposefully work plan out alternative routs but all leads to one singular answer.
(Sketch)
Haptican’s purpose of preforming the Collective Elaboration
the Hapticans partakes this activity to calculate and measure every possibilities and influential factors’s potential influence on their environment, which is of importance to the future of their species/sub cultures.
(Sketch)
Monks
Religions of Angkor
Angkor Thom Monks, Cambodia. Angkor Thom, located in present day Cambodia, was the last and most enduring capital city of the Khmer empire.
9th cent – 12th cent: Hinduism (Shivaism – Vishnuism)
Each temple was dedicated to one Hindu divinity.
http://smiles-of-angkor.com/angkor_tours/religions.html
Body Language
Process of Hapticans conducting the collective activity call Collective Elaboration
The activity involves Hapticans preforming series of Complex texture sets with their “signers” that are capable of forming complex haptics (with extreme speed). While simultaneously preform bodily movements that conduct complex haptic feedback in the forms of mental pressure maps.
Haptic feedback: often referred to as simply “haptics“, is the use of the sense of touch in a user interface design to provide information to an end user.
(sketches)
Forms of group intellectual debates and collaboration
(Sketch)
**(visual features, functionality, scales/tentacles what not)
use researched visual examples of body language and how that juxtapose with Haptic sensors, and that will allow visual concept sketches of behavior/group interactions
dance movements Religion
To our understanding, “dancing is part of many systems of belief about the universe that deal with the nature and mystery of human existence and involve feelings, thoughts, and actions”.
Specific movements or style reflecting religious values,intermeshing of dance with other communication media such as sound tune and beats. “It is not possible to know the origins of religious dance”, however there are myths.
Hindu religion: the creation of the universe was due to the dance of Nataraja, and each of the 23 gods have their own way of manifesting power trough dance movements. The dance in the Hinduism used to be a part of a sacred temple ritual, especially in South and Eastern India, where the female priestesses devadasi‘s worshiped different aspects of the Divine through the elaborate language of mime and gestures.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/culture/2016/05/293_69954.html
Korean Seungmu Dance:
Judaism: dance method are preserved through religious documents, dance is considered to be daily rituals. Jewish dance refers to dance associated with Jews and Judaism. Dance has long been used by Jews as a medium for the expression of joy and other communal emotions. Dancing was a favorite pastime and played a role in religious observance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_in_mythology_and_religion
Brazilian martial art/Capoeira: It was developed in Brazil mainly by Angolans, at the beginning of the 16th century. It is known for its quick and complex maneuvers, predominantly using power, speed, and leverage across a wide variety of kicks, spins and techniques.
When Africans are being slaved, dance became a strong weapon. Capoeira became a “way to reasons to slavery, its a way people turn to each other and could show bravery and strength in the face of oppression”.
Interaction of the two body has a sense of connection with likeness of a set of fluid puzzles, or lava lamp. debate, conflict yet harmonious, and resolve.
Surfi Whirling: It is a customary meditation practice performed within the Sema, or worship ceremony, through which dervishes (also called semazens, from Persian سماعزن) aim to reach the source of all perfection, or kemal. This is sought through abandoning one’s nafs, egos or personal desires, by listening to the music, focusing on God, and spinning one’s body in repetitive circles, which has been seen as a symbolic imitation of planets in the Solar System orbiting the sun.[1]
Monastic Dances – Tibetan Buddhist Ritual
ancient, spiritual ritual created to transform negativities and obstacles within our world system into positive, harmonious conditions.
Animals and Body Language
Enhuman motions
Intention, determination
This is made possible with their Lateral Line; by measuring the wave of air bounced off obstacles the small spores allows them to create a mental pressure map with body movements.
Manipulation of body-parts
Claire’s juxtaposed sensors part 1
Subterranean Mantle dwelling
Reference to my Shark post earlier:
In communication they solely rely on the sense of touch to perceive and interpret. With highly developed bodily function such as electro-sensory system Aliens are able to orientate themselves and navigate the world of earth with high accuracy. With body movements the Aliens are able to read the inscription wall surfaces as well as converse with their peers (and haptic-ise their surroundings). This is made possible with their Lateral Line; by measuring the wave of air bounced off obstacles the small spores allows them to create a mental pressure map with body movements.
Cartography and Space Idea
Imagery inspired by Ernst Heinrich’s coral drawings and organic patterns
To contemplate for a harmonious solution in ensuring the future of their species the Aliens partakes in a constant development and calculation of every influential moment and factors,
outer forces and decisions that may influence or made an impact, by heat stamping map like textures in the space they’ve created to ensure well planned furture, unicent accessible knowledge and believes to all, and a accurate navigation to an ageless future for their speices.
Elaborated hyptic maps that has surface textures as a form of documented communication. Ways of doing so is to release controlled cooling heat that’s from their convert energy..
Story Line
3 act Structure draft 1
Examples of a Story Line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-act_structure#/media/File:Three_Act_Structure.svg
Multiple Hive minds-expanding on a genre
Hive minds seem to be, in my opinion, a writers way of easily coming up with a solution to that pesky task of designing varied alien characters… just make them a hive mind! that explains why they’re all dressed the same, speak the same and act the same.
hive minds in actuality, like bees and ants, have multiple different hives and subtle differences in hive mentality, despite being from the same species.
There’d be a handful of ‘individuals’ on the alien planet, but individual would not be per body, but per group. They could function similar to subcultures or even subspecies.
this is an opportunity to have variety in our designs, each hive mind group could frequent certain biomes, causing their physiology to differ from a group living in a different biome.
each body, as in each member of a hive mind could interact with other bodies from different hive minds, but only be able to empathize as a connected mind with bodies in its own hive group.
They don’t need to necessarily live in close clusters, the hive minds could bleed into each other.
The biome thought expands on Rebekah’s idea of texture based on the environment humans like the most.
humans all tend to like warm and soft, dry, but not too dry, which is like our own skin. but if the alien creatures spend time in the earth, then maybe different earth textures would be preferable. depending on biome, the prefered texture of one hive mind will be different from one that predominantly lives in another biome, or originated from another biome.
so biomes could seperate hive minds, make them have subtle evolutionary differences in their physical mass and also give them differing material cultures and perhaps even different ideologies…
Alien-ic Project 
