Games -
In gaming, there is a lot that goes into what they are creating, because
the player has to be able to interact with the games interface. So they have to
do a lot more for their end product.
An example of this would be when you are walking around a game.
In gaming, there is a lot that goes into what they are creating, because
the player has to be able to interact with the games interface. So they have to
do a lot more for their end product.
Making a game is difficult because not all players will take the same
routes to do one task, so game developers will have to account for that as well
when creating a game.
An example of this would be when you are walking around a game.
Using the map above and the routes that have been highlighted one can
see the different routes a gamer may take when doing a task. If you were playing this game and wanted to get to point #31, the reservoir,
there are different ways to get there. I have marked a few that people might
take, there are multiple others.
This is what the game makers have to be prepared for when there making
the game, they have to make sure that there are different ways because not
every one will go the same way unless its marked off to them where it is they
need to go and what direction and that's not always done.
Also there are different obstacles they have to put in places so that
players don't get bored walking around the game.
Films -
Films probably find it easier to make there product because there is
only one rout in which the story can take and it’s them making that rout.
Film producers have a large amount of money to put into their products
unlike that of the publishing industry that have only recently bought into the
idea of 3-D modelling to help the readers see the characters and scenes as the
writer/illustrator sees them.
Despicable Me 3-D animated movie. Co Directed by Pierre Coffin and Chris
Renaud.
This is set out like a roller coaster, where there's a beginning and an
end, but there's a whole lot in between but it is all leading to the end
there's no going off the track.
This can only go in one direction and that is the direction in which the
directors want it to go, so there is nothing extra that is needed in scenes if
its not going to be seen or interacted with by the
characters, because then they would just be wasting time.
Architecture -
Architecture uses 3-D modelling to be able to make and create structures
and change finite details. Using this type of software allows for a company to
show their clients the building from different visual points and also to take
them on a virtual tour of the structure, showing them what it shall look from
the inside and also making it so that they could see it from bird’s eye and
ground view.
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| House made with 3-D software |
This is an image of a house that was made in 3-D software this is just
an example of what you could see.
When creating this they can change the colour palate and have a variety of different models just based on the different colours. Also 3-D software is used to flesh out the blue prints, this is to make sure that what may look doable on paper is also doable physically, making sure that the structure will be sound and in some cases making sure that the building fits into its surroundings.
When creating this they can change the colour palate and have a variety of different models just based on the different colours. Also 3-D software is used to flesh out the blue prints, this is to make sure that what may look doable on paper is also doable physically, making sure that the structure will be sound and in some cases making sure that the building fits into its surroundings.
Advertising/Marketing -
Adverting and marketing uses 3-D modelling to get across points of views
before they decide to make the actual product. They can make prototypes on the
software; sell the idea before making it into actual fact. Doing it like this
makes it easier for people selling products to show how it’s going to work and
can easily tweak it they people they are selling to make it more to their
liking.
Similarities -
A similarity between all three of
these industries is that they all make prototypes/concepts in 3-D software.
Film -
A film that deals with 3-D was 'Tangled' by Disney; this was one of the
harder movies to animate due to Rapunzel's hair. They had the debate whether or
not to do 'Tangled' in 2-D.
To create Rapunzel and her hair they had to create a new piece of
software that was used to get the organic look for her hair but still make it
look natural in the animated style.
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| Rapunzel from 'Tangled' |
Making the hair was one on the hardest things that had to be done during
the creation of 'Tangled'.
Making this possible cost lots of money and time because they has to
have twice as many people work on it due to the different elements that went
into creating this hair.
As you can see this being as hard as it is they had to have prototypes
that they tweaked until they finally rendered the best one.
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| Flynn Rider and Maximus, |
This is a concept
of two of the characters from 'Tangled', as you can see it isn't as refined as
the final models. That is because these are only starting points or rough
drafts that are made in the 3-D modelling software that they use. This is to
help the designers get an initial idea was to what it is that they have to work
with.
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| Rapunzel |
This is a concept of Rapunzel with her hair that was made in the newly
created software to make sure that they new that the hair would flow the way
that they wanted it to.
Advertising and Marketing -
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| 3-D model of a car |
3-D modelling is used a lot by
marketers and advertisers to show there concepts before they create the real
thing. Creating a model of, for example, a car would be time consuming and cost
more money than to just create one on 3-D software.
This way they can easily change things that will benefit them or that
their customer does not want and they need to modify the model to fit its
design more exactly.
Being able to do this makes the design process much easier because as
long as they know how to use their software effectively they can make and
change multiple designs easily. Doing this cuts down on the time.
Doing concepts in advertising and marketing makes it easier for them to
get rid of glitches that may be coursed by a fault in the design, doing it in
3-D software allows them to manipulate the small and big components of a
project rather than to build one from scratch and realize halfway though that it will not work due to a miscalculation.
Making different parts of a model may need different software so make
sure that the model is done to the best of its abilities.
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| Brink game concept art. |
Concept art helps game designers visualize objects in a game and whether or not they sit properly within the environment.
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| Concept art by Robert L King. |
This is a concept
for a Facebook game called
'Inheritance', now this is a concept and can be manipulated. This is an example
of where an object may not fit within the environment. Imagine I was to put a
sky scraper in the background. Due to the rural setting, that would not work,
so there are concepts made for games to see what works and what does not. Not
everything will fit together seamlessly.
Architecture -
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| Architectural concept. |
Concepts and prototypes are used widely in the architectural industry,
this is because they cannot just go out and build a structure and just expect
it to look right, there is too much room for error. Making their concepts in modelling software is cheaper and also a lot less time consuming, they can make
multiple concepts and show them to their clients and see what they like and
don't like about the design and change it until it fits to what it is that the
client wants. (Sometimes meeting a client's expectations is impossible because
their ideas may be a bit to outlandish and would be impossible to construct.)
Making models allows architectures to tweak and look around the building before it has even been made and this way they can look for imperfections sooner rather than later, when it might be too late.
Making models allows architectures to tweak and look around the building before it has even been made and this way they can look for imperfections sooner rather than later, when it might be too late.
- Another similarity is
between Architecture and Advertising/Marketing, is that they both use 3-D
modelling to show their projects.
In Architecture, they use 3-D modelling to show their clientele the structures before they finally build them; this is to make
sure that the customer is happy with the design and what the end product will
look like. This is similar to that of advertising and marketing, this is so
that they can make sure that all the pieces of a product are correct before its
made and so that they can easily tweak it if need be. This is also so that
these types of companies don’t loose a lot of money building such things and
making it harder on themselves when they can do it on a computer programme
where they can sort out all the tiny details fast and effectively.
- Film and Gaming have
bigger budgets to work with.
Gaming and Film have a large amount of money that they can use to create
their gaming or films, so they have a bit more a free rein when it comes to
using 3-D software to model with. They also have room to create new software
that will better their animations making them more realistic with their
movements and other such things.
Gaming and films bring in a lot of profit if they do well and to do well they have to be interesting and also look good, so creators and directors put a lot of money into these projects and hope they will profit off them. In these industries depending on how popular or well known they are sometimes depends on how big of a budget they may get, this is also true to gaming.
Gaming and films bring in a lot of profit if they do well and to do well they have to be interesting and also look good, so creators and directors put a lot of money into these projects and hope they will profit off them. In these industries depending on how popular or well known they are sometimes depends on how big of a budget they may get, this is also true to gaming.
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| Despicable Me 2 |
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| Tangled |
Estimated costs: Call of Duty Black Ops cost $18-28 million and Super Mario
Bros cost $1.4-15.8 million.
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| Call of Duty - Black Ops |
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| Super Mario Bros |
As you can see depending on how popular these are to the public depends
on how much people are willing to risk investing in gaming or films, making
some of them have a very large quota and some small.
- Characters.
In games and movies there is always a main character that you will
follow (sometimes this may change) and you will either watch the life of this
character through film or you will have to play as this character in a game.
Creating characters from scratch is hard and that is usually what an
artist has to do when making a film or game because they like to have their
original idea. This is hard to do and both games and films do it.
They both have to put their 3-D characters though a rendering process
and make sure that their design works.
Sometimes they don't make their own characters but use existing worlds
such as DC and Marvel to make their characters, but these still have to go
though the process of being made into 3-D characters due to them mainly being
illustrations in comics or 2-D flat animations.
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| Hal Jordan - Green Lantern - Animated |
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| Hal Jordan - Green Lantern - Comic Series |
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| Hal Jordan - Green Lantern - Game |
As you can see both the gaming industry and film industry have 3-D'd this 2-D original from the comics. Showing that they don't always make
up their own characters but that they sometime both lead in the same area with
their characters, even if they don't always look like same.
Differences -
- Architecture
and Marketing have a different base of using 3-D modelling to that of Gaming or Film.
With gaming and film most of their time and energy go into creating
characters than creating individual objects because their projects are usually
based around a character. Architecture and Marketing spend time on buildings
and objects because that is what they are created to do, they don't have to
make characters, but they do have to make functioning 3-D models of their
projects to show them to clients and be able to sell their ideas to the public
if need be.
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| Lara Croft |
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| 3-D model of house |
- Film and Gaming have a different a way of thinking about creating their characters.
When in motion in a film a character can only go the way the director
chooses so the film character creators don't have to worry about what their
character will look like at every second because its already planned and can't
go off track.
In a game however because an outside influence the creators don't know
which way it is that the character is going to turn or what its going to do, or
when. So when making their character they have to think about what their
character will look at all times.
- Money
Gaming and Film have larger budgets than those of Architecture and
Marketing, this is probably because gaming and films are for a larger audience
than the others.
Architects and Marketers are usually for a small sum of people that want
one very specific thing like a building or a car, games and film are for a wide
range of ages and have to be entertaining for at least a couple of hours making
sure the customer is happy to spend money on their products.
- Software
Film uses a lot more software than that of Architecture. Architects use
about 3-5 different programmes to make a model. CIVIL 3D, autocad architecture, vue 8 xstream are to mention but
a few. Films however use lots more and sometimes while their project is in
production have to create new ones. In 'Tangled' by Disney they had to create a
new software for the characters hair, this software then went into the creation
of the hair of main character form 'Brave' from the Pixar animated film. In the 'Transformers' by Michael Bay film dealt with
Maya, Zeno, mental ray, RenderMan, Photoshop, Shake and in house were
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