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 Number 3: conceptstart.net This is a nice way to randomly generate ideas for a character if you have trouble coming up with ideas. With lots of features to look at, it comes with certain variety to help flesh out a character. It also gives you an AI prompt to get a concept design to show you how your character would look. I find that neat to have. The only issue is that you only get 10 free random generated ideas. Which sucks but it can be dealt with. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Number 4: bardotbrush.com This is a quick use website that gives you a description of any sort of inanimate or animate object. Its a prompt generator that helps someone who wants to draw something but can figure out what. To get new prompts, just refresh the page. Quick and effective. ___________________________________________________________________________________ Number 5: artguru.ai If you have an idea of the person you want to draw but can't see

RanGen.com : This software is incredible, I would use this regularly. It gives off loads of information for random characters and it has many more features than the last one I wrote about. I love that it gives so much about their appearance. It really gives way for concept art to be drawn of them. I really like the personality section due to its simplicity but yet effective use of many words to describe a person in a very short space. I love the detail it gives, who thinks about randomly generating 'personal status'? These guys. To even add a job with a satisfaction percentage takes much attention to detail. Love the idea of Marital status and how it shows their preference to gender. Shows that the people who made this took their time to think about the quality and the detail to offer. This is another feature I quite like. To add Religious views along with world and racial is an amazing feature to have as it makes thinking about characters views so much less time draining. I al

 I found an interesting piece of software to help get a character without having to think much. The website is called character-generator.com , it helps with getting random character information. It also helps with getting random character traits so you don't have to think to hard trying to come up with the perfect character. It helps with quick and adjustable characters personalities. The fact that it gives positive and negative aspects to the character it just so much easier instead of trying to constantly think of perfect traits when you could just keep pressing 'suggest' to find the aspect to your suiting. I love the fact that it gives a random and name. It just so much easier that trying trying to plan an entire character, I mean sure, you might have to adjust the random traits to suit the preferred category of the genre of the game. It makes making a character so much easier in my opinion. This feature is also really good. Because if you want a character that sticks o

  We were told to photoshop a tutor's face onto characters or images with the lasso tool. We cut his face off and stuck it onto many images. These were the results: This one was for jokes but it was the most annoying to due due to me trying to make Keith's head similar colour to the body. This one was the second easiest to do due to just me sticking his face onto thor's. But I did have to add the glasses frame leg. This one took a fair bit of time to complete with the extra layers needed to be cut. I hand picked Shaggy due to Keith being fairly similar to shaggy. I found it quite funny. This one I really like due to the cut out hair and how it over lapped the face. This one took the most time due to the coloration and the details needed. This one was the easiest and the sloppiest. Barely anything was done to solve the harsh edges. I did this one due to Keith's fondness of Dragon Ball. This one was asked by a fellow classmate. But it looks the best in my opinion due to h

 Johnny Upgrade, a Cool Math Game Classic. It's a 2D platformer where you have to collect coins to then upgrade your stats. You have to defeat the evil robot boss. Your mission in the game? Save The World. You are greeted by some badass music and some buttons to press. Press play and begin your adventure to save the world. You will not be able to move for the first run because you have no speed. But you gain speed the next go you have, and you keep on gaining speed until you have jump and this continues for a short period as you progress. The game will highlight the upgrades you can get. You will continue upgrading until you fight the main boss, Robot. The graphics are very simplistic with no 3D aspect, but makes up for that in blasts of energy from your gun. It makes it easier to get across without having to avoid enemies but you have to save for a lot in order to get the ammo required. It only takes 4 hits with the gun to defeat the boss but before you will have to dodge all of i

 Run is a flash game created by Player 03. The 'Run' franchise has 3 games in total and 'Run 3' being the most successful in the series. Run 3, also known as simply 'Run' has 2 modes:  Explore, where the player had to find and map out over last one of the level sets. There are currently 309 levels that are accessible from the 'explore' mode across 21 level sets. The entirety of the plot takes place in this mode alone. (mostly) Infinite, this version has you playing through a randomized selection of 325 pre-built levels. And with every meter you travel, it is kept track of and displayed at the top left of the screen. The obvious goal is to get as far as you can without failing a level. With the highest distances saved on a leaderboard that is viewable in the main menu of the game. There are items called 'Power Cells', they are scattered throughout every level in the 'infinite' mode. Their frequency and value increases alongside your distan

 For the 2 extra shape drawings I had to do I chose 2 different perspective seal pictures I used Photopea which was a horrible knock-off version of photoshop. I used a very little amount of shapes on the pictures. This seal was the easiest out of the 2 and was quick. This seal was lying down and took the longest between the two.

This is a weekly update. At the start of the week I took a picture of the outside of my house because I really liked the look of it. The fact that it was icy with completely dry patches where cars where overnight, seems really cool and gives me vibes like as a game progresses, the map around starts to change as well. Love that in certain games, you get objects in houses that are animated to move around which I really like about Graphic Designers and how they build and animated loads of stuff in games to then have that game to be really detailed but has a lot of space. The concept of tiny details being added is very cool. I really like minute details in games as it adds to that sense of hardship and dedication it must have taken to make something so small but in large quantities. I shows much perseverance and I absolutely love it.  ___________________________________________________________________________________ On monday we started doing Photoshop. We started by collecting animals pi

 For the line drawings i had to first find the images i desired. The instructions were that you can but as long as it is not an exact copy for an image with lines. I used Photopea to start off, i hated this software. Its discusting, it didn't feel right in my hands. with no movement in the mouse. It felt off. I chose this image: I first created a new layer. Then chose the brush tool to then shrink the pixel size of the brush. This shortened the width of the strokes. The image that was created was a monstrosity. The lines were wonky due to the movement issues with the image. The brush strokes were rubish to work with. It was so bad i gave up. I then moved on, and searched up 'sexy mnm'. I chose this image due to hits simplicity and sauciness. The results are shocking. I traced the outline leaving the limbs out of the image making sure that its 'different' from the original. It was so bad. I made a layer on top of the image to then trace the outline of every part. I a

 Moodboards: It is an arrangement of images or bits of text intended to show a project in a style or different concept. We had created a moodboard to get a better view on how to make one and what to put in it. We were assigned to make a moodboard about a character we had thought of, and it was a fairly simple task once I knew how to continue on. I had come up with 2 separate ideas when I was in class and the second one was ideally my favourite of them all due to the simplicity and how it turned out. This one was about a guy running from gangsters and trying to escape but the boss will not let him unless he defeats him. This along came with a storyboard which took very little time to complete but was easy enough to do on paper. The storyboard was divided into six sections and gave a brief description on how the main story would pan out. This gave way for any little parts in the story which I could add later if needed. I could have chose a different layout with how my moodboard looked or

Super Mario Bros. 3 was made in 1988 developed by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development. Players control brothers Mario and Luigi who have to save Princess Toadstool and the 7 rulers from the main antagonist Bowser. By defeating enemies, in previous games, the player must jump and land on their head thereby stomping on them. Sometimes the player gains some items the grants powers and special abilities which makes it easy to defeat enemies and progress further in the game. The main plot of Super Mario Bros. 3 is that the mushroom world is invaded by Koopalings, Bowser's seven children. The Koopalings dominate over each of the seven kingdoms by stealing the kings magical wands and using it to transform him to a creature/animal. The princess sends Luigi and Mario to travel to each of the kingdoms and retrieve the stolen wands and restore the kings to normal. The graphics are as you would imagine from a game from 1988, with no concept of 3D and a very narrow screen for very o