Unit 78

Task 1 (LO1)

Cel Shading
Is the process which gives a 3D drawing its colour, it makes it look hand drawn yet 3D at the same time such as in the simpsons game made for PSP where the chachters look drawn and so do the background but yet its still, this method is used in alomost every video game played on either playstation or computers. Commonly known as CGI, this is the best formatt for games since the early 2D game such as Supermario
 

Abstractions
This is the name given to the art style or things that dont seem quite normal for a video game such as whether its chirpy or happy or ominouse and morbid, a good example of this is the game limbo, it has won awards for the best artwork used in a game, but this is the morbid side of video games

Exaggeration

this is used in most manga, no, scratch that, every manga. it genrally means appearance, in manga it is shown that they have large eyes and big hair such as in 'Dragonball' where they have an abundance of massive spiky hair, big eyes and overly large muscles

Photo realism
this is being able to make computer animation look extremely realistic so from first glance you wouldent tell, but a even better example is the advert for the latest TOYOTA, it shows a man in CG form but you would not know from first appearance untill you look closely, then you realis he is not real.






Task 3 (LO3)

Pixels
a pixel is a tiny coloured square where many of them are used to make a full image, if you was to take a close look at a computer screen, you would see a tiny check patern, each square is a tiny pixel, each a different colour to make different contrasts or images

Types of Digital Graphics
Raster
also known as bitmap, is basically a rectangular grid on a screen or a page, these are used to create and store images, these are usually difined by the number of bits per pixels (a colour which determines the number of colors it can represent such as different shades of red).


Vector
vector is made of lines instead of pixels and can still be high resolution after zooming in a number of times, unlike pixels wich gets very unclear as you can see from the picture above, but when done with lines the the lines get smaller as you zoom in still giving you a clear picture, this is used in most 3d games and also in CCT camera's.


File Extensions
Examples of filename extensions are .png, .exe, .dmg and .txt, these are seen on the end of file names, they are used to say what sort of file it is and what type of infomation can be taken from it. or say would it be compatable with another file type or system?

Compression
file compression is the name given to being able to covert a picture from taking up lots of MG (Mega Gigs) to a file type that dosent take up so much despite this sometimes affecting the Picture (e.g brightness, colours).

Optimising
this means changing different aspects about an image for the desire of whoever is in charge such as changing the point of view or making it bigger or smaller, (zooming), this is used often eith by the player or by the game if the the camera taking the view hits a building or a wall, it will change itself either into a overhead shot or side shot depending on the situation.

Image Capture
image capture is simply the name given to seeing something and then getting that image onto the computer screen, you could take a picture of it with a camera and sent it via blutooth or USB port and safe it as a file type, or if its a hand drawn image you can use a scannet wich scans the image and makes an exact copy for your computer, another way to get hand drawn images onto a computer is by using a graphics tablet to draw an image and have it appear on the computer while drawing.


Storage of image assets

Back Ups
these a essential for most important files, to create a copy and store it in a speacial place, with speacial programming it will be edited alongwith the original peace. this is essencial if you have say a faulty computer or your afraid of files being deleted by accident

File Size
file size can be an important factor sometimes when saving things, say, if you have a limited file space on your computer, you would have to safe it as something else that dosn't take up so much space, say you had only 100 KG left and one file type took up 110, and another 70, you would save it as the second one

File Formats
JPEG
PNG
GIF
TIFF
24-BIT BITMAP
256 COLOUR BITMAP
16 COLOUR BITMAP
MONOCHROME BITMAP

Uses
different file types have different uses, such as, if you was drawing a picture and wanted to comeback to it later then it would be best if you saved it as 24-BIT BITMAP, if you dident plan on writing any more the you could probably save it as JPEG

storage of assets

Naming Conventions

When it comes to naming files its important to use self descriptive titles that give a clear idea idea of what the file is, example, 'school document' isn't very descriptive and can mean many things, whereas the title, 'School Homework - Media' is a much better, more precise title and gives a clear idea of what the document is about. it is important when making a game that you give it a clear title, as when you make a game it uses up hundreds of complex files wich can look similar but arnt, so if you do not give them clear names you could end up getting rid of something important and being left with something you dont want, this can create set backs and dilimas wich could postpone the debute of a game and cost money to manufactorers and 'Game' shops. We have also been looking at different games and key aspects aboutr it such as charachters and interactivity, the game i chose was 'The Simpsons Hit and Run', and wrote in deph about its style, is charachteristics, and its quality, the game is shot entirly in CGI, the quality of wich varied, so i wrote about how i felt it was better in the cutaways than that of the actual gameplay such as in the intro and the ending,

compression

compression is where a picture is saved in one file wich uses a lot of KB and then saved into another file wich doent use a lot of KB, but dosent effect the picture, this saves lots of space on the computer