Curtain Close for Media Art 2

Phew~~This semester is a rough semester for me to handle. I delayed most of my assignments due to some family matters, financial matters, and even I have the mindset to stop my studies at one point.

Lucky for me, I never actually really stop my studies. And thanks to Mr.Bad who give me another one last chance for me to pass up all my assignments before Chinese New Year which give me enough time to re-draw and also upgrade my Assignment 1 and 2 and even Final Project.

I am taking this chance to say thank you to my lecturer, Mr.Bad for that chance I mention above. Beside Mr.Bad, I really need to say thank you to my housemate, Chiko who helped me a bit and gives me some advise on how to improve the design of Assignment 1 and 2. Another person who I wants to say thank you to is Shin who helped me in my flash script-writing, seriously without his help, I think my flash will go haywire and is not able to pass up my Final Project on time. Not just that, Shin also stay up together with me and didn't sleep for 2 days just to help me finish my assignments. I seriously thank him a lot.

Besides this people, there is another person I want to thanks a lot too and is my girlfriend, Rain. She also stay up late just to cheer me up and give me some motivation advise when I at the urge to stop doing my assignment and give up. Really need to thank her for this, so I can actually finish up my assignments.

***P/S: most of the names I put there is their nicknames.***

Anyway, I am glad I manage to finish up my assignments. So, see ya again at Media Art 3, Mr.Bad. I will work hard and pass up my assignment on time this time. Sorry for the trouble and Thank You Very Much for the chance.

Now is time to rest my mind~~UUNNYUU~~~

Final Stage, Statement for Final Project

Name: Cheng Khai Wen

ID: 1081101572

Title: Music of Paradise

Artist Statement: I use the nuclear sign to show that music is dangerous to the adult's thinking due to now-a-days the younger generation use mp3 player, ipod and even handphone to listen to their favorite music but actually the younger generation are happy with the musics and enjoying. Also, I design it very game-a-like style is because all games comes with musics.

Artwork treatment: I use all the screenshots I taken before for the final project and compile it all together into one picture all by using Adobe Photoshop. So, I decided to use this as my poster.

Stage 2, Page Designs

Here are my design of pages, before it's imported into Flash.

The Loading Page.

The Concept Page.

The Content Page.

The Gallery Page

and here is the poster.

Stage 1, Idea Developing

For my final project, after debating with myself, I decided to choose my second design which is Jun'ya Ota's related design. I still keep my Music of Paradise as a message to the adults that likes to stop their children to listen to music all the time. I use up more time on interactive application since is made in flash and a lot of scripting to do. For my interactive application, I use back the 3 original buttons I plan to use which is Concept, Content and Gallery.

This is the only sketch I plan out for this action-script.

First Block is a loading page that will lead to Second Block which is the Main Page (Assignment 2 Design) and the buttons will lead the Concept Page, Content Page and Gallery Page. I plan to add in background music if I have the time to do so.

For the concept art poster, I use back the old design of my Jun'ya Ota's Design.

Final Project Brief

Media Art Design 2: MMA1123

Final Project (40%)

Brief:

This is an individual project.

Based on Assignment 02. Students are required to choose one of the ideas to be develop

into interactive application. The interactive application MUST have minumum of four pages.

(main menu, 2 subsections and a concept page) Students should apply their knowledge of

what they have learn through out their beta level (Media Art Design classes)

Students are free to select any content(topic) for their interactive application.

Please do not forget that your interactive application should carry expressive and provocative visual.

Objective:

- To demonstrate an understanding of visual communication

- To practice effective visual layout design and create functional graphic user interface

- To apply creative association of technology, technique, tools and applications to produce digital media artwork practically.

Evaluation criteria:

- Overall interactive application concept: 15%

- Creativity, idea development and sketches of ideas: 20%

- Concept Artworks: 5%

Submission Format:

01 One A4 printed concept board mounted on foam board (Your name, id, artwork description printed at the back).

02 A4 Sketches (landscape format): Please compile all your assignments sketches and idea developments (01, 02 + final project)

03 CDROM:

- An Interactive application

- Digital copy of ALL working files for all assignments and project.

- Digital Research documentation for ALL assingments and project.

- Your Name, id, artwork description + blog links (MS word)

04 Blog

Assignment Submission: WEEK 14

Lecturer: Badrolhisham Hashim badrol.hashim@mmu.edu.my

Final Stage, Final Product

Name: Cheng Khai Wen

ID: 1081101572

Title: No Pain No Gain

Artist Statement: I draw my own character in Spiky Hair Style because Tetsuya Nomura's characters are mostly spiky hair and I use a very straight-forward style to tell a very straight-forward message. If you want something, you have to work for it, that's the meaning of No Pain No Gain.

Artwork treatment: I sketch fully with pencil, then re-draw it in Adobe Illustrator.

Name: Cheng Khai Wen

ID: 1081101572

Title: Danger of Music is Happiness

Artist Statement: I use the nuclear sign to show that music is dangerous to the adult's thinking due to now-a-days the younger generation use mp3 player, ipod and even handphone to listen to their favorite music but actually the younger generation are happy with the musics and enjoying. That's why I name it Music of Paradise.

Artwork treatment: I use Hakurei Reimu who is Jun'ya Ota's 1st character that he design and also the main character for his very 1st project, Touhou Project. I draw Reimu in Adobe Illustrator and edit the background and typographic using Adobe Photoshop.

New Stage 2

After I try to draw the original design that I plan for Jun'ya Ota's design in Adobe Illustrator. It crashed before I am able to save the files. So, I decided to design a new one using Adobe Photoshop.

Here is the design