Phage Game

Phage

November 2011

• Left key = left
• Right key = right
• Spacebar = shoot antipathogenic substance
• Refresh page = Reload game

Phage Game--Part 1

I am currently in the middle of developing Phage, a Flash/AS3 game. Phage is a platformer game in which the player assumes the role of a white blood cell (leukocyte) that defends the body from invaders.

Currently only 2 levels have been created.
Control movement with the left/right keys, up key to jump/double jump, and spacebar to shoot.
*It is best to restart the game each time you play because the webhost makes the program glitchier than it normally is.*

Some changes that I plan to make in Part 2:
-fixing glitches
-enemy collision events
-Background scrolling
-etc.....

I based the code and layout off of a tutorial from AS3 Game Tutorials
http://as3gametuts.com/2011/11/11/platformer-1/

***EDIT***
I have now fixed the collision bugs. The only thing left to do is to add the mods mentioned above.


***It is also important to note that because of how GoogleSites hosts code, the game's formatting looks different than as a normal swf file. As an swf file running from Flash, the background scrolls with the screen without any white spaces, and I'm not sure how to fix the aspect ratio on the Google-hosted code so that it scrolls with the screen.

TV Bumpers

I recently created 2 fake bumpers such as what one would watch on network television.

Toon Time

The first bumper is for a fictional "Toon Time" cartoon block similar to the "Cartoon City" bumpers developed by Cartoon Network.

I created this by:
(1) made the Rubik's cube/box in Maya with polygon tools and Phong materials. I then created text in Maya and parented the text to the cube.
(2) Animated the cube and cameras.
(3) Rendered out the animation as .PNGs and imported the images into After Effects.
(4) Used the Rotobrush tool to extract the cartoon characters from the foreground
(5) Converted the layers into 3D Layers. Arranged them in 3D space
(6) Created a light layer and arranged them.
(7) Exported the footage to Premiere. Created a bass loop in Garageband and imported the track into Premiere.  Exported the final file.



Nickelodeon

My second bumper was a fake Nickelodeon bumper in the style of their other bumpers.
I created it by:

(1) Created an Illustrator document and, using the brush tool, created orange spots of various sizes. I then saved it as a .PNG to conserve its transparency.
(2) Opened AE and set the background as white. Imported in the spots .png
(3) Duplicated the spots file twice. Opened the "Color Balance (HLS)" effect and altered the colors of two of the spots files (changed one from orange to purple and the other from orange to green).
(4) Converted the layers to 3D Layers
(5) Arranged the layers in front of each other
(6) Created 2 lights and arranged them
(7) Created a 2-node camera. Set keyframes and animated the camera's position on the Z-axis
(8) Exported the file to Premiere.
(9) Found a collection of Nickelodeon bumpers from the 80s and 90s. Extracted the audio of the theme song. Synched the audio with my footage in Premiere.
(10) Exported the final file.

Keying/Greenscreen

I recently created my first keying/green screen composition using Adobe After Effects.

I created this by first, creating a background. I used Autodesk Maya and Autodesk Mudbox to create a 3D model of a fantasy landscape.

 I then shot footage of my actor in front of a green screen.

I then used the "Keylight (1.2)" plugin in After Effects to key out my actor into the footage.



Here is the final, and completely edited composition.

I'm now a Game Artist!

I just recently signed up to be a Game Artist/Animator for "KleptoClockers". "KleptoClockers" is a 2D, side-scrolling platformer. It is one of the games that is being worked on this year for the UMBC Game Developer's Club.

My specific duties for the project will be creating sprites for monsters/animals, enemies and environmental assets such as trees. I will also be animating these characters.

The software that we will be using will be Flat Red Ball (game engine) and Adobe Photoshop.

 Here are some of the concept sprites I created for when the game was under the working title of "Run Away RPG".  The sprites had to be 128x128 pixels.

The Science Fiction Puppet Theatre

The "Science Fiction Puppet Theatre" is an animation I created in After Effects using its 3D layer feature. This technique is known as 2.5D. I achieved this effect by drawing and separating the layers in Photoshop, coloring them in Illustrator, and then cloning them in Photoshop and arranging them in 3D space in After Effects.

My inspiration for a  "science fiction puppet theatre" came from my love of science fiction and especially the stories of Ray Bradbury.

The "dark carnival" motif was inspired by Bradbury's novel "Something Wicked This Way Comes".


















The image of an alien landscape was taken from the stories within  Bradbury's anthology, "The Martian Chronicles".

"Flux"

"Flux" is my first animation created entirely in After Effects. I mostly used the shape layers and the scale, rotate, and opacity keyframing buttons.

Tagline:
"Flux: Things aren't always what they appear."