DP2 begins

Just finished my first week of DP2 animation, and it seems like quite a challenging task that we have been set! Our brief is to create a haunted roller coaster ride complete with entrance, cart and scare scenes! I'm looking forward to progressing with the brief but am also fairly daunted by the task, as I still only have a basic knowledge of the virtual environment field and the tools around it. 

However this week I started by re-creating the space in which the ride will be (which the Waverley Theatre) in our seminar at the beginning of the week and started on the track design and research for the theme and and potential scare scenes and the like, yesterday. I like the idea of going down a sort of murder trail, where there is always a feeling of something following you as you go along the ride, and it also brings up the possibility of scare scenes of gruesome murders. In our seminar on Friday we were told that trying to make it as specific as possible is a good idea, and should make our ideas and work more focused. Therefore I quite like the idea of a sort old fashioned London feel, a sort of 'Jack the Ripper' theme could be quite effective.

The next steps will be to put together a 'mood board' of suitable research materials for my theme and also look at the design for my cart after the track design is complete.