My transformation project

My project for specialist skills was based upon the transformation of games, the Evolution of games over the last few decades. I looked into the range of games that have existed coming from the game pong, going up to all the more violent games nowadays such as COD and GTA and also trying to see about the consoles for gaming.

Because this project was a whole year long I don't want to bulk this up with just pictures upon pictures of my sketchbook pages and so I will only show and explain my final pieces.

My first piece is a 80cm by 40cm acrylic painting. I showed the difference between old games and new, conceptually showing them in battle, like, which is better, fight it out. One side is the old versions of Pac-man, Mario, Link and Pikachu, all looking like they are in 8-bit form. And the other side has all the newer high definition versions of those same characters. Although, all characters are surrounded in a light haze to make them stand out from the dark grey background. The background was a mixed up colour so in some places it is a little darker or lighter because I didn't mix it correctly. The middle shows the word "FIGHT" done in the style of Mortal Combat, which is a popular fighting game.

 

My second piece is done with photoshop using Mario as a background to show how the girl is drawn into the game, becomes her life. I have never used photoshop and it took weeks to complete but luckily Jack from my class let me use his artist's tablet thing so I was able to act like I was drawing rather than attempting to use the mouse. I got really proud of this because it almost looks like a real person... Almost. Well, as close as I could get her in the time frame.



Well in the end I was pretty proud of my final pieces. My work in the sketchbook leading up to them could have been more in depth and better done I believe... But if I pass I will be proud of what I accomplished.