Finalised Mashup & Bridge inspirations

Mash up 


Small investors will find the line long and hurdles high to get even a handful of shares of Facebook, as Facebook continues to dominate the world with their popularity over the citizens of the world. On the other hand, Coca Cola wants to try getting a piece of Facebook's shares by showing off their good reputation and awareness to bring positive impact to this world. Although they might be quite defensive with their products, they yield some of the most talented and distinguished workers that can possibly help to take over Facebook. Coca Cola is very secretive about their work, but will they possibly reign over Facebook, even in this difficult economic climate?




Bridge


I want to create a bridge that emphasises the ideas of: 


line long and hurdles high .... handful of shares. - Facebook
difficult economic climate...- Coke 


So for the "line long and hurdles high", I want to create something on the bridge that creates an illusion of being very difficult and hard to go through, but actually it's not. It kind of represents how in my mash up, Facebook is dominating and powerful, but Coca Cola wants to overtake them and reign the world. To incorporate the "difficult economic climate...", I'll probably have to work on my terrain or maybe bridge to make it seem "busy" (?) 

This was my first attempt to make a bridge that I made, but I need to put it into Crysis and test it first. 

Some inspirations:

1) Doesn't say the name of the bridge

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/05/bridges-software-engineering-and-god.html

2) Alamillo Bridge - in Seville, Andalucia (Spain)
http://cooltourworld.com/general/2803/

3) Forth Bridge (Scotland)

http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_my_p_f/0_my_photographs_forth_bridges_-_calm_evening_xu34.htm

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6) Aiola Island Bridge (Mur River in Graz, Austria)
http://www.unp.me/f8/aiola-island-bridge-bar-in-bridge-austria-54394/

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9) The Helix Bridge (Singapore)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Helix_Bridge

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10) The Nanpu Bridge (Shanghai China)

http://www.shanghai.gov.cn/shanghai/node27118/node27968/node26490/userobject22ai36173.html

 

WEEK 5- DRAFT for exp 3

 

will add bridge later....

 

Week 3- 36 Custom textures- movement

Week 2- Two point perspectives & Elevator

First attempt- Elevator:

 

For this first attempt, I followed Russell Lowe's video tutorial and successfully  made a typical up and down elevator. These are three screen shots of the views I had. I want to somehow link the waterfall with the bottom of the terrain. 

18x two point perspectives:

Week 2- Finalising Mashup and one point perspectives

"Smaill investors will find the line long and hurdles high to get even a handful of shares"of the facebook office. 

"Reputation and awareness"

"Very good defensive"

"Yield some of the most talented"

"popular" 

Coke is good at defensive while facebook wants to keep going --- 

powerful, homogenouty, domiantion, heavy, domination, powerful, distortion

Smaill investors will find the line long and hurdles high to get even a handful of shares of Facebook, as Facebook continues to dominate the world with their popularity over the citizens of the world. On the other hand, Coca Cola wants to try getting a piece of Facebook's shares by showing off their good reputation and awareness to bring positive impact to this world. Although they might be quite defensive with their products, they yield some of the most talented and distinguished workers that can possibly help to take over Facebook. Although they are secretive about their work, they could possibly reign over Facebook, even in this difficult economic climate.

18x one point perspectives

Week 1- Trial import into Cryengine

Week 1 Exp 3- Mash Up

Mash Up

Clients: The Coca Cola Company, Facebook Inc., Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.

FACEBOOK

"Want a piece of Facebook? Get in line". Ninemsn News. Date modified May 14th 2012. Date accessed 14 may 2012. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8467110

First in line are those with the big resources and long-term investment plans, such as insurance companies, pension funds and mutual funds. They will get the lion's share of the handout.

Retail brokers say requests for the shares are high, and they will mostly divvy up what they receive between their best customers.

Facebook may be the year's hottest stock issue -- but try getting a piece of it. Small investors will find the line long and hurdles high to get even a handful of shares.

COCA COLA

Grainne Rothery. "Coca Cola tops Power brand rankings again". Business and Leadership. Date modified 4th May 2012. Date acccessed 14th May 2012. http://www.businessandleadership.com/marketing/item/35030-coca-cola-tops-power-brand/

The drinks company has now topped the list of the most powerful corporate brands in terms of reputation and awareness for the fifth consecutive year.

"Our Brand Power rankings demonstrate that even in this difficult economic climate, corporate brands continue to positively impact companies that know how to capitalise on their value," said James R Gregory, founder and CEO of CoreBrand.

Coca-Cola as it is a very good defensive stock and will yield a return no matter what the market is doing.

TAKE- TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE 

"GameFly Teams Up With 2K Games To Offer Major Franchises To PC Gamers". Market watch. Date modified 18th April 2012. Date accessed 14th May 2012. 

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gamefly-teams-up-with-2k-games-to-offer-major-franchises-to-pc-gamers-2012-04-18

a leading developer, marketer and publisher of interactive entertainment for consumers around the globe. 

"We're excited that 2K Games has partnered with GameFly, giving our members access to games in their top franchises to play for free in the Unlimited PC Play," said Sean Spector, GameFly co-founder and SVP of Business Development and Content. "We're working hard to continue adding major publishers and chart-topping games to our library."

2K publishes titles in today's most popular gaming genres, including first-person shooters, action, role-playing, real-time strategy, sports, casual, and family entertainment. The 2K label has some of the most talented development studios in the world today, including Firaxis Games, Visual Concepts, Irrational Games, 2K Marin, 2K Australia, 2K Czech, Cat Daddy Games, and 2K China.

Final Mashup

 

Week 1 EXP 3- Valley Inspirations

Valley Inspirations 

Throughout the week I searched for valleys that are located in Hong Kong but was unsuccessful, all i got was the Glenealy, Jordan Valley and Happy Valley. These places are considered to be "valleys" but they were all covered with buildings and apartments. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenealy,_Hong_Kong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Valley,_Hong_Kong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Valley,_Hong_Kong

So the closest to Hong Kong was China, so i decided to search up the valleys in China. I stumbled across this really amazing valley called the Jiuzhaigou Valley (九寨溝) and was fascinated by its natural beauty. 

Here are some photos:

And this is video of the valley.

For EXP 2 I did not work with waterfalls, so for this EXP 3, my challenge is to make waterfalls ! 

EXP 2 FINAL SUBMISSION - The Space Between

Electroliquid Aggregration

"In order to have original thoughts, students of architecture need to test their ideas, reiterate, go backwards and forwards, and be one with the environment around them. A narrow minded designer will imitate, go with the crowd, think in a linear fashion, and would only move forwards in a horizontal manner, but at the end they are invisible to the public."

The three textures used for the final building

 

5 Images captured on CryEngine3 

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The dark texture on the side emphasises how some students continuously seek for new ideas, back and forth, generating unique designs in architecture. They don't imitate others so that they can be recognised within the public. 

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The straight-lined texture at the top reinforces the idea of thinking horizontally and that those who continue in this manner, will never find their individuality within the architectural society. 

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The gap in the middle (between the red sections) represents how narrow-minded designers would think.  They would ultimately become invisible within the public as they would only think in a horizontal manner. 

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 Link to levels via Gamefront 

http://www.gamefront.com/files/21651737/ARCH1101_Dorothy_Lam.zip

Google Warehouse Link 

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=7a1d12b2b7d07012340925e9a8882df5&prevstart=0

(tagged as ARCH1101 EXP 2 Dorothy Lam)

Week 3- Electroliquid Aggregration & 36 Textures from light to dark

Electroliquid Aggregation

Morphing Aalto and Kengo's concepts together into a story to tell others. 

Alvar- Rhythmic arrangement of elements mimics the tactility of the forest.

Kengo- Horizontality and low scale of the building complements the discreteness and invisibility of the architecture.

"In order to have original thoughts, students of architecture need to test their ideas, reiterate, go backwards and forwards, and be one with the environment around them. A narrow minded designer will imitate, go with the crowd, think in a linear fashion, and would only move forwards in a horizontal manner, but at the end they are invisible to the public." 

 

36 Textures from light to dark 

Textures 1,2,3 represent the students that are narrow minded and only move forward in a horizontal manner, where they ultimately become invisible to the public (for example texture 1).

Textures 4,5,6 represent those students of architecture that think out of the box and experiment with their ideas. They continuously test their ideas, backwards and forwards, in which they discover their individuality.

Week 2- Second attempt in CryEngine3

 

I tried manipulating the first building and made it look less compact and squished together. 

 

My second attempt in Cryengine3 went much smoother than attempt 1 as i was able to import the structure into Cryengine3 by Google Sketchup much faster. These are a few screenshots of what the building looks like in the new landscape. Similar to attempt 1, i kept the colours red and yellow, these signs are used to tell me where i would probably put the textures on.