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Finley Rue Baines
May 21, 20230 min read


Animating "Iris"
Before I tackled the very large moving eyes, which felt like quite an intimidating task, I first decided I wanted to add some movement to...

Finley Rue Baines
May 19, 20232 min read


Redesigning "Iris"
Looking at my fairly old design of this character, I knew I could do better in terms of design. The clothing is very simple as I had most...

Finley Rue Baines
May 19, 20232 min read


Redirecting the project
While I did start out this module with the intention of creating a 2-3 minute long animatic to a song that inspired some characters of...

Finley Rue Baines
May 11, 20232 min read


Animatic planning
The song I decided to go with for this animatic project was Mary by The Happy Fits, which for the purpose of my animatic tells a love...

Finley Rue Baines
May 11, 20231 min read

Finley Rue Baines
May 8, 20230 min read


Rebranding/ new profile picture
For about a year, this was the profile picture that I used on all of my social media: As I usually would, I drew it myself. I also had...

Finley Rue Baines
May 3, 20232 min read

Finley Rue Baines
May 3, 20230 min read


Texturing concepts
With the colour palettes now created I felt more confident moving forward with any other concept artwork. It was at this time that I...

Finley Rue Baines
May 1, 20231 min read


Colour Palettes
Continuing on from my first level design concepts, I decided I needed to do some proper colour theory consideration and research before I...

Finley Rue Baines
May 1, 20232 min read


Level Design Concepts
Once the team had settled on making a VR game, and I had seen some early screenshots of the level design, I worked off my previous...

Finley Rue Baines
May 1, 20233 min read


First Concepts & Research
For the client-based work, the project we were given was to make an educational game for adolescence with diabetes. This game would help...

Finley Rue Baines
Apr 30, 20235 min read


Research Presentation
Slides (Powerpoint, PDF or Google Drive link): https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OfL4MnP1HmYjYr1oV69XLtzxeryWF_hGhLQd8TonOvg/edit?u...

Finley Rue Baines
Mar 14, 20231 min read
Digital Skills - First Ideas
Starting out this module, I had two ideas as to where I could take this project. My first idea was of a digital comic/ visual novel and...

Finley Rue Baines
Mar 7, 20232 min read
Narrative Evaluation
Reflecting back on my work, I can say that I am far more confident in the work I produced in the first half of this module than in the...

Finley Rue Baines
Jan 30, 20234 min read
Game Files
ZIP Folder: Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mEp0z9ZJJvom_sCgCHFyprCjfar40Gr0?usp=sharing

Finley Rue Baines
Jan 30, 20231 min read


Game programming
This section of the module, as is always the case when coding/ programming is required of me, is the part I struggled with the most. And...

Finley Rue Baines
Jan 30, 20232 min read


Animated Sprite
After creating the background I moved on to creating the main character of the game, shown here in my concept drawings: I started out...

Finley Rue Baines
Jan 29, 20232 min read


Background Creation
Creating this background, I purposefully created it so a majority of colours were either very muted or that there was mostly no colour at...

Finley Rue Baines
Jan 29, 20231 min read


Inspirations and Further Research
Now that I had chosen my game's concept and had a good idea of the direction I was heading in, I conducted some brief research for...

Finley Rue Baines
Jan 29, 20232 min read
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