Experimental Experiences : References and Sketches

Old Sketches and Old Ideas

The images shown above would be sketches from my FYP 1 last year. They give a rough idea of what I was planning before and how I pictured the potential outcome to be.

As can be seen, the way it was designed, made it look 'website'-ish as explained in my earlier post. Which eventually was a big turn-off. From there I had to re-design everything, leading to the more adorable characters, as the initial audience were children.

Now below, as my first idea had to be improved and due to lack of time and skills, I had to re-think my idea. Even then however, I was too cocky and had big ideas and yet no skills to implement them.

Below would be how I intended my application to be during exhibition week.

My initial idea was to make the application interactive with Flash and Zone Trigger. Which would lead a user to stand or do motion in the area of the application, where the motion of the user is captured and from there they interact with the various links provided on the screen.

It seemed like a good idea and I even thought of adding a mini-game, videos and character info. Though again, I lacked the skills in scripting and could not understand what I was doing.

As can be seen, the user would stand in the wide area, where a webcam (though not seen in the image), would have captured the user's motion and then use the motion as a cursor. It looks simple enough though, the implementation was a little tricky and difficult.

Plus getting the necessary equipment would have been very costly.

My new idea is somewhat similar, though the only changes would be:

- Instead of an open area, it would look like an open-ended box (more sketches would be put up later)

- The user interaction would be somewhat more physical (still working out the best approach)

- There would be more and better decoration to suit the 'environment' or 'ambiance' of the application

- There may or may not be a web-cam involved