my latest blog task for resarch, deciding the three points

For this week we are given the task of deciding what a anthropomorphic characters i am going to pick and the question I am going to address with Its 3 points.

I have already deiced on what character before the update which was Wheatly from Portal 2 since I felt he was one of the most diverse characters in video games in resistant years and there are so many aspect's to talk about him considering he is only an giant robotic eye.

However, Wheatly was not my only choice since there are many other anthropomorphic in video games like.

Donkey Kong from varied 'Nintendo' titles

Bowser,Yoshi,Goombas, Boos, Bullet Bills, Koopa troopers and many other minions from the 'Mario' series

Conker, The Great Might Poo and most of the cast from 'Conker's Bad fur day'

The Dragons from 'Elder scrolls five Skyrim'

The Argonians and Khajiit from the 'Elder scrolls' series

Most of the cast of the 'Sonic' series but mostly Shadow and Sonic

All of the 'pokemon' series but mostly interested in Gangar, Mewtwo, Lugia, Metagross,Wailord and of course Pikachu.

Mr Handy, Mr Gusty, Button Gwinnett, Doctor's Mobius, Klein, Borous, Dala, O, 8, The appliances at the 'Sink' and Securitron but mainly Victor and Muggy from the fallout Series

Dexter from the Jack and Dexter series.

Cait sith, Red XIII, Moogles from final fantasy 7

The cast of Star fox

Ratchet and Clank from the Ratchet and Clank series

Lizard Man from the SoulCalibure series

Most of the cast from Crash Bandicoot series

Sam and Max from the Sam and Max series

Link in wolf form and Ganon from legend of zelda twilight princess

The Heartless and Sora in Cub form in Kingdom Hearts 2

Kuma and Panda from the Tekken series

Kirby, King Dedede and Meta Knight from the Kirby series

Mrk2 and Peace Walker from the Metal Gear Solid Series

GLaDOS, Wheatly, Cake Core, Fact Sphere, Adventure Sphere, Space Sphere, Turrets, P-Body and Atlas from the portal series.

Sackboys, Clive, Eve, The negativron and The collector from the Little Big planet series

Deathwing, Worrgen's, Panderen's, Tauren's and Murloc's from World of Warcraft

The Birds and Pigs from Angry Birds

Earthworm Jim from Earthworm Jim

The Worms from the Worms series

Poseidon in his ocean form and Gaia from God of War series

and The cast of Slycooper series.

out of all of these Charters my final ones were

The points I find important for anthropomorphic characters

.Personality and emotions

.Communication and interaction

.movement and body language

.awareness of surroundings

.personal possessions, Clothes, Items, Weapons, homes... etc

.purpose of being

.relationships

.interaction with objects and others

.able to think and act interdependently

Out of these points the 3 most important in my opinion are

.Personality because it helps to relate the ordinance help to show what the character is not an simple tape recording or pixel but they are a living thing

.Interaction with other characters, objects and environment because it help to shows that this character actually exist in it's universe and its level of awareness and knowledge of that universe.

. Interdependent thought, opinion and actions which could be the most important one because it shows level free will and determinate the reason behind the actions for example one character can impulsive and thinking of no one else without thinking of the consequences and a other character might be forced into doing something they don't want to do with blackmailed or out of duties. This helps to look inside the character mind and to understand how they are and why they are hear. Which in opinion turns a thing into a Person.

I will base the structure on these 3 points on Wheatly. Which is what I might base my question on 'What makes an Thing into a Person?' since that what anthropomorphism is, the transition of making an animal or thing and making it into human.

week one of drawing

for are first task we had to go out and draw as meany people as possible on little sticky notes.

The second task was to show as meany line styles we knew.

The third task was to draw the person in front of you with out looking at the paper which resulted in to making my picture look like cubism picture.

Then are last task of the day was draw the negative zone of the an upside down tennis player.

week two of research

Anthropomorphic

I have decided to do my anthropomorphic analysis a characters called Wheatley how is from the puzzle/first person game, Portal 2. Wheatley is acharismatic robotic eye which plays as partner for Chell the main protagonist in the Portal series. The first half of game Wheatley helps provides assistance and sever‘s as an guide in the game while trying to help you to escape from Aperture science and the main antagonist ‘GLaDOS’. However during the second half the game the tables are turn as both Chell and Wheatley remove ‘GLaDOS’ from her control of Aperture and replace her with Wheatley but the twist is that Wheatley becomes corrupted with power and becomes the main antagonist while Chell and ‘GLaDOS’ both team up to take down Wheatley and successfully won. The reason why I have choose Wheatley was because I see him an a prime example for an Anthropomorphic character in video games since he is multidimensional and provides an lot of depth which makes you really feel for him and even when he betrays you still feel for him which is Very hard to achieve because Wheatley is only an robotic eye but he is still alive.

One of the ways which indicate that Wheatley is alive is that he has some features that resemble a human face. His huge eye monitor resembles a human eye since it blinks and looks in different directions like a human eye which helps the play to identify that he is alive. The addition of handle bars on Wheatley body provide the illusion of eyebrows and cheeks which move up and down like an humans which helps to make him seem more realistic and he can move his body to simulate head movement he can express emotions as well. Wheatley can express a wide assortment emotion like fear with his pupil shrinking down and he starts shivering. He can show he can be nerves with sharp head movements, rapped blinking and shriving. When he is clam there is slow movement and a steady gaze. However the animators did leave some robot emotion in Wheatley for example in one scene Wheatley accidently activates ‘GLaDOS’ which in his attempt to hack and deactivate her, his eye started to spin rapidly and sharply like an gear which completely contrast against his organic movements.

Wheatley Physical appearance makes it very difficult to show he is alive since he is a giant metallic eyeball with to bars on his body however wean he takes over GLaDO’s body he becomes more expressive since he removes his bars and expands four metal plates which now the vertical plates symbolise the eye brows and cheeks and horizontal plates resemble arms and hands which an perfect example of this is wean He starts boasting about ‘he is the boss’ he looks directly into the camera and his two hand plates open up with an addition of a smug expression on his face. The body behind helps to show new emotions like he would puff out his torso plate to express ego and wean GLaDOS explains Wheatley true origin he turns his back to GLaDOS but looks to the side of his shoulder which helps to express that he feels guilty in what he done but pretend he does not care. Wheatley’s is very sociable throughout the game as he must have to give his opinion on every situation which actually matched his west English country accent ‘voiced by Stephen Merchant’ how gives Wheatley a TV presenter feel to him in that he can say a lot about nothing. For Wheatley to have an human voice which helps for him to seem human unlike the GLaDO’S or the Space Sphere how have an hint of a auto tune voice which makes them seem more machine.

The Social context clue behind Wheatley is his name and that it is a name and not titles which labels that charter as one dimensional but to actual have a real name. Other robot’s in the portal series like the Sentry Bots, The Space Sphere, The Adventure Sphere, The Fact Sphere and The Cake Sphere can be considered one dimensional in comparison to Wheatley since of the name vs. Titles. He also rename Aperture laboratories into Wheatley Laboratories as an attempt to show it his laboratories which helps promote his selfish behaviour.

Wheatley is extremely destructive and clumsy in how he reacts with environment by how he tends to destroy environment with giant spiking plates or moving parts of the factory breaking it in the process to solve his problems for example wean you first meet him takes you to wear he thinks there is an portal gun which in the process smashes the room you are in throw multiple giant metal creates and finally smashes the room throw an concrete wall which put your life in great danger. Also Wheatley shows great signs of not knowing anything about the facility but pretends he does for example wean he had to hack the computer to the neuron toxic valves he first attempted by describing the computer and then tried to trick it by pretending to be an neuron toxic inspector. He shows no responsibility for objects for example wean the laboratory went under meltdown he simply turn off the alarm and thought that would solve the problem.

Wheatley shares multiple relationships with different charters in portal 2. With Chell he played guide and sidekick helping her to escape for his own benefit but wean he become corrupted he had saw her small but planned to use her for his own benefits until Chell was unneeded when he found P-Body and Atlas which he planned to kill her. His relationship with GLaDOS is that he was an ‘Intelligence Dampening Sphere’ attached to her before the event of the first Portal but was removed. His purpose was to be ‘The Biggest Moron’ ever and attached to GLaDOS as an attempt to stop her by generating ‘a sea of stupid thoughts’. Throughout the game Wheatley had disliked GLaDOS, possibly because he was demoted to looking after the human test subjects though he wanted to work in manufacturing which might have cause this dislike for her. At first his confidence towards her was unconfident since he feared her as shown in the awaking of GLaDOS but wean he had taken over he became more confident towards her by turning her into a Potato. He might have choose an Potato because earlier in the game you stumble on some potato battery made by children and thought it would be an ironic punishment for complicated AI to become an ‘a toy for children’ or possibly due to his lack of originality so he copied the potato battery idea. Wheatley’s relationship with the ‘frankenturret’ is that he sees them as his minions which will perform his tests but gets frustrated immensely from the usualness of his make shift turrets. To a degree it’s like a boss telling a bunch of rocks to do something and expect results.

Wheatley’s personality is his strongest point as it really helps bring him alive. He is very impulsive and chaotic with his actions does not think of the consequences that might happen for example wean the transplant of his Core with GLaDO’S core he asked ‘’What if this hurts?’’ wean it was too late you and as punishment you hear him screaming in pain. He shows signs in the early on that he dislike humans by calling them ‘’Smelly Humans’’ but later on you find out that he has no respect for human life which ironic since he is one of the most human like charters in portal 2. He does not care for anyone else on the matter and only cares for himself as shown in how shut down the ‘Frankinturrents’ without remorse. He has a major problem of people calling him stupid in that he cannot accept the fact he is stupid but he either uses brute and anger to prove he is not a moron or hysterically try to prove he not dumb by listing classical music or reading a book. This also explains why has to give his comment about everything so that it makes him seem smart but in reality he has no brain. He tends to think he did all the work but in reality he doe’s only little and steal ideas from others either by saying to Chell that ‘I had sacrificed everything while you did nothing’ or near the end of the game he smashes together GLaDOS old test rooms and rename them as an attempt to show that he did the work. He is very weak will as shown by his reaction to his reaction to the Itch which is an program which encourages testing but it acts like an drug does which Wheatley becomes addicted to unlike GLaDOS how did not do the test out of her personal gain but did it for ‘Science’ or Chell how is stubborn and never gives up unlike Wheatley tried to look for the easy way out. In the end he does show guilt and that he was sorry wean he left in the empty vacuum of space with the Space Sphere which he refers to either the audience or the himself that he was sorry for the things he done.

Overall I found Wheatley to be much more than a robotic eye but a believable charter since he shows multiple depth within his personality and that even wean he back stabbed you, he was still likable which made him unforgettable.

This is only an base and I will be doing more polished version soon

Week One of Research.

For my first blog task I had to find 3 blogs which I enjoy and comment about them.

The first blog I am interested in is the Bethesda Blog at http://www.bethblog.com/. I find this blog interesting because Bethesda publish snapshots of there progress throw out there titles with concept art, 3D models, game play videos, interviews and updates of there progress of there new titles for example Elder Scrolls 5, Skyrim. With this it reminds me how my blog should look and I can use this blog as a base for my blog. Not only that but they were responsible for two of my favorite games I have played so far which is Fallout 3 and with Obsidian Entertainment, Fallout New Vegas.

The Second blog I picked was the game producer Hideo Kojima's Blog http://www.kjp.konami.jp/gs/hideoblog_e/. I have chosen this blog because he to updates his blog with artwork, game screen shots, work he is on and that he had created my all time favorite game which is the Metal Gear Solid series. I am also interested in his past history and how he jumped into the world of video games out of his passion for it and movies but he had no knowledge how to make games but this did not stop him and know he is one of the leading figure's in the industry because of his outside thinking and experimenting with new technological advancements.

The third blog I am interested in is the famous New Grounds User Egoraptor http://egoraptor.newgrounds.com/ . The reason why I am interested in his blog is because his crud flash animations were one of the first independent pieces of work which was not made by an company or someone famous but an normal person and now throw the publication of his work he has been able to get roles in voice acting in video games and tv. I find it interesting In how he was able to start from nothing to an household name on the internet because of people.

Had to make an new blog.

Unfortunately for me I had to make an new blog due to technical issues but I will carry on posting my work on this blog and putting up all my work so far also I have now put up an new banner for the blog to add some color to it.