Building Virtual Worlds: Building Virtual World is a course which requires students to create a new world every 2 weeks with different teammates. Because your teammates are decided by the faculty, it forces students to learn how to communicate with the people who they are not familiar with. The schedule is very intense. Usually every team has a presentation in class on every Monday and is able to get feedback from all the people in class.
BVW Show: In the end of the semester, the faculty will choose 10+ best rounds from all the works in a semester to perform publicly. Normally it’ll be held in Carnegie Mellon main campus.
My Role: Designer/ Concept Artist/ Texture Artist
- Design: Focus on making virtual experiences and produce creative storytelling idea; making interesting game play and organize a complete play testing package.
- Art: Design characters and environments. Produce 2D animations, and textures in Maya.
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In the 5 worlds I made, 2 of them entered the BVW show:
Round 2 - Monster Training Center: A game to train a horrible monster. The player will play as a giant monster and learn how does his shadow on the screen interact with the objects in the game. The player needs to either destroy buildings or scare people to progress the game, and eventually fights with the giant robot to save his son — little monster.
Live Video: Monster Training Center on BVW Show:
Round 3 - starry Night: Have you ever dreamed about making your own night sky? Player can choose stars in any color and shape, then rotate, scale and shoot them to the sky. In the end by clipping both hands, all the stars in the sky will start to fall down, performing a romantic 3D animation.
Live Video: Starry Night on BVW Show:
Round 4 - Draco Story: Draco is the name of a blue dragon. People in the village are afraid of him because they think Draco is a evil dragon. In fact Draco has a kind heart and is willing to help human being. This round didn’t enter on the BVW show but I would like to show you the 2D intro animation I make for this round.