LOGO

This is the logo. I hope the font is well this time. It's very difficult for me to find the perfect font.

Laetitia.

Dialogue Designs

Adding an Article from the Rss feed to Fat Cat.

Information on FATCAT.

Information on another cat.

These will appear when the user wishes to interact with the colony.

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Presentation

I have made the presentation for our group project in Prezi.com. I have structured it so that I will give the overall introduction and story with each individual member giving their own input on their specific areas.

This can be viewed through this link:
 http://prezi.com/6ttxmgx-9nqw/present/?auth_key=3mc42oj&follow=vy8xpgunetk3


Paula

LOGO

I tryed something better with the logo. But I'm hesitating between two ways. Is this better with colours or black and white ? What is your point of view ? I think the b&w is more serious for a newspaper and in the same time an application whereas the coloured can mean the share with the mix between the yellow and the blue which become the green. But I have a little preference for the b&w.

Laetitia

Final Layout

Hello,

I have finally done some modifications on the Philip's layout. I just replaced the logo by the final logo, the fonts by the good font for the title and the circle cats by the cats drawings. And I added the date (which will be the current date) and the number of the day that the application "works".

Laetitia

The inside enviroment layout

This is the basic enviroment layout, after our talking we decide to use the top view angle for the graphic.

Gantt Chart Updated

Hi all,

I have now updated the Toms Planner Gantt chart for this project, with the deliverable dates
which Anya gave us in class on Thursday.
The Chart is also now public accessible too.
Here is the link.
https://www.tomsplanner.com/public/fatcatfeeds
Use the same Password as before.
"epeclarke"

The public however, only view a read only version so only the group can edit the original.


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Quick Layout Draft

Hi,

I had some time last night so I decided to do up a quick loyout draft too.
Hope know one minds.

Laetitia feel free to edit this as you wish.

I will mail the Photoshop file to you all too.


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Basic enviroment layout

This is the basic enviroment layout, after our talking we decide to use the top view angle for the graphic.

final logo, characters and layout

This is the final logo, some drawings of characters on top view and the newspaper. I used only two fonts for this project called MoolBoran for the typical font of newspapers articles and the Handwriter-draft for the logo and the title of the application.


Laetitia.

Fat Cat Developments

As a group we have been having brainstorming meetings to try and fine tune our original concept. To sum up our project in one sentence, it is an entertaining, virtual character that depends on daily news feeds and interacting with users will be a collaborative experience.

At a glance of our virtual character the user can tell if the majority of the news feeds have been good or bad on any given day. We are initially going to use RSS feeds for our "news feeds" with the aim to branch out to Twitter feeds if this is achievable.  In doing some research I found that one of the elements of the virtual pet "Tamogotchi",(which was part of the inspiration for our idea) was that the goal of the user was to breed the pet forming generations of their first original pet. This concept means that there can be new dimensions added to our initial idea of one Fat Cat. We plan to grow a colony of cats and using this colony to represent society and the people in it.

Fat Cat Feeds is currently still a work of art so some of our concept may morph or adapt over time.

Our target audience is 18-25 year olds as this demographic is more interested in social networking such as Facebook and Twitter.

Presently we are working on the image and design of our "Fat Cat Feeds" but initially we are thinking that the user will view our page from an above looking down angle. This is reminiscent of games such as "The Sims".

Paula - Project Manager

Some sketches

Hello !

I drew some cats versions on top view and some objects. I see the cat character like a normal cat. I don't know if it's the good way but I prefer beginning with a simple design idea and then we can add some details.

Laetitia.

Idea for the logo

I drew some sketches of cats, with only a paw, with only the cat face, all the cat but with an surprised face and I was thinking to represent the game a cat seen from his back like if he ignore the user.

  

But it's just my idea because I wanted to show the cat feelings with a simple design and also the newspaper picture effect with the hatching. 

Laetitia.

simple draft of cat character design by tim

Hi everyone i just draw two simple draft of our cat character at this weekend, and this is just simple idea of my maind and if anyone have any suggest please tell me thanks !!
                                                                                                                                          TIM

Our Project Concept Development.

We looked at quite a few different concepts, during our brainstorming phase of this project, and also allowed the group to break over a weekend to consider the various ideas expressed during our meetings. The aim of this break was to allow all members of the group to reflect upon the concepts discussed, with the aim of further developing a few ideas at the same time.

Our ideas included:

• A mobile device music application.
• An interactive environment, which reacts through multimedia elements to the users movements.
• An interactive multimedia ball game, in which the user creates music through their game score.
• An interactive music game machine, creating music through visual elements on screen.
• A digital avatar, which reacts to the users movements and interactions.

After some group discussion, regarding some hugely creative ideas from all members of the group. We decided on a concept which would require the full skill base of all members. As no member of the group had choosen the audio module as an elective subject, within our third year of studies at DKIT, we all decided it would be wise to move away from a project which would centre around audio as the main element. This was agreed by the group and we began to consider other interactive projects.

The final project concept, which the group agreed on, was the digital avatar. However, after discussion and consideration we also agreed that the project required some other possible form of interaction from the user. After a little tweeking of the initial idea and also the advice from one of our lectures. We came up with our groups concept.


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DKIT Creative Multimedia 3rd Year Group Project.

We are a group of third year students studying Creative Multimedia and DKIT, Dundalk. We have set up this group project Blog, to collaboratively work together on the various aspects of our project.

The aim of the project is to create an interactive multimedia installation, environment, website or any other form of user interactive project, which utilises the many different aspects and media which we have studied in Creative Multimedia.

As our project begins to grow and develop, we may decide to create multiple pages within this blog to separate the various different areas for discussion and development within the project. However for now, we are brainstorming and developing our ideas for our project, in an attempt to refine these ideas into a single concept which allows all members to successfully apply their individual skills to the project.

We feel as a group, that the best project we could create would be one which incorporates our individual skills and tallents to the best possible degree.


Pic: Philip Ian Clarke