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there was a lot of changing of the content, it was a lot different to working on my own project and having complete creative control, but the feedback was really helpful. here is the evolution of the aliens i made:

because of the talk about projection mapping and the importance of bringing the whole thing into something very three-dimensional, i thought the pixels of the alien should be 3d cubes, and i thought it would look good in the alien could appear to come more into the foreground when it is in the center of the wall and it could wrap around the wall (originally it was a curved wall). However this was not possible to implement in the flash game (which was already in progress). however i kept the idea of the 3d blocks

i designed a set of 6 aliens on darrens orders, they wanted it to be very colourful and because of the space invaders theme i used very atari-esque colours. I had a talk about copying the exact shape of the original space invaders but we were worried about copyright so we decided it would be best if we altered them slightly and made up new shapes of aliens in the same style

In the game they looked static so we added 1 frame of animation so it could flick between them like in the original game and this was effective, clients were pleased.

this is just a look at the complexity of the 3d models, although in the end i had to scale them down quite small it is not obvious, but there is a lot of detail. I though it would be best to work at a high level of detail/high resolution as i was not originally given the final size they would be in the game, or whether we would need the models for some other part of the game, we did not originally know the size the projected image would be.

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