Work Placement (PixelHaze)
DM-3108
Project Synopsis
This page will give a clear and concise display of my time at my work placement working with Pixel Haze. This company typically specializes in developing websites and the general digital media industry. My placement leader gave me the opportunity to work with him on a personal project which will allow me to work with new skills and software but also to improve current skills, technical or soft. My purpose of this project is to help work on a set of novels based on the Mabinogion which is a set of tales and stories based on welsh culture and literature.
The tasks I have been given are as follows: Historical research, Wiki Creation, Website design and the last task will be modelling. The reason I accepted multiple tasks was mainly because these are skills I either need to improve or even learn. For example, I have a strong understanding of historical topics but I also feel my methods of research are weak and this is something I wish to improve. I also have ambitions to work in the historical industry so I believe that this project will be perfect for my development in the industry. I’ll move to the first section which is the research.
Research Stage
Week 1/Novels
The first stage of research was to understand the novels and stories. I undertook research by choosing three tales for my placement leader. This was to help him understand potentiel stories for his own novels. I completed the research Via The Mabinogion directly and also ChatGPT the reason for using two different sources is to understand how the tales and stories are managed and understood in the the modern age compared to the medieval times when these tales were written. This will allow my placement leader to gain some creative insight into his own stories. I used ChatGPT to give me clear, consise breakdown out of the 3 tales I chose, where as the book has the tales directly inside it so I can try and match up what is accurate and what is not. To make formatting the images easier I have split the three tales up into 3 sections for the Mabinogion book research.
ChatGPT
The Mabinogion
ChatGPT
Research Stage
Week 1/Weapon concepts
The second set of research was focused on researching potential weapons that could be included in the novels but also weapons that I could potentialy 3d model for the website to help fit the themes of the project that is needed.
Manual Research
While researching the chosen items I knew that the placement leader requested some items that are all connected to each other. For example both swords that i researched are both mentioned in similar stories with the mabinognion which meant from that perspective their are plenty of opportunites for research.
As my game designer strength is modelling I also looked at what would be the best choices for developing the model. I decided I would focus on two models and decided to create the “Sword in the stone” (Excalibur) then the second and last model will be “the sword of Gwrrach the Giant” my reason for these choices were firstly I had already designed a gladius and secondally I believed that they would both offer me unique challanges weather that would be lack of references or intepretations or simply having alot of material which would require more of through design choices. I discuss this more in the modelling stage.
Research Stage
Week 1/Wiki creation
The final set of research of the first week is focused on researching the best sites for creating suitable pages to focus on external lore and smaller stories. For this particular research I used ChatGPT only mainly because I was very unfaimilar with the best sites to use. This led me to use SWOT research through ChatGPT to help me and my placement leader decide on the best course of action for development and production.
