Operation: Dark Ride... has been turned in. But Will continue as a side project

Yes Yes, I turned what I had last week.

it was pretty much this:

 

^ It may not look like much, but when combined with my Oral presentation and read-through of the Ride Story (which I wrote a full one by the way) The general concensus was good. A few people were like "but it's not a sculpture" and I'm responded with "if you for even a moment could see this ride in your mind...you've seen my sculpture" and everyone was like "woha woah woah MIND BLOWN" 

Good times.

Most of all my Teacher was totally into it, and that's what really matters.

I'm not entirely sure if I'll post the written out ride story or not, If I do,  I'll do it after my buddy Greg has sent me a Score he was working on for me, that I can build in to an Audio Ride-though track.

-Mad Artisan

Om Nom Nom Nomsters

Here at Mad Artisan Labs, We (and by we I mean me, myself and I) are always pushing to make something new and original. This is best shown by our (well, my) Nonsense Monster Designs creations.

Without Further delay I present the newest addition to the Nonsense Monsters Family, The Nomsters.

Nomsters are these nifty little crafty dudes with a big appetite, they really like candy, but they'll eat just about whatever you can fit inside them.

I made these first three Nomsters as Valentine's Day Gifts for my family. I'm sure there will be more on the way soon though, and I'll be selling them in my Etsy store and at the next Senior Ex Craft Sale at UCI too.

Additional Pictures:

 

-MadArtisan

Operation: Dark Ride in progress

Ok so I've made some progress on OPERATION: Dark Ride

I have a rough Concept for the story, and the three Main Characters Involved. 

I've created a new Super-Scientist Character by the name of Dr. Luminous, a Heroic Foil to Professor Technicolor. 

We're Visiting Dr. Luminous's Lab to help him test his "Trans-Dimensional Jumper" After you go through the rift, you meet D-wayne, who in this is Luminous's Assistant, and is native to the realm we're entering. We explore areas of the Nonsense Monster world and continue on our Trans-Dimensional Journey.

As we venture onward, the in-vehicle View screen, which is used by Luminous, is taken over by Professor Technicolor. Technicolor is attempting to sabotage the Journey and sends the riders into a "terrifying demisnsion" Fortunately D-wayne shows up and fixes the Jumpercraft telling everyone to hold on he's sending them home.

Technicolor then Strikes again, this time trying to leave the riders trapped between worlds, forever floating through the trans-dimensional void, as the ride vechiles spin wildly, Luminous Comes back up on the screen, although his signal is choppy, he tells the riders something about him locking on their position and to keep their wits about them. 

In An explosive Flash the riders are "pulled free" of the Rift

The ride ends with a Fully-articulated Animatronic Professor Technicolor "I'll get you next time Doctor Luminous!"  as D-wayne Shoots a Lazer Ray at him Telling the riders "don't worry about me folks, he does this All the time"

as The Jumpercraft return to the Loading/unloading que in Luminous's lab, Dr. Luminous comes back on screen Apologizes for the Chaos, and promises a much safer Voyage if they choose to ever return.

So yeah, something like that. Cool eh? 

here's a couple Pics:

 

^D-wayne as Luminous's assistant

 

^and of course, no adventure is complete without its bad guy. 

I don't actually have a image of how Dr. Luminous will look yet, but I'm working on it. 

but anyway that's a pretty good start eh? 

-Mad Artisan

whew, its been a while

Finally updating this, been meaning to, just been busy.

anywho Life's been kinda crazy Senior Ex is daunting, not because of what I'm working on for it, but because of what's Not being worked on for it. I'd explain better but there's no point its just frustrating.

I finished 3 more VooDoo guys since the last time I posted, so here they are:

 

^my camera gave me soo much trouble with this last one, I have no idea why

and just for kicks a group Pic of all 6 of the Voodoo dudes:

Also I've been going to town on my next project for Advanced Sculpture, and its a doozy.

The Assignment was to "Do the Impossible, and try to complete it anyway"
So what did I decide to do? Oh... just
MAKE MY OWN DISNEYLAND-ESQUE DARK RIDE
Based on my own characters, naturally.
Ya know, just a little project.

Yeah, so... I made myself a rough breakdown of the kind of things I have to figure out just to get started:
* A storyline/Scene breakdown
*Characters involved
*Ride system
*Entry/exit que theme
*Ride Map
^That's just what I have to do to even get moving forward on rough concept designs and a model, Naturally there's no way I'll actually be able to complete a workable ride within the time line of the assignment, but that's the point, and I'm going to try and get as far as I can go. I mean, to do this completely not only would I have to figure all that stuff out, but I'd also have to do a lot of complex engineering plans, develop animatronics, develop ride effects, have my composer record a soundtrack and hundreds of other things, does that stop me from wanting to actually make this a reality now? Hell no.

Because now I'm totally fascinated by the idea of a fictional theme park that exists in no single place but instead is made up of a series of In-Gallery Installation Art pieces(that are essentially theme park attractions). So like you'd go to a museum/gallery to see a Exhibition, and you'd get to go on a ride instead. I can't think of a better method for an artist to control how an audience experiences their work.

Consequently, pushing this project would greatly help in developing a really nice looking portfolio for when I try to land a gig at Disney Imagineering... right?

anywho I'll make another post tomorrow on my story concept and whatnot. Whee!

-MadArtisan