3D Animted Short film
One of the initial ideas that i have is to create a short 5-10 minute 3d animation using 3d models that i have created my self. I rather like this idea as i have never really tried 3D animation and this would be a good chance to properly utilise the skills that i will learn when doing the 3D modelling and animation unit. This would also allow a lot of creativity when creating and animating the 3d models. An example of this could be to create a short comedy animation or a horror animation.
3D Game with custom assets
When i was on the HND, one of the projects that i worked on was the creation of a game in the unreal engine. This game was a 3rd person shooter and lacked many custom assets created by myself such as characters and textures as it used the standard Unreal assets. Therefore, the second idea that i have to create a full game complete with custom assets such as textures and models that have been modelled professionally. One of the larger problems with my game last year was the assets that i did use were made by other people and lacked custom animations and didn't really match the theme of the game. This would tie in to the using AI in computer games unit and the 3d modelling and animation units which would allow me to use this in my project this year.
Rather than remastering my game from last year i would like to create something new such as a puzzle game with physics based puzzles or a dialogue based game such as the Telltale games or Fallout New Vegas.
Robotics
The third idea that i have is to do something with robotics. This would allow me to use the knowledge of AI and the robotics units which would allow me to utilise the skills from these units to create a robot with pathing and logic using both hardware creation and software creation by programming. I could also integrate a raspberry pi into this project for example as the main logic board for programming and driving the robot.
I could also create a 2D game such as a platformer such as Cuphead which uses sprites or drawings rather than 3d models. This could be done in unreal for example which has a template for 2D side scroller games. This also could allow me to create a game which utilises 3D models that are used in a 2D environment to create a 2D game an example of this would be newer fighting games such as JJBA All star Battle which has 3D environments and characters in a 2D plane.
Several ideas for a 2d games include a 2D fighting game, a 2D platformer and possibly a 2D RPG such as the older Pokemon games
