Contextual Studies Task two

1980-Pacman

This as far as i can tell is the first character in video games and so is the reasoning behind why i chose this character.

Wikipedia (2001) Pacman [Internet] Available from:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man#/media/File:Pac-man.png [Accessed October 2015] 

1986- Samus Aran

I chose this character Samus due to the fact that she was the first prominent female video game character created by Nintendo. She first appeared in the NES cartridge Metriod and is still in games these days. 

Wikipedia (2001) Metriod Prime [Internet] Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samus_Aran#/media/File:Metroidprime3_1.png [Accessed October 2015]

1992-Scorpion

This choice was made more based on the game, Mortal Kombat. There was a lot of controversy at the time when this game was released due to the gore in the game and the use of digitalised graphics with the this then resulting in the introduction of age-specific content ratings for video games.

Wikipedia (2001) Scorpion [Internet] Available form: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion_%28Mortal_Kombat%29#/media/File:ScorpionMKXRender.png [Accessed October 2015]

2008-Online profile

This ‘character’ was chosen due to the fact that this was one of the first times I'd heard of you using face mapping on an online character to create this was in the game  Rainbow Six Vegas 2  i.e. you coud use the camera add on for the Xbox 360 and it would take a photo of your face and then map it to the blank character screen. This wasn't perfect and could result in some funny images.

Pixel Robot (2012) Face Map [Internet] Available from:http://www.pixelrobot.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/vegas2_ash2.jpg [Accessed October 2015]

2013-Joel

I chose Joel from the Last of Us as my last character to show the graphical quality that video games have made in there short life time. For this character you can see in game how motion tracking has been done and how it has improved the overall quality of the characters overall quality of animation. 

Wikipedia (2001) Joel [Internet] Available from:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us#/media/File:Video_Game_Cover_-_The_Last_of_Us.jpg [Accessed October 2015]