Plan For Pre-Production Submission

It is important to not lose track of what I need to be doing, what needs to be done for submission etc. It is much too easy to go off on research and inspiration tangents.

Here is a list of what I plan to have done for the end of this pre-production project:

• Synopsis
• All research done!!
• Backstory (history of characters/places/events etc)
• Storyline in detail
• Create a world map
• Create a timeline for production with milestones and enough time left for book compilation, printing and binding
• Research of typography and book layout
• List of everything to be designed in the production period
• Colour palette
• Create an example of 1 character (figure drawing, expression drawings, painted)
• Create an example of some piece of industry (weapon?)
• Give the game a title
• Get all reference material (Poser program, photographs, art etc)

Here is a more detail breakdown of some of the above points:

BACKSTORY:

• The vikings settle in North America
• The merging of the vikings and Native Americans
• Scandinavia and Ragnarök
• Brief European history (power, dominance, design, resources, industrialisation etc)
• Enemy country history
• Balder in the Underworld (myth)
• The enemy colonisation of North America, motives etc

TIMELINE:

• Aim for 80-100 pages
• Leave 1 week for the compiling of material and text
• Leave 1 week for printing
• Leave 1 week for binding
• Plan for work in Prato (Digital Imaging Studio)
• Plan week by week - e.g. one category designed (drawings, paintings etc) done per week - Balder = week 1, Ingrid = week 2, weapons = week 3, buildings = week 4 etc.

TO DESIGN IN PRODUCTION:

>Characters:

• Balder (Major)
• Ingrid (Major)
• The Governor (Major)
• The General (Major)
• Native/Viking tribe "The Warriors" (Minor)
• Enemy army "The Barbarians" (Minor)

>Weapons:

• Viking sword/gunpowder gun/club (viking/industrial)
• Canons (russian) - (Viking/industrial/native American)
• Bow/arrow (viking/native American influence)
• Grenades (from nature - native American/Viking)
• Flame thrower (Viking/industrial)
• Gun (russian)
• Knives/swords (russian)

>Buildings:

• Tribe village - no distinction between rich and poor, everything is shared. Live in Longhouses with outhouses and proper sanitation implemented
• Smithy
• Enemy city - factories
• Enemy houses - poor
• Enemy houses - rich
• Governor's house

>Machinery:

• Longtrain/ railway system
• enemy steam train
• Enemy carriages
• Sleds
• harvest/farming tools/equipment

>Animals:

• Icelandic/viking horses
• Wolves (hunting/sniff dogs/war dogs) - enemy use

REFERENCES MATERIAL NEEDED:

• Figures (from all sides, gesture, action, male, female, shapes/sizes etc)
• Expression (features/races, angles etc)
• Viking clothes/accessories
• Native American clothes/accessories
• Russian clothes/accessories
• Viking swords, bow/arrow
• Native American knives, bow/arrow
• Russian weaponry - guns etc
• Canons
• Flame throwers
• Explosives (gun powder, grenades, land mines etc)
• Russian architecture
• Viking architecture
• Native American architecture
• Steam trains/ railways
• Plantations
• Poor houses/lower class architecture (Russian influence)
• Flora/fauna in North America
• Wolves
• Birds (eagles, big birds from Harry Potter)
• Viking sleds (could be used for transport)
• Factories/industrial age
• Mjollnir
• Freyja necklace