12/17/2009 09:30:00 AM

The Poster up!









12/16/2009 11:07:00 PM

Plan

For my idea,
My booth setup will be like something on picture below.
A curtain fabric white and a bulbs for the lighting to make shadow for the wayang kulit.
While for the interactive ,I'll put my laptop on a small table in front of the stage and user have to sit to start to play the informative part.


CD Information about

the wayang kulit ,
the history,
the making of puppet,
the charcters,
the musical instrument
and many more to exploring.






The things need to prepare



The characters of wayang kulit

The dalang ( not the real dalang but maybe my friend will help me on this )


The curtainAnd the bulbs .



Technical Requirement:

Macromedia Flash for animating images
Adobe Illustrator for vectoring images
Adobe Photoshop for manipulation images

Project Output:

The output will be on CD ROM version.

Expected Findings:

- User will be able to experience a new kind of information delivered in a new interactive method.
- By comparing virtual wayang kulit and traditional wayang kulit,user will be able to participant actively in the story process and this making them understand the story, the characters and the play much better.
-User will be able to gain more knowledge about bthe uniqueness of the ancient of wayang kulit.




Erk..It's the time!

Erk?Hurry up~!
No more time on rushing there and rushing here ..
My brother's wedding went smoothly yesterday and ..
It's the time to focus on this,my FYP!



12/07/2009 08:42:00 AM

Wayang Kulit instruments



These are the basic instruments used in the shadow play performance.

12/07/2009 08:20:00 AM

OpenGL

When I’m doing my research, I found an interesting software that can be use for my animation effect of wayang kulit.This software named OpenGL. OpenGL? OpenGL 2.1 brings one of the most marvelous premier environment for developing portable, interactive 2D and 3D graphics applications. Since its introduction in 1992, OpenGL has become the industry's most widely used and supported 2D and 3D graphics application programming interface (API), bringing thousands of applications to a wide variety of computer platforms. OpenGL fosters innovation and speeds application development by incorporating a broad set of rendering, texture mapping, special effects, and other powerful visualization functions. Developers can leverage the power of OpenGL across all popular desktop and workstation platforms, ensuring wide application deployment. I’ll try to execute with this software, research for more tutorial and example of games.

12/04/2009 10:29:00 AM

gantt chart



12/02/2009 01:53:00 PM

Content Developement

For my content on my application I'll put a brief about wayang kulit kelantan.
This is some data of information that I collect.
I'll just highlight the interesting topic/part and play with the typography to make this information interesting to read.

"Wayang Kulit is a popular shadow puppet show in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia, especially those in Kota Bharu, Kelantan and Terengganu, and also in Johor. The origin of the theatre is still remained a mistery, but it was brought to Malaya hundreds of years ago.

There used to be four main varieties of the form in this country: the Wayang Kulit Siam of Kelantan; the Wayang Gedek, performed by the Thai communities of Kedah and Perlis; the Wayang Kulit Jawa, performed by the Javanese communities in Selangor and Johor; and the Wayang Kulit Melayu, performed by the Javanese communities of Terengganu. Today, only the first two are performed.

One man is responsible for breathing life into this array of characters: the master puppeteer and storyteller known as the Tok Dalang.

As a solo performer who representing all the heroes and heroines in the story, Dalang is the key of the performance - a masterly producer, conductor, puppeteer, historian, wise man, commedian, and the story-teller. Apart from this, Dalang also knows most of the music instruments meanwhile as the bomoh (Malay traditional practitioner). In the few hours of show, Dalang doesn’t only play the puppets, but also translates the voices of all the roles in the story apart from giving hints to the gamelan, sings and reads out loud. In some stories, the Dalang even uses ancient or classic dialect which in fact has long lost in the flow of time.

He will breath new life into each re-telling of those ancient tales, continually reaffirming the currency and relevance of the harmony of life, the balance between antagonist and protagonist, giving a little homour, making the whole performance alive. Beside the usual story line, some good Dalangs react things that happen the day or make a joke as to cheer the audience. Atmosphere and the emotion of the hall are controlled and manipulated by the Dalang in his rising and falling voice. Sometime when it comes to an excited point, the hall could be in a tumult while come to the sadness plot, you might hear the sound of sneezing or see weeping eyes.

To keep up with the times, today's Tok Dalangs do not only use the Kelantanese dialect but also mainstream Bahasa Malaysia, a few English words, the occasional Bollywood song, and even familiar tunes from TV serials to spice up their performance. The best thing is they always improvise as they perform, so audiences don't get a fixed dialogue or narration with every show."



12/02/2009 12:52:00 PM

precedence study on vectoring wayang kulit


A vector image of wayang kulit that i found from my friend's blog.

Nice! Very details .

She vectoring wayang kulit.This is the concept what I'll do for my characters images design .
I will vectoring the wayang kulit characters using Adobe Illustrator.
Fully vectorized.



I will post any wayang kulit in vector images as my references.Will guide me on the details sucject,color,concept etc. will research more as my precedence study.