Questionnaire
I made a questionnaire that I sent out to my friends and classmates to see their thoughts on what I should make and what style / colours are their favourite. Out of the 14 parcipitants here are the analysed results:
Here is a link to the questionnaireResults from the questionnaire
Question 1:
What is your favourite weapon?
From what I’ve gathered, there's an overwhelming liking for scythe style weapons with 9 votes while gun and axe has 2 votes and sword with 1. It seems by how the public thinks I should've chosen to make a scythe instead of a pair of scissors, maybe if I have time by the end of the given time I could try and make one.
Question 2:
What theme is your favourite?
This question was pretty spread out with the most being Medieval with 4 votes and Frutiger Aero with 3. There was a tie of 2 votes that included Natural and Steampunk while Dreamcore, Grand Gothic and Fantasy got 1 vote. I'm glad Frutiger Aero got a lot of votes because it’s my favourite style and it’s what im making this model’s theme.
Question 3:
What is your top 3 colours?
This was an open ended question where I wanted to see what 3 colours would look good together so I asked what people's top 3 colours were. From what I can see it seems like Black is the most popular colour with Blue and Purple not far behind. While those colours are good I want to try and use more ‘Frutiger Aero’ colours like light blue or white.
Question 4:
What game do you like for the visuals?
This is another question I allowed anyone to say anything, the question this time was what game do you like for the visuals. The answers for this one are pretty similar to question 2 as the games on this list are kind of in line with their themes.
Question 5:
Favorite weapon from a game?
I wanted to ask for people’s favourite weapon from a game or any media as inspiration to see what I could make, however unfortunately from what I’ve seen of these weapons none of them fit the style I'm going for.
Question 6:
Do you prefer big, small or average sized weapons ?
I wondered what size do people prefer for their weapon so I asked if they would rather have a big, average or small sized weapon. From the results I gathered it shows 9 people want a big weapon and 4 people would rather an average sized weapon however unsurprisingly no one chose to have a small weapon.
How this researched helped
This research has helped me discover what I should and shouldn’t do for my 3D weapon model, like how I shouldn't make a small weapon or that I should make a weapon blue. Despite these recommendations I’m most likely going to do what I wanted to do as it's what I personally think would look the coolest.
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in HTML or XML (including XML dialects such as SVG, MathML or XHTML). CSS describes how elements should be rendered on screen, on paper, in speech, or on other media.
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Bevel
The Bevel tool smooths out corners and edges.
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UV Unwrap
A way to flatten a 3D model into a 2D map to add more accurate texturing and designs to your model
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Knife Tool
The Knife tool can be used to interactively subdivide (cut up) geometry by drawing lines or closed loops to create holes.
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Cycles
A lighting effect for a more realistic look using ray-tracing.
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