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1. INTRODUCTION: WELCOME :): Hey there, my name is Kim. I'm an artist or a writer, a gamer, and I'm
a student at GDC. Welcome to the Rajah road. I'm actually very excited to be teaching you guys because
I feel like this is going to be a huge
opportunity for some of you are artists and writers, people with no experience. I feel like this is
a big opportunity for all of you to improve your work and become better at generating ideas for your plots and for
your characters. And as somebody who is an artist and somebody
who likes to write, I would like to provide you with these few tools
that I use daily. I am both the traditional
and a digital artist. When I am drawing digitally, I like to use Procreate
and for my writing, I like to use Grammarly and then I also like to use pit crew. Procreate is used
for illustrations, animations, and
graphic designers. It's multipurpose. This is a software that
I use mainly for myself and for other projects. Rarely is a popular Google
extension that riders people. They use this software
for spelling, grammar, mistakes,
punctuation, basic stuff. Now you have the choice
to get this for free. You can use the Beta version, which is totally fine, or you can have the other. You have three other
subscription options that you can choose from. Pit crew is my third
website that I would like to use and
recommend to you. It is an avatar maker. And the reason I say it is useful is because
it can help you get an idea of what type of character
that you want to create. The type of character
design that you are comfortable with adding
to that character as someone who likes
writing and someone who likes to draw on
different platforms. I want to share with you my
knowledge and skills that I have myself that I could
probably imply for you. I'm hoping that these tools are able to help you expand on different ideas that you may
come up with or come across. And that's what I'm really
looking forward to. On. Again, like I said, I'm very excited to be teaching. I would like to have a
calm community where people can discuss
a lot of things. Now, not everything can
be discussed obviously, but a community where
we all feel welcome. We all feel like we
belong somewhere, those types of things. And one thing that I would
like to share with you all is don't be afraid to
think outside the box. Don't be afraid to
make mistakes because there's always a different
way to learn from them. And as always, like
I said before, a different perspective
to apply to that. We are all talented and
special in our own way. And I mean that genuinely, we may all have
different stories and we may all have
different experience. But overall, we're
just about the same. Like one man's trash is
another man's treasure. Thanks everybody for tuning in. I'll see you in my next video.
2. CLASS PROJECT: This is gonna be your challenge. As you can currently see. I got a cold and I
put on a jacket. What's wrong with that? That was very odd topic.
Anyway, wherever you're at, I want you to find
an inanimate object, something that's non-living. Tv remote, LED remote. Something that is living, or something that is a
part of a living organism. A hand. Here, you know what
you're gonna do next. You're going to merge
them. You're gonna get your non-living object. And you're going to add a living organism characteristic
to that object. Once you've done that, go
to your drawing board, go to Procreate, go to
grab a sheet of paper. And you're going to draw
that non-living organisms with the added living characteristic that
you put into it. Now, when you look at my
classroom at the bottom-right, there should be something
called class project. I want you to click on that. Make sure you give your
class project to name. It can be whatever we want. And then in your description, you describe what this
is and why did you add that certain human or living characteristic to
that non-living object? If you do not have any of
the materials like you don't have Procreate or have
paper and pencil near you. That's completely okay. Finally, this, all
you need to do is just go to the class project. You can put a name. And all I need is a description of what comes to mind
when you think of, when you describe a human
or living characteristic that you apply to your
non-living object. The reason I want you
guys to do this is because I want you all to practice mapping out your
ideas and visualizing them. In my next video, I'm
going to be talking about the three concepts of character development
or character creation.
3. CONCEPT: BLUEPRINTS OF REALITY: Hello students. This is king here. Welcome back to the rosary room. And today's video is
going to be about the three elements of plot
and character creation, which is also what I like to call the blueprints of reality. So the three elements of the blueprints of
reality consist of organic, man-made, and abstraction,
simply those three. Now using a combination of these three elements can
actually give you better results and better ideas for
both creating characters and generating
plots for stories. So what would be
things that would be considered in the
organic element? So these things would be rocks, vegetation and
landform geography, weather, and organisms
are living things. These would be
things that would be categorized as the
organic elements simply because they are the things that have came in data before. Anything else, like it
hasn't been manufactured. They've just been here. And so what would be in
their man-made category? What I thought was that
would be things like money, close buildings,
artificial intelligence. And I didn't put this
as a bullet point, but like machinery of course, and stuff like that. So humans, for example, when you take what
is already organic, which is in the first category, and we turn those organic
thing to make money, close buildings,
stuff like that. I didn't really add
an extra like bubble, but there's so many other things that us as humans have created. Okay, Now, onto abstraction, this is actually kind
of a diverse concept. And I'm saying this because
basically abstract, the abstraction
element can actually consist of non-real things, are things that did exist, but no one can
prove real or not. And I'm, I'm also
saying that it's a strange element because it can consist of actually
both man-made in Oregon organic elements. Like it could be distorted versions of
these two elements. So this would include things
like mythology, fantasy, supernatural beings,
aliens, and religion. To sum it all up, basically
abstraction would be like the fiction world or not. All the way fictional world, but things like
myths, for example. We believe that this, these things have,
could have existed. But we can't exactly
100% prove that this has happened or if it's
not existed or not. But yeah, because I
mean, come on now, you can't say ghost aren't
real if you've never seen one. I mean, you don't really have the resources to
prove that it's not real. You just say it doesn't exist. But you know, that's what makes up the abstraction elements. So like diverse and
a bit difficult to capture until one
like understanding, especially since humans,
our thoughts in our mind, can come up with so many things. Either makes sense to others or just don't make sense at all. So this concludes this video. This is the bubble chart of
the blueprints of reality, which I do actually suggest that you use this type
of concept when you're thinking about making
a character or generating a plot for a story that
you want to come up with. Because I basically
recommend that you use this concept to make combinations of these
three categories. And this would probably make things a lot easier
for some of you. Especially since, like
sometimes we do have trouble thinking about
what do I even start with. But since you have all these categories
and subcategories, There's a lot to
even begin from. You can build up your character or your plot just
from one thing. And of course, if you want, you can expand on these
different subcategories because I know I didn't probably capture everything that
could be included into this, but you can download this, can take a screenshot, you can add more things to it. Do what you need
to do with this. Because I feel
like this example, because it's very useful.
4. JOURNALING: WRITE DOWN YOUR IDEAS: There's one thing that's
very important about idea generation and that
would be journaling. No matter if you are
an artist or a writer, narrator is very important
to write down ideas, thoughts, and all of the sort. Because you need to keep them in a safe place and in a
place where you can remember exactly what
you want to happen in your story or exactly
what you want to include in making
your own character. And the wonderful thing
about journaling is that it doesn't have
to make any sense. Just write down
things that comes to mind and something that
you think is important. It's something you
feel like she'd go on this piece of paper or on this online document
and keep us safe. And I think it's
best to focus on one thing and then
go from there. If you feel like there's
something missing, try this one technique. Time yourself. You see the winter, the
way our brains work. If we're timed on something, it seems that we
can generate things faster and a lot more efficient
when we do these things. And now when it
comes to journaling, maybe not exactly the case, but it can also speed up your thought process because
that there is a timer. There's something about time
that is genuinely scary. Time can tell when events happen and that
includes when you die. So imagine other
worldly creatures and they call a meeting
to go into Earth. And they set up this table. It's you, and you're right
in front of the general, that the leader
of the aliens and this general alien
asked you to write. The most interesting
story that you can write. And it can be about human life. And if it's not good enough, imagine the amount
of pressure that this can dislike
pass onto somebody. That is what time does to you. So yes, journaling can help
you plot your ideas down and visualize these thoughts
that you're coming up with. Even if it doesn't
make any sense, write down what
you are thinking, exactly what you
have on your mind. If you are stuck on an idea
or want to even write down, you can always use
my blueprints of reality sheet that I
made in my last video.
5. CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: GIVE YOUR CHARACTERS POWER: Hello, artists and writers king here and welcome back
to today's video, which is about how to make a bigger non-fiction story
with the finger characters. There are actually several
ways you can do this, such as making your protagonist
pretty much unique. One thing that makes
something amazing and full of value is the
characters uniqueness. You can give your protagonist many characteristics that
make up their personality. But most importantly,
give you a protagonist, a trait that stands out the most because this will identify
your protagonist. Now we're going to discuss
about character development. Describing with a
flat character in a round character is flat. Characters are people
that stay the same throughout the plot and
have no development. Round characters
go through change and development due
to specific events, consequences, discipline, or the characters
and you name it. So your character can
be flat or round, or you can make
them into a hybrid. For example, your
protagonist or character can be flipped because of their facial
expressions, appearance, or just the style that
they like what being round regardless regarding
personalities, actions, and thoughts. These three are the things that would change
the other story. Now your characters, specifically your side
characters, or what comes next. These are the characters
that you want to help build and support
your protagonist. These characters can also have their own unique
personalities and make a difference in splicing
spice things up. Of course, there are
many ways to make a side character significant to the protagonist's journey. You can give your side
characters the spotlight, or as I like to call it, arcs. You can make chapters
are certain parts in your story revolves
around one or more of your side
character's arcs not only expand plot potential, but can also give
the reader like, more direction as to why these side characters are so important to the protagonist. And other side characters contribute to the
protagonist's journey. Feel free to also create CRD or character
relationship dynamics. I shortened it. Not too long. And the way your characters
interact with each other is what this
would be described as. You're going have two
characters who are opposite and personality
interact with each other. Characters who are
just about the same, it doesn't really matter. But if we wanted to develop a relationship between the two, you have to make one or
both care due to either make a good or bad
decisions together. And let one of the
characters eventually take responsibility as part
of their journey. And that's part of
making their mistake. Characters go through pain and
sacrifice to get stronger. And that's just the
part of reality. Thanks for watching
and I'll see you in my next video or concept. See you guys.
6. PLOT FORMATION: Hey guys, welcome back. Today's video is a follow-up
from character development. So this is going to be
plot formation for today. The goal of this
video is to help you get accustomed
to what you're comfortable adding to your plot and how to organize
the plot idea. So before I get into
detail on that, Let's go over this diagram. It looks familiar, right? Well, you may have seen this
in grade school, and if not, this diagram refers to the
chronological order of a plot. You have the exposition, the part on your story
where characters are introduced and the
setting is described. So you have a vision
of what's going on, then you have your conflict. The problem that
intensifies and gets to the rising action where
more people are involved. The climax is and can be the final battle between
character for character, character versus
self caregivers, this society, and et cetera. Then you have the
rest of the diagram, the falling action
and the resolution, the closing of the story. You may be wondering, how do I form this into
one complete project. How exactly do you do this? How do you organize this and
where do you start with? Well, one thing I can tell you, something I've probably already
told you before is that journaling is probably
your best friend and it's probably the best
thing that you can do. Not only to write down ideas, but get better at organizing what you want to have in first when you went to
happen in the middle, and then how you want
that story to end. Now if you are unsure
about what to write down, if your brain is just empty, like you have no thoughts. One thing that I do recommend is to look
at your interests. What is something that stick? What is something
that sticks out to you when you watch TV? When you go about
with your hobbies, what are you even look up like? Go to I want you all to do this. Go to Google and look
at your history. What exactly do you look for? What is, what are
your questions? Because even questions,
they can actually help you brainstorm a topic. And then you can stick
with that topic if you like that topic the most. What is one thing that you
see when you go outside? When you look at nature, when you look at all
these different things, what is one thing that
stands out to you? And that thing is what I
recommend you should focus on. What you wanna do when writing your story is take things slow. Build things by small events and small things at a time and the rest will
figure itself out. Then those small
little conflicts and a small little
problems that you have made and put in your story will then lead
up to your major conflict. You can also base some
of your ideas off of unrealistic and
abstract things. What are some things
that you don't see normally when you're outside
or when you're on TV. What are some things
that can be on TV? But they never make
that appearance. What's something
that you think of? Something that comes
to mind that you just don't normally see when your characters get closer and closer to that major conflict, that would be considered
your rising action. If it's like non-fiction
that typically, typically the characters
would come up and form a plan on how to solve
this major conflict. Or if it's like a super villain. Those characters, though you plan out a way to take
out this super villain. Or in some cases, they don't even have
a plan and they just charging or they do everything that they think it takes to
take that Villanova. And then there's your climax, the very peak of your
book and your story, the part where it all goes down. Eventually your
characters, they take out the super villain and they
reached the falling action. The part where the major
conflict has been taken care of. And now the characters, they figured out a way to go about what they
have just handled. The reader gets to
see what happens to these characters
after they had just handled the major
conflict of the story. Now, in some cases, this very end of the story, the resolution, can also be the expert exposition
of another story. If you, let's say
hypothetically, if you continue that story, the one that you
first came up with, that ending can be the
beginning of that new story, which is what cliff
hangers are useful for. Okay, so that is all
for clot formation. I will see you in my next video.
7. CONFLICT: THE HEAT OF YOUR STORY: Not have a good story without
a good main conflict, you always want to give your
story a main objective. What is the biggest challenge
for your characters? Different conflicts can consist of character versus character. Character as a society, character versus nature, and character versus
supernatural. So you want to decide which of these conflicts you think
you should stick with, which one sticks out the
most to you and which one do you want it imply for
the rest of that book? Another thing that you
can do is that you can imply multiple conflicts. It doesn't have to be one. Exhibit one, you have a character that goes
through internal conflict. Internal conflict
would be the battle that the character is
fighting within themselves. So you can think about what are the different
barriers that the character has and has to overcome in order to be a
better version of themselves, what the character is fighting
with them themselves. That would be an example of a character versus self-concept. Your character must
find out what is stopping them from reaching
their ultimate goal. Once your character
overcomes that barrier than that character can then be introduced to that
external conflict, which is what happens
in the outside world. All of these things create tension and suspension
within your story. You want your reader to be like what's going to happen next or what will happen that will get in the way of
this character's plans. It makes it very interesting
and dynamic story is a character that achieves
their main conflict. However, there is something going on with them themselves. There is a battle that is
still ongoing inside of them, something that they
are still fighting. Or it could be vice versa. The character can fix
the problem within themselves but fail to
achieve their main conflict. This could also mean that the character achieves
their main conflict, but they lose
someone on the way. They lose an important character
and figure of the story. Because Everyone Makes
it back in one piece. Like I said before, a good
conflict makes a good story.
KING Rosier, Become the best you.
