"No problem, Boss ( Read more... )

It's strange. I was disappointed at first, but after a while I became enraged enough to write a full-blown rant in my emojournal.

Last night, I tried out the demo of the new AvP game. "Oh goodie!" I thought, "I used to play the original back when I was a kid, so logically, this 'remake' will be just as much, if not more fun!" My God was I in for a ( Read more... )

Oh Valve you cheeky buggers, is there ANYTHING you can't do?

Okay, let's start from the basics, for those of you who don't know. Valve's Left 4 Dead is a tongue-in-cheek gesture towards all the thousands of cheap zombie B-movies that have ever sunk without a trace. But, mix in some memorable stereotype characters like Bill (The 'Nam veteran), ( Read more... )

Was just a quick job, but I had a bash at making a 'personas' skin for firefox. May do some more if I'm in the mood. But it's a little tricky trying to sync up your artwork to the firefox skin. (Because the tutorial they give you to position it is a pile of arse ( Read more... )

Oh GoDDD NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! D:

Click to view

The author is approaching the last week of development now and needs to prioritise what needs to be done from what is optional. As character creation is part of the learning outcomes, the author spent a day getting Jake's texture right.


( Read more... )

The author believes he is getting things back on track now. He is still trying to keep the workload to a professional pace and only work for 12 weeks, but feels as if he is pressed for time now. It is very stressful to work quickly in the time he has allowed himself ( Read more... )

It would seem that I don't know as much about 3DS Max textures and materials as I thought I did, particularly the multi-layering technique that my tutor showed to me to create the graffiti-on-walls effect. I could say that it was a coding issue and it was not in my interest to design an effective way of making my game look the way I pictured it ( ( Read more... )

Today I rigged up Jake's bag of tricks using a simple double IK limb solver rig.The bag now follows two controllers. The shoulder strap, which will be held and swung from Jake's hand, and the main body of the bag, which will be animated seperately, folding in on itself and contorting in on itself to the animated physics put upon it.


( Read more... )

Finished the basic animated frames for Hood. These are all the movement orientated ones controlled by the player, plus the first narrative sequence where Hood is 'born' after being created and abandoned by Jake.

Click to view

I decided to get these animated finished first, not just because they were priority A in my Pre-Production document, but because they ( Read more... )