"Punching Above Your Weight"

Mark Dygert

Splash Damage has released the slides MoP and spacemokey used for their talk at GDC about the development of Brink

Paul "MoP" Greveson (Technical Artist)  and Tim "spacemonkey" Appleby (Lead Character Artist) shed light on how Brink's extensive character and weapon customization system was realized.

Get the slides here.

Related links:

Free PowerPoint Viewer from Microsoft

brinkthegame.com

 

Cexar

Great stuff! More people should follow by example and share this kind of stuff

Torch

So excited to read this I wee'd a little. Awesome work!

daphz

awesome!

Jeremy Tabor

great read!

MoP

It's a bit of a shame that we had to make the slides so lightweight so that we could race through them in the 50 minutes we had to talk about it. As a result there's a lot of information that doesn't get shared, since it was just stuff we talked about on the day at GDC.

Still, it should be interesting for various reasons - we tried to touch on all aspects of production from the very start to the end of development.

Also, if anyone has access to the GDC Vault, then the recorded presentation is available to watch there, which should be a little more informative than the slides on their own. I guess if I find the time I will try to transcribe the talk into notes on the slides.

Avanthera

Nice, thanks for releasing it!

JasonLavoie

Went to this talk specifically with a couple of work mates, sucks I couldn't talk to you in person Mop but I have to say this was one of my favourites talks I went too. It created a sense of empowerment to hear how Art had driven the production process in a SMART way (no pun intended, bwahaha) since there are horror stories of the complete opposite happening.

I don't know if you fine chaps had a chance to catch the Ready at Dawn talk, but they also approached their last project with the same kind of "art" driven development process, and had some really great things to say about it... and not so great as well :P

Anyways, just wanted to give a big thanks to you both for a memorable session, and hopefully next time I go we can meetup and create a really awkward situation... or something.

ScudzAlmighty

that would have been stupidly helpfull about 4 months ago, now it's just awesome.

bugo

Very well informative. It shows how organized you guys were in the project, that definitely inspires everyone (i hope).

r_fletch_r

Awesome!
was the presentation videoed?

moose

awesome! fun to get a glimpse at some of the textures. that PPT is impressive too, had me laughing just thumbing through it, great job!

[HP]

I was there, and I loved it!

randomteddybear

OH GOD THAT FACE ON SLIDE 61

malcolm

Thanks for that Mop, great info very informative, and great assets. I seriously believe you guys set a higher bar this year for current gen fps games in terms of visual quality.

Jungsik

this is awesome !!!

DeathFlail

Man.. I'd love to make extra assets for Brink.. I wish they would allow modding.. or let the community to submit purchasable assets like TF2 does.

Pangahas

Downloaded the slides and the powerpoint viewer but it won't open for me..help

sketch81

Thanks for sharing!

Pangahas

download always stops at 58.3 mb zzz

MoP

JasonLavoie: WTF, you were there and you didn't come and say hi!? We hung around a bit at the end and fielded some questions, did you guys have to run off or something? You should have told me, I didn't even know you were at GDC! :0

r_fletch_r: Yep, it was videoed, but it's only available on the GDC Vault so you need to pay... wish we could share it with you but that's under GDC ownership

Pangahas: It downloads fine for me here, and nobody else appears to be having any trouble... try again?

Everyone: Glad you liked it, it was a lot of effort to put it together but we really are proud of the end result, and it meant our first GDC talk was a resounding success, hopefully we can come back next year or maybe 2013 with some newer and cooler stuff

stimpack

I love that companies are becoming more willing to share there knowledge. It does more than help other artist, it really drives a buzz towards the product and that studio. Its a win win, and this is a great presentation. Great job guys!

Pangahas

Its odd that it won't finish downloading for me but it did on a different computer.anyways thanks for sharing great read and amazing visuals,very inspiratonal.