How computer games are made (video)

hawken

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7460359.stm

"As the UK computer games industry fears it is being left behind by international rivals, Rory Cellan-Jones has been to Ubisoft in Newcastle to find out how characters and features are created for computer games. "

Hmm, who said the UK was being left behind? We just banged out GTA4 didn't we?

Well, it might help if publishers left enough time to finish a game - hope this is not Driver 3.5

Pedro Amorim

would love to see more of that story, just so i could see some more work being done by those guys.

Marcus Dublin

Interesting program, it’s always cool to see what other studios look like. Though I feel for the artists/animators who made it on camera, there’s nothing worse than pretending to make your job cooler than it actually is! Producer X says “Now make sure when we come around to rotate the model in X,Y, and Z, lol!

MoP

Yes exactly, it's great watching people using Max or Maya in a set-up interview thing, they never do any actual real work... the guys there were just rotating parts, moving parts, or spinning around the model. Probably had to hit Undo several times after the camera went away.

Last time I got filmed by a TV crew doing modelling for ETQW, any actual modeller watching the footage would have gone "wtf!" because I was basically just selecting edges, removing them, rotating the model and adding the edges back in again with the Cut tool!

Agreed that I don't feel the UK is being left behind in the game market. With stuff like GTA4, Crackdown, and soon to have APB and other in-development titles, I think we're doing pretty well as an industry.

adam

That was pretty humorous. Those poor artists, they must have been slightly embarrassed. :P

Side note - who works with only one monitor? Yuck!

Sage

I do and it blows.

Alex

hawken

adamBrome wrote: »

Side note - who works with only one monitor? Yuck!

they should "monitor" you at "work"

commador

adamBrome wrote: »

That was pretty humorous. Those poor artists, they must have been slightly embarrassed. :P

Side note - who works with only one monitor? Yuck!

no kidding. I've gotten used to 3 and now even using 2 seems hindering.

I like this kind of behind the scenes stuff. Ive recently gotten this interest in seeing workplaces. Anyone have any pics of studios? Office Snapshots has lots of cool stuff, but most is web dev.

Mark Dygert

MoP wrote: »

Yes exactly, it's great watching people using Max or Maya in a set-up interview thing, they never do any actual real work... the guys there were just rotating parts, moving parts, or spinning around the model. Probably had to hit Undo several times after the camera went away.

Notice they didn't pay much attention to the guy who was actually working, but instead focused on the guy jacking around for the camera.
And all artists are mute, robots, I'm sure the guy that cracked a smile and almost spoke was dealt with harshly.

SHEPEIRO

i hate doing these things, i usually find a reason to go and talk to tech when they come anywhere near me

cgjeff

My favorite part was how, when they were done talkin about the guys "modeling" (ie rotating around a model and moving parts arbitrarily) the host was all "ok, now let's go see some real people"

i freakin loled

leilei

damn i thought computer games are made by moving a 3d fruity looking untextured flat shaded hipoly badly armatured man in and out of the camera while downloading demos of vugames' games

pliang

hawken wrote: »

they should "monitor" you at "work"

Well they do...they read your emails.

And yeah...single monitor blows...I have three.

Darth Tomi

I thought it was all crayolas.

PeterK

This is complete nonsense. Everyone knows all we do is tighten up the graphics on level 3.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ-QSJmEgHU&feature=related[/ame]

Asmuel

Lol. Rotating in X Y and Z is an integral part of game development.

Sage

And where is perky hot boss? That was staged I tell you.

Alex