I think the last time I posted was around the time of E-3, before the summer. At E-3 I told those I met that I had been recently let go from the company that had moved me to Los Angeles. To give the rest of you some detail, Here's a little of what happened. When Castaway closed shop in December of last year. I spent the…
I was asked this by a potential student after a talk I did recently and I wasn't really sure what answer to give - primarily because I never went to school for this stuff myself and therefore can't give a truly informed answer. It's a scary thing to answer too, because it's someone's life and money on the line... But here…
Ive been working on a very small rocket arena for the past 2 weeks while teaching myself the Unreal Editor. Good stuffs. Here are some screenies of what I have so far. Since this is my first level since Duke 3d (and a TF2 map I never got going), I wanted to start with a very small level, so Ive based this idea off the…
You would just question me on just enough to get me to write it wouldn't you? :P Thanks for the push. It took far longer than I'd thought all because it took me a while to remember/figure out the general form for making these sub gradations, but the mental math felt good. I finally had to break out the paper and work out…
Well I finished Crysis 2. The story was confusing. The cut-scenes just confused more a lot of the time. The fighting was generally all very samey. What did strike me though was how your brain fills in for missing gaps. We see this in reading a book. My memories of the story in the book are the images I painted with my…
THE 5, Thank you very much for providing me with the PSD. There was a great deal of funky stuff going on with some of your normal element properties, namely the layer name property string not matching the actual layer properties. I'm not quite sure how this has happened, but I assume it was from an old bug in the early…
warning, massive post ;) (but plenty of nice pictures + 4 YouTube videos) Site: http://www.pingui-island.de/ What? Last big project I worked on in 2008 and 2009 before I moved to Australia. I was the man writing the tech for the Flash AS3 engines, asset pipeline (maxscript) and level editor (Flash AS3) and several of the…
Hi 3DAndy, you should change your RAM, it will probably not fit under your CPU cooler. Look at this picture which uses normal sized RAM which is a lot smaller than the one you picked: http://pics.computerbase.de/4/0/9/7/5/19.jpg EDIT: it will definitely not fit. The actual clearance for memory is approximately 4.5cm, and…
Hey guys/gals, I know this is already an old post but I thought I would respond with some information. I know my response will come off as bias but I want to give you a quick breakdown of what we are doing at the Dave School for teaching video game art. Warning: Wall of text below. :) My name is Angel Gonzalez and I am the…
So, a promise is a promise.) Here I am with more stuff, that hopefully you guys will enjoy. A word of caution: this post is image heavy(~7mb). I'm planning to use this hi-rez images(around 1080p) for my portfolio, but If you think that the pictures are inappropriately big - let me know and I will resize them for you. It…