GameDesign

I found these pictures whilst looking for a new game to buy on the PS3. I really like the modern/futuristic look as well as the complex design and detail. The textures and colors really make the weapons stand out too with a really crisp and sharp finish. Designing game assets is also another area that would be interesting and fun to do.







The images are from the Unreal Tournament 3 website...

Egg and Spoon

For the second stage of animation I have chosen to focus the short animation around an Egg and Spoon that interact with each other. This is my first time using Maya and am really enjoying it as its an area that i would like to work in later in life. Here are the designs for the Egg and Spoon. They could be modified slightly but this is most likely what will be used in the animation...

SecondLife

Having a mess around with the building features on second life to create this rubbishy little glass top table lol, hopefully better things to come...

Introduction to SecondLife

At college I am currently completing a module called Virtual Environments which is based around SecondLife. Here are a few snapshots of 'stuff' that i have created for the first time.



This first image is of a couple of textures i made in photoshop. The idea was to keep them simple but get rid of any visible merging lines so that the texture could be spread over any size of area. not too bad for a first attempt.



This was a simple flag. It showed me how to link objects together as well as give them attributes so that it can flow with the wind, bends etc..



Another texture that i made was this window frame, this was a little different to the other textures as part of it had been made alpha so that when put onto a surface, parts of the texture were see-through...

Smirnoff Advert

I know a lot of my posts are about advertising on television but this is an area off advertising that i would really enjoy to work in. I think this advert is fantastic because of the shear amount of modeling that has had to be completed and the ship and plane look amazing. the way all the objects fly out of the water and fall to the land/ground is really believable with all the effects used like the water falling from the plane as it is raised out of the water and the sand trails when objects emerge from the sea bed. really nice ad!...

More idents....

These are some more idents that are currently on Sky. My favourite idents are the ones for Sky 1. I really like the crisp sharp edges of the shape and how they fit together to make the big 1. I also like how the pieces dont just slot into place but they also continue to merge and fill in the cracks to give a really cldean and solid shape. The 'explosion' on the sky 2 ident when the liquid hits the box is quite cool too. The liquid doesnt just hit and fall under normal gravity but kind of swirls up and round as well as down. really like this effect.