Sunday 18 December 2011

A moment for reflection.

Well this will probably be my last post now on my Games Design blog as the year, and the course draws to a close.

I'm happy to say I feel a lot has been achieved these past eighteen months, not only have I learnt to model and animate (as well as a wealth of different smaller bits) in both Maya and Blender, I have also learnt vector image creation in Illustrator and Flash as well as 2D animation in Flash. As well as this behind the scenes my 2D artwork has come on in leaps and bounds.

I forgot to post this earlier but my internship is also to become a permanent arrangement once the contract runs out, giving me a full time job!

University has taught me an awful lot these last few years, and though I am sad it is over I am also looking forwards to the day where I can relax at weekend, perhaps even play those things called games that I set set out to learn more about.

As a last goodbye I leave you with a link to my new job's website http://www.matmi.com/games_playgames.php where you will find several games I have worked upon. Though most are still unreleased I did participate in 'Dancestar Party Time', 'Feed Breaker', 'Knead for Speed', 'Iron Out' and most notably 'Mementos of Closeness' (where I did a large portion of the 2D artwork). I will continue to update the list as more are released.

Sunday 4 December 2011

The Almanac 5

Well I finally achieved what I set out to do this semester and got all five monsters up and running in my Almanac.

There was a bit of a panic at the last minute when someone pointed out that you have to 'build' unity projects, and that they only go to certain sizes, which led to a panicked week of resizing and repositioning EVERYTHING from scratch which was a pain.

I also took my tutors advice in adding some more visual parts to the Almanac information page rather than lots of boring fake statistics so it looks MILES better now.

Anyways below is the finished video of the Almanac:


Now all thats left is to finish up my prtesentation and start preparing for the degree show (as I already also did my dissertation).

Woo!