WIP 4 – Assignment 3

Today, I have started my second character for the assignment – Jim Broadbent. I will fix the neck and chest and add some asymmetry to the character. I will also flatten out his head which is currently a bit pointy.
ZSpheres:

ZSpheres Mesh:

SDiv1 after projection and symmetry with polyframe:

SDiv7:

New Mocap System at Uppsala University

As you know, we’ve recently made a substantial upgrade to our motion capture equipment. We’ve swapped out all the tech and swapped out the studio – we moved it from our previous spot at the Baltic Art Center, to the university’s own F-building – ie: the GAME house, right next to the small boat harbor in Visby.
Anyway – a week ago Nataska sent out a call for students to come help exercise the system, and she put together […]

WIP 3 – Assignment 3

During this weekend, I have continued to model myself. I have some work left to do if there is time. Adding asymmetry, for example.
SDiv7:

SDiv7 Polyframe:

SDiv1:

We have mocap!

We have moved and upgraded our old motion capture equipment! The new hotness consists of 16 brand new OptiTrack Prime13 cameras, new software, the works! And now we need test subjects, hehe.

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So Finn Engström and Nataska have been installing the new motion capture cameras this week and they’re happy to report they did a successful test with an actor today and it has all been smooth sailing so far
Now we want to […]

WIP 2 – Assignment 3

So this one is myself. I am well aware that the neck and shoulders are way to small and I will fix that. After applying symmetry, the model did not look like me, so I will fix that as well.

Alumni Days 2016

The weekend 8-10th of December sees old (well… previous, more like) students returning to the education for our annual Alumni Days. All of them started where our students are now, and are now firmly part of the games industry either as members of a AAA studio, or as a lone indie developer. By bringing alumni back we kick start our students industry networks, and show them how our education can help them get a start in the industry […]

Morning Warmup Sketches 14/11-16

My warmup sketches from this morning, can’t really say that there is any difference yet. But doing short 30s or 2 minute sketches do help a lot with loosening up the arm and mind.

Self help app update!

Just a very quick update today, to tell you that I’ve switched the self help app blog from a wordpress to a tumblr, as I thought I would reach more of my target audience there!
You can find the blog here: http://tovasselfhelp.tumblr.com/
This is what the app looks like at the moment:

I’m close to sending out an alpha build of the app, so look forward to that!

Warmup 10/11-16

This morning’s warmup sketches.

Practice 9/11-16

New computer and new everything, some practice sketches from trying to get everything right.

We have characters!

If the second years seemed a bit stressed of late, this is why. Their first characters ever – pretty awesome way to end their first 3D course. Well done, folks!!
– Nataska

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ComicCon 2016

As is our custom we sent a dozen of our students and their games to Gamex / ComicCon this year too. This year we showed off primarily 1st and 2nd year games and drew decent crowds with multiplayer games like Frog Climbers, the only true zombie-survival game Zombie Crawler, the relaxation and sleep helper Slumber and the unlikely party game Cryptogram; an escape the room horror game controlled entirely by a book shelf.


Gamex […]