Week 3 of Big Game Project – The Track

For the third week of production for Big Game Project we have made a lot of progress. The results of our past work has finally been starting to surface. We have an enjoyable and playable version of the game now that runs smoothly. Everything isn’t there yet but we’re making good progress.

This week I’ve mainly worked on generating the tracks for the game. At first we planned to have a spline system in Unity to generate our mesh from but […]

Week 2 of Big Game Project – Making progress

I’ve now entered week 2 of production for our project and some good progress have been made. Firstly, we finally settled on a name for the game. After a lot of indecision and a few rounds of voting we ended up with TwinShift as a name.

So what have I been doing this week? I’ve worked on several things including a skybox, environment and tracks. Let’s start with the skybox. We needed a skybox for the game that reflected the game […]

Week 1 of Big Game Project – Introduction

I have now entered the first week of production in the course Big Game Project or BGP for short. BGP is a course in which several groups takes on the task of making a game in ten weeks. My role in my group is that of a lead artist, to ensure that the graphics look appealing and uniform. As a lot of the course is preparation, reflection and reports the actual production time for the game is eight weeks.
So what […]

3D – Anatomy knowledge and 3D scanning

I’ve been doing 3D and 2D for about six years now but it was not until a few years ago that I really started thinking more seriously about it. It started out as a hobby when I got involved in the modding community of Warcraft 3. I was always and still am amazed by the user-created content of Warcraft 3. I started out by doing icons for abilities and later moved on to models, this was without no prior knowledge. […]

3D – Finishing up

This is my last blog post for this course I’ve been taking. I’ll talk about the creation of my wolf, how it turned out and some final thoughts. Last post I presented my character background and I will now show you what I’ve done and how it turned out. This was quite a challenge and a brand new experience seeing as it is my first time making an animal.
My first goal was to get the overall shape of the wolf […]

3D – Wolf character

A little while ago I started working on a character model for school. The assignment was to first choose concept art of a character and give it a backstory. After pre-production you are to make a low poly with a good organic edgeflow, maximum 3k tris. It is then to be UV mapped and textured at a 1024×1024 resolution so you’re really limited with both tris and resolution.

I haven’t completed my model yet but I believe I’m well on my […]

3D – Finishing the mech

Hello, I’ve been horrible at updating the blog lately so I’ll try to catch up. If you’ve read my previous posts you’ll know that I’ve been working on a mech. The tools I used for this was 3DS MAX for modeling and Photoshop with DDO plugin for texturing. I’ve actually completed it so I’ll show you a little of what I did and how I did it. Here below is the concept art I was following for this model.

Gears of War: The Board Game analysis

This week me and some of my classmates sat down and played Gears of War: The Board Game. I haven’t actually played any Gears of War game but I’ve seen others do and I’ve heard quite a lot about it. We had no idea what to expect because how would you translate a 3rd person shooter into a board game? Our first impression was that this game is huge. There were so many components after opening the box. We spent […]

Roll out the mechs, 3D week 3

Hello again, last week’s blogpost I said that I would make a vehicle from one of four concepts. Since it’s too badass to resist I chose the mech. I felt like it was the logical thing to do because it seemed like an interesting challenge. When I finally decided I immediately went in to pre-production.

The mech I decided for

Besides the concept we were also to choose a game in which this model we are to make […]

3D Week 2

Hello again, just wanted to do a quick update on what’s been going on lately in my 3D progress. This week is the second week since I started taking this course about 3D, for this week we made some crates. I chose to do a Sci-Fi crate with a clean borderlands look. It took about a five hours to make and was made quite hastily but I’m pretty happy with the results. I even did a fancy animation for it […]

Munchkin Analysis

IntroductionSo I got this awesome assignment from school to play a board game with some classmates and analyze it, what better game to play than Munchkin. I will now take a look at the card game Munchkin and try to analyze it. For those of you who haven’t heard of Munchkin before I’ll try to explain what it is. Munchkin is a highly competitive card game with a comical twist. If you’ve played it before I’m sure you know what […]

Blog revival and 3D Week 1

After a break in the summer i’m back into the blogging game. I’ve started a new course in 3D and I will for ten weeks post 3D related stuff. This week I will be analyzing three different screenshots from different games and I will also be posting some of my work I’ve worked on throughout the week. I will start with the screenshots. I will talk about what makes them good and/or bad from an artist’s perspective, let’s get started!

Screenshot […]