Maya mirror tutorial

Today I started modeling a head for a  character im making in Maya. I’m gonna use the character to train and learn bone rigging so I then can make it move. What I have found usefull before is using a mirror duplication so I only have to edit one side of the object and it will look the same on the other. To do this in maya was a little different.
How I did it in Maya.
Step 1: Go to front […]

Welcome!

Hello and welcome to my blog!
My name is Valdemar Ribbing. I am an 18 years old Swedish student currently studying Game Design and Graphics at Uppsala universitet – Campus Gotland. I am aspiring to be a concept or 3D artist for games and that is my current goal in life. There are tons of reasons why I have chosen this path but mostly it’s because it’s really fun and enjoyable.

This blog will be gradually be filled with my concept art […]

Spaaaaaaaaaaaaace (shooters)

Since our assignment Mayes gave us for this week was to play Space Shooters I decided to look up some retro shooters. I have been playing a whole bunch of games like Asteroids, Captain Skyhawk, Dragon Spirit and Captain Planet and the Planeteers. I must say that I really liked the 2.5D isometric graphic style of Captain Skyhawk. Captain Planet and the Planeteers had a nice mechanic which let you turn around and fly back a short distance for taking out enemies you have missed.
This have given […]

New game project

When they first announced that we would get our first real game project to work on I got pretty excited. What could the genre be? Yeah, none other than a wonderful shoot ‘em up! Boy did my ears get tickled! Before I applied for this education I felt that shoot ‘em ups and RPGs where my types of games to design. Even though shoot ‘em ups may be pretty easy to code and animate and this coming from a rookie […]

Classes, objects and the loop of life

As soon as I stood up this morning, and also the reason for why I got up that early, I immediately wrote down ideas for my current programming project. I woke up with so many great ideas for the program, thanks “sleep”! The program/game I am working on is as of today playable! It is a type of Sissy Fight (social game), so far it’s only playable by hotseat (players take turns on the same computer).
Also, today I have learned alot about […]

Making a game

Today i got the sideview image of a ship my friend had drawn, so now i can start making that ship in 3D. It’s gonna be a lot of fun because i’ve never made something with the help of a reference sheet before.
I have also started designing a game today togheter with some friends. Something easy to start with this early in the school year but still challenging. It’s gonna be kinda crazy but hopefully it will be fun to […]

Working on the menu interface

Right, so the project we are working on right now has kicked off and we have assigned different tasks to our group members.
My task was to work on the ”menu” of the game and to draw up sketches of how said menu would look.
After that I’ve been left with three possible choices, since it’s sort of a ”Fantasy/sci-fi” type of setting.
My choices are now down to:
*Sci-fi menu with stars etc.
*Fantasy menu with a different type of writing and background
*Or try […]

Game design and life

This is my blog about games, studies and life. It will be a travel through my psyche, a depressing stroy of how I am going to see things from loving everything to hate everything. It dosen’t mean everything is bad, this is just how I see things.
Still I am a nice person.
 
 
 
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First Blog Post Ever! Shit Just Hit the Fan!

So the purpose of the blogs, that all of the Game Design students have started, is for the lecturers and the coordinators to follow our progress through out the course. It is also for us to practice documenting our work and to practice our typing and communicating to ensure that communication with future coworkes goes smoothly.
So, with that settled, I guess that an introduction is due, but I’m not going to go the traditional route. A short and sweet presentation […]

A Brilliant, Shining New Blog! *Mint In Box.

And yes, so even I have come to create a blog I can call my very own.
It shall be filled with musings, ideas, dance and song! A feast for the mind, each and every word! Bring on the shandy, my good sirs!
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Or at least with some hopefully interesting thoughts, ideas and such on topics like games, design and graphics.
My name is Christoffer and I’m a student of the Game Design – Graphics program at Uppsala University, campus Gotland (yes I […]

Ninjaness, New goal and Catch the kitty game!

hallu!
Today has been a rather slow but fun day. The day started of with going down to school to try out our ninja clothes that we can buy as our school programs overalls. So i now have a Ninja costume/overall on its way to me! yay. Now all i need is a Bear costume and i am all set!
After that we had a lecture about how to study. It was interesting and even though most of the things […]

Working from a distance

I’m visiting my parents home in Värmland (located to the far east of the ancient Sweden) but rest assure I’m researching shmups during my stay. And don’t worry, I’ll be back by Sunday I started with Sine Mora, a modern side scrolling shooter where you take control of an airplane with the ability of bending time. The whole time bending doctor who whatnot made me shrug at the game ’cause to me shmups is about reflexes and precise movement. So I […]