The Ent Chef

We were having a drawing/programming night last night, we were given key words to paint from. I got the words “organic”, “cook” and “forest”, so this is what you get! I had a lot of with it, worked a lot with different ways to create textures and experimented with different blending modes.

3D1 Assignment 3 better late-est than never

The only thing that we had to go through talking about to any extent was the eyes. There were some discussion on whether the eyes should be modeled or just painted on the textures. In the end we decided to go with just painting them on rather than modeled. This was partly because it would be easier and partly because the character felt so 2d on in the concept art.
I tried to keep as close to the concept as possible.
The […]

3D1 Assignment 3 better late-est than never

The only thing that we had to go through talking about to any extent was the eyes. There were some discussion on whether the eyes should be modeled or just painted on the textures. In the end we decided to go with just painting them on rather than modeled. This was partly because it would be easier and partly because the character felt so 2d on in the concept art.
I tried to keep as close to the concept as possible.
The […]

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. […]

Nim the Snowman

The background for the winter level of Totemic is complete, as a bonus you get Nim, the snowman. 🙂

Game Programming III – the second week, linked lists part two (2)

Hello again.
Let’s continue with our linked list shall we? This post will (hopefully) go through the remaining methods for our linked list and in part three (3) I will make a variant that is generic, so that it can store all types of data, not just integer values. I’ve added a clear method to the class as well as deallocations in the destructor to prevent memory leaks. I should also point out that the methods are not always showing […]

Game Programming III – the second week, linked lists part two (2)

 

Hello again.
Let’s continue with our linked list shall we? This post will (hopefully) go through the remaining methods for our linked list and in part three (3) I will make a variant that is generic, so that it can store all types of data, not just integer values. I’ve added a clear method to the class as well as deallocations in the destructor to prevent memory leaks. I should also point out that the methods are not always showing […]

Metal Texture

I have been working on a tiled metal texture over the last few days, there are still some problems with the dark patches but it is starting to look pretty good. It has Diffuse, Gloss and Normal maps attached to it and this is how it looks in Unreal 4.

Motion Capture – A Quick Uncharted 3 Animation Analysis

I have chosen to do some research and write about one of my favourites; Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (2011) and how they used motion capture for some of the animations.
Finding information about the setup was pretty tricky since a lot of the information found was not full explained which lead me on a wild goose chase trying to find out the correct and full story. While some say that Naughty Dog used an in-house studio, others say that they used […]

Motion Capture in Heavy Rain

Heavy Rain used Passive Optical Motion Capture, both for body- and facial capture.
These two were done separately, recording the body capture in one take and the facial capture in a separate take.
Facial capture was most likely not used very heavily in intense action scenes, but rather for the more “intimate” scenes in between when the player gets to see the faces more up-close, inciting an emotional reaction.
I’m not sure how much the method cost Quantic Dream during development, but […]

Motion Capture in Heavy Rain

Heavy Rain used Passive Optical Motion Capture, both for body- and facial capture.
These two were done separately, recording the body capture in one take and the facial capture in a separate take.
Facial capture was most likely not used very heavily in intense action scenes, but rather for the more “intimate” scenes in between when the player gets to see the faces more up-close, inciting an emotional reaction.
I’m not sure how much the method cost Quantic Dream during development, but […]

Totemic Winter Level

Today I have been working on a new level for Totemic, it is a special winter theme for DreamHack Winter that we are leaving for in less than two weeks now. There is still a lot to do on it but it is starting to look pretty cool and we are really excited to show it at DreamHack!