3D Week 03 – Optimizing Crates

Hi!
This week we have been working on our 3D-crates and how to optimize the models for game usage. First of we have learnt that a 3D-model or mesh should only contain polygons with a maximum of four sides otherwise they won’t be handled well and the mesh might end up distorted and not looking like your original model.  Any polygon with a number of sides greater than 4 is called an N-gon (I guess the N stands for any number, […]

3D Week 03 – Optimizing Crates

Hi!
This week we have been working on our 3D-crates and how to optimize the models for game usage. First of we have learnt that a 3D-model or mesh should only contain polygons with a maximum of four sides otherwise they won’t be handled well and the mesh might end up distorted and not looking like your original model.  Any polygon with a number of sides greater than 4 is called an N-gon (I guess the N stands for any number, […]

Assignment 2, Part 1: Item of Choice

My item of choice from Gotland’s museum:

The reason why I chose this item is because, frankly, I’m a big nerd for axes. It’s a tool and weapon of war that tells us so much about the people who used them through the centuries. From the Saxons, the Franks to the Norsemen of the Scandinavian Peninsula and beyond this was the most popular weapon on the battlefield throughout Europe. To understand why you must understand how it worked. It was […]

Advanced Hard Surface Modeling Assignment – Prepping

As the first few weeks have passed of our first 3D modeling course at the university, our teacher saw that some of the students already knew the basics. So, she was kind enough to create a more advanced assignment for a select few.
This assignment consists of modeling an ingame vehicle based on existing concept art. (Seen above) and also chose a game where this vehicle could be from and try to make our models fit that theme. 

I chose to model […]

3D – Week 3 – Optimizing crates

I’ll be posting two 3D-related posts this week, this first one about optimizing our crate-models from last week. As you’ll know if you read last weeks’ post I’ve created three different crate-models, based on three different themes. During this weeks’ workshop the class split into groups of three, and in the groups exchanged models with each other, so that we all got to clean up one model from each member in the group. Two of my three models have been […]

3D – Week 3 – Optimizing crates

I’ll be posting two 3D-related posts this week, this first one about optimizing our crate-models from last week. As you’ll know if you read last weeks’ post I’ve created three different crate-models, based on three different themes. During this weeks’ workshop the class split into groups of three, and in the groups exchanged models with each other, so that we all got to clean up one model from each member in the group. Two of my three models have been […]

The Five Heads of the Hydra

Greetings!
Was watching a QnA with the youtuber Jesse Cox earlier this week. In it he talked about a fanart of himself he anted to be drawn, and it was mostly from the image he described I got this idea.
I had some trouble when it came to how I wanted the hero to be portraid, but I think it came out rather well for the skill level I am at.

As I usually do, I started with a simple sketch and a […]

Perparing for “assignment 2″ in 3D1

I was looking at two objects i saw that the jar would be something easy to model and I knew that it was something that I would manage to complete pretty easy. Looking at the dagger I realized that this would be a more difficult choice, but there were reasons to why i chose it. If I would start modeling this one I would learn a lot more, the complex shapes and details would suit me well when I want […]

Peer Review: Carcassonne. Original analysys by Max Nordlund.

The second part of the assignment about board games was to exchange games with another group, play their game and write a peer review for a member of the other group’s system analysis.
The person i’m writing a peer review for is Max Nordlund who wrote about Carcassonne, the original analysis can be found here.
http://maxmaekvidya.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/board-game-analysis-carcassonne/
I enjoyed reading your analysis, I found it well put together and well-paced where you don’t mix up the content relating to the different […]

Board Game Peer Review: Small World

This is my review of Rebecka N’s analysis of the board game Small World. You can read her post on the game here.
I’ll be going through each point of the review instructions one by one while addressing Rebecka’s analysis in this post.

Objectively worst parts of the game
Rebecka thought the worst parts of the game were the confusing instructions and poor balancing of certain race + power combinations. I agree that the instructions are far from perfect, and the […]

Peer Review: Carcassonne. Original analysys by Max Nordlund.

The second part of the assignment about board games was to exchange games with another group, play their game and write a peer review for a member of the other group’s system analysis.
The person i’m writing a peer review for is Max Nordlund who wrote about Carcassonne, the original analysis can be found here.
http://maxmaekvidya.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/board-game-analysis-carcassonne/
I enjoyed reading your analysis, I found it well put together and well-paced where you don’t mix up the content relating to the different […]

Board Game Analysis Review #1 – A Game of Thrones

Introduction:
This is my review of Mikaela from group 5’s analysis of:
“A Game of Thrones: The Board Game, Second Edition”.
(Link: http://gamecactus.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/board-game-analysis-a-game-of-thrones/)
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Core game system:
I agree that the Resource Management is the core game system. The game is all about coming up with a strategy to claim and conquer as many castles and as much land as possible, and in order to do so the player needs to keep track of their tokens and armies and think about when […]