For the past 2 weeks Skymap Games has been working on a top secret project! I've been part of that and so I have been extremely busy. On top of that I am forced into busy work from school. It's an unsettling and unfortunate situation, but I just have to deal with it. Skymap will have a lot of updates soon, so check out our site and stick around!
http://skymapgames.com/
Friday, January 25, 2013
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Skymap Games
A fine day to launch... today is a marvelous day. My company Skymap Games has officially launched. Here's all our links so you can follow us if you choose to do so :D
http://skymapgames.com/
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/skymapgames
http://www.facebook.com/SkymapGames
https://twitter.com/skymapgames
http://www.youtube.com/user/skymapgames
Please follow my company for updates on our projects and many other things.
http://skymapgames.com/
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/skymapgames
http://www.facebook.com/SkymapGames
https://twitter.com/skymapgames
http://www.youtube.com/user/skymapgames
Please follow my company for updates on our projects and many other things.
Friday, December 28, 2012
Autodesk Maya: Rigging
So for the past week I've taken a break from making games, playing games and overall being social. I focused primarily on rigging. I've learned A LOT since I started. I know how to set up constraints, set-up IKs, set controls, restrictions, paint weights, and a proper way to compose a skeleton, etc.
I took a break from rigging my monster and started rigging my friend's because, yes I'm a cheater, his was already weight painted. It's undoubtedly the most important thing in rigging, but I don't really like it. It takes patience and a lot of troubleshooting, which I did not want to do just so that I can cram other techniques into this study session. Here's a shot from his rig setup mid-walk animation.
This was my first full on rig and although it has some issues, I learned a lot from it and will now go on to rig MY monster, Tank. Not too soon, I think it's time to rest and play some games at least until the new year hits :D
I took a break from rigging my monster and started rigging my friend's because, yes I'm a cheater, his was already weight painted. It's undoubtedly the most important thing in rigging, but I don't really like it. It takes patience and a lot of troubleshooting, which I did not want to do just so that I can cram other techniques into this study session. Here's a shot from his rig setup mid-walk animation.
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| The model has 2 Foot IKs to act as a goat's leg and keep it from messing up and the hands have full finger controls! |
Sunday, December 23, 2012
ZBrush SNHU Final
With school finally done this semester I have free time to work on learning new stuff, freelancing and play some games! Steam winter sale wooo!!! Anyway, I'm learning rigging this holiday season thanks to free time and some help from a friend. Before I go on about what I'm learning here's a picture of my Zbrush final.
His name is Tank and he is a high poly render. The game model version is just under 20k polys
Out with the old, in with the new. I'm teaching myself rigging and animation in Autodesk Maya. Why not? Sounds like a lot of fun and it's not everyday I hear someone picking up rigging. So far I've learned the inverse toe setup. If you've never heard of it, look it up. It's phenomenal and ingenious!
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
SNHU Finals Week / Zbrush Project
With the finals week right around the corner, I've been mad busy. Assuming no one is ever going to care : [
The flash game my buddy and I have been working on is almost "complete" with the necessary gameplay stripping that would allow the game to have a definite end. We decided to call it "Zeruda: The Game" for obvious reasons. In a couple of weeks or so we will release to the public, but the game is nowhere near acceptable industry standards. We will not work on it, rather we will just upload it as it is.
Anyway, I have also been working on my final project for Zbrush class. We had to draw orthographic views of our monsters and then put them in Zbrush and start modeling. We are given more or less 3 weeks to complete it which sounds like a lot of time, but it really isn't. Here's how much I've done!
The flash game my buddy and I have been working on is almost "complete" with the necessary gameplay stripping that would allow the game to have a definite end. We decided to call it "Zeruda: The Game" for obvious reasons. In a couple of weeks or so we will release to the public, but the game is nowhere near acceptable industry standards. We will not work on it, rather we will just upload it as it is.
Anyway, I have also been working on my final project for Zbrush class. We had to draw orthographic views of our monsters and then put them in Zbrush and start modeling. We are given more or less 3 weeks to complete it which sounds like a lot of time, but it really isn't. Here's how much I've done!
Here's how much better his back got in just one day...maybe like 2-3 hours of work.
Yeah those arms are much better too! They used to be just blobby, but after a few hours I was able to shape them up pretty well. I plan to texture and pose this as a game model in UDK for my portfolio. All that will be done these 2 weeks...lots to do!
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Racing Game
Hello again.
This past week I've working on a racing game HUD. I don't think I can give out any information on this since it's not my project so I will not provide any pictures quite yet. It was very good practice doing UI again after awhile.
As my semester end slowly creeps, I will be working more on that Flash game called Zeruda. We have not made any progress on it in quite sometime. In addition, I will finally be able to work on world 3 levels! WOO! This is just a small update so no pictures I guess : [
This past week I've working on a racing game HUD. I don't think I can give out any information on this since it's not my project so I will not provide any pictures quite yet. It was very good practice doing UI again after awhile.
As my semester end slowly creeps, I will be working more on that Flash game called Zeruda. We have not made any progress on it in quite sometime. In addition, I will finally be able to work on world 3 levels! WOO! This is just a small update so no pictures I guess : [
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Friday Night SNHU Game Jam 2012
This Friday-Saturday I entered a 24 Hour Game Jam with my buddy Jon at our school, SNHU. We were given the theme "Water" so we had our little spin on it. In our game, Thirsty, you take control of a boy in search of water. Your well has dried out so you go into a nearby temple to retrieve a pure water source. We came in last, but every little bit of experience was totally worth it, plus we love our game! As usual I did most of the level design as well as cinematics and the particles. Yeah, we had 2 cinematics. Check out a couple of in-game shots...
Running
You reached your goal
After 24 hours this game was perhaps the prettiest of the bunch, but lacking the significant amounts of water and gameplay demonstrated by any other game (most being underwater or about controlling water). Sometime in the near future Jon and I will release the .exe for anyone who wants to try this out.
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